God Use Me: Reflection on how I got here
I was reading back through some old journals last night and this morning with the desire to simply praise God for His faithfulness to me over the last several years when I came across a prayer that I prayed in the October of 2008. It simply said over and over again “God use me. God use me to reach hurting people. God use me to be a voice for You. God use me in any way you see fit.” Reading this made me stop clear in my tracks…
As in a moment I realized… He has answered my prayer. He has been faithful to the things I begged Him for. He is using me!
I never imagined that three years later I would be working in a ministry that has become my heartbeat. One7 has been the answer to my prayer of God use me. On a daily basis, I am being given the opportunity to serve Him, be a voice of hope that can be found only in Him and tangibly be His hands and feet as I go through my day. My job is by no means glamorous. I don’t have a fancy office, a rich man’s salary, and some days I find myself doing things that most people would hate (driving a 15 passenger van at 6:30 in the morning, scrubbing a toilet that is dirty, and the list goes on) but in all of that I am right in the middle of the will of God being used for His glory!
When I prayed that simple prayer, I had no idea that I would spend my senior year of college feeling lost and alone, I would graduate and then only 7 months later be let go from my first real job, I would spend the next almost year without a job, I would then get a job only to quit it 4 months later and that when I agreed to come on part time and now full time for a ministry that seemed so foreign to me that I would stepping into one of the greatest seasons of life and ministry I could have ever dreamed of.
GOD has been so faithful to me… He has taken me along a seemingly strange path to get me right where I am but in all of the twists and turns I can honestly say… He has answered my prayers. He has heard my cries to be used by Him… HE is using me.
