The Power of Who You Are!

“Jesus did not call perfect people to join him in his ministry.  None of us is faultless. A huge amount of work in our world begs to be done with an attitude of care.  Let us go to be of service to others with our strengths and our limitations, trusting that God will take the best of who we are and bless others with it.”  Joyce Rupp

Wherever we go, whatever we do, we will accomplish God given tasks in the power of Who We Are. 

“It’s not by might.  It’s not by power.  It’s my Spirit says the Lord.”  Zechariah 4:6

God anoints Who We Are to accomplish the given tasks at hand.  We cannot be anyone or anything else other than Who We Are.  And God can use all of us- our greatest assets and our greatest weaknesses, Our God given gifts and our God given quirkiness; all of us is Holy ground to the Lord.  He consecrates us by the blood and by the marriage of Word and Spirit. 

Like the old Gospel Song says, “If you can use anything Lord, you can use me.”

It’s who you are that blesses people.  Some people will like you, and some people won’t, but that doesn’t change your blessedness and belovedness to God; Stay in it.  Stay in the Story and watch God act on your behalf.  So often the people we don’t like and the people who don’t like us-we just need to connect to them in some way; when you connect to others than the walls and defenses come down.  Pray for more connection.  Sometimes it takes awhile.  Jealously may need to be confessed to God. 

It’s Who We Are that we carry into the world.  God uniquely created you.  God uniquely created me.  “He is the potter.  We are the clay.” Jeremiah 18:6

We have to trust the potter.  We have to trust His unique design.  Ask God to give you eyes to see yourself as He sees you; the beauty and the scars.  Sometimes it’s the scars that make us unique.

Don’t just hide them- in time reveal them and watch God use them in a way that draws others to Him.

The truth of Who You Are is what speaks loud and clear to others.  God will reveal himself through you- imperfect, flawed, beautiful you. 

The question is, Will you let him?  Will you let him carry you out into this thirsty world in the power of Who you are and bless it beyond reason!