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PROGRAM D-8447
Are you in a box? I’m exploring how we can break out of our boxes so that we can be all God created us to be. This is from my book Get Over It: Letting Go and Moving Forward with God. In the parable of the talents, Jesus taught us the principle that if we don’t use what he gives us, not only will he not give us more, we will lose what we have! (See Matthew 25:14–30.)
As I look back on how God led me to this ministry, I realize it began with a passion to minister to women like me—women who went into the workplace regularly. I started where I was, with a Monday night Bible study in my home. Then God put a vision in my mind of how good it would be to have a radio program which was directed to women like me, and though I had no connection with anyone in radio and no experience or credentials, I prayed about starting a radio program.
After about 18 months praying about it, I decided it was time to put feet to my prayers and I made a decision to find out how to start a radio program. On that very day, God miraculously put me in touch with a radio station who offered to put my program idea on their station. Within a few months, we were on the air, beginning in August of 1984. It’s a pretty amazing story, and I believe God placed that passion in my heart since it would not go away. Even though it took me way out of my box, the passion became a vision, God opened some doors, and the vision became this radio ministry. Now, God has kept us going for all these thirty-five years!
Your experience will be different from mine, but if God has given you a vision and you’re willing to step out of whatever boxes you are in, God will guide you step by step and will lead you to new avenues of service that shatter all the stereotypes and boxes which you or anyone else have tried to impose upon you.
Philippians 1:6 says, “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” God won’t give you a vision or a passion and then mock you or frustrate you. If it is of God, you can be confident that he began it and he will carry it on to completion.