FAITH CAPSULE: It is worth answering the calling of God.

1 Samuel 3

Answering God’s calling, prayerfully engage it.
The calling of God is massive for one who is called.
The challenges of life are not enough to stop the called from God’s assignment.
However, there are forces in place that attempt to delay or deny the called one from hearing and answering God.
The Challenge of Samuel delayed him in answering God.
SAMUEL AT HIS CALLING
Samuel was ministering in the house of God when he was called.
At his calling, the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.
At the first calling, Samuel answered wrongly, thinking Eli called him, and he said to Eli, “Here I am, for you called me. And he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” And he went and lay down.” (1 Samuel 3:4-5)
Samuel could hear but could not answer.
Answering wrong will reposition one wrongly.
He hears but yet runs wrong.
Have you answered wrongly?
Are you in the right position to answer your calling?
God reverses the irreversible; ask for His mercy not to answer wrongly.
At the second calling, Samuel could not answer appropriately; he went back and lay down to sleep.
Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him. 
1 Samuel 3:7 records, “Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him.”
Know God, not just know about God, to receive the revelation of God. 
Ask that God will enable you to know Him and to receive His revelation over your life, to position you in the center of his divine assignment. 
Ask that the Lord God shall deliver you from the forces that send you back, sleeping in the place to be awake, moving forward to His calling, to be active for His glory.
At the third time of calling, Samuel ran to Eli and was redirected by Eli saying, “Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.’” So, Samuel went and lay down in his place.” (1 Samuel 3:9)
Eli directed Samuel right, saying: YOU MUST SAY, SPEAK LORD.
Samuel now knows what he must do for him to hear from God.
Ask God to enable you to know what you must do, to hear and answer the calling of God over your life.
At the fourth time of the calling of God, Samuel knew to do the right instead of running wrong.
Samuel responded to the fourth calling as directed by Eli, his overseer; the servant of God spoke to him.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will have mercy to speak again in every juncture you have missed His callings over your life.