I love the fact that Jesus was so unpredictable, but He did nothing except what the Father was doing.   I have found in Africa that ministry can not come as an organized package with instructions.   Some days you are going to the hospital to "pray for the sick" but then you see a women outside crying and the Father says go to her… you find out that her 20 year old daughter just died of AIDS and she is left with her 3 children.   What if you just past her by to do "your ministry?"  

Ministry here doesn't look the same and it doesn't start and end on your terms.   Yesterday morning we got up to take a run (more like fast walk) and found a women picking up corn kernels on the ground.   She had been there for 2 hrs. already picking up these kernels in the dirt that were scattered for miles.   Her children brought them home in a wheelbarrow and didn't realize the bucket had spilt.   We stopped to help, because those small pieces of corn (to be honest in America most of us would just leave them in the dirt) fed her chicken that would feed her family for that month.   We were able to put "our agenda" to the side and do a small thing to stop and say "you matter and Jesus loves you."

I am beginning to see that it is in the little things that the Kingdom of God is being built.   I think it is easy to get caught up in the big things, but the word of God says the kingdom of God is like a small mustard seed.   If we don't stop to help plant that small seed we will never see it grow into something big… His kingdom.

Lord, I want to do what the Father is doing.   May my heart be in tune to hear your voice and respond with a willing spirit.   If I find you picking up kernels in the dirt than I will meet you there.