Quotes About Calling

And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your fatherís household, and go to the land I will show you.

So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.

Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.

In that dream the angel of God said to me, ëJacob!í And I replied, ëHere I am.í

And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.

When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ëWhat is your occupation?í

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.

When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.

Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ëThe LORD has not appeared to you.í”

And the LORD asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.

“Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

“Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”

But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”

Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.

So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me?

But in the LORDís presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”

The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,

“Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.