IF YOU SENSE THE CALL TO MINISTRY 9
Some few days to the end of my service year, and after my conviction to respond to God’s call was solidified, I prepared a document titled, “My Life After Service Year: Pursuing the Call ad Embracing Purpose”.
The document covered my dealings with God from 2006 till 2011. It was a detailed account of 5 years of conversation, instructions and experiences with the Lord.
One of my beloved ones that I knew would have struggled a lot with my obedience to the call said to me, “Temi, you prepared this detailed document so that I can find myself opposing God when I tell you this is not possible. What do you want me to say again with this kind of documentation? It is well. I can only pray for you”.
One of the disciplines you must build if you sense the call to ministry, is journalling. Journalling means that you keep a log of instructions and encounters that you have with the Lord.
Why is this important?
It preserves the instructions and encounters. There are those who have lost instructions because they did not document them. One of the things the enemy uses to fight is forgetfulness.
It reinforces your conviction as you align instructions. You will realise that fresh instructions can be a continuation of another that was three months earlier.
It organizes your thoughts. When you document, you can easily trap thoughts. Things of the Spirit are so slippery that if you are not smart enough to trap them, you will lose them.
It reduces arguments. The more detailed you are, the less questions you will have to answer. Arguments and questions have derailed some from answering the call. They lost the details.
What if Moses did not write?
What if Matthew and others did not?
What if Paul was not writing?
What would happen if we did not have the Book of Acts?
If Luke did not write, see the lessons, processes and patterns we would not have access to.
Let the vision be documented. Jesus found what Isaiah wrote, and it was the fuel that ignited the announcement of His calling.
Luke 4:17 NIV
[17] and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written
Do you have a journal? Can you find where instructions, prophecies and encounters were written?
Wait! Do you even have an organized sermon note? Or it is all those joint pieces of paper that you can tear easily that you use? If you are still using “Ada weds Adam” or “Adieu Mama” jotters, you need to be more serious. Now, there are apps that can preserve your documents also. Maximise them!
temilOluwa Ola, Eruwa