For the past three years the Lord has been stirring in me to start a home business.  Just recently the desire has increased greatly.  A few days ago I had a conversation with someone who asked me how my business will benefit or operate in the church.  All I could say was,...."I don't know".

For the next few days I was confused and frustrated thinking that somehow I had bunny trailed right out of the will of God.  I began to think that maybe this wasn't an idea God gave me.  In my Christian walk, I have been raised to believe that whatever gifting or talent I have been given was to benefit the church. And was ok to be used outside the walls, but better operate within the walls.  Then the Lord began to open my eyes.

Over the past two months I have been telling the Lord that I need more of Him.  This level I was on now has been beaten down, time to jump to the next level.  I thought about visiting some churches to fill this void I was feeling.  Then the Lord began to have me examine myself.  The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in me.  Why would I go and look for God's filling some where else? 

Every talent and gifting the Lord has given me is a tool to speak, worship, and honor Him.  Everything I am looking for is already in me.  The "more" that we search for is not at the next church conference.  The "more of God" we look for is found when we excersize the giftings and talents God has given to us.  The business the Lord is preparing for me is not to be in the church!  It is to bring me closer to Father God.  It is to be a blessing to my family.  It is for me to teach my children how to run with a passion God gave them.  My feeling of needing more of Him is being filled as I walk deeper into the calling God has on my life. 

Whatever the Lord has given to us , let us be faithful to use it wisely.

Matthew 25: 14-30

Just a thought:  Meagan

 

I shout 'Yes!' and 'Amen!' to your thought. A lot of people are so narrow in their definition of 'Church'. Church begins first with your family, then with those around you who love you the most. I know that just being who God has created you to be, and living it to the fullest, gives Him all the Glory that is due unto Him.

Good stuff Meagan! As a business owner myself what I have found is that God calls people into the market place to shine his light there. Being in business as a follower of Christ really is a beautiful thing because it actually is very evangelistic. It causes you to interact with the world and connect with people and build relationships with unbelievers as well as other followers that we normally wouldn't.

I think the great tragedy is that people have twisted "church" into being like a giant black hole that sucks all things into its self. The early beleivers knew no division between secular and spiritual. Church is something you are not a place that you go. So if God uses your work to provide for you aren't you blessing the church? God calls us to let our light shine and not to hide it under a busshel. If you take your business into the "church" aren't you hiding your light under a busshel? God wants it out in the public arena for all to see so that He will be seen and glorified by everybody! Didn't Paul say, "Let your good works be seen so that others will glorify God"? I think being called into business is a high call to bring God out to the people. So you go girl!

Marty and Ravi here with me in California say "Hi!"

HI...stopping by to catch up on your posts...to Meagan...I will pray that God will continue to give you guidance and wisdom regarding your business and how to use your talents for His glory and His will.