The Invitation

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For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the past two years I have served as the Weekday Education Director at Parkview Baptist Church. I had no clue that this would be a position that I would hold when the Lord brought it to me. I didn’t even know that it was available. In obedience to God I had resigned months before from a Children’s Directors position with no intentions of seeking another position. Yet, the Lord had other plans.

In his book Experiencing God, Blackaby writes,

“We don’t choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.”

Henry T. Blackaby, Experiencing God

 I have come to realize the truth in this statement. Serving God is simply being willing to follow Him wherever that might be. Back before this past Christmas the Lord began to impress on my heart that my time was ending at Parkview. I wasn’t sure when that ending time would be, but I knew that the Lord would let me know.

I believed with all my heart that the Lord had used me to bring a new spirit and atmosphere into PromiseLand Preschool and I couldn’t imagine Him just throwing that out. Therefore, I knew that whoever He would bring in to take over this wonderful ministry to the community would have a similar passion and vision for parents and preschoolers. The passion that the spiritual growth and heart of the child is priority and the vision that we partner with parents and have complete transparency and open communication with them concerning their child. I believe the Lord provided that person. Mrs Carla Jackson will be taking on the position of Weekday Education Director for the 2016-2017 school year.

As for me… I am letting go in faith and waiting for my next invitation from God.

In the meantime, the Women of Proven Path, will be working on our very first women’s conference,

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If you are a woman reading this, we would love to have you join us! This is your invitation from me… 🙂

In my service to the Lord I have learned that we must walk by faith, live by faith, and obey in faith. When the Lord called out Abraham he didn’t tell him where he was going or give him the details of what he would invite him to do. He simply said “Go forth from… And I will…”

When we study we see that Isaiah, Jeremiah, Peter, John, Paul, and so on and so on… did not choose how they would serve the Lord. They just humbly submitted to His will and trusted Him to use them as He saw fit. Their ministry and place of service was not dictated by obligation to man, but by obedience to Christ. As His servants our job is to simply see that our hearts are fully His.

Under the cross

My Daddy took this picture of me and my mother on our last visit to Cades Cove with him. It’s me and my mother looking at the Word of God under the cross. I see this picture and it reminds me that I am to stay at the foot of the cross. It reminds me that I am to never forget that my life’s purpose is to exalt Christ.

I exalt Him through my love and service to my family (Titus 2:3-5), and His church (Matthew 16:18), and through never forgetting, “but for the grace of God…” (1 Corinthians 15:10) as I share His word and gospel in a dying world to lost and broken people who simply just need Jesus even if they don’t know it.  It is God who chooses the how, when, and where I will do these things. I am to just always be ready with my why (1 Peter 3:15).

So here I am once again with arms high and heart abandoned…