What Your Calling Means

Have you noticed that when God wants to save a family, he chooses someone?

God told Abraham to leave his household, his relatives, and his father’s house and go to the land that He would show him. (Genesis 12:1)

When God called him, he positioned him. So your calling is God’s positioning.

AT BETHEL, God positioned Jacob.

He slept and saw a ladder from heaven with angels ascending and descending on it. (Genesis 28:10-22)

Jacob went to bed thinking he was alone, but woke up knowing that God was with him.

Your calling means God is with you.

When you ENCOUNTER GOD, things shift.

They shifted in Joseph’s life when he moved from knowing the present to seeing the future.

He anticipated great things, so he shared his dreams with his family. While his father scolded him, his brothers hated him.

With your calling, things will shift.

SOME people will hate you when they do not understand your calling.

They hated Joseph because they couldn't understand him.

God wasn't just creating an awareness; he was making a way. God was writing his story.

When you heed your calling, God writes your story.

So when Joseph met his brothers in Egypt, he told them that God sent him ahead to preserve a remnant on earth and keep his people alive. (Genesis 45:7-9)

God did not choose Joseph because he was stronger or better, but because God wanted to do something through him. So, your calling is much more about God and little about you.

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God doesn't merely create an awareness, he writes your story.

THEY hated him because his dad loved him.

If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.

As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you, said Jesus. (John 15:18-19)

Similarly, Satan hates believers because God loves them. (John 3:16)

HOWEVER, no one can sabotage the dream of God for your life except you allow it.

Samson broke the hedge when he allowed a strange woman into his life, but when he asked God for forgiveness, God positioned him by allowing his hair to grow.

And in death, he killed more Philistines than he ever did in his lifetime. (Judges 16:18-31)

THE BATTLES you face are indicative of your calling.

God told Ananias that Saul of Tarsus would suffer and endure many things for his name's sake. So, suffering is tied to your calling. (Acts 9:10-19)

EVERY CALLING makes you more responsible and ties you to a burden.

When God called Joseph through the dreams, he put him ahead of his brothers. So Joseph would lead the family.

YOUR CALLING can put you in a position where it seems you're the firstborn.

God repeated a similar thing when Jacob pronounced the blessings of the firstborn, Manasseh, on the secondborn, Ephraim. (Genesis 48:14-20)

JACOB gathered everyone together and shared the testimonies of God's goodness when he was about to die.

By the time he was done, every right-thinking one among them would have known why God did not share the future with them.

God understood the end from the beginning, so he knew Reuben (firstborn) would be unstable. (Genesis 49)

JOSEPH did not sleep on God's promises. He worked it by pleasing God in all his interactions.

He understood the call of God and the responsibilities that came with it, so he chose God above everyone else.

THE DREAM of God for your life should take a special place in your heart. You must work it to have God work it with you.

It will begin with an alignment and end in obedience.

If you want to see the glory of God, if you want to experience the beauty of God and if you want to be used by the hand of God, then, you must live in the Word of God - David Platt.