Open Heaven 21 August
2020: [Friday] – True to your Calling
TRUE TO YOUR CALLING – Friday August 21st 2020
Memorise:
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit. dividing to every man
severally as he will. 1st Corinthians 12:11
Read:
1st Corinthians 12:12-30
(KJV)
12 For as
the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body,
being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by
one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
14 For the
body is not one member, but many.
15 If the
foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it
therefore not of the body?
16 And if
the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it
therefore not of the body?
17 If the
whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where
were the smelling?
18 But now
hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19 And if
they were all one member, where were the body?
20 But now
are they many members, yet but one body.
21 And the
eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the
feet, I have no need of you.
22 Nay, much
more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
23 And those
members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow
more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24 For our
comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given
more abundant honour to that part which lacked.
25 That
there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the
same care one for another.
26 And
whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be
honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now ye
are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
28 And God
hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly
teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities
of tongues.
29 Are all
apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
30 Have all
the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
Message:-
There are many people in the ministry
today who are going off track because they are operating in areas wherein they
were not called.
Open Heaven 21 August 2020 – True to your Calling
Some, out of personal ambition, are operating in callings that
are not theirs while others are innocently operating in the wrong callings out
of concern. Having a burden about something or seeing a need does not
automatically translate to a calling.
“And if a man
also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.” 2nd
Timothy 2:5
Open Heaven 21 August 2020: [Friday] – True to your Calling
According to the above Bible verse,
anyone who does things outside the will of the Master will be disqualified.
Everyone who God has called is scored by Him. If what you are doing is outside
God’s calling for your life, no matter how good you are in that calling or
ministry, it is regarded as irrelevant.
Paul was greatly burdened by how the
Jews were walking outside the will of God. He kept preaching to them, yet they
kept persecuting him. The greatest persecutions he got were from Jews because
God was trying to point him in the direction of his main calling – the Gentiles
first, then to kings and then to the children of Israel (Acts 9:15). Had he not
been so persecuted by the Jews, he would not have been able to take the gospel
to as many gentiles as he did. Thank God that in Acts 18:5-6, he finally
decided to leave the Jews and go to the gentiles to whom he was primarily sent.
Open Heaven 21 August 2020 Friday: Reflection
God calls people for a reason and if
everyone were to leave their calling to attend to someone else’s, there would
be trouble. Imagine someone who is called to cause a great evangelical revival
being so burdened about leadership in the nation that he distracts himself by
contesting elections. Imagine what would happen if the one who is to find the
cure to incurable diseases were to become so burdened about the economy that he
gets a job in the Ministry of Finance. You need to identity your calling
through the guidance of the Holy Spirit and stay in it so as to fulfil your
destiny and more importantly, for the world to be a better place.
Reflection
Are
you true to the calling of God upon your life?
Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God,
one of the largest evangelical Churches in
the world and also the President of Christ
the Redeemer's Ministries.
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