What does it mean to be sent by God? Have you ever felt sent by God? Have you wanted to be sent by God? If God called you to lead a mission for him, would you? Do you believe God would provide what you needed to complete the mission he gave you?
Being called by God to lead a mission can be intimidating or scary. But when it is no more intimidating than leading a mission given to us by someone else. In fact, it should be less intimidating. We can trust God to provide what we need to complete the mission.
Moses was called to lead the Israelites out of Egypt where they were slaves. It wasn’t that he had to convince individual slave owners to release them; he had to convince Pharoah, the national leader, to release them. Moses was going against one of the most powerful men in the world at that time. No small task.
God rarely calls anyone to lead a mission with the size and complexity of leading 600,000 men (Exodus 12:37) plus women and children out of Egypt, such as he did Moses. Yet, he calls many of his servants to lead a wide variety of missions. Not only does he call us to lead missions but he calls us to lead others to Jesus.
Leading others to Jesus can sound intimidating. However, we do not lead them to Jesus on our own. We have the Holy Spirit with us at all times. As we learn to listen for the Holy Spirit to speak to us and guide us, we discover God leading us to lead others to Jesus. It isn’t simple until we become comfortable listening for and following the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
I pray we all know that God is calling us to lead. I pray we take up the call from God to lead others to Jesus. I pray each one of us learn to listen for and follow the guidance from the Holy Spirit. God is calling you to lead. Lead others to Jesus. Listen to God’s guidance. Follow God’s guidance.
Exodus 3:14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”
Marty Pressey 