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!
3 comments:
Awesome Sam. Waiting is tuff, but I see so much growth in you. God's amazing!!! When you guys do go away for missions its going to be spectacular.
Hey Samara, Krystal here!
Just wanted to say hi from down south and tell you I loved just getting a little catch-up on where you are. It's encouraging for even me to read through your "HIS"tory and see how God has guided and provided for you and is now growing you where He planted you. Thanks for sharing His faithfulness with us!
Love ya.
So good Sammy.
Very true for all of us!
love you
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