Sunday Message, October 18, 2020 - Answering the Call

 Loved of God,

Sunday's message found us searching the scriptures to answer the following questions:  What is God's call on our life?  How do we answer that call?  The challenge for this house is to recognize that everyone is divinely called of God into a divine purpose and to respond accordingly by fulfilling the Great Commission respectively.

  

Enjoy!

Scripture References & Highlights

Video:  Modern Day Call of God

Message Scriptures:  God does call

• Ephesians 4:1-4
• walk worthy of the vocation of which you were called
• all were called innto the same glorious hope of divine destiny
• Hebrews 3:1
• invited into a heavenly calling
  
  
  
• 2 Timothy 1:9-10
• drew us to Himself by His holy calling
• 1 Peter 2:9-10
• called us out of darkness into His marvelous light
• 1 Thess 5:24
• faithful is He who calls you by name
• Isaiah 66:3-6
• God's initial plan for Israel was to be an example for other nations; cared by God, provoking others to jealousy
• they were far away from what God called them to do
• many believers are worshipping absent of a heart connection
• Jeremiah 7:9-11
• lost vertical connection with God

Nuggets for the Week

• the children of Israel was called for a specific purpose...same with the church today
• people still struggle with God's call
• today's church is struggling to ct/enter into the new covenant because we don't understand the salvation message, similar to the children of Israel
• there should be a distinction between us and unbelievers and we need to see them as having a calling on their lives
• we are not called into a temporal life but eternal

Reflections

• Calling has been devalued by believers
• or lifestyles don't necessarily look different than unbelievers
• How God calls individuals into their divine purpose...
• Birth 
• Samuel, 1 Samuel 1:1-5
• Moses
• Older age
• Gideon
• Stumbled into it
• Ruth, Ruth 1:14-17
• Salvation, new covenant
• disciples
• If we don't enter into God's will when life events happen, we will absorb the blow or shock more so than if we are in His will.  Inside His will, Christ absorbs the majority of that blow.

 Key Takeaway for the Body 

• No longer looking at others as not having a call on their lives
• If we don't have compassion for unbelievers, we will have no interest in fulfilling the Great Commission
• We are not called to live unto ourselves.  We are here for God's purpose.
• To fulfill God's calling...
• Faith
• Hebrews 11:1-3, 24
• Moses chose to identify himself with the children of Israel rather than the pleasure of sin for a season
• Love
• 1 John 4:4-10
• must love the One who called us
• Surrender
• Romans 12:1
• we belong to God, giving our all as a living sacrifice

Prayer Time

In your times of prayer this week (9am,12noon, and 6pm) we encourage you to include the following scriptures located below and in the article 7 Verses and 7 Prayers for your Pastor/

Isaiah 53:1-5 

Ephesians 6:11

Philippians 1:6

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