Stepping Out
Hello Leaders,
Hopefully we are all caught up. And by now you are coming to understand that God only wants your heart and availability to Him. He can and will shape you for the assignment, but He needs you to step out and allow Him access to fashion your life for use in His external plan.
Question for the week: How have you stepped out and allowed God to use you? Please be specific.
How have you stepped out and allowed God to use you? Please be specific.
When the Day Center opened back in January, i knew God told me to step out to ask the City if they have a space for The Heart of Giving to be there to serve their clients and the community. He told me to go to a certain person to ask. That particular person took me to meet the Assistant City Manager. We gave the Assistant City Manager a brief description of who and what The Heart of Giving does. After the short sharing of the organization, he said, “you have my blessing.”
February, The Heart of Giving received a tour of the building, met with the Director, saw the warehouse, and The Heart of Giving moved in.
Since The Heart of Giving has been there at the Day Center, God has been working and orchestrating His plans and His ways for the people. He has been using me to speak to the people in encouraging them, praying for them, redirecting them back to Him, and walking in His power of who God is. He has used me to demonstrate His love to the clients who comes to receive help. He has allowed me to feed and serve the community. In doing so, He has provided every food, furniture, clothes, household items, etc to meet the needs of the community.
Because i have stepped out on faith, trusting in Him, believing His mighty works for my good and for His glory, God has given me so much confidence knowing that He will do what He says He will do. He has shown me that He is a promise keeper. He is faithful.
Now, everyone there, the agencies and the clients know I love God. They know I trust in God in everything that I do for the community. They know they can come to me for prayer and for encouragement. Not just prayer and encouragement, but with tangible needs and resources as well. I look forward to serving the community because I know God is with me always. He orders my plans daily and i must listen and obey it.
I am forever grateful for His direction and His leading on the call over my life. Cause it’s not about me, it’s about the people. Amen!
The leader’s training has got me in the mode to be so ever ready which I am grateful. This kind of training cost money. God is blessing me to be trained and my heart responds by saying Lord I will go. Now, I immediately turn a negative into a positive with my husband. I did not do this right away in the past. Regardless, who is right or wrong I take the hit. The word teaches the sanctified wife sanctify the husband. How dare me to do anything less because I was a very ugly mess before I got saved and I am still a work in progress. No, I am not saying I come through with flying colors. Yes, I do sometimes endure painful situations. I just close my eyes and remember what Jesus went through for my sins which keeps me changing that negative to a positive. I am able to redeem moments when I see the hand of God moving in and upon my husband.
The scriptures we look up I have included specific ones in my morning devotions. I do not get that ugly feeling dealing with situations on both of my jobs. My desire is for people to see the God in me which manifest God’s presence. The full-time chaplain at Sentara is not ordained and he calls me to assist him with assignments he cannot do. Relationships are being shaped for God’s Glory. I am evaluated every month at Sentara and my supervisor complimented me last month about my responses to his questions and how I am stepping out to be a team player. I stepped out and start using what I am learning through the leadership training at Hampton with my supervisor. She still is a soul and God reign over the just as well as the unjust. I am being honest this training pushes and compels me to step out of the boat to edify the people of God for the Glory of God.
There was a leader who had an issue with authority. Although they would occasionally submit, that nasty defiant, disobedient rebellious spirit would raise its ugly head at various times. What was so moving was that I recognized this insolent spirit not because of some great discernment that I had but I saw myself. In in the beginning of our relationship we really didn’t get along. I use to look at him like he was some sort of bully – check me; too aggressive – check me; to thuggish – check me; but one factor I did like about him, he was honest, brutally honest to a fault but yet somewhat transparent to a point – check me. So I begin to seek to talk to this brother to see where his heart was and to find out he had a good heart. I have to give you the background so that you can move along with me in the story.
So now I and this brother are good to go. I mean we are building, relationship is booming, although there were times where we would still would knock heads, but instead of it resembling two spoiled NWA wrestles in the ring – (you know fake) we would talk it out, allowing one another to voice their concerns or opinions and then capping it off with prayer.
While one day my brother came to me about something that disturbed him that had occurred with his spiritual leadership and instead of me going along with him or being like Job friends I took a chance on our friendship by first listening and giving him the honest truth. Although to him, he was justified by his disobedient actions toward his spiritual authority, he failed to acknowledge his part in the episode. Instead of me riding with him I stepped out and allowed God to use me to bring to his attention the error of his ways, not in a condescending way but in a positive moment of clarity that revealed his shortcomings and it allowed him to be transparent, doing the “Mirror Check” and realizing his negative actions drove him to earnestly repent.
Now to many this may not seem like stepping out and allowing God to use me. But I went against the grain because he considered me a sincere confident, “a ride or die” type of guy but I allowed the Holy Spirit to direct my conversation. And I wasn’t just a “Yes” man or a political pacifier for friendship sake.
So his relationship with his spiritual heads had changed for the better and he is now more appreciative of the relationship and cherishes it. But it could have went south if I had use my own self to assist because then I would have come from a flesh standpoint and the way the world looks at that particular situation they would have sided with him and blamed the other party. God is so good when we listen to the Holy Spirit and allow God to do the shaping and molding and we don’t try to manipulate those circumstances and situations we come across.
Good Evening Leaders,
I ha e stepped out and have allowed God to use me to minister to those whom I come in contact with to include young people, and even those I supervise, in such a way that it etiffies Him.
Upon beginning this training back in September, I have been able to reach some, as well as many of my more challenging staff members by what the enrichment the training has provided to my call. I have taken a fresh evaluation of my call and this leadership training has caused me to seek a more meaningful [deeper] relationship with God. I find that I am making connections and correlations with a greater understanding of the nuances of God’s word. And with the growth of hearing, knowing and understanding
the word of God, greater is the conduit through-which the strength of my calling will be to His glory.
How have you stepped out and allowed God to use you? Please be specific. The Lord has definitely been using me on my job. I believe that my co workers see the God in me. They see that I don’t curse, smoke, drink, etc. A few of them have known me for several years and often comment on the transformation that has occurred in my life/ life style. They often catch themselves when they about to curse and most recently have ask me to play Christian music. I walked into my work area last week and the radio station was playing K Love. God is good!
THanks an awesome testimony. Thanks for sharing.
Praise God
How have you stepped out and allowed God to use you?
I have stepped out and allowed God to use me with people that I come in contact with at the pharmacy and in other public places. Once there was a lady that worked in the pharmacy and she was extremely rude to me. I am normally one who will ignore someone’s nasty customer service but this time it was a bit extreme. I was going to call ICE on her but instead I went and bought her a card wrote a scripture in it as well as a little note to encourage her. Now whenever I go on base she is always excited to give me a hug and give me an update about her personal life. I also step out and encourage young women in public when dressed provocative as the Lord leads me. I always start off start off with a compliment and tell them something like ‘Hey, when a young man sees you, you don’t want them to notice “that” but you want them to notice you as a woman who deserves to be respected. This day and time that came be risky because women are more likely to curse me out. However, Im grateful that I have always had receptivity which is an indicator that it’s the Lord.
This question is one in which I should have been able to answer with ease, but because of my pride it took a while for me to sit and really put my words together. Every time I walk into Living Faith Christian Center I am stepping out in faith. You know I was looking for some type of example of an encounter outside of the church that caused me to step out in faith, but there is no bigger one than the one that I go through every time we have a service.
A lot of people do not know but in one of my ears I do not really hear as good as the other one. I actually failed a hearing test because I could not hear out of that one. So every time that I am in the sound booth I literally have to rely on one ear and the Holy Spirit. You know sometimes I laugh because out of all the places God could have used me it is in the one place I feel the weakest.
Do to my faith and the willingness to let God use me, the sound has not been too terrible(lol). You know sometimes people may give a compliment to the sound, or when we used tracks I could bring in different songs at the right time, but that was all the Holy Spirit. I literally rely on God every time I am in the booth. That process of learning how to trust God has not only helped me in the sound ministry but also with waiting for God and listening to what my next step will be.