My Calling


My Calling

As a child, I have always known God was calling me to ministry but I resisted this a lot. This put me in a very miserable state having that voice inside me telling me not to do the things I badly wanted which were wrong. I’ve even had people encourage me to consider being a reverend sister of course, that did not happen. Yet, I wanted to do what my friends did and kept pushing this aside. My conscience was killing me inside like an audible voice always trying to redirect me. I finally decided to minor in Bible while in college as a way to stop this voice from stressing me up. How I wish I had someone to encourage me answer my calling. 

While in nursing school I finally convinced myself that I could minister to people while doing my job. This was far from what God wanted from me for he did not want me to be a nurse. I was trying to be a nurse because it is a profession that guarantees a job at any given time especially as an immigrant. Battling with serving the Lord fully now became a struggle for me since I refused to listen to His voice. God did not give up on me yet despite my short coming. It is until I got married that I realized what really my calling was, to be a mentor to other women like me. The beauty of marriage comes with a lot  of storms. I was blessed to be in a church that had women who could encourage and minister to me just like the Bible tells us to. “ Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.” (Titus 2:4-5). This passage spoke to me in many ways and made me to understand the reason I was born ( to encourage and support women about the importance of consistent prayers). The voice inside me prepared me towards the most difficult yet blessed thing in my life (marriage) the one thing most if not all girls want yet very challenging. It is in this that I realized the importance of  The Woman That Prays. I had been mentored thus I realized I was not the only one going through life married with struggles. As I surrendered my marriage to God he lifted me up opening my eyes in mysterious way. He taught me how to be patient, pointed that I was the problem that needed help, he built my faith through perseverance. 

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