Social media produces traffic in a way that is unprecedented. It has surpassed both Google search and pornography as the most frequent activity online. Traffic is generated more often from solid followings in Twitter, Facebook, et al than by any other means.

What does this mean for Christians online who earnestly seek God’s will for their time? It means volume and access. If you want to minister to atheists, you need only search for them in Twitter or include #atheist in your hashtag and you have a ministry. If you want to minister to persons who are abused or who have financial need, you can find them as well.

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10

You are God’s workmanship, that is, perfectly suited for the tasks that He crafted you for in eternity past. You are not creating ministry, you are hunting for your spot in the center of God’s good will for your life. If God has prepared you perfectly for good works, don’t you think he made the opportunities recognizable?!

Don’t wait sulking spiritually and feeling sorry for yourself, just because you can’t see one inch in front of you. Oswald Chambers

If God has already prepared your good works in His will then don’t you imagine that things will go well for you if you step forward in faith into His ministry and/or His opportunities for you?

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

If ALL things have been worked together by the Master Designer and if your good works were prepared in advance for you, doesn’t it logically follow that ALL things that have happened in your life have led you to a place where God’s preordained good works can begin?

What is God’s good will for your life, for your personally crafted journey? Look “one inch in front of you”. What has the sum total of all things in your life experience prepared you to do? Nothing in your life is an accident, God didn’t slip up in your worst moments in the past, He used those, too.

My journey has been a prodigal journey, perfectly preparing me to walk prodigals just far enough back that God runs to them and my ministry is to parents who have prodigals who have not returned. The length of my prodigal run gives them hope for their children who have not yet returned but who have been prodigal for a shorter period of time. Do you see it, there it is, one inch in front of my face?!

If you hear hoof beats, look for a horse, not a zebra. Paraphrase of Occam’s Razor

If your history includes abuse, you may have a ministry to the abused, you know their journey and have instant credibility with a group that suffers silently hoping someone like you will approach them someday. If your experience includes infidelity or being victimized by infidelity, then there are people in enormous pain one inch in front of you, approach them, seek them.

Please use your life as your cheat sheet for God’s will for you and God’s prearranged good works will start to happen. Find a group that you can help, you’ll have real power to change lives within the roadmap God has already drawn with your own life experience.

Richard @mcProdigal

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