The personal call from God
Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied. ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me. I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Acts 26:15-18
There are three kinds of call in the lives of every human being.
- The call into existence
God is the One Who wanted and called us into being. We are all born by divine will – and not by human will. Nobody is born by mistake.
- The call to know Him
God calls us to know Him. Many people exist, but not all truly live. You begin to live when you know the actual author of life. Only those who know God can say they are alive.
- The call to a purpose
Why were you born? Every human being exists for a purpose. No one is exactly like someone else: we are unparalleled. That’s why you must pray for your life. Your voice is unique, and it’s the password releasing your inheritance.
Every time you speak and also every time you pray, something of your inheritance becomes active. Your talk in agreement with the Word is what activates that “word”!
In Acts 26, we see that the first thing you have to do is get up from where you fell. You have to get up from the down-to-earth life where you’ve been used to live. God doesn’t call you to a down-to-earth life; He calls you to bring heaven on earth and in your life.
When God calls you for His purpose, He calls you not only to minister to you but to make you a minister.
