Ministry flows out of a life surrendered to the Lord.

I’m finding myself, at the age of 61, still searching for significance; for titles and positions of influence. But when I’m alone in my prayer closet, in my quiet time with the Lord, He’s telling me He already has a title and position of influence for me, which is “servant of the Lord.”

I need to get back to that servant mindset, which the Lord had developed within me, the whole time I was in Troy and for a dozen years prior to that when I served on staff at City Mission. Now I believe I’m about to enter my next season of life. Not just ministry. Ministry flows out of a life that is surrendered to the Master for His use.

And so I find myself now, needing to go back to that place in my heart where God first said “FOLLOW ME!”

Every day I want it to be my goal to deny myself, take up my cross and follow Him; to offer myself as a living sacrifice. Ready, willing and able (enabled by the Holy Spirit) to go wherever He leads and do whatever He calls me to do. I don’t have to understand it all or wrap my mind around the details. It’s a place of total abandonment of my will and my ways for the purpose of serving glorifying Him.

So give me an undivided heart, O Lord, that I might be 100% yours, committed to your good will and purpose, so that I might walk in it.

My love and service to God will be demonstrated as I love and serve other people in my calling and spiritual gifting.