Today am continuing on the series on “Divine Calling.” This is a dear topic to my heart because until we find out and begin fulfilling our calling in life, everything else we do is irrelevant.
Our divine calling may sometimes be linked with
our secular vocation, our skills, knowledge, abilities, gifts and talents
.These are all what God uses in training us before we launch into our spiritual
calling. Our secular jobs are the training grounds for our spiritual calling.
It is therefore important to take our secular job seriously with diligence,
commitment and faithfulness. Often times in The Bible God trains and uses
people in their secular job before promoting them to their divine calling.
These are examples of some people in their other jobs before they were
called by God; Such as Abraham
was an idol worshipper before God called him out to be a worshipper of God,
David and Moses were shepherding sheep before they became Shepherds to God’s
Great people. Joseph was an expert in interpreting dreams before he got his
promotion to the palace, from pit to prison then palace. Deborah was a
prophetess, wife and a judge in Israel.
Other times God
also uses people with flaws, so don’t think because you have some flaws
then God cannot use you.That’s not true at all, some examples of such are Noah, who was a drunk but God still used him, Rahab was
a harlot, Moses stammered, Jacob was a trickster, Gideon came from the
weakest tribe and he was the least in his family but God still called and used
him as judge and he defeated the Midianite, Simon Peter denied Jesus
three times but he ended up being used by God with miracles ,signs and wonders
. Apostle Paul was formerly
Saul that used to kill and persecute Christians. All these shows us
that God can call and use anybody he desires to use regardless of their
inadequacies in the flesh/physical. Once these men and women discovered their
calling, they went about doing it.
The following are other
features of the divine calling; it is unique for individuals, cannot be
achievable without depending on God and His Grace. In our own strength and
ability, we cannot get into our calling, we need God. God calls whosoever he
wants, we are never qualified before he calls us, his calling qualifies us .He
chooses whoever he wishes to choose. That’s why He is God and not man.
Attaining our calling is possible as long as one is coachable and
teachable to God the Father, Son and The Holy Spirit and our spiritual mentors
that He brings along our path. We need to be submitted to their
leadership/mentorship and be accountable to them. Calling demands
from us faithful services to mentees, diligence to all the Spirit led
appointments He brings along our ways, and faithful discharge of duties to all
that God has assigned us to do in our walk with him, stewardship to other great
men and women of God and others. It requires lots of personal discipline and
integrity in our individual lives and in our homes/job/business
and constant fellowship with the Holy Spirit so we can discern the
moments, seasons and times of our lives as well as the people he will be
bringing across our paths during these cycles; They are not a mistake ,co
incident or accident meeting, they are part of the paths we have to faithfully
cross with love, endurance and patience to help us in discovering and in
fulfilling our calling.
It is therefore necessary to
get rid of the flesh in our love walk and inter personal relationship and
dealings with people, so that we will not lose out on friendship with our God
assigned helpers of destiny. It will require us moving out of our comfort zones
and this may hurt our emotions and flesh from time to time. We just need to die
to self and the flesh daily so that we can hear clearly from God and be able to
enjoy the journey rather than enduring it. Creating an atmosphere of Worship
and praise invites and invokes the interruptions of the
promptings of the Holy Spirit into our daily activities. God can also speak to
us about our calling/assignment during such moments. He leads
guides and directs us on what to do next.
Remember whatever we subject
ourselves to eventually master us, so if we subject ourselves to being led by
the Spirit, the Holy Spirit become our master and same way if , we
subject ourselves to being led by our flesh , the devil becomes our master.
Calling requires our
obedience to God and every time we obey, God guarantees and commands increase
to come into our lives. God always reward our obedient act with increase in our
level of wisdom, finances and relationships. The same way disobedience is costly
and it attracts loss and decrease. Therefore it is always good to be
quick to repent of the works of the flesh and to not let our heart be
hardened to the voice of the Spirit, if not one would not be able to receive
spiritual instructions because our spiritual antennae’s have been clogged due
to too much sins/works of the flesh.
Do you know your gifts and callings or are you finding it difficult to figure out?
Now is a good time to sign up for my Spiritual Growth and Development package, they are half price and one of the topic there is Spiritual & Physical Gifts. In this apckage, you will be able to identify the differences between both and recognize your calling and giftings.
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Amen! Sis. Folakemi, thank you for sharing this post message. You have a wonderful weekend in the LORD! I will try to catch you blog show tonight, if the LORD will.
ReplyDeleteAmen and Amen.Many blessings and hugs to you WOG Cynthia Robinson.Thanks for your kindness and support.Remain in Him!!!
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