Janice Sjostrand - Prayer for the Called

In an interview with Jacob Tapia (Ministry Mentorship), Janice Sjostrand shared her journey into ministry and gave practical advice for young ministers.  At the end of the interview she was asked to say a prayer:

"Lord I thank you for the opportunity to give back what you have giving to me.  The simplicity is in Christ that you love us and that there are people that want to love you back. Someone listening has felt your love and wants to return it.  This is the person that you are going to teach. I pray that you will help them when you begin the process of correcting and instructing them, when they feel like you have forgotten them, that they can't ever get it right, that you would remind them that this is how you treat sons, that correction and the way that we endure it, identifies us as your children, in Hebrews 12.  And the more correction we take the more like you we become, because we are not born knowing how to behave and in order to become like you, you must shape and mold us.  So to that person who is just getting started, to someone who has never viewed themselves as worthy, I pray you remind them they are more precious to you than all the works they could do.  I pray you remind them that you created the heavens an the earth, the stars, and you are still creating things that we will never see, but because you are a creative God, you do things just for your pleasure, and it is your pleasure to become intimately acquainted with this person you have called.  And if they never do a thing that is outstanding or noticed, knowing you is the most outstanding thing anyone could ever accomplish.  As Paul said, that I may know you, not just in the power of your resurrection but in the fellowship of your suffering. So I pray that you would help them to forget what is behind and reach what is before and press toward the mark of the high calling that is in Christ Jesus.  There is no greater calling than to hear you whisper a name and then invite us to come forward.  Whoever it is that others would have walked past and not chosen like David's six other brothers, you chose the little shepherd in the field and if there is someone who has been ostrasized or rejected by men, and you have chosen then, then you enfold and guide and bring them to completion for it is written he that has begun a good work will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. We thank and praise you for this privilege, let your work continue.  An unbroken line from before the book of Genesis until after the book of Revelation.  In the sweet name of Jesus we thank and praise. "