Pick up a roadmap, you’re going to need it…

I love people who are called to the lifestyle of an intercessory missionary. I need those people in my life. I need the people who sit in the prayer room and focus all their heart and energy on the Lord. I need to know that throughout the day someone is praying for me off and on. I need to know that I can bring my prayer requests to them and they will pray. I love knowing that through the night I have friends who lift my up in prayer by name and then ask me the next day what’s going on in my heart.

I need the intercessors in my life.

Something that has really been a struggle to me is finding my place at IHOP lately. I know that what I do - this working and supporting the intercessors - is important. I know this. I just don’t know where I fit in socially. I just have such a different world view (not better, not worse, just different) than the people who spend their lives in the prayer room. Sometimes its hard for me to relate to them.

But I need them, I need these people, these gifts from God in my life.

It amazed me last night as a new friend told me that she is amazed by people who find the thought of a career to be exciting - a call from God. All she has vision for is full time ministry. I think it was one of the first times that I spoke to someone on the base that truly could express their gratitude for those who support them - who didn’t give off any vibes of “I’m better than you” - and were truly humble about their calling.

I, on the other hand, can’t imagine a life of full time ministry that is not in the workforce. I can’t imagine a life outside the bubble of (pretty?) Christianity. Quite frankly, that’s boring to me. The sheer idea is boring. I wouldn’t mind teaching for the rest of my life in a Christian school or something like that, but I just can’t see myself not working.

And there are those of you who God calls to the mission field of prayer.

Oh, I need the intercessors. Each of us Martha type people need a Mary. It balances each other out, it creates a wonderful diversity within the body of the church.