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Jason is the founder of Ignite Student Ministries, a dynamic ministry igniting youth, young adults and university students to passionately pursue Christ and transform society in high schools, work places and universities around the world.

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…then i will follow after you.

Jason VanaJason Vana

I was reading 1 Kings 19 the other day, and God really challenged me in walking in the call he has put on my life. I have long since accepted that God has called me to youth/young adult/university ministry in Europe, and even embrace it! God has captured my heart in such a deep way for that calling, that I look forward with anticipation to what He will do.

But that is where the challenge comes in. In 1 Kings 19:19-21, we see Elijah putting his mantle on and calling Elisha to be his successor. It was God’s call for his life. Elisha’s response has always interested me. It says that “Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his attendant.”
Elisha didn’t second guess the call. He didn’t say, well, I will just wait until God brings this around. He didn’t give any thought to where he would live, or how he would live. He was presented with the call of God and he stepped into it right away.
All this time, up until my trip to Czech last week, I’ve been pushing the call of God off til a future date. Oh, I’ve accepted it and embraced it, but it’s always been “well, that’s 3 years away” or “That’s what I’m called to do when I move there.” I even caught myself writing it that way in my journal…when God releases me to do ministry in Europe.
That’s not what he wants from me! This calling isn’t for the future. It’s for right now! God isn’t going to some time in the future release me to do ministry in Europe…he already HAS released me to do ministry in Europe. It’s time to stop hesitating about the call of God on my life and walk forward in it. Yea, I have questions. Who wouldn’t? Where will I live? What kind of job will I do? Will I have to move there? If I do have to move there, how will my family take it? That’s going to be a hard move, if it ever comes to it. I know I’m called there, but moving there. That will be hard. Leaving Monmouth and my family behind. Moving to a new place…a new country! And until then, how do I do ministry in Europe? I know I will have to take quite a few trips there, but how will I pay for it?
Hence my hesitations. But now is the time to be like Elisha. No matter what comes, I not only will do it, I am doing it. I am doing ministry in Europe. And whatever comes in the future, let me do it without any hesitation!

Jason is the founder of Ignite Student Ministries, a dynamic ministry igniting youth, young adults and university students to passionately pursue Christ and transform society in high schools, work places and universities around the world.