Mary Kelly: My Personal Testimony
Within days after my salvation, God gave me a business. As God revealed His reality to me and taught me about Himself, I began to change. Transformation occurred. What seemed important before seemed so dim in the light of Jesus and His reality. I had just plugged into a power source that I never knew existed.My love and devotion to Jesus increased daily, and my job that He gave me to do seemed to be exciting and fulfilling while yet spiritually futile and meaningless. God kept prospering the business and kept sending people who either encouraged me or blessed me though their loyal patronage. Several times I tried to get out and go to seminary but I always had closed doors. l thoroughly enjoyed what I was doing, and I knew God had anointed me to do this work. I would call on Him to help me solve problems and He would always come to my aid. I found that I was meeting new people all the time and as I worked with them they were becoming part of my life. They would open themselves up to me. With some I was able to share Christ, with others I prayed, but still to others I was simply there to show them love and serve them as best I could. So while l was doing something I thoroughly enjoyed, there was a constant yearning to really serve Jesus.
I had always been communicative with the Lord, as He had taught me from the very beginning to talk to Him. I would spend hours with him as I went through my day. It was upon this prayer base foundation that He started to build a ministry of prayer.
The pivotal moment came at a prayer conference in Colorado Springs. At this conference I received confirmation to a prior call of God on my life for a city prayer ministry. I was overjoyed - I was finally going to get released into full time ministry. I was finally going to get my chance to be an effective laborer in the kingdom of God. My joy was running over. The only problem was, that l also had a business that God had given me. What was I suppose to do?
At the end of the conference, organizers had planned that each one of the attendants would get personal prayer. So one by one we each were taking our turns to receive prayer. The lady in line with me had told me her story as I had told her mine. We had prayed together and fellowshipped during the long wait. I had just told her that I needed a word from God about what to do with this dual calling. Should I go home, call my clients and tell them that I was closing the doors and going into the seminary? Or what? I said to my friend.
"I really need a clear word from God"
It was finally my turn. Two women who I have never seen before or since approached me and started to pray. Within moments the first woman said that she saw an enormous creative anointing on me. She said that she could see that there were dark and ugly things, but as I worked with them they became beautiful. She said, "you are probably a decorator". In response I said a yes. She continued to pray seeing vision after vision of homes, big offices, and boardrooms. Everything she was seeing was what I do for a living. She kept on praying and suddenly stopped and said, "God wants you to know that it is ok to be where you are, for you can go in and out of doors that others cannot go."
I really recieved my clear word. Marketplace ministry- prayer evangelism. It was already in place and l had been functioning in it for years but was too stubborn to acknowledge it. I was thinking that I had to quit my job and go to seminary and ultimately serve in a church to really serve God. It was how I saw things vs. how God sees things.
Through work, God was giving me opportunities to pray for and pray with people every day. Where by it was not talking about Jesus all the time, it was working with all my heart as for the Lord. Being blessed when someone would ask a question about the Lord, or just blessed to be a woman who represented Christ in the world or actually getting to witness from time to time. But always being able to show the love of the Lord to people God had brought to me. I had been operating in ministry for years thought business.
Today my business is prospering in the Lord. I see this business as ministry and so do each one of my employees. We have people coming in who express that they just like to come in because it feels so good. Our purpose is to be a blessing to everyone who comes in the front door and also the back door. All my employees are being empowered to move into their callings and destinies. They are working together to serve our community as unto the Lord.
I believe there are many workplace believers who struggle with what I struggled with. My prayer is that Christians in the workplace will see themselves as effective tools being used each and every day by God where they are.
Passionate Christians want to bring their passion inside the church, but God want this passion taken out into the world.
Mary S. Kelly
Founder- Command Two
