You have been given an assignment, and there is a sense of urgency to answer God's call on your life. God has already foreordained certain things for you, hence, your life is supposed to be about discovering what they are, not creating them yourself. There is a path already set for you; you only need to follow it. (Jeremiah 10:23 KJV)
On the subject of ministry, these three things are important:
- The Caller (God)
- The Called (You)
- The Calling
A call is a divine beckoning unto a specific assignment. It is your calling that births your ministry. Whatever advantage you may have in the natural is not a determinant for your call. You need to stop looking at your strength to determine your calling and start looking to God. While laziness will cause you to look at yourself, spirituality will cause you to look at God. (1 Corinthians 1:26-28 KJV).
Your calling is preordained, but there are many gifts that come to serve the calling. When God gives you a calling, He does not leave you without a gift, but these gifts do not determine your call. You should not confuse the gifts given to you to be your calling. (Romans 11:29 KJV, TPT)
Your gifts and calling are without repentance but there is something that is with repentance — your ministry. While God cannot change His mind on your gifts and calling, He can change His mind on your ministry. When you do not do what God has called you to do, the calling remains on your life but God will raise someone else to do that work. He cannot wait eternally for your disobedience. (Romans 11:29; 1 Kings 19:16; Acts 1:20KJV)
Where your calling is concerned, there are four responses you can give to it:
- You can embrace it
- You can resist it
- You can pervert it
- You can abandon it
At every point in time, people are doing these four things to their calling in the sight of God.
