This message is taught by Amos Johnson Jr, PhD. He leads and pastors Church for Entrepreneurs. God has given him a calling to help believers succeed at their calling. He believes a fulfilled life comes from clearly knowing what God has called you to do and doing it.
Discussion summary & scripture references
God gives us grace in implementing our calling when we are unsure about some of the details because we all are a work in progress. However, we must be vigilant not to deviate from the details we do know. Success is in the God-ordained details of our calling, and failure is in the deviation from those details. God is good, so He warns us when we are deviating. But our hearts must be open to heed His warnings. Listen to this replay from our live Faith-Discussion to learn more about this concept.
Luke 12:47-48 NLT
[47] “And a servant who knows what the master wants, but isn’t prepared and doesn’t carry out those instructions, will be severely punished.
[48] But someone who does not know, and then does something wrong, will be punished only lightly. When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required.
1 Peter 5:8 NLT
[8] Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
Psalm 91:1, 4 KJV
[1] He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
[4] He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
1 Kings 13:6-10 NIrV
[6] King Jeroboam spoke to the man of God. He said, “Pray to the LORD your God for me. Pray that my hand will be as good as new again.” So the man of God prayed to the LORD for the king. And the king’s hand became as good as new. It was just as healthy as it had been before.
[7] The king said to the man of God, “Come home with me for a meal. I’ll give you a gift.”
[8] But the man of God replied to the king. He said, “What if you were to give me half of what you own? Even then I wouldn’t go with you. I wouldn’t eat bread or drink water here.
[9] The LORD gave me a command. He said, ‘Do not eat bread or drink water there. Do not return the same way you came.’ ”
[10] So he took another road. He didn’t go back on the same road he had taken when he came to Bethel.
1 Kings 13:14-24 NIrV
[14] He traveled on the same road the man of God had taken. He found the man sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
[15] So the prophet said to him, “Come home with me. I’ll give you something to eat.”
[16] The man of God said, “I can’t go back to Bethel with you. I can’t eat bread or drink water with you there.
[17] I’ve received a message from the LORD. He told me, ‘Do not eat bread or drink water there. Do not return the same way you came.’ ”
[18] The old prophet answered, “I’m also a prophet, just like you. An angel gave me a message from the LORD. The message said, ‘Bring the man of God back with you to your house. Then he can eat bread and drink water with you.’ ” But the old prophet was telling him a lie.
[19] The man of God returned with him. He ate and drank in his house.
[20] They were sitting at the table. The LORD gave a message to the old prophet who had brought the man of God back.
[21] He cried out to the man who had come from Judah. He told him, “The LORD says, ‘You have not done what I told you to do. You have not obeyed the command I gave you. I am the LORD your God.
[22] You came back here and ate bread and drank water. You did it in the place where I told you not to. So your body will not be buried in your family tomb.’ ”
[23] The man of God finished eating and drinking. Then the old prophet who had brought him back put a saddle on the man’s donkey for him.
[24] And the man went on his way. A lion attacked him on the road and killed him. His body was left lying on the road. The donkey and the lion were standing beside it.
Acts 9:15 NLT
[15] But the Lord said, “Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel.
Acts 13:46-47 NLT
[46] Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and declared, “It was necessary that we first preach the word of God to you Jews. But since you have rejected it and judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we will offer it to the Gentiles.
[47] For the Lord gave us this command when he said, ‘I have made you a light to the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the farthest corners of the earth.’ ”
Galatians 2:7-8 NLT
[7] Instead, they saw that God had given me the responsibility of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, just as he had given Peter the responsibility of preaching to the Jews.
[8] For the same God who worked through Peter as the apostle to the Jews also worked through me as the apostle to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:50 NLT
[50] Then the Jews stirred up the influential religious women and the leaders of the city, and they incited a mob against Paul and Barnabas and ran them out of town.
Acts 14:1-2, 5 NLT
[1] The same thing happened in Iconium. Paul and Barnabas went to the Jewish synagogue and preached with such power that a great number of both Jews and Greeks became believers.
[2] Some of the Jews, however, spurned God’s message and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against Paul and Barnabas.
[5] Then a mob of Gentiles and Jews, along with their leaders, decided to attack and stone them.
Acts 14:19 NLT
[19] Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowds to their side. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of town, thinking he was dead.
Acts 22:3 NKJV
[3] “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers’ law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today.
Acts 21:4, 10-15 NLT
[4] We went ashore, found the local believers, and stayed with them a week. These believers prophesied through the Holy Spirit that Paul should not go on to Jerusalem.
[10] Several days later a man named Agabus, who also had the gift of prophecy, arrived from Judea.
[11] He came over, took Paul’s belt, and bound his own feet and hands with it. Then he said, “The Holy Spirit declares, ‘So shall the owner of this belt be bound by the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem and turned over to the Gentiles.'”
[12] When we heard this, we and the local believers all begged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
[13] But he said, “Why all this weeping? You are breaking my heart! I am ready not only to be jailed at Jerusalem but even to die for the sake of the Lord Jesus.”
[14] When it was clear that we couldn’t persuade him, we gave up and said, “The Lord’s will be done.”
[15] After this we packed our things and left for Jerusalem.
Acts 21:27 NLT
[27] The seven days were almost ended when some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul in the Temple and roused a mob against him. They grabbed him,
Acts 21:32-33 NLT
[32] He immediately called out his soldiers and officers and ran down among the crowd. When the mob saw the commander and the troops coming, they stopped beating Paul.
[33] Then the commander arrested him and ordered him bound with two chains. He asked the crowd who he was and what he had done.
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