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 GOD'S CALL

Isaiah 49:1 "The Lord called me before my birth; from within the womb, He called me by name."

It is astounding to think, an act of nothing more than believing what God has said that, foreknowing that I would respond to His grace by grace, I would receive from Him a new birth becoming a new creation. Mind-blowing that He would cause me to stand before Him, holy, blameless, and beyond reproach. In love, that He has destined me to be conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ.

This is a heritage from God. It is not due to anything I have ever accomplished or could ever even approach to do to any degree. He tells me that I am His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that He has foreordained that I should walk in, live into. That means that He will provide the grace, anointing, and His power to do what He has planned for me to do. It is an eternal truth that the will of God is either done by the power of God or it is not done at all.

There is a freedom given to those, like me, who are called by God from the womb to encourage, support, pray for, pray with, protect, help each other and grow in grace together. There is also the liberty to extend the Love of God we have received to those around us who may seem to have no affinity toward God or the things of the Holy Spirit. We were once alienated from God, living in culturally accepted rebellion, spiritually dead and someone befriended us, becoming a bridge over which the Lord could walk into our lives, redeeming us.

God tells us in His Word that He doesn't want any to perish, but for all to come to repentance and faith. (2 Peter 3:9). God's call on you, follower of Jesus, is to actively and actually be His ambassadors, to speak and live out of His authority into the lives of those still deceived that what God offers us will never be enough. The truth is, that God loves them and has made a way for them to become all He created them for.


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