Doing A New Work

God is doing a new work in me.  For the past few years, I have felt the Lord speaking to my heart about how broken people are, and how alone they feel.  I have spent hours, days, months and years in prayer over others' issues in life, crying out to God for a divine intervention.  I have asked for the impossible to become possible, and miracles to happen.  I have seen God answer every time.

Lately, I started feeling as though it was all just not enough, the ministry God had given me needed to expand. I began to pray the prayer of Jabez in the Bible and ask God to bless me, increase my territory, keep His hand upon me so that I won't do evil and hurt anyone.  I began to ask God to show me what I was destined to do in this life. 

It is so funny how your calling can be staring you in the face and you can't even see it!  Here I am, praying day and night for people (sometimes until 3:00 or even 4:00 in the morning) and not realizing that it is truly my passion to pray for others.  I have heard people in the world say that you should try to make your passion a career because you will be more successful.  I believe God has called me to pray for others, having great faith to believe for hopeless situations to have hope, and the impossible to become possible. I have seen God answer daily and this has built up my faith even more!  I wanted to make my passion into my career.

Thus, a ministry was born.  Two days ago, my husband and I founded Esther's Call Prayer Ministry using a free website and a 99 cent IPhone I got from AT&T.  We don't have much extra money, but we have a lot of heart and I am already doing the work of this ministry every day.  We might as well make it official and really got on with it!  I am also putting a college degree in Communication to work, hoping that some churches and women's groups will ask me to teach/preach/pray at their events.  I believe God has already spoken to me that this will happen.  I just need to keep having faith.  This is my dream, my passion, and my calling rolled into one glorious ministry. 

My main goal is just to show people through prayer the love of God through Jesus Christ, and the power He has given us in the resurrection from the dead to overcome every obstacle, challenge, and circumstance in life.  I want to show others what I have already discovered, having been freed from addictions, healed from incurable diseases, and rescued from financial ruin.  God can overcome, and HE WILL OVERCOME!  He has already defeated Satan, death and hell on the cross, and He is wanting to help you.  Please visit our new website:

www.estherscallprayerministry.org

Leave a message in the Guest Book telling me what you think!  If you need prayer, please call 918-424-7161.  You can also text this number, or email me at Pray4Me@estherscallprayerministry.org.  You can find the ministry on Facebook by searching Esther's Call Prayer Ministry. 

I pray you all will check out the site, drop me a note, and call when you need prayer!

Be blessed!

Sarah

Finding Hope in the Trials of Life

Do you ever get really tired? So tired that all you can think about is sleep? I have always been a little prone to weariness which is also defined in the Bible as a spirit of fainting. Fainting, falling down, giving up... The past few years have brought many challenges to our lives. I have faced health problems, financial problems, marital problems, children becoming ill, and I have learned that life brings a new challenge around every corner. Jesus never promised us that life will be perfect before or after becoming one of God's children. Many seem to get a false hope that becoming a Christian means that life's problems just fade away. There will be a day when we leave this earthly life and our human flesh and we are finally fully restored and made whole while living forever in the presence of our Lord Jesus. Until that day, what do we have to look forward to in this life, on this earth? One thing I have come to know is that, while problems exist in life, we have been given a few great gifts from God to help us through. First we have been sent the gift of the Holy Spirit to counsel us with God's wisdom and give us comfort. God also tells us that as we keep our eyes on Him, He will keep us in perfect peace. A peace that surpasses all understanding that keeps us from descending back into the pit from which He rescued us. How do we keep our eyes on Jesus when the whole world is crashing around us? We read the Bible, the holy words spoken by God's Spirit to man so that we could have a guide for living. Reading the Bible reminds us of WHO God is, WHAT He has done for us, and HOW much He loves us. Second, but not less wonderful is God's LOVE for us. This great love that makes up the whole of who God is at the core of His being comes to us in a variety of ways, both big and small. It can be that we experience God's I've when we get a great deal at the grocery store, or a friend drops by when we need a moment of comfort, a prayer at church prayed for us, or recovering from an illness. It can also be more flashy and spectacular as in a person who is healed from terminal cancer or my son being restored from a lack of brain development. However it comes to us, we can feel a tangible expression of God's immense love for each of us. Another great gift He gives is is HOPE. Most of us have experienced a hopeless situation at one time or another. Sometimes, a dark cloud descends on your life and it seems as though life has hit rock-bottom and things can never get better. I have been there. More than once! God gives us hope through the sharing of testimonies about His goodness, mercy and grace. We must be careful to always share the stories of how God has loved us and helped us. You never know how your story might encourage another human being to keep living, pressing forward an having hope for a better future. We have that ultimate hope in Jesus of a day when there will be no more suffering, pain or tears. When only peace and love, mercy and grace will remain. We will live in heaven and will be free from the toils and trials of this life, forever basking in the presence of our God who is LOVE. I know the past few months and years have taken a toll on me. But these three things remain: faith, hope and love. The greatest of these is love because GOD is LOVE. Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT) I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them. He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.” And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.” (Revelation 21:3-5 NLT) After all, what gives us hope and joy, and what will be our proud reward and crown as we stand before our Lord Jesus when he returns? It is you! (1 Thessalonians 2:19 NLT) God blesses those who mourn, for they will be comforted. (Matthew 5:4 NLT) Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:7 NLT) Be blessed and don't give up hope in Jesus! His beloved, Sarah