Every Believer Has a Ministry

Ministry is not a place you arrive at. It is something already happening, moment by moment, day by day. Every single believer on the planet has a ministry right now. You don't need another person to affirm you or send you. Jesus already said go! (See Mark 16: 15 and 2 Corinthians 5:18.)

There is somebody in your world right now that needs to hear the about Jesus. They need to hear and know that God loves them and they are already forgiven of their sins. They just need to know it, believe it and give their hearts to Him.

It only takes a moment to become a new creation and be transferred from the darkness to light.

I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me. -Acts 26:17-18

Bare... as a Believer

Occasionally I participate in 5 Minute Friday.  Today's topic-Bare.

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I keep hearing this word.  Bare.  To me it means to lay open, to expose something, to get to see inside.  Sometimes I just want to bare it all on the inside, the pain, the passion, the grief, the excitement.  But if all that emotion overwhelms me, what will it do to others? 

Sometimes I feel like Elijah who has just seen the fire fall, and later is like, "Lord, just let me die."(1 Kings 19:1-12) Other times I feel close to God like David, and in the next breath am uttering his same words, "Why are you downcast oh my soul?" (Psalm 42:5) I also feel like Peter a lot who was physically with the Lord for 3 years, and in the garden, cut the soldier's ear off, anger blazing within. (John 18:10) But in the next moment, I am running on the beach, toward the Lord, and when He asks me, "Do you love me?", my heart melts and my reply is "Yes Lord!"(John 21:15-17)

As a believer, my faith is supposed to be laid bare, but what about the rest?  Is it to remain hidden?  Can  we as people of faith not handle it all?  I think not.  When we experience other's emotions laid bare, it makes us uncomfortable, or like we/they are doing something wrong.  What if, just what if, we looked up to God, the maker of our souls in these times of bareness, for comfort, peace, and direction as a small child would to a Father?  He is able to handle the bare.

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