Practicing Life

Since my husband and I moved back to my home town I have worked full time.  This has left me feeling out of touch with ministry.  But today someone contacted me by email for a dream interpretation.  I agreed to pray over this gentleman’s dream, and we talked over the phone.  It was a time of ministry on my part, and when we hung up I had the sense that my prior feelings of being out of touch were not based on the truth.

Later in the day I had a quiet time, and the Lord reminded me that, up to today, I had believed I could not function in my prior giftings.  He then said I had done well.  These are the words that I’d like to pass on to all those who have not ministered for a while;

“The gift is from Me, through you.  I am always able to function,” said the Lord.  “Your life is a course the keeps you spiritually in shape.  It is not the gift that you have to practice; it is the keeping of My word.”

Please be encouraged that the Lord can and will work through you, even if you are not actively engaged in your usual ministry.  Keeping God’s word by living our lives in a godly manner conditions us for the most important events that mark our paths.

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,” (Heb 12:1)