5 Things That Calling Needs

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Five points of what calling needs. Number one. To be

able to fulfill all these thing God has put on

our hearts, we need concentration. Another word is focused. When

I was growing up, my father was a drug addict,

addicted to ganja three times a day, he'll be high.

That went on for twenty five years and people ask me, a, Kenneth,

why didn't you even smoke cigarettes? Don't say ganja, And

I tell you what helped me. By about twelve, the

Lord gave me a passion for sports, and by about

fifteen I was already playing for my school tennis. So

I was on the tennis school team and by about

the seventeen I was the number one four hundred meter

runner in my school, competed with other schools. I say

all that because you had to really focus on practicing.

I used to be at the comb bandon feel and

also they have this track, beautiful track. My school is

just next door. I'm in Buki, so I will go

to the track. I will train under the hot sun

for stamming up a pursses and all that kind stuff.

People say you're crazier. You can just feign under the

hot sun like that, but you know we will try

to build so because we had a focus. And when

you have a focus like that, I did have to

be taught not to smoke. I just wanted to make

sure that my lungs who are free of anything that

can stop me from getting a good time or being

first or winning that gold medal. When you start to

have focus in your life like that, you don't have

to be taught not to do the other things and

be distracted. Because one of the enemy's best plan is destruction,

best strategy. He destructed Eve right, remember, and so there

you go, sow destruction. He sometimes can even distract you

from the best with the good now so in no

good word, but the lot has his best. So a

lot of things on our calendar, it's going to be good.

But God is half after the best, and the best

is is you know that all may know? Okay, so everyone,

all right. Two is commitment. I don't think I have

to preach a lot about that. You really have to

pay the price. You have to commit to this. And

the commitment that I see in Paul is that he

says I'm a prisoner of the lot. Do you know,

people to be able to really fulfill this, you have

to almost imprison yourself to this. You have to put

chains on your hands and your feet so that you

don't simply just go wherever you want to go and

do whatever you want to do. So Paul, when he

says that I'm a prisoner of the Lord, he's trying

to say that I'm I'm I don't even have freedom

to do what I want. I'm chained to what he wants.

I'm a prisoner of his will, not my own. So

we've got to think about commitment in that way that

we are chained to the vision of making sure that

Malaysia comes to know the Lord, and anything else is

either a destruction or just maybe a side bonus or

if it's the best at best it says, okay, bonus,

but not the real focus. Okay. Number three is what

I call character. And this is where the word worthy

comes in. You've got to really measure up to your calling.

So someone said before I saw a thought, reap a habit,

sow a habit, reap a character. Uh, And I think

it's got to be habitual. He's gonna start getting habitual

to us that this theme that all may know and

that evangelism and discipleship is really now the focus. We've

got to make it a habit. So whatever curriculum we

are doing, we've got to make it a habit in

people's lives. So we don't just want to teach and

then oh, let's do wait for twenty twenty five team,

because I think is going to be a different theme.

Let's move on. No, there's no moving on. There is

this is this is this is what is going to

keep us going. Another word, of course, I like, is consistency.

So whatever we're going to teach Saul and homes next year,

and I know that some of you even talked about

a small little steps exercises that we can do and

all that kind of stuff is to really get people

to measure up to their calling, balancing the scales. And

we've got to We've got to measure up our character

and the calling. Uh. And one big part of the

character is consistency. Consistency is actually a character issue. Number

four is a comforter. And you know what I mean

by that is the Holy Spirit. You can't do it

without the Holy Spirit. He is the spirit of evangelism. Okay,

so the calling still needs the Holy Spirit's help. Without him,

we can do the thing. Number five, it's choice. Finally,

you will find that though many are called, few are chosen.

So you can be called to this. But actually, at

the end of the day is a choice daily, weekly,

every month, every year. Okay, so choice is very, very powerful.

All of us are called to something, but this choice

that seals it. I'm gonna say it again. All of

us are called to something, but it's choice that seals it.

I might be defined by my calling, but the final

decision is my choice. All these are just quotes that

I wrote down. Well, repeat it to you again. All

of us are called to something, but it's choice that

seals it. Choice that seals it. I might be defined

by my calling. Oh he's called to be apostle, but

the final decision. I might be defined by my calling,

but the final decision is my choice. And so when

you see the final analysis, the final result is actually

that result is the result of choice. The result is

not just a result of calling. The result because many

I call, a few are chosen. So you know, it's

not just about calling. So what you see in the mirror,

you you. You know that a huge percentage is choice.

So I keep reminding myself that, Okay, when it comes

to weight issues, I want to lose weight, or when

you look at the mirror, it is any choice, and

so on and so forth. Okay, so I'm going to pray.

I'm just going to leave this with you, because all

of you are leaders. You know, we don't have to

go too deep into this, but I really believe that

this could help us with even curriculum writing and exercises

that we won't want to do. Finally, we will get

to this that all may know, because the whole church

chooses this way is very very important. So all these

things is uh things that we need to consider uh

and prepare for and that we will be finally the

final analysis that we will be able to pass it

down to all our partners and our whole church will choose.

So before our whole church can choose to live this,

the leaders must choose for us. And I pray that

we have made our choice in this, uh, you know,

hearing from your sharing yesterday, I know that we have.

We've definitely chosen to adopt and to embrace and to

follow through with what God has given to us. But

now the challenge will be how do we translate this

UH and how do we transfer this so that all

of X Church, not just here in Malaysia but around

the world, can say we choose this and we commit

to it.

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