Calling?
What is you calling in life? Why are some called to be a missionary and others are called to simply be a mother or a father? Do we have a say in it?
God may be calling you to be a missionary, a minister, a teacher, a parent, or a shoulder to cry on. How do you tell what He is calling you to do?
These questions can be complicated to answer especially without knowing each individual asking the question. I’ll give my own story as a reference. You may be able to follow close to it or you may have completely different story and journey than me (most probably will).
Back about 5 years ago, I felt Holy Spirit calling me to be in ministry to some extent. At that time I didn’t know the full scope of it and lacked the prayer relationship with Jesus to figure it out. I tried children’s ministry at my church at the time, but that didn’t fill the calling. I tried camp ministry, but both times I tried that they ended abruptly. Than I tried Missions. Missions is what fell directly into the slot that God had carved out into my soul. Now where does He want me to be a missionary? I prayed about this for a long time. Than I was given a dream, in this dream I was in the deserts of the Middle East. I didn’t know it at the time, but God had just told me in more or less words, “Zack, My son, you will not feel at home or at peace in your home anymore. I have called you into this life and I want you to go and not come back until My Kingdom has come!”
I’ve learned many things at this Training camp over this past week, but the one thing that has truly stuck out above the rest is the sheer number of people in the 10/40 window who haven’t even heard of Jesus and the great gift He has given them.
41.6% of the world’s people groups are unreached (that’s almost 3.2 billion people or 9.5 times the amount of people living in the United States)! Think about those numbers and in let’s say 60 years if somebody doesn’t reach those people most will die and go to hell for the rest of forever.
How does this make you feel? Sad? Angry? Indifferent? What are we doing to combat this?
Well we as Christians in a whole (all denominations) have sent about 3% of the missionary forces to these people (about 13,000 missionary). How many people does each missionary have to reach to give the good news to every person? About 250,000 people. If a missionary were able to witness 20 people a day it would take them over 34 years to witness to every person, and that is if every one of the 13,000 missionaries witnessed to 20 people every day for 34 years.
What am I trying to say?
We need more people to go. So let me ask you again, what is your calling?
