Mike Parsons
Don’t strive for something, just keep flowing with it. If your heart is set on knowing the Father’s heart and then outworking the Father’s heart, that really is all that is needed.
I am aware that people are called to different things. Some are called to a heavenly function that is legislative, producing and outworking laws for heaven to manifest on earth. Those people will naturally spend more time doing that. Others are called to function primarily on earth, outworking what is already established in heaven. We are all different, so we need to discover who we are and where we are positioned, and then learn to be content with that.
You cannot lay down a single pattern for everyone. When it becomes a pattern, it becomes a formula, and everyone’s journey is different because everyone’s destiny is different. Finding your destiny and fulfilling it will bring fulfilment to you, but it may not fulfil me, because I would be doing something that is not really me. That is where a lot of frustration comes from. People often try to do what they see someone else doing, but that leads to frustration because they can never do it in the same way. They are not that person, and in trying to copy someone else, they miss the outworking of who they truly are and the peace and rest that comes with it.
For some, there is a desire to hold a particular position, even something like being seated on a galactic council. Often that desire is driven by ego, by a need for a position to validate self-worth. In reality, it is more likely that someone would be invited into something like the council of seventy if they did not want or need it. Those who strongly want it may need to look at why they want it, and what is motivating that desire.
I remember engaging with the council of seventy, and the Father saying there was a place for me there. My response was simple. I did not want it. I genuinely did not need validation from a position. I was content with who I was without any title or status. Around that time, I began to give away physical positions as well. I stepped out of church leadership and withdrew from various roles because I realised they were not really me. I had fulfilled certain roles because others were not able to, not because those roles reflected who I was.
Leadership, for example, was something I could do, but I did not enjoy it. I did not want a leadership role. I disliked being upfront, orchestrating meetings or managing structures. I am not an upfront personality type. I am actually quite shy, and I am comfortable on my own. Other people thrive in those roles, and they do them brilliantly. For me, it would always feel awkward and out of place.
I had to discern whether I avoided certain things because of fear or brokenness, or simply because they were not who I was. Over time, I realised that some things genuinely were not me, and it became easier to let them go. I became more secure in living from a state of being, rather than from doing. Church leadership and planting churches, even when done with the right motives, are very works-orientated.
I never wanted titles. People always want to give you one, but I never needed it. When someone asked what they should call me, my answer was simple. Call me Mike. I did not need to be called anything else. Titles were never part of my identity.
As I became more secure in who I was, I became free from the need to perform and from the need to meet other people’s expectations. I learned to say no. Some people did not like it, but I could say no without guilt. Not because I was being awkward, but because I knew it was not what God wanted me to do. If I kept doing things that were not mine to do, I would be blocking others from stepping into what they were called to do.
I realised that if I filled every role simply because I could, I was actually preventing others from finding their place. I had done every role, from cleaning toilets to preaching and leading, but that did not mean I should continue doing them. Instead, I began to encourage others to take their positions and to be who they were called to be.
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