During my ministry training, I had to try my hand at all facets of ministry.

This included leading worship.

I’m left with scarred memories of the pained faces of a 200-strong congregation enduring my out-of-tune destruction of their hitherto favourite tunes!

Worship leading was certainly not “in my wheelhouse”.

The phrase "in your wheelhouse" has nautical roots, referring to the place on a ship where the captain steers. Over the decades, it has become an idiom meaning something within someone's area of expertise, comfort zone, or sphere of influence.

In exploring your pathway to success, staying in your wheelhouse is a concept to bear in mind.

God has gifted you in a particular way. He knows you and has prepared a way for you to walk in. It is your privilege as a king or queen in His house to search that calling out.

“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.” (Proverbs 25:2 NKJV)

Get on the same page with Jesus.

Put “the Captain of your salvation” (Hebrews 2:10) at the helm.

Your route to success is not of your own making.

Paddling your personal dinghy across the wild ocean is not a clever plan.

Your history, your desires and passions, your peculiar interests and pursuits are all signposts that can lead you to explore the work for which you were shaped.

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10 NKJV)

This is where we begin.

Ask God what He has called you to.

With Jesus in your wheelhouse, you’ll stay true to your calling and not end up marooned trying to be something you were never called to be.

The Holy Ghost is a great helmsman.

“[He] makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters,” (Isaiah 43:16 NKJV)

Take a moment today and ask Him, “What have you called me to, Lord?”

Listen, and believe what he tells you.

Then lean in for the next direction He wants to give toward that end.