God’s Calling & Inheritance for You – Healing 2025

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The five Ps we can think about in relation to our inheritance as children of God are Presence, Power, Purpose, People, and Provision. The three movements of living life in the area God has sent us to are the discernment process to know where we are sent, we must learn how to pray, and we have power in how we speak.

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My son… everything I have is yours

Lk. 15:31

1.One thing we can consider when we think of our inheritance as children of God is God’s presence dwelling in our hearts. How can you work on becoming more aware of God’s presence in your daily life?

2.Another aspect of our inheritance as children of God is the power we receive as ambassadors of Christ. We have spiritual authority over many things. How might knowing this influence the way you view trials and difficult situations in your life?

3. As children of God, we each have a unique and specific purpose according to the gifts God has given us. What do you think your unique purpose is? What gifts has He given you?

4.Because we are God’s children, He provides all that we need for us to be able to live out our purpose. How can you work on growing in trust in God’s providence for you?

Text: God’s Calling & Inheritance for You

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Hi, my name is Mary Bielski, and welcome back to The Pray More Healing Retreat. Today we’re going to be talking about our inheritance of what we’ve been called to as daughters and sons of the King to live out in the world and represent him in the great inheritance of our calling.

Opening Prayer

Let’s begin to pray. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, amen. Heavenly Father, I thank you for the gift of who you are, the calling of our life to be ambassadors of Christ, to be representatives of you in all things, the inheritance that we’ve received in our baptism. God, I ask that you bless my words, that they be filling our heart, but also that you would pull us into the calling to live our lives to look like you in every way. We ask this in Jesus, Jesus’ mighty name. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Meaning Of Inheritance

Well, thank you for running this race with me in these last weeks. Today we’re going to be talking about inheritance. And as we talk about this word, it might not be a word that you might not think about as much, but it’s really important as we talk about kingdom principles, as we’ve been talking about identity, right? Transformation of becoming whole and fully who we are. Intimacy. These are all I words, and inheritance. But the difference between inheritance and identity are very different. Identity is who we are in Christ. The free gift of God, the identity, his love, he’s chosen us, he’s called us from the foundations of the world. I am his beloved. Well, the inheritance is what we have in him, not who we are.

What I mean by that is my dad, a number of years ago, he passed away in 2015. And as we were grieving around the table, I remember this moment where all of us were sitting around and talking about stories of my dad, stories that we’re laughing, we were crying, different personality traits that we all have. And we began to unfold as we looked at his will and the things that we got, that there’s more to inheritance that just are stuff. Most of the time we think about inheritance as something that we receive financially, a will, a trust, property that we might have, and that’s part of the story. But as we talk about inheritance in the spiritual realm, it’s a much wider lens that incorporates, yes, the provision of God, the territory that he’s given you. But it’s even deeper. It goes right into our DNA, into our baptism, into the heiring, being heirs of Christ. Meaning that there’s a calling and a purpose that I’m going to unfold as we talk about our inheritance. There were qualities that I received from my dad. I remember my sister and I fighting for my dad’s journals.

My dad was a man of prayer, and I would find him every morning in his prayer chair. And when he passed, I mean y’all, I fought for those darn journals with my sister, because I wanted his heart. I wanted to read his prayers. I didn’t want just his stuff, I wanted him. I wanted this place where he lives in me that I could remember my dad. And yes, he’s in heaven. I get to be with him at mass. But there’s something about that relational experience that we come to know our father. This is, we’re talking about actually being a king’s kid. The King of the universe is our dad. And I know that sounds odd as we say that, but the God that created the stars in his hand and the mystery of God created us, but called us into relationship by the Holy Spirit, that we could cry out Abba Father. What a mystery! And in that, there’s a great gift of what we have. And so today, I want to just break open, regardless if you have a great relationship with your father or wherever you are today, there is an inheritance that you have received. And we have to know it, grasp it, and be sent into it for the mission that God has called us to.

The Five Ps

Today, I’m going to be talking about five Ps of inheritance, ’cause I want to give a framework of like, okay, what do you mean inheritance? Like got some qualities of my dad. It’s just five Ps. So the first P is his presence, the very person we receive in the Holy Spirit. So the first P is knowing that in my baptism, the whole Holy Spirit reigns in my heart. I have his peace, I have his righteousness, I have his joy, It says in Romans 14, where it talks about that the kingdom of God dwells within me. And in the kingdom I receive peace, joy, righteousness, and the, and that means all the spiritual gifts, the baptism of all these spirit, all the things that we have in the gift, it means my dad lives in me, and there’s a presence of his DNA, his way. It’s, we talked about Romans 5:5, right? That it says that the love of God has been poured in my heart. And so we have the ability in Christ, right, to look like my dad and his presence. The second P outside of presence, right, is going to be, we have a, we have power, right? It’s got to the other side, like we have the heart, but we also think of the will, we also have the power of God, meaning Christ actually in his death, destroy the powers of death, the powers of sin.

And there’s an authority, he says in Matthew 28, right? Remember this, he says in Matthew 28 that I give you all authority in heaven and earth to be sent. Meaning this is really important, right? We have a mission and we have authority to look like our dad. Meaning this, if you think about the term ambassadors of Christ within scripture, the old model of a king would have ambassadors because the king doesn’t have a jet back in the day. They would have had people that would represent him. And when he would speak, he would speak on behalf of the father and so, or on, on behalf of the king. And so these ambassadors had authority that when they would speak, because they’re speaking on behalf of the king, there was authority that what they decreed and what they declared in the region would be done because they were actually representing the Father.

The same is true as we talk about our spiritual authority, our authority to know that we actually have power, the power over weakness, over sin and death. We have the power actually to lay hands on the sick and see healings. I’ve been so fortunate in the last years to see God’s power move in people’s lives. People being healed in the name of Jesus. People not only encountering his love, but also the power of God to break chains and even the power that we have to overcome, in his grace to stand over the things that attack us in our authority. It says in Ephesians that we’re seated, we’re seated in heavenly places. And so there’s an authority that we have in walking.

I remember I was giving a talk in New Zealand a number of years ago, and this woman came up to me and I think my talk was on hope, and she was in tears because her child had fallen away from the church and was struggling. And she looked at me and she’s like, would you pray? Would you pray? Help me, help my kid? I don’t, I’m powerless. And I had this mama bear moment, you know where I grabbed her, not like inappropriately, but I grabbed her hands and I was like, listen, you have authority in that home. You’re the mama, right? They’re under 18, they’re still under your power. There’s authority in the name of Jesus, and you need to start yielding your weapon. You need to know who you are, but know what you have in Christ. That what you declare and decree, what you, what you stand in a faith, right? It’s like David who comes up to Goliath and he says, you come to me Goliath, right? With a sling, he says, a sling, a sword and a spear. But I come to you in the name of, I come to you in the name of our God, of the king of Israel, whom you have defiled.

So great, David, right? Like, yeah, you, you know, against the enemy, we have authority, right? Even in the work field, you know, the church is going to talk about that the place of your purpose of walking this out is going to be in the temporal world, not in necessarily the church. Many of you have normal, secular jobs. And so what you bring in the authority of Christ is going to change culture, is going to change lives and how you live. And you walk that out, there’s authority, okay?

Purpose

The next P is purpose. You have purpose. And what I love about this is that yes, we all have the big purpose, the Big V, vocation as being daughters of the king, children of God, sons of God, to look like him, to walk in holiness. That is our fundamental purpose. To look like our dads, to be transformed into his image. This is our story to love. But there’s also a calling to be sent in the world to represent him. And then there’s a uniqueness of what that calling looks like. And like, I work in full-time ministry. I used to be in pharmaceutical sales, like I’ve had different jobs, different hats. Many of us in this room, or your room that you’re in, right? We have different gifts, different purposes.

So there’s a purpose in our natural belovedness as son and as daughter, the first level of identity, there’s a second level of our purpose in terms of our vocational purpose as male and female. And in being a parent, that vocational realm. And the third one is a specific purpose with the gifts that God’s given you, like from the foundation of the world. God chose you. Whether it’s your writing, whether it’s to replant the garden. Maybe you’re a great gardener. Maybe it is teaching. There’s specific gifts that God’s given you. And it says, from the foundation of the world, I do you and called you to be holy and blameless, which is above, but also to upon amongst my purpose. It says in Jeremiah 29, right? I know the plans that I have for you says the Lord, plans not of woe or misfortune, but plans of hope and a future. It’s not just about a job, right? There’s a specific calling in the kingdom that we all have, in the body that are, that we’re being called to, to act and to live that out. And so there’s a purpose for you, right? Whether, whatever age you are, we need you on deck.

People

I love the “Moana” video where Moana talks and she’s talking to her grandmother and all the, the, the relatives come in. Because that leads me to my next P is people that we’re part of a kingdom. Like you have a purpose and you’re like, well, I don’t know how to do that purpose. We have a kingdom of God that we live in, meaning there are intercessors in the heavenly realms. We come from a generational line of saints. We have Mother Teresas, we have St. Teresa of Avila. We have, we have Joan of Arcs, we got some amazing theologians of men of honor in our history, in our bloodline, in Christ. Like yes, we have some crazies as well in our bloodline. All of us have the weird uncle, but we also have some amazing, in our family, we have people to intercede with us in heaven.

Like that scene in “Moana”, I don’t know if you’ve seen the video, but she’s on, she’s on the boat being sent, and like her grandmother comes and you see the, like the women and the generations going before her that she’s a part of. But this isn’t just about you. There’s people in heaven right now that are saying, Hey, that are praying, they’re done. I believe personally, this is the most powerful season in the church. Why? Because we’re here, now. We don’t have last year, we have now like Esther that said, we’re made for such a time as this. That means you were made for this season, this time, this calling, this battle. And we have to pick up our swords. There’s a calling in your life that’s more than just getting by in the day.

There’s a great mystery that God wants to unfold in your life. And sometimes we’re waiting for God to show up. And sometimes he’s waiting for us to say yes, it’s time to come home into our identity. Where the elderly brothers, we all know in the story of the prodigal son, right? We know that scene that he’s living in the kingdom, he’s doing this stuff, but he’s not with the father. He’s not home doing it, he’s kind of doing this stuff, but he’s missing the whole purpose, the intimacy, the relationship. And then the father comes to him and says, but son, all that I have is yours. It’s like, that’s that part of Simba, right? And “Lion King”, where he’s like Simba and he picks him up on that big hill and he’s like, all I have is yours, right?

That we inherit from our dad. All of the kingdom, meaning heaven and earth, we have saints and angels interceding for us. We have a mass that heaven has opened. We have power in the spiritual realm. We have blessing. And knowing that there are people that have gone before us that actually carry the blood of the martyrs. And we’re part of that story. We don’t do this alone. So many times, young people feel like we, or just all us in our kind of busyness, we’re doing it alone. We’re, no, we have people to assist us, not only in the kingdom of God here on earth, but also in heaven.

Provision

And the last P right, after the purpose is the two last Ps are what help us fulfill the purpose. We have the people to do it. And then we have the provision. Meaning, like I said, Father says all that I have is yours. Meaning financially, physically, we have the means. He created you with a purpose that it’s his job to actually sign the check. He’s given you the calling. So papa’s going to actually help us live that out with give against the finances.

I just recently went on a mission trip to, I’ve been to Brazil and I booked a mission to, I’ve been blessed, I’ve been able to do some missions lately. And I was nervous about the finances of like, Lord, okay, I live pretty simply. Like, but I, and I just started praying, you know, I just started praying. And lo and behold, God just like opened the doors of provisioned the places that I never expected. He’s like, like afterwards, I was so grateful of like people’s generosity, people’s, and just those little ways of the kingdom coming together, people that we were one body. And in that moment of like, my dad’s like, I got you, I got you. And I know sometimes it’s been hard financially in the season for all of us, but that we have a God that actually owns the universe. He’s not scared about the times of past COVID or about tariffs with Trump. He’s not, I’m not saying that those aren’t important.

I’m saying know who we are and what we have. There’s no reason of fear. He said, he says in his word, I didn’t give you his spirit of fear, but of love, power and of sound mind. But when the son comes home, it’s so important as we understand, as he comes back, the prodigal son comes back, right? He’s out living in his identity. He comes back to the house and he’s got to start learning how to live like a king’s kid.

I have a friend of mine who has some adopted children. And I remember when she was talking about when she was first feeding them, she would go into the refrigerator to try to find food because she wouldn’t be used to having the provision of a dad. We have to start changing our mindset that what we have in the kingdom, we have a dad, we have a kingdom, we have a calling, we have a purpose, we have people, everything’s given to us. We don’t, we didn’t receive a short stick. And the Holy Spirit, all things are made new. And it’s running that race and having our minds renewed. It’s when the prodigal son comes home, he’s got to take off the rags, the old way of thinking. He’s got to stand and put on his crown and say no more. And that’s part of the journey that I want to encourage you to, yes, there’s a healing, there’s deep tenderness, but there’s also a cultural rise.

I believe the bride is being called to rise in who she is. And the specific calling that you have in your life that you can only do, I can’t do your calling, you can’t do my calling. But together, we can actually be making a difference in this world in really significant ways. We don’t have to look at the work as if we’re just slaves. We’re kids. We’re sons and daughters.

I love that scene from “Orphan Annie”, where she comes in and whether or not you’re the old Mrs. Hannigan from the old ’90’s or ’80’s versus the old later generation on the 2000’s, it doesn’t matter. There’s a scene where she comes in, y’all know this scene, she comes in and that the mansion, right? The  new inheritance that she’s adopted. And they, she looks up at all the windows and she reaches down and pulls out a bucket and says, first I’m going to clean the windows and I’m going to, because she’s thinking like a servant. And then the grace, like the lady, the woman miss, like the helper lady comes in and she’s like, oh, Annie, all that we have is yours, right? And then she’s like, be our guest, right? Like, and she starts unfolding this beautiful understanding that yeah, you don’t have to slave anymore. This palace is yours and all this is yours. And I’m going to walk with you in this relationship. And it’s time to grow up.

How To Steward What You’re Given

You know, when we receive an inheritance, oftentimes millionaires in our culture, there’s a study that says 77% of people that win a lottery, right? They’ve gotten a huge inheritance, 77% lose it within the first five years because they don’t know how to steward what they’ve been given. They either mishandle it, they take, just like the talents, they take the talents and they hide it in the wrong place and it gets dwindled. They don’t use it or they use it inappropriately. And so there’s a wisdom that has to be cultivated and a maturity that we grow up in Christ so that we could be sent out as ambassadors. There’s all these beautiful scriptures that talk about who we are as reigning ambassadors. There’s salt of the earth, light at the world, all those different ways of our identity.

But in those have a calling and a responsibility. And I love this idea of being ambassadors. We don’t think about this because, you know, I live in Louisiana. I’m not an ambassador, you know? But in the spiritual realm I am, which is kind of cool, right? Like an ambassador, if you knew the studies like, or the understanding of this, the ambassador’s the one who wears the ring of the king, it’s the authority, the stamp and the seal. And they were sent because the king at that time didn’t have airplanes to fly around to get to the people, to get messages out. They would send ambassadors, representatives that would actually represent the father or represent the king. And what they would decree in a land or in a place, it would be done because he had the authority of the father and I believe in this season, right?

God is inviting us to do that. So what would that look like, right? The first aspect of just our inheritance is that we have to actually become mature enough to walk in the fullness. And the renewing of the mind is the most central place that God has to transform our thinking so that we start thinking in this realm of what we have in faith. It says within the word it talks about in I John in, it says we that we’re more than overcomers in Christ. And that it’s, this is how we overcome through faith. This is crazy. It’s actually through the faith, right? Knowing that our dad doesn’t give us a stone when we ask for a piece of bread. He’s not going to give, you know, like a scorpion when we ask for a fish. He’s a good dad and we can trust in that. And if we have him, we have everything.

God Gave You A Purpose

And so I want to just talk through three movements of just living life in the area of which we’re sent is number one, there’s a discernment process to know where are you sent. And what I mean by that is, yes, there’s a, our primary calling is that we’re sent, we’re called for holiness. That’s number one relationship with the father. But there’s also a specific mission. It says, for the foundation of the world, God gave you a purpose. And your purpose is not my purpose. So where are you called? Is it in the business realm? You know, the church often talks about like the beauty of what we have as laypeople is in Lumen gentium 31, it says that the laity, right, which is the laity’s whole role, is actually to be the levin in the world.

It says that we’re called in the temporal areas to be priest, prophet and kingdom. We’re actually his representative in the workforce. When I worked in pharmaceutical sales, this was hard for me. It was hard to actually speak and represent God in that way because it was almost like my life is personal. Catholics, we do this so often, like we have this little place, like this is my faith. I go to adoration, I do my thing. And then we go in the work field or someone who’s different than us and then we’re like, ooh, I can’t share, or I can’t talk unless it’s like people like me. And I’m saying, that’s not your role. We, where else will they hear if it’s not you? And so three things that I think need to be cultivated as we talk about being sent is know who you are. Know your identity. I’ve already talked about that. Number two, we have to learn how to pray. We have to learn how to pray and renew our minds. So we start thinking like King’s kids. But there’s authority and intercession. I believe God is raising up right now. Mary of Bethany who will be in the secret place that will call down heaven, that will do things, I have friends of mine. There’s a group of people right now that have been living near Virginia who have been praying for politics nonstop. It’s been incredible. They had this prayer chain. They’re like, they have no, we have no idea what God has done through prayer. What the power of prayer. When we come together, anything that we agree on in faith will be done.

There’s Power in Prayer

And so like some of you’re like, well, I’ve been praying and it hasn’t happened. And James, it says, you pray because you know you, you don’t have because you don’t ask. So some of you aren’t praying. Those of you who are praying, it might not be the alignment of God and there might not be the faith to release it. So we have to begin learning that we actually have a way in prayer that can move mountains. We have power in our voice that we speak. There’s power in how we speak. I wish I could do a whole talk, the power of the tongue.

Because what comes from the tongue, it says in James that we should not curse and bless in the same mouth. That this mouth is for blessing and what we decree in life, I’m not saying that claim it and what is that name and claim it kind of thing where you’re like, I’m a great person and then you are, just cause you say it. But there’s a place where you look over the ruins in Ezekiel, right? The dry bones. And there’s a place that says that. He hears that voice that says, Ezekiel, do you believe these dry bones can live? Prophesy over those dry bones, speak.

Jesus says within the word as well, he talks about, about the idea of, of speaking. He doesn’t say by faith you’ll move the mountains. He says, speak to those mountains. If you have faith the size of a mustard seed. And he says, speak to these mountains, speak to them, and they will move. Jesus, when he, God, when he created the earth, he spoke, let there be light. There’s power. He spoke to the fig tree and it died. There’s power in the tongue. So we decree in our lives, it’s really important that we decree, we speak out loud in prayer. I have moments in battling in places in my faith where I’m quiet. There’s times that I’m in silence in prayer. And there’s times where I’m warring in prayer, in faith, and I’m worshiping and I’m declaring not on my ground God. I’m speaking the truth. And I’m aligning myself into that mystery because of who I am in him and what I have in him and how I’m called to live and shift the atmospheres of the world, shift the places of this earth. This is your calling to look like him in every dimension.

And there is a power in our prayer. There’s power in our word. There’s power that we have in ways that we live in holiness. And seeking him with everything that we have. We must speak, I’m very passionate about right now. Releasing our voices in the culture, in the world. And I’m not talking about cultural worlds words or even Republican or not, but just using our mouth to speak the gospel, to be evangelists of love, to be people. Like When my sister passed away a number of years ago, I’ll never forget it said that the worry that I had that I didn’t really share my faith. I come from big family, but like we hung out. But I didn’t always talk about Jesus at home when I was younger. And I was worried when she passed away. I was like, I didn’t really talk about you Lord. And my fear was that I would get to heaven and she would say, why didn’t you tell me? I would say, Kathy, that was her name I’m like, we joked around, we did, why didn’t you tell me about Jesus? Why didn’t you pull out the, like why?

Evangelization Through Everyday Encounters

Like Martin Luther King once said, in the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. And there’s power as we speak. I was at the airport, I do a lot of evangelization. My life is not about the stage. I do a lot of, I’m blessed that I actually do speaking and traveling. And that’s an honor and it is a calling on my life, a very clear calling that God has given me. And yet, at times he said, would you let me go? Would, he’s actually asked me sometimes, would you let it go if I asked? And this last season I thought he was, but would you really be willing just to love me for myself? It’s both.

But to have our heart rightly aligned and then you get to have fun in the kingdom, you get to be ambassadors in ways, like I get to evangelize a lot of the Uber drivers. It’s just the way I am, because I’m on the road a lot. And it’s, and again, some people, again, if you’re a Catholic, sometimes like, ooh, that doesn’t sound very Catholic. Like we kind of live in our privacy. But I think there’s a new generation of young people that are going to come up and arise. And it’s time, like Esther, such a time as this that we cannot be silent. It’s not about preaching and hitting people over the head with a, with a Bible. If they don’t know that you’ve come from love, then your words are nothing. If you’re not coming from prayer or meeting people in compassion that they can’t see Jesus on your face, then it’s just a teaching that they’ve heard a million times.

But if they can encounter in you, the hope of glory, that’s when lives are touched. I can’t even tell you how many Uber drivers, I’ve had incredible encounters, laying hands, crying, working through airports, just everyday life. It’s so beautiful. I was, I remember I was traveling just recently and I was at  air, I was in the, the plane and sometimes I don’t want to talk to people when I’m flying. Can I just have a moment? And I was flying on this plane and this woman next to me and she starts sharing. And I always know, like the Lord puts me and sometimes he’ll tell me, this is a divine appointment. Like I have so many stories, I’m trying to think of which one to share. But I was on this plane, this woman sat next to me and I didn’t really want to chat cause I was tired. And she starts talking and I felt the Lord saying, just listen.

So as she’s talking, she’s sharing her whole story and I’m listening. I’m not evangelizing, I’m just listening, asking questions and I’m hearing and I’m getting to know her. And then towards the end she shares, now if you want to have someone not talk to you, you tell them that you’re an evangelist or you’re a Catholic speaker, that’s the good way to get the conversation to end. But sometimes I’ll be sneaky Jesus, and I’ll just say, ah, you know, I’ll, I’ll kind of pivot it and just kind of give some general things so I can continue. Or I’ll say I talk about faith depending on what I’m discerning.

But in the end of this, she shared that she had a family member who died. Because I did share, and when I did share, she didn’t, she didn’t go there. So I was like, okay, she’s not, she’s not ready. But I just loved her. I just walked with her. I just heard her story. I just encouraged her. I just laughed with her. I, and towards the very end, we spent the entire flight, flight going, I then had that moment. I said, okay, well I’m going to ask you this because you, you know, I’m a lover of Jesus. I’m a follower of Jesus. Why don’t you go to church? She shared that with me. And I had waited. I had not shared the entire flight, anything. I just loved her. But I had, it’s because she knew I loved her. I wasn’t trying to fight her. I was like, oh, that’s a good point. You know, we’re just talking.

And at the very end, I knew that her brother, a family member who had died and she had been really hurt by the church. And I waited in the Lord to say now, and it was in this moment that I just started sharing my story and just sharing God’s love for her. And I said, I’m not even here trying to make you, you know, I just, I just want you to know there’s so much, you know. And I just started speaking because I knew her story. I spent time loving her. We get off the plane and I don’t know if she went to church. I don’t know if she went back to mass or what, I don’t know. I never saw her again. Sometimes I get phone numbers, things happen. But that time it didn’t. And so I’m going off down the walkway as I go back, and our next flight is delayed. And you know how what happens at airports when something goes wrong? We all bond together. It’s the weirdest thing. They’re all strangers at one moment. And then when everything goes wrong, it’s all of a sudden the Americans are like, who can I share a ride with? How can we all work together to like conquer this?

And so our next flight was canceled and a number of the people on this flight was canceled. So I’m like, oh, we’re all talking. And so I’m like, well, I’m going to get some food. I can’t fix this. So I go back in line, this gentleman’s in front of me. He turns around and he says, so wait, you’re a Christian, right? And I look at him, I’m like, hmm, I didn’t, yes, how’d you know? He’s like, I saw it on you. And I was like, oh, that’s so, he’s, I’m just kidding. He’s like, I’m just kidding. I didn’t see it on you. He’s like, I was sitting in front of you on the plane. I start cracking up. I’m laughing hysterically. I’m like, that’s so funny. He’s like, but I, you have something that I long for. And I said, what’s that? And he said hope. And I said, Hey, can I sit with you? Didn’t know the guy. He’s like, can I sit with you for a little bit? We sat down.

At first I thought he was like trying to ask me out and I was like, is this? And then I was like, no, he’s really just, he really wants to know Jesus. And so we sit down at this table and he’s starting to unfold and he starts telling me a story. The power of story, the power of evangelization, the power of just sitting with people and loving them. And he had some really hard things. He actually was part of the church. You know, people have real hurt in their lives and they need people to be able to sit with them and love them and take the person in front of us that, and maybe you’re here and you’re wounded and you’re like, Mary, I’m not there. Or I’m, I’m here. I’m not, I’m busy with my kids. I’m just saying sometimes we just need to look at open our eyes to see what God’s asking in this moment.

I had this like, I can’t even tell you how many stories, but like a number of weeks, I think it was like last summer, I was traveling and I got, there was a rainstorm at the airport. I’m all, I’m telling you, airports are my thing. And so I’m sitting there and there’s an empty seat in front of me. This gentleman sits down and I look and this whole, this whole thing starts unfolding. And I hear from the Lord in my heart. I hear like, this is a divine appointment. And I was like, okay. So I’m always waiting and we start talking and he’s a Chinese gentleman. He’s actually from China. We start talking. And so I like talking politics. I know it’s not normal, but I don’t get offended, but we’re just talking about life and things and what’s it like? And I want to know about China because I’m like, that’s, that’s interesting and different. So we’re kind of talking and he’s, he just share shares that he is not a Christian, he’s an atheist. And I said, okay. And so he’s like, well, I don’t understand why Christians even believe what they believe anyway, because like in China, we don’t have the same issues. And I just said, yeah, I know. I said, but the references is the, anyway, we went into this whole thing, but I had this moment of wisdom where I just said, well, the problem is  that government can’t change our hearts. Only grace can. And that’s all I said. And then he turns and he says, yeah, I know. I believe in evil.

And then as we talk, he starts sharing this incredible story of how he used to believe and how somebody in his family got killed in a, he saw his girlfriend die in an accident and wept over her. And with his whole journey of losing God, and as he starts sharing, I am so moved, the power of the Holy Spirit falls on me. I feel such compassion. I’m sharing my last season of hard. And like, we’re just, we’re just both like having this moment. He’s an older gentleman. I’m just, and I’m not trying, listen, in this moment of evangelizing, I wasn’t actually trying to fix him. I was just trying to love him and meet him where he was. I got his number, info. And like all these things, I mean, I’m just saying like in our lives as Christians, like, it’s exciting. If we just have open hearts in our everyday life, the conversation with our friend, the conversation at work, it’s because sometimes we’re not putting on the authority. We’re not putting on the power. We’re not believing that he’s calling us to something. We feel like we’re broken. We feel like we’re stuck on our own story. We don’t know how, well jump on. I don’t know how I’ve just, I just love him.

And then he shows me in little ways. And then if I get it wrong, like that first story of that gentleman that got back on the plane with me, you know what’s so crazy? At the end of that story, we get in line because he’s actually on the next flight with me, the one that shares that you have hope. I’m like crazy. You guys can’t, crazy. God does crazy things. It’s so much fun to be a daughter. You’re like, dad, let’s go. Come on. So I’m in line, this guy’s in line with me and he’s like, I said, I can’t believe you’re on my flight. He’s like, yeah, that’s crazy. I said, you know what would be more crazy, because he like didn’t want me to pray. I said, can I pray with you for five minutes? He’s like, mm. I’m like, okay, no worries.

You Have A Calling

So like, in this moment, we’re in line. I said, but, but what if you’re like the person? What if you’re right next to me in our seat? Then he’s like, then I will let you pray with me. And we’re laughing. Like, I’m not trying, just loving him. And we get in this plane, literally he looks at his ticket, he’s two seats. And I look at him like, come on. And he’s like, no, no, it’s not God. It’s not God. In the end of the story, I ended up praying for two seconds with him. It wasn’t weird. And I just sat again. We ended up moving to sit next to each other. We talked about his issues with the church, his issues with homosexuality, his issues. And do you know what I did? Yep. I totally get that. I totally get how you could see that. I just found the place where I saw him and I saw I got it. I got the brokenness. I get, I get how we’ve done it wrong. When we start agreeing with people in that place. Yeah. Yeah. Let me tell you, I had a season like, yeah. I’m just finding the place and he looks at me, y’all. and he’s like, I’ve never met a Christian that talks like you.

Because I’ve been trained in theology of the body. I can talk about all these things and I’m comfortable with people not believing me or not liking it. I’m uncomfortable. I’m okay. Jesus wasn’t freaking out when people didn’t believe him or turn or it wasn’t about me. It’s not about me in that moment. It’s just about loving people in that moment and letting God do the rest. It’s just the seed. Some of them are seeds, some of them are growing and some of us, it’s evangelization everyday life.

Some of you watching today, I’m just going to say this, that you have authority and influence in our culture. And you have a calling on your life to bring kingdom principles, ways of thinking, mercy, justice, ways of unfolding business and business strategies. That’s actually going to be a gift to the kingdom. You have finances, there are things that you’ve given, he’s given you in a natural that actually God wants to pivot and use in the supernatural. And here’s the thing, I don’t know your calling, I don’t know your place, but as we go through the kingdom that God has given us, the kingdom of God is at hand. I just want to say it’s time and I want to encourage you that we can do it together. As we pray, pray for me and I’ll pray for you. And it’s been an honor to be here these last weeks. Let’s stand together and win the territory for Jesus.

Closing Prayer

Let’s pray. Father, son, Holy Spirit, heavenly Father, I praise you. I thank you so much for the gift of being your daughter and your son. I thank you for our inheritance, the people that we have, the purpose, the provision, the presence, the power that we have in you God, that we could walk as ambassadors, as daughters and sons that represent the king. I ask for courage in this season and everything that we do that we can look to you, we ask us all in Jesus name.

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