Catalyst: Devotions For Leaders Who Love The ChurchSample

This is our mission, our divine appointment, to be ambassadors of Christ. In all of the stress, and worry of attempting to find our personal “calling,” we have moved right past our responsibility as adopted sons and daughters of the Holy One. We’ve been brought to life. Rescued from death, and now share the message of God’s reconciliation.

How each of us does this will look different. Some of us will lead families, others businesses, and others churches. All of us playing our part in the reconciliation of the world. That’s the beauty of the Church. All of its many parts gathered as one body, pointing the world towards Christ Jesus. The question is how will you lead? Our mission is this, that we would live lives worthy of the Gospel, that we would allow ourselves to be internally changed, that we would create external effect, and in His way, reconcile the world to His will.

God, this world is yours, everything in it is yours. I am yours, do with my life what you will. Help me to release the things of my flesh, so that I may be transformed according to your Spirit. Give me a heart for those around me, a burden for my community that compels me to fulfill the mission you have may give him. Teach me to clothe myself in you, to speak your words and offer your hands.

May my leadership radiate you, and draw people towards Jesus. Help me to no longer strive in my own power, but to surrender to the authority and will of the Father. Thank you God, for the resurrection of Jesus, and the life it bought for me. I pray that all those my life touches know the same power, grace, and mercy. Amen.