If God Has Called You

Monday, August 10, 2015

If God Has Called You

When the Lord gives a believer a specific calling, may that believer stay on the path of that calling. Will there be great opposition? Yes.

Paul said, "For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears" (2 Corinthians 7:5).

Keep going no matter what opposition arises; continue on in the calling the Lord has given you. If spirits have been tried, and there is no doubt that, in fact, the Lord has given you a specific ministry, then run with the Lord! Oh, it will be worth it. There will be tremendous spiritual warfare, for Satan certainly does not want you to continue in the calling, but God will provide all that you need to withstand the fiery darts of the devil. Praise the Lord for a Saviour who requires your resolve & your free will to continue IN Him! Mountains can be moved when you resolve to look straight to the Lord, not to the right or to the left, but straight at God - waiting only for His cue & His direction for you. You will be hated. You will be persecuted. You will be isolated. You will. But nothing is worth more than our obedience to Jesus Christ.

I have seen God move in unbelievable ways after I have resolved to follow Him. When I have made my mind up, He has always immediately stepped in, literally within seconds, to show me that no power on Earth or in Hell can destroy that which He has called me to do by His Power.

I recently heard a pastor say the following:

"There is a broad way leading to damnation... and a narrow way leading to eternal life. They will deliver you up to kill you, and you shall be hated of all nations. Why? For Jesus' sake. Because you will not abdicate your submission to [Jesus], people will despise you. ... You will be more and more hated. And you must become comfortable with being hated."

Friends, the distractions are increasing at an alarming rate. We who are born again cannot be sidetracked by anyone. There are those professing to be in the faith who will disagree with your calling in Christ. You cannot allow yourself to be molded into someone's false image and false assumptions about you. If that is your inclination, you will find yourself compromising the Lord's calling for you - and ultimately, you will step by step become who others want you to be, which is a part of 'another gospel and another jesus' (Galatians 1:6).

Who you are IN Christ Jesus is what truly matters. Do what He has called you to do and make no apologies to those who are offended by it. The devil distorts the truth and uses people to do such things.

A few years ago, I had a dream that I know was from the Lord. I have written about it in detail here. It will be located at the end of the blog entry if you decide to click on it. In a brief summary, the dream had a scene in it that represented what the true body of Christ will and must do in order to survive attacks from the enemy. Based on the details I gave him about the dream, my husband sketched a scene from my dream. I'll include his drawing below. The lions represent all that is evil and all that attempts to destroy the Truth. The women represent the body of Christ. The women (followers of Christ) are surrounding and looking intently, yet peacefully at what represented Christ in my dream. Notice how the women blend in perfectly with that which represents Christ. The lions never harmed the women because the women never took their eyes off of the Lord.

As born again believers, we are to remain steadfastly focused on Jesus Christ - and no one else. When our eyes fall away from the Lord, we can be sure that the lions are lying in wait to kill, steal, and destroy.