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Luke 10:29-37

What is your calling? Are you a bishop, apostle, prophet or any titled position among the body of Christ? You can have all the title and not answer His calling. The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a demonstration of how titled ministers walk away from their calling. As Jesus narrated, a man was attacked by thieves in his journey and was left wounded, with his properties stolen. A priest came by and saw, but walked away; a Levite arrived at the scene, looked, and passed on the other side. The priest and the Levite (that is the pastor, bishop, apostle, and all kinds of title in the church) failed in the call of caring. A Samaritan (deeply hated by the Jew), a nobody in the church, made the difference when he answered his calling. Luke 10:33, ÒBut a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. Where the big men of the church are walking away, the supposedly sinner, a Samaritan, answered the calling of God. That is, he had compassion just as Jesus always had compassion. You do not have to be a priest or a Levite before you answer your calling. What matters is for you to answer. It is possible tofor you be a priest or Levite and not answer your call. Answering your calling involves getting involved with the needy. The Samaritan supplied materials, and also paid off the bill. Can you answer the LordÕs question? Luke 10:36, ÒSo which of these three do you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves?Ó Calling is not only for the titled ones among the fellowship of believers, you are also being called.

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Exodus 2:11-22

Moses escaped death at birth; he later turned out to be a murder that has to run from the palace where he was raised. In his effort to run from PharaohÕs reach after killing an Egyptian on behalf of his Hebrew brother, he ended up in Midian. Nothing happens by accident. In MosesÕ life, all that happened prepared him for where he was going. In order for Moses to become a shepherd in the hand of God, he has to be trained as a shepherd. Where you are going, you do not know, you only know about where you are now. Are you paying attention to Him? When Moses was living in the palace, he would not have imagined becoming a shepherd. Nevertheless, he ended up becoming a shepherd in the hand of God. To be used by God is a great attainment that cannot be compared or traded for anything. You know whom you believe, and that enough is an encouragement for you to stand firm in whatever condition or situation you encounter. If Moses had missed his training, he probably would have been out of place to be called by God, thus he would have missed his divine schedule for his life. When he was received by the priest of Midain, he did not let pride or anger get in the way of what God planned for Him. Character was in place in the life of Moses, Exodus 2:21, ÒThen Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.Ó Contentment is what made the difference in the life of Moses. Life from palace to tent could never have been an easy transition, but then Moses was contented. Do you have God in your life? If you do, go and add contentment by asking Him to endue you with the spirit of contentment.  1Timothy 6:6, ÒNow godliness and contentment is great gain.Ó With contentment, Moses was in place — not out of place — for receiving the calling for his life.

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Exodus 2:1-6

Whenever a plan is put out to terminate you in the journey of life, it will only take the intervention of God for you to be delivered. An innocent baby boy, born at an appointed time of God, and set to deliver his people from bondage of over four hundred years was born. It was the timing of God, but to Pharaoh, it was the worst time for such to be born. Pharaoh passed a law that every male born child of the Hebrew people should be terminated. In GodÕs timing, it was the time to send a male son that will bring deliverance to thousands of His people. What a mighty God! Today let those that can see and think it as a bad timing hold on to what they are seeing with their naked eye. You, as someone that knows the living God begin to see it as GodÕs allowed timing. Moses could have been killed at birth just as some must have. After three months, his mother decided to send him off in an ark of bulrushes on the water. He rowed down to the one that was to kill him when the daughter of the murderer (Pharaoh) picked up the ark which was holding Moses. Exodus 2:6, ÒAnd when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him, and said, ÔThis is one of the HebrewsÕ children.ÕÓ You have been crying to God because of manÕs timing that is affecting you. See today that God will let open a door of compassion on your behalf and your story will be eternally changed to the glory of God.

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Exodus 1:15-21

Have you been sent to deliver an assignment that does not glorify God? Listen, it does not matter who sent you, when you have been sent, and what the reward is, what matters most is fearing God. Fearing God and not just flying in the direction of an evil errand. When you fly under the direction of an evil minded service, you will crash land and you will fail woefully. However, when you turn to the fear of God before delivering an evil message, God will not ignore your move, He will acknowledge you beyond and above whatever reward that is set for you. It does not matter where you are today or what position you are holding, let it be established in your heart that today you have ceased from delivering any message that is meant to hurt others, any message that does not glorify God. Pharaoh entered into shrewdness because of the growth of the children of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Israel. He ordered the midwives to kill all male children at birth. The fear of God arrested the midwives. Exodus 1:17, ÒBut the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.Ó If you ask God to endue you fear of His name to always do what is right, He will do it for you. He is the One that said when we ask it shall be given. Exodus 1:20-21, ÒTherefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty. And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them.Ó Let your every action be based on the fear of God, and He will establish you in all areas of life.

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Psalm 47, 48

How often do you render unto Him praise worship? How long does it take you to praise Him? Is your praise emotionally driven? All the above questions are rooted in this one question: Do you praise Him with understanding? When you praise Him with understanding, your praise worship will be constant and consistent; your praise worship will no longer be to get manÕs applause. When you praise Him with understanding, your praise worship will no longer be timed, it will be all day long, all week long, all month and all year round. Your praise will not be subjected to timing or calendar of man, it will be heavenly connected because anytime you are on your own or out of conversation with man, you will have nothing to worry about but to be praising Him. Have you ever thought about this or you do not think He is worthy of your praises? Psalm 47:7, ÒFor God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.Ó Do you now get it? Your praise should be driven by the fact that He is in charge of all the earth. Psalm 47:8, ÒGod reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne.Ó It is frequently quoted among the believers, ÔGod inhabits the praises of His people.Õ The more reason why you have to praise Him is to be able to carry His presence around you round the clock. Praise belongs to God, when it is not with understanding it becomes noise-making. Religion makes noise, serving Christ makes you powerful to the glory of God. Get out of religion and get into Jesus reality.