Archives: February 2010

Knowing what you're made for

By Jeannie Morgan

I like to think of finding our calling as ‘knowing what we’re made for’. That is apart from the obvious thing which is to love God and worship him forever! 

For me my specific calling became obvious a couple of years after I became a Christian.   Jesus met with me for the first time when I was broken-hearted and I experienced a huge amount of His healing in my life. This meant I didn’t just believe in Him healing me but because I knew how it transformed my life I had a great desire to see other people receive it too. I remember reading 2 Corinthians 1 v 3-5 which talks about God comforting us in our troubles so that we might be able to comfort others in theirs. I also found it hugely impacting when I read Isaiah 61 v1 which says:

“The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me ... He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.” 

The passage goes on to say many more things regarding people that are broken-hearted, about those in despair and those that are mourning.  For me this was not only a testimony of what had happened in my life but also seemed to be saying to me that I was also meant to be doing the same stuff for others.  

So I got involved in prayer ministry, that is praying for others to be healed in the same way that I was. But I was also involved in other areas of church life too including youth work. 

Things changed a lot when my husband and I helped plant and build the church Soul Survivor Watford.  For many years I worked on a full-time but voluntary basis as the church Administrator and at times Projects Manager. In fact doing anything and everything that needed to be done at that moment in time!