Empowered By Your Calling

 

All of us are born with a calling on our lives that is meant to be carried out through the expressions of our gifts, talents, and abilities.

Our spirit is duty bound to be loyal to its own desires.  Life can only be lived to the fullest measure when we abandon ourselves to the master passion God has put within us.

Within each of us there is a God Positioning System designed to bring us into our calling.

Once you identify and discover your calling, you can then organize all of your activities around it.  Everything you do should be an expression of your calling.

Without a calling to guide you, your goals and action plans may not ultimately fulfill you.

You don’t want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you were leaning up against the wrong wall.

Identifying, acknowledging, and living your calling is the most important action you can take.

Your calling must be discovered, embraced, and, lived with passion and enthusiasm.

Those who fail to do this get sidetracked on life’s journey.  It’s easy to wander and drift, accomplishing little.

When you are truly serving your calling, the people, resources, and opportunities you need will supernaturally gravitate toward you.

The world benefits too, because when you are in alignment with your calling, all of your actions automatically serve others.

That was God’s specific purpose in calling the Jewish people to serve and honor Him.

Through them, the actions of the world would be saved, and they would be the envy of the world as God would shower His spiritual and material blessings upon them.

God is the originator of all things – all things come from Him.

He, God, originated your calling and gifting.  He chose them for you.

God is the sustainer of all things – they all depend on Him.

He, God, sustains your calling and gifting.  No one can change your calling or gifting or stop them.

04.01.12

The year of 2011 was, as God told us it would be, our best year yet – a year to remember and draw encouragement from.

-Easter attendance was more than 8,000 – a record.
-July 4th I Love America was more than 7,000 – a record.
-Our average weekly attendance rose for the sixth consecutive year to an all-time high.
-Home for Hope built and gave away a beautiful 1200 square foot house.
-We gave a van to an Iraqi war veteran.
-We completed the renovation of our Fremont campus.
-We increased our giving in spite of a continuing recession.
-Through our Noel Project we sowed more than $150,000 into our community.
Together we created a memorable year – our best year yet!


It’s a new year.  The very fact that we each have a memory tells us God wants us to remember His goodness to us regardless of our past challenges.

As we live our lives, we must learn how to release our past and embrace our future. As believers, we are to be fully engaged in the now and not be a captive of the past or the future.

What will you release and embrace in 2012?

06.01.12

If You Missed this Weekend at TheChurch on Strayer

Several years ago a pilot was practicing high speed maneuvers in a jet fighter.

She turned the controls for what she thought was a steep ascent – then flew straight into the ground.  She was unaware that she had been flying upside down.

In our high speed, fast-paced world today, many people have no clue whether they are flying upside down or right-side up.

For those who believe in God, there must be a belief in practice that there is a right-side up.

As people who live in God’s light, it often appears to the world that we are living upside down.

In the Kingdom of God –

          Up is down,
          Greatness is serving,
          Getting is giving,
          Promotion is humility,
          Leaders are servants,
          Strength is weakness,
          Life is death,
          Authority is surrender.

Nothing is more important to your life than knowing, experiencing, and living the laws of His Kingdom.

It is His joy to help us create our life in His Kingdom on earth.

In essence we become trainees or apprentices to proclaim to the world – the Kingdom of God is here and now.

The whole creation is awaiting the demonstration of Kingdom living.

09.01.12