She Speaks

You know when you were a kid and went to church camp, had that emotional, mountain-top experience with the Lord, and returned home completely renewed, joyful, and ready to fully live for Jesus?

Well, the gals at Create in Us had this exact same experience this weekend. We were fortunate enough to attend the awesome speaking and writing conference produced by Lysa Terkeurst and Proverbs 31 Ministries.

We went to learn how to further our cause, get some training on speaking, tips on writing. We went to make contacts in the publishing world and speaker circuit. And yeah, we learned notebooks full of information. But really we were reminded of why we do ministry in the first place.

Jesus.

Do we remember He's the reason? In all of our book proposals, and fan-girling over Whitney Capps (I LOVE YOU, WHITNEY!), and dreams of quitting our day jobs to become full time ministry workers? Do we remember that He called us?

I will not claim that I discovered the following truth on my own, I learned it from the wise teaching of Lysa Terkeurst on the first morning of the event: Yes, Jesus called us to go into the world and share the gospel. He called us to preach His Name, declare His glories. To cast our demons, to heal the sick. To bring Life. But before any of that, ANY of it, He simply calls us to be with Him. Mark 3:14 says the first reason Jesus called the apostles was, "that they might be with Him."

Think about your calling. Your calling as wife, mother, office worker, church nursery volunteer. These callings are high and noble and oh so important. But your first and greatest calling is to simply be with Him.

So today, before you do the work God has called you to do, be with Jesus. Seek Him first. Come back to your first Love.

We at Create in Us were reminded in such a mighty way by Lysa's teaching that the only purpose of our ministry is our Creator.

We also received precious affirmations that our ministry is something special and unique. Over the next few months you'll see some new happenings here at Create in Us. We can't wait to share our upcoming projects with you. We are eager as always to see you in our studio classes and visit you at your churches. We'll also be seeing you in some new places as well. September will bring some exciting announcements.

We are so in love with what we do at Create in Us. This year has been fast and furious in the best ways and we are excited to push further into what God has for us. But no matter what that may look like we were reminded of our priority purpose: to seek our Creator first, to dwell with Him always. And only then, when we are filled to the brim with Jesus, will we be able to share the gospel in our unique way. We were created to create, friends, but even more than that we were created to be with Jesus.

Lord, may it be so.