21 Day Fast

I'm excited for the next 21 days to see all that God is going to do through so many churches that are praying and fasting this month.  Last night we went to Radiant and had an amazing time of prayer and worship as well as a powerful message.  I was convicted that before God is going to ever give Kyle and I great influence, we need to be faithful where we are at.   For the last two years we've been church-hunting and had settled at Gracespring for a while.  But then Kyle got a job in Grand Rapids so we moved here and now we're back to church-hunting again.  My prayer is that God will give us clear direction as to which church He would have us serving in. I just want a starting point to begin being faithful - even if that means cleaning floors or serving in some other humble way first.  I just want to do what I was created to do and that is to glorify Jesus and serve Him with the works He prepared in advance for me to do.  Pastor Lee, before he was the pastor of Radiant Church had been praying and asking God where to serve as a pastor.  He was hoping for a city or some place where he could be greatly influential. He wasn't expecting God to lead him to the corn fields of Richland.  But just like Jesus wasn't born in Rome or some other great city as some might have expected, He was instead born in Bethlehem, a very humble city that many had not even heard of.  So if the Light of the Word can come from Bethlehem, what makes me think I need to be in a great city to have influence.  Perhaps God has called us here to North Grand Rapids, or perhaps back to Kalamazoo where Kyle and I were born and raised.  Maybe one day God would call us to Paris or some other place on the mission field, but I think both Kyle and myself realize that being influential for the kingdom of God can happen anywhere - even in the most unexpected humble of places.