Romans 11:29
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Sometime I think we need a shift in focus.
We desire to be used of God and want someone to elevate us and give us a platform for our gifts and callings.
God desires us to seek his face and to be led of the Spirit.
He wants us to wake up every morning and say "God what would you have me to do today?"
When he sends us and we submit to his direction, when we take His message, out of the church doors, to a lost and dying world, He will be there to meet the needs.
Paul was confronted by Jesus on the way to Damascus, we are told that he didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood but spent time in prayer and fasting, hearing and being taught by the Holy Spirit.
Afterwards, he began soul winning journeys under the direction of the Holy Ghost, and God used his gifts and callings mightily to add many to the body of Christ.
He didn't run to Peter and say "give me a platform"
Rather he hid himself away in Christ until he had a mission, a burden, and he spent himself in blood, sweat, and tears to further the gospel.
Instead of worrying about what others are doing, how they fall short, how they don't live up to your standards, or how you don't live up to theirs, fall on your face in prayer and fasting till you are imbued with power from on high. Then give yourself away freely to a lost a dying world, you won't need someone to lift you up and pat you on the back because your reward will come from Him who rewards those who diligently seek him.
Read the life of Oma Ellis, she was filled, healed and called. A woman whose husband had abandoned her with 3 children to raise during the depression. A woman of prayer and faith who sought God and was used to heal the sick, raise the dead, and speak words of life to those with desperate needs. She didn't seek position, but because of her amazing faith, people sought her out. She didn't seek ordination, after she had founded many church bodies, the organization sought her out.
We can sit back and complain, criticize, and condemn from now until eternity, or we can run the race that is set before us, we can spend the talents God has given us, We can look to the author and finisher of our faith, and seek the approval of God and not man.
Don't we know that the time is short, our lives are but a vapor, and the need is desperate?
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