Called...

I just recently have started a book that I read a long time ago and decided to read again. It's called "Called To Honor Him" by a guy who helped start a ministry with Youth With A Mission. I started reading it last night and the Lord already began to speak to me through it.
The author Sosene talks about how the Lord called him into the ministry that he is in now, but that it took a lot of growth and learning to get him there.

He wrote "I couldn't wait to find out what God was going to do next. I didn't understand that i had an awful lot of growing and learning to do before He would- or perhaps could- do anything else. Because I had been in church every Sunday for so many years, I suppose I vaguely knew the biblical account of the Apostle Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus. But what i didn't remember was that after that experience Paul went into the desert for three years to be made ready for the work God wanted him to do."

As I sat on the couch this morning reading those very words the Lord spoke to me right where i was at saying, "Samara, even though I have a plan for you and Cory a ministry that I have called you to, I need to teach you a few things before we can get there. You aren't ready and if I were to send you now it wouldn't be as amazing as it could be, then if I were to prepare you for the next few years."

Looking back on my journey as a born again Christian the past 7 years have been full of moments like these. There have been times that the Lord wanted to take me to the next level but He needed to teach me something first. There have also been times when i didn't listen to God and went my own direction and now I see how much of a failure those times were.

It's amazing to me how God doesn't let go of His call on our lives. It's been 7 years in the making and counting that I first knew I was called to work in missions. God is so faithful and good to place a hunger and call on Cory's life for this exact thing too! We are anxiously waiting for this time to come, but in the mean time we are trying to soak up all that the Lord wants to teach us!

Season of Preparation

The Lord has really been challenging me lately. We just finished up our season of soccer for the 2nd year here at the school and now we have more time on our hands... meaning time for God to use us!
Over the past few months the Lord has been revealing to me and Cory that we are called to the mission field. Currently our mission field is here at the school and with the kids here, but soon it will be in another place. God has been remindng me to be praying for this and how He wants to be preparing me for the next phase.
Preparation is a funny thing. I have a hard time focusing on the here and now when I know that I will be somewhere else in a litle while. But God has us in each place and stage in our lives for a reason, preparation. God is so good to us that He doesn't ask us to go into something blindly. As long as we are seeking Him and His will, He will be faithful to show us what to do and when we need to do it!
As for now, God has been showing me that the time I have right now is valuable and not a waste. Instead of looking to the future and where we are to go, He wants me to be focusing on the now and how I can learn from it!