Here I am Lord, Send Me!!

Hello and Welcome to The Gathering, Daughters of the Living King, where women seek to know and experience the love of Christ. I am your host, Judy Killebrew, and my experience and passion is in encouraging and empowering women and their walk of Faith With the Lord.  Hebrews 10:25 states “and let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.” 

In this weekly podcast, we will focus on meeting the unique spiritual, emotional, and social needs of faith-based women. If you are an imperfect woman seeking to maximize your spiritual growth AND desire to experience a transformed life with the beauty of God’s love, then The Gathering is the podcast for you. Here, in the messiness of our daily struggles we are a gathering of women who strive to live daily with Jesus.   

Isaiah 6:1-8
 I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.  Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

These verses move my heart every time I read them.  You see, it is only after Isaiah is cleansed of his sin that he says, “Here am I; send me.” Prior to that point, he saw himself as an unworthy messenger; but once he was forgiven, he immediately desired to serve the Lord in whatever way possible. The Lord asks, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”—Our God wants willing volunteers in His service—and we see a grateful and enthusiastic Isaiah doesn’t hesitate in taking the opportunity: “Here am I; send me.” And for the rest of his life, Isaiah serves the God who had forgiven and saved him.

A churning deep within me longs to hear God clearly and walk in obedience to Him. I desire to follow in the faith of Isaiah, the Old Testament prophet who offered those words centuries ago, as God’s obedient, trusting mouthpiece voicing loud and clear the will of his Father.

Within the last 6 months, I have visited Thailand and India on mission trips to minister to women, men and children.  And most people will think of the mission field in those far places like Africa, Asia, or North and South America.  But there’s a mission field right where you live. There are a lot of people that you and I know; co-workers, retirees, friends, family, neighbors and acquaintances, who still don’t know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. They might know about Him, but they need to know Him in a personal relationship. Even where you live there is a huge field to enter into, so why not you? Why shouldn’t God send you as one among the laborers of the harvest. In Matthew 9:37, Jesus said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.”