  This is a word that we are just unfimiliar with these days. With the lack of community and commitment in our society, we truly are a people who lack availability.
Sometimes I think that being an American is a curse, due to all of the activities that the world has to pull at us daily. I sometimes wish I could move to that little town in "Northern Exposure. " I remember when I was working in my clinics full-time and a need arose, and I couldn't tend to it the way I felt I need too. Just the fact that I was tied down to something that controlled my ability to serve someone else, really discouraged me. I have to tell you all, now that I am in full-time ministy, I LOVE MY JOB!!!! There is nothing more awesome to me then to be available to be used by God. People miss out on sooooo much just because they won't make themselves available. I'm not saying that everyone should quit their jobs and go into full-time ministry(unless that is what the Lord is telling you to do!
), but there is a fulfillment that is beyond comprehension when God uses you to be a vessel for Him JUST IN TIME!! For example, Saturday evening at 11pm I received a call from a 16 y/o boy from the neighborhood that we minister in frequently. He was very upset, cause a girl he knew was getting ready to commit suicide. He was very frantic and concerned for his friends well being. I told him that we would be over immediately. So I called a dear and anointed brother of mine, Chris Hanson and we went over to their home. When we got there, she was crying and shaking and desperately in need of Jesus. Chris and I talked with her for 2 hours, and at the end of our conversation, she agreed to get some help. Sunday evening myself and my wife (Jessica), and Chris and Cheryl went to see her. She was still a little shakin' and withdrawing from her drug addiction. Currently, this 18 y/o girl is staying with us in our home so Jessica can continue to minister Love to her and to keep her engaged so that she is less likely to make a bad choice and go back to the drugs.
She is doing great and she is getting ready to have an interview with Teen Challenge, and hopefully within a week she will be off to T.C. It is funny how God will use someone if they will make themselves available. For those who won't make themselves available, I find them looking at us in a very unique way, wondering why we do what we do. All I can say to them is scripture, in Luke 7 it says "Those who have been forgiven much, Love much". And believe me, I know how much I've been forgiven!!! I think understanding forgiveness is something that is lost these days, but I'll right more on that later. I love being available for the Lord, in whatever way or capacity that I can. It's not out of duty, but out of dedication to His Love for me and for His children that are so desperately in need of His love. We have to get that revelation, we may be the only Jesus that some will ever know! 
