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17 The calling It seems to me, that most everyone who gets to go into new missionaries. They received their calling and then full-time service for God receives a specifc call from became missionaries when I was 7 years old. They went God at some point. I believe this is for our beneft, since to Capernwray Bible School in England, and took us the road is long and hard, it helps to be able to remember (my sister, brother, and I) to all the classes, where we sat back to the exact moment you received your “calling”. and played in the back. Something fltered in between my parent’s excitement and talk as missionaries, and For the record, I do not believe this is necessary. I be- lieve the Bible is very clear when Jesus asks us to go those classes; because by the time I was 10, my mind into all the nations to preach the gospel. His Word is was made up that “when I grew up, I wanted to be a calling enough. So, if you need a calling, just open THE missionary.” BOOK. What I do recall is that one day when I was 10 years “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, old, and we were back in the USA, my pastor asked baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I remember Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey telling him very plainly that I wanted to be a mission- everything I have commanded you. And surely I am ary. This surprised him, and he grilled me for maybe 20 with you always, to the very end of the age.” minutes, and I would not budge. So that is my “calling” Matthew 28:18-20 memory. And from that time on, I felt a weight on me, as though God had a purpose for my life. When I went But the Christian community today has a system, and thru my teenage years and ended up having a couple of they have included some sort of special day when you boyfriends, all the while I knew in my mind that I had to become a missionary, so this or that guy wasn’t going His Word is calling to work out. enough. So, if you need As a side note, the day I married Dwight, that weight went away, and for 2 years I thought maybe I could a calling, just open THE get away with the “normal” Christian life in Oregon. My husband was an aircraft engineer, maybe we could BOOK. have a gorgeous log cabin on the hill behind Scappoose (nothing huge or anything), and I could serve as the children’s pastor or something like that for God, instead receive a special Word from God, calling you into His of having to leave the country. I honestly had those two service. I don’t mind the invention, because I tell ya years of a little bit of hope that maybe my life wouldn’t what, the road is going to be tough! You are going to have to be so hard. That seems funny now. need all the help you can get to STAY working for God, My husband’s calling happened after we were married, exactly where He has put you. at a prayer and fasting retreat. I was on the worship team, My calling happened when I was 10 years old. I don’t and we had some long sessions of worship and prayer, have a specifc moment that I can look to when the call- so I could see him from the stage. We were singing ing happened, but I do have a special memory. I think I along and all of a sudden, Dwight just broke and started just heard a lot of things from my parents as they were to cry. I hadn’t ever seen my husband cry before, since 34