A Selah Moment: The True Call to Ministry

October 4, 2010 by
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Not everyone will understand the call that God has on your life, but will you still answer it anyway?

Sometimes the very people you’d think would be your greatest supporters are the very ones who will relentlessly try to instill doubt in your mind, but will you turn a deaf ear to them and an open ear to God?

When it feels as though unseen forces are working against you, and that’s because they are, will you still continue to press forward in the name of the Lord?

When your closest friends turn into your biggest haters and begin to slander you, mock you and speak all manners of evils against you, will you keep your focus and wait for God to vindicate you?

Will you obey God even when it hurts and even when you don’t understand?

Will you move when He tells you to move, although it may appear as though He’s moving you to a place that’s tougher, harder, and completely outside of your comfort zone?

Will you continue to stand even when the burden seems far heavier than what you can bear?

Will you still hope when hope seems hopeless?

Will you still follow God even when it seems unprofitable and as if you’re losing more than you’re gaining? 

Will you still be faithful when it seems as though people who serve God less than you do yet gets more from Him than you do?

Will you absolutely refuse to conform to what the popular majority demands and adhere to all that God commands?

Will you obey God no matter what the cost?

Will you still have faith though it seems as though your prayers have gone unanswered?

Having lost all, will you still give more?

Despite your ability to flow effectively in the spiritual gifts God has given you, and the praises of men you receive as a result, will you still humble yourself under the mighty hand of God? 

When people think you’re “super holy” because of the obvious anointing on your life, and begin to exalt you as a result, will you correct them and put their focus back on God and their relationship with Him?

Will you preach and teach God’s unadulterated, uncompromised, untainted Word?

Will you allow God to interrupt your day to go minister to others and do the things that He wants you to do though it may completely interrupt your plans?

Will you still talk to and lean on God even during the times when it seems as though He’s silent?

When He slays you, will you still trust Him?

When it seems like you’ve given all that you can, yet He says “There is still more that I require of you”; will you still follow Him?

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Ministry is nothing to take lightly.  It is a serious responsibility and it usually comes with a great cost.  If God called you to a particular ministry (preacher, fivefold, deliverance, etc), simply embrace the call then allow Him to lead you in how He wants you to walk in that call.  Don’t walk ahead of Him nor far behind Him, but rather with Him; allowing Him to cultivate you so that you can reach your full potential. 

Don’t be shocked if your friends and family members begin to scatter, GO FORTH ANYWAY!

If it seems like all hell is breaking loose in your life, GO FORTH ANYWAY!

Even if church members begin to ridicule you and try to make you feel insignificantly low, GO FORTH ANYWAY!

God has equipped you to be able to walk in your divine calling, effectively; however, it does require your trust and obey Him.  It also requires that you allow God to humble you, which is often a painful process; however, it is a much needed process.  We tend to want the crown without the cross, but the Bible says in John 15:20 that the servant isn’t greater than the master; therefore if Christ had to go to the cross before getting His crown, then so do we!  And us having to go through this process isn’t because God wants to make us miserable, but rather for us to become more intimate and dependent on God; which is absolutely needed in ministry.  Our “going thru” also makes us more wise, patient, stronger, effective, compassionate and more able to relate to those whom we minister to.  In addition, it’s also for our good, as we do not want our hearts to become prideful which can easily happen as God promotes you from glory to glory.  You want to always keep your eyes focused on the prize, which is Christ Jesus!  In Mark 8:36, Jesus asks, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”  You do not want to gain earthly things at the expense of your soul.  It’s not worth it.  Let God be God and you just trust Him.  He knows and is able to do much more than you could ever fathom, able to do exceeding, abundantly above all that you can ever ask for or think.

God bless you and your ministry!!!

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SCRIPTURES

“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Mark 8:34 NIV

“Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.” James 3:1 NASB

“For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels and to men. We are fool’s for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong: ye are honorable, but we are despised. Even unto this present hour, we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place; and labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; being defamed, we entreat; we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.”  I Corinthians 4:9-13

He said: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their fathers have been in revolt against me to this very day.  The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says.’  And whether they listen or fail to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.  And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious house. 7 You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious. 8 But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.” Ezekiel 2:3-8 NIV

© 2010, Naima Williams. All rights reserved.

Written by: Naima Williams, is a part of Naima & Friends Network, a subsidiary of NWC Ministries. on October 4, 2010.
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