Quotes About Calling

Pastor, your eternal future carries with it the sure promise that you will have all the grace you need to do what you've been called to do between the time you came to Christ and the time you will go home to be with him forever.

God is not satisfied with you being a witness to his work of grace. He's called you to be an instrument of that grace to others.

For most of us, church is merely an event we attend or an organization we belong to. We do not see it as a calling that shapes our entire life.

Principio: Dios nunca te llama a una tarea sin darte lo que necesitas para hacerla. Nunca te envía sin ir contigo.

Lord. I must recognize that God, in his awesome glory, is the only being in the universe who exists in timelessness. He has created me to live in and for a certain time and place. I must do all he has called me to do within the limits of the time he has given me.

God will call you to do what you cannot do, but will provide everything you need to do it.

But God has not called us to erect a little family monastery. Please read carefully what I am going to write next. Monastic parenting will not deliver your children from moral danger.

Una amonestación no es una condenación, es un llamado. Las palabras de exhortación no son un juicio, son un estímulo a seguir al Señor. La confrontación no es una sentencia, es una advertencia. Nos hablamos unos a otros con la Palabra de Dios, no porque seamos superiores o mejores, ni porque seamos capaces de arreglarle la vida a los demás. ¡No! Enseñamos, animamos, amonestamos, corregimos y exhortamos porque Dios nos ha comisionado hacerlo.

Sexist leaders who do not respect the God-given gifts of women and who may even relate to them inappropriately have forsaken their ambassadorial calling.

In calling me to deny myself, God is freeing me from my bondage to me. Self-focus never leads to happiness, it never produces contentment, and it never results in a satisfied heart.

We would rather be comfortable than to hold people accountable. We swindle ourselves into thinking that things are better than they are, and in so doing we compromise the calling and standards of the God we say we love and serve.

if you begin to want things out of ministry and leadership that you shouldn't want, other areas of calling will not receive the attention from you that they need.

But this book is not a theology of kingdom, nor an exposition of the kingdom passages in the Bible. No, it is simply a meditation on what Jesus meant when he called us to "seek first his kingdom." What does it really look like to expand everything our lives contain to touch the size of his kingdom?

If you're God's, to tell yourself you can't do what you've been called to do is to preach private heresy. You've been enabled by grace.

We are called to have Scripture so deeply engrained in our lives that we are wise and thankful, and thus always ready to teach and admonish (confront) one another.

This is the upside-down world of ministry calling. The pathway to freedom is servanthood, the pathway to greatness is slavery, and the pathway to deep and lasting joy—joy that people and circumstance cannot take away—is denying yourself

To be part of God's redemptive rescue is not only a high calling but a moral obligation.

God calls him a mighty man not because of Gideon's natural strength and courage, but because of what Gideon will be able to do in the power that God will give him.

God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.

Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?

We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

We believe we're not called to follow signs and wonders but instead the signs and wonders follow us when the gospel is preached. We don't keep our eyes on the signs and wonders; we keep our eyes on Jesus.

When God truly moves in your heart you cannot remain silent. There will be a fire in your bones, like Jeremiah, who said, "His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot." Jeremiah 20:9.

Many are called, few are chosen.