So often we feel we have to have everything in order before “serving”. We may feel that God is “calling us to serve”…

By the way…. if you’re breathing, God has called you to serve. But, we feel like we have to get ourselves tidied up before saying yes. I think what we don’t realize is that God just wants us to get into action. Serving doesn’t look like what most people think it does. It’s literally just saying yes and being obedient.

When God first led me to the Human Trafficking cause, I had no idea what he wanted me to do with it. I didn’t know why he was calling me to that particular cause. I had no experience with abuse and have lived an incredibly comfortable life. Plus, it’s dark and shady, and I just wasn’t sure I could handle it. However, I kept hearing “Move your feet” and “Serve where you are.” I tried to ignore it, but God kept calling louder until finally I had to say yes.

Last night, my “serving” looked like: making a batch of chicken spaghetti, having dinner, and playing Phase 10 with some beautiful souls. All survivors of trafficking & all with their own story to tell. But, most importantly, all with a new love for Jesus and the newfound freedom to hope and dream. As I listened to them share their goals and plans for life with me last night, I thanked God for bringing them to me, and realized, that it wasn’t all dark and shady. There was beauty in the hearts of the women sharing with me.

Many of you reading this know what you’re being called to do but you’re getting in yours (and God’s) way. You’re thinking the same thing I did: What do I have to offer? How can I help put an end to such a massive crisis? Why me? Where do I start? How do I get involved? But…. I’m Scared.

2 Tim 1:7 “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control”
Here’s the clearest instructions I can give you.

1. Say Yes
2. Pray about it (not once, continuously)
3. Get involved (research, connect via social media & in person)
4. Find the people that want to get involved with you. (Scary things are less scary with friends)
5. Just keep saying yes and moving forward.

In the words of my pastor “You already have whatever it is that you need to do whatever it is that God needs you to do.”
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God needs laborers. He needs us to all take the prayers we’ve prayed and put them into action. He needs us to move our feet. Luke 10:2 “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore to send out workers into his harvest field.”