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Knowing Your Season

by GOD TV March 10, 2022

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What is your season? You know, we all go through different seasons. If you think about 12 months in a year, we have Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Well, you’re in a season right now as well, and it may not be the same as your friend, and it may not be the same as your neighbor. I would encourage you to ask God what season you’re in.

Maybe He’s having you plant some seeds right now. Just imagine your life and all the things that you’re doing, how you steward things in your life. Maybe you’re in a season where God’s calling you to do something really big, or He’s calling you into a new career, or He’s calling you into ministry. Maybe He’s calling you to read books and to learn how to write a book. Ask Him what season you’re in, because seasons shift, and we need to know where we’re going with Him.

We have so many gifts. God has given you gifts. There’s going to be times when you need to learn under a leader, and then you become a leader. Perhaps you’re having children, and you’re in a season where you feel a little bit hidden. What is your season?

I believe that God has revelation for you in every season. I believe that God has blessing for you in every season. We can learn wherever we’re planted, and we all grow at a different pace. You know, I think about babies. They develop and they learn at a different pace, but they don’t stay babies forever. Eventually they start walking and talking, and then before you know it, they’re teenagers. Well, that’s like our spiritual life. We’re constantly growing, or we should be constantly growing. And you know, in your season, I want you to know that you have all you need in Christ. If you need to remind yourself of that, read Ephesians chapter one, and if you need wisdom and revelation for the season that you’re in, listen to this in Ephesians 1:17, Paul is praying that “the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.” And then verse 18, “Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.”

You have an abundance of riches in Jesus, and He wants to grow you. He wants to speak to you. He wants you to become the fullness of what He sees you as. So whatever season you’re in, ask the Holy Spirit, “Help me to grow in this season.”

I want to pray for you. God, I thank you that you take us through changes. You take us through seasons, and God, I just thank you that you are so wonderful in how you teach us. And so I pray for everyone right now, no matter what season they’re in, that the seeds that they’re sowing, God, I speak life to those seeds right now in the Name of Jesus, Amen.

All Things Are Possible Through Jesus Christ

by Rhoda Gayle December 12, 2021

written by Rhoda Gayle

All things are possible through Jesus Christ when we are in the right place where God wants us to be.

Taffi Dollar

Taffi Dollar of World Changers Church shares a powerful message about God’s calling. When we are in the right place where God called us to be, we experience the fullness of His Kingdom.

“When we’re in the position and we’re in the place where God wants us to be, we’ll begin to experience His favor on our life. We’ll receive Him pouring out His goodness on our life,” she said.

Encounter

Our encounter with the Lord changes our lives. The old has gone and the new life we have in Jesus Christ has come! We’ll never be the same again when we encounter the love of God.

“When we have an encounter with the Word, and we have an encounter with Jesus, and we get a revelation, I’m telling you, we will never be the same again.”

When you are being called for His missions, God will provide you everything you need. He will provide you protection, anointing, and even provision. All you have to do is respond to the calling of God.

“There’s sustenance, there’s a keeping, there’s a provision when we are where God wants us to be. And we’re at that place where He is able to empower us.”

All things are possible

Let us stop putting limits on ourselves when God has made everything possible for us through Jesus Christ.

“We have to recognize that we have to open ourselves up to God’s possibilities. We have to limit the negativity, we have to limit the fear in our life, we have to squash all those things that would choke out our confidence in hearing from God.”

All things are possible for us through Jesus Christ when we just respond to His calling.

“There are things that God wants to do and all things are possible through Jesus Christ.”

In Times Of Discouragement, Remember Who Called You

by Rhoda Gayle August 5, 2021

written by Rhoda Gayle

In times of discouragement, remember who called you into this place and position. Remember that God called you and not men.

Havilah Cunnington

Havilah Cunnington shared her testimony of how she overcame the discouraging word of a man. She was just 17 when she and her sister started their ministry. They went to places to share with people the Word of the Lord.

A month after their first speaking engagement, they were invited to a church in Arizona. As they were preaching, praying, and prophesying, the pastor cut them off and led the church in a different direction. Havilah later asked the pastor how he thought the service went – and that’s when she heard a very discouraging word.

“I don’t believe in anything you did tonight,” the pastor told her. “I don’t believe in the message you brought, I don’t even believe in women doing what you did. If I have known what you would bring, I would have probably never had you.”

Who Called You?

With tears, they came running to their parents and told them about what happened. Then her father reminded her that it was God who called her into ministry and not men.

“Well, I guess you get to decide if a man called you or God called you,” Havilah’s father said to her.

The enemy always wants to instill fear in us to cripple us from doing the works of the Kingdom. But we have to overcome the words of the enemy by holding on to the promises of God.

“The battles of the enemy, they get more intense, they intensify. Fear could never stay in one place, fear traps us more and more and more. Anxiety traps us more, more and more.”

In Timothy, Paul said to Timothy not to let anyone look down on him because he was young. The Lord is also speaking to us through that verse. Never let anyone look down on you because you are young or you are a woman because God is with you.

Remember Who Called You | Havilah Cunnington

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Teenage Girl Was On Her Way To A Weekend Party When She Heard God’s Voice Calling Her

by Rhoda Gayle June 17, 2021

written by Rhoda Gayle

This teenage girl was on her way to a weekend party when she heard God’s voice calling out to her. That moment changed her entire life!

Havilah Cunnington

Bethel Church pastor and minister Havilah Cunnington shared her life-changing experience when she was just a teen. Havilah grew up at church as her father was a minister. However, she really didn’t have a relationship with God. She was just a church kid trying to fit in while living a different life at school.

One weekend night, some guys picked her and her twin sister up to go to a party. They were seated in the backseat while the music is playing, it was a typical weekend night for a teenager. Little did she know that her life will be changing at that moment. Havilah suddenly heard the audible voice of God calling out to her.

“Havilah, what are you doing? You cannot live like this. I have a purpose in your life, you can’t do this,” God said to her as she remembered.

Weekend Party

Surprised by what she has heard, she asked their guy friends to turn the music down. Out of the blue, she then declared to them that God has a calling for her. She starting to cry as the Holy Spirit touched her. Havilah then invited them to come with her as she serves the Lord.

“I’m going to serve God. You’re welcome to come with me if you want but this is what I’m going to do,” she said to her friends.

God’s Calling

As she looked to her side, she saw her twin sister Deborah crying. Havilah knew at that moment that the Lord was also doing something in her heart. Their guy friends brought them back home, and when they entered their room, they surrendered their lives to God.

“God… I am not much, I am young, I’m 17, I’m a girl and I don’t have any special gifts or graces on my life… God, if you can use anyone, you are welcome to use me,” Havilah prayed to God.

That moment changed her and Deborah’s entire life and brought them to where they are now. Today, they are ministering to other people and encouraging them to also follow God’s calling for their lives.

Surrendering to God's Will | Havilah Cunnington

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‘Who Are You?’ A Life-Changing Message For Every Confused Millennial

by Rhoda Gayle June 8, 2021

written by Rhoda Gayle

Author Lisa Bevere shares a life-changing message for every confused millennial by asking them, “Who are you?”

Lisa Bevere

Many of us, especially today’s generation, really don’t know who they are. A lot of us are still searching for our purpose and identity and that’s normal! The author of the New York Times Bestselling Book “Godmothers” shares to everyone how can we know who we truly are.

“Who are you?” Lisa asked the audience. “A lot of times we have a generation that is trying to figure out what they’re called to do and they don’t even know who they are.”

Millennials

The mother of four shares the things she learned about millennials after meeting thousands of them.

“Millennials are some of the most well-educated, well-connected people on the face of the earth,” she said. “But they’re also some of the most confused. It’s because they have so many options… And the overwhelming amount of choices is paralyzing them. They also know that they’re called to do something significant.

Who Are You?

This generation doesn’t know what they’re called to do because they are called by God to do something that has never been done before by the previous generations. You will only discover that calling in the presence of God.

Before we can truly know who we are and what our calling is, we first need to know who God is.

“We have to have a revelation of who our Father really is,” Lisa emphasized. “And when we have a revelation of who our Father really is, He tells us who we really are.”

Only God knows about our true identity and what our destiny is.

“He will call you by a name that is attached to your destiny rather than your history.”

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Shocking Truths Hidden In The Gospel Of Mark Explained

by Rhoda Gayle May 13, 2021

written by Rhoda Gayle

Out of all the four Gospel books in the Bible, the Gospel of Mark is the shortest yet most detailed book. There are shocking truths hidden in the Gospel of Mark and Dr. Chris Green will reveal and explain those!

Gospel of Mark

In an episode of Go Deeper with Mark Chironna, Dr. Chris Green, a professor of Public Theology, talks about the deep truths in the book of Mark. His first revelation is about the baptism of Jesus Christ and how it reflects the Old Testament.

“In Israel’s exodus, both when they leave Egypt and when they leave the wilderness to go into the promised land, the waters part and they go through the dry ground. But when Jesus comes to the waters, the waters do not part. He goes down into them and Bob Ekblad has talked about what that signal is that Jesus is going down with Pharaoh and his armies.”

Baptism of Jesus

Dr. Chris then continued to explain that it symbolizes that Jesus came to save everyone.

“He is showing solidarity with all of those people who were lost in the flood. And all those people who are destroyed in the crashing of the red sea… Jesus is saving not only Israel but Egypt. He’s claiming Jew and Gentile which is the heart of the Gospel. All of us are claimed.”

And that baptism was done by Jesus for us. By going down into the water, he sanctified the water that will wash away our sins.

“Jesus is baptized not to wash away sin because He’s sinless. He’s baptized in order to sanctify the water to wash away our sins.”

Our calling

He also shared about our calling and why God created us and commanded us to rule over the earth.

“Our calling as human beings is to mediate the holiness of God to the rest of creation and to mediate creation to God.”

To know more about the Gospel of Mark, watch this full episode of Go Deeper:

Temptation in the Desert | Go Deeper with Mark Chironna

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Hear The Call, For The Storm Is Upon You

by Brian Taylor August 20, 2020

written by Brian Taylor

I spent a number of posts recently discussing where I believe God is leading in this season and in this decade. I have tried with everything that is in me to convey that this is the season for building. And a season of preparation for those who feel the call and leading of God to do so. With this in mind, God has been directing me of late to take another look at a familiar passage of scripture. In this passage, Jesus sent his disciples ahead of Him to cross a lake. However, He remained behind to dismiss the crowds that had gathered. Finally, He went off to the hills to pray (see Matthew 14:22-30).

The Call To Build

As I read this familiar passage, God began to relay to me a unique thought regarding this and the call to build. While reading this passage, I began to see how many are finding themselves in a precarious position. Ultimately, God has given instructions to go ahead while He is tending to a thing. How often are we in a situation where we hear clearly from God that we are to do something? Yet we have a feeling we were sent and He is somehow not with us. Then, when we’re out and making progress, a storm breaks out and it impedes our progress.

Even greater than this, is when things seem to be at the greatest degree of pressure. We see and hear something but are unsure about it. Our historical context tells us that what we think we see and hear cannot possibly be. Peter and the others, amid all of the winds and waves, see and hear Jesus walking on the water. Jesus reminds them that they have nothing to fear because He is present. We find that in that most intense moment, Peter hears the call of Jesus. He wonders to himself if he should dare to step out where Jesus is. Is it possible to walk as Jesus does? How bold of a step is it to leave the seeming safety of the boat?

The Storm Upon Us

Nationally and personally, we are being invited to step out into something that seems impossible to us at the most impractical time. The question we have to answer at this moment is, “Are we willing to get out of the boat when a storm is upon us?” Peter dared to go where others feared to tread. We are in a moment in time when God is likewise calling us to “come”. Additionally, He wants us to step out of our comfort, our place of familiarity, our place of safety, and step into the unknown and unseen.

The call to build is often a place where we have not gone before. The call is coming even at a time when all logic says “this is insane” or “this is unsafe”. Yet we must believe that if we have been called, we are not being called with the intent that God would ever tell us to do something to lead us into harm but to invite us to a greater level of faith.

Hear The Call

This is a season and time of the call to build. What have you been called to build that in your own strength, you know you can’t do? Are you willing to hearken to the call of God? Who says if you only have faith to keep your eyes on Him, He’ll bring you through? Look back as the number of those who never dared to get out of the boat. Do you want to be like them? Or like Peter who dared to dream and to believe that if I hear the call to step forth, I too can do whatever I’ve heard the call to do?

May this be a time when you are willing to hear the call of God and daring to step out of the boat. The key to it all is keeping your eye on Jesus and holding fast to your faith that what He has said, He will likewise be faithful until you to help you to perform it and bring it to pass.

August 20, 2020 0 comment

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Rebecca St. James Says God Radically Called Back Into Music After Retiring 7 Years Ago

by Rhoda Gayle June 24, 2020

written by Rhoda Gayle

Christian artist Rebecca St James said that God has radically called her back into music and ministry after retiring 7 years ago.

Rebecca St James

Rebecca Jean Fink, popularly known as Rebecca St James, is a Christian pop-rock singer-songwriter and actress. She made a name in the Christian music industry in the late 1990s with her Gold albums “God” and “Pray”.

The Grammy Award-winning actress “unofficially retired” from her career in 2013 to focus on her family. But after her 7 years break from the spotlight, God radically called her to return to music and her ministry.

“For those that think I’ve been gone from the scene for a while, I have, they’re right,” Rebecca said in an interview with The Christian Post. “I kind of unofficially retired about seven years ago and that was about a year before our first daughter was born. So we have a six-year-old and a two-year-old and then I’m 28 weeks pregnant. So our little family’s growing. About three years ago, God just radically called me back to music and it’s kind of a big story in itself, but I wasn’t looking for it. I was just loving, living this dream of being wife and mama. Also, knowing that God had given me these other giftings to do with music and other things, but I had very happily laid that down seven years ago and thought that I may never sing again.”

God’s calling

Rebecca is now working on her comeback album that will be filled with power-packed worship songs for churches.

“Then He just got a hold of my heart in a very kind of Damascus experience way, like scales falling from my eyes, and I knew in this one moment in time, I just knew God had called me back to music. My husband and I, both of us were in sync about that. We moved to Nashville with our little family. I’d lived here, but they had been in California for 10 years. So it was just really radical. So I’ve been working on a new album for about a year and a half, just writing and working on it. We’re wrapping that up right now. It comes out in mid-July,” she added.

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The 43-year-old soon to be the mother of three children also released her new podcast titled “Rebecca St. James Friends and Family”. In her podcast on AccessMore, she and her friends and family talk about faith, parenting, and relationship.

June 24, 2020 0 comment

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Former Co-Host Of ‘The View’ Paula Faris Shares Her Thoughts On God’s Calling

by Christa May 14, 2020

written by Christa

Former ‘The View’ co-host, Paula Faris, shared her reason behind leaving her dream job. It took her a series of wake-up calls from God to finally get her attention and say yes to her true calling.

Paula Faris

In an interview with Faithwire, the 44-year-old enlightened listeners with her perspective to the true meaning of calling. But the journey has not been easy. It caused her leave her career as a journalist and anchor. “When I was at the height, anchoring ‘Good Morning America’ weekends and co-hosting ‘The View’, it seemed like I had it all professionally. But my personal life was just falling apart,” she said.

Faithwire described Paris’ hard choice in stepping away from her career as “screaming and kicking and even a little angry at God.” Even so, the mother of three felt peace with her decision.

School Principal Hears God’s Calling And Donates Her Kidney To Students’ Dad

“Most Americans have bought the lie that our value is vocation and our worth is work and that doing is somehow the only value that we bring to society. It’s critical for Christians to uncouple ‘calling’ from ‘career’,” she stated.

Faith Calling vs Vocational Calling

She continued, “When we throw that word around, are we talking faith calling or are we talking vocational calling? One changes and one never does. Your faith calling is your purpose. And that is the reason you’re on this earth and it has nothing to do with your career.”

“I thought that my faith calling was to be the best broadcaster that I could be, using the gifts God gave me. But when I experience a vocational shift, then my purpose is rocked and I don’t know who I am.”

“Your faith calling and your purpose will never change in your life, no matter the change in tides, no matter the personal crisis or pandemic. It is never going to change. It is to love God ad love people – that’s it. Our vocational callings, though, change. At any given time in our lives, the vocation we practice is the vehicle by which you love God and love people. It’s just the conduit to fulfill your purpose and it will change” she explained.

Along with quitting her job, she also has endured a miscarriage, car accident, concussion and surgery. Nevertheless, Paris calls her sufferings blessings in tragedy for it made her see what was really important. She tells more of her experiences in her new book, “Called Out; Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs for a Life of True Calling.”

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Your Calling: Be The One That Turns The World Upside Down

by MJ November 25, 2019

written by MJ

When I was a new believer in Christ, I wanted to be an effective witness for Jesus. But I was often held back by worldly pressures that kept me from my calling and making bold decisions for the Lord. When it came to choosing sides, I was caught up with the fear of losing something, or just the thought of what others might think. I just didn’t feel comfortable being the “odd one out”.

Trust Your Calling

During this journey with the Lord, I realized everything begins with our identity in Christ. The moment we begin to discover our identity at the cross, we begin a journey through the path paved by the blood of Jesus. It leads us to our calling, to prepare the way of the Lord.

All we have to do is to trust the One who has called us. He has given us the provision that enables us to walk in our calling to prepare the way for Him. He has given us His Holy Spirit who works with us in our assignment.

Elijah And John The Baptist’s Calling

Prophet Elijah and John the Baptist had many similarities, but the one that I would like to focus on here is boldness. They both boldly declared the heart and mind of God. They were sent by God during a time of great spiritual turmoil. But they came in the power of the Holy Spirit to show us what God can do. But, if and only if we don’t hold back our voice, yet shout at the face of a generation that is lost in the culture of this world.

Prophet Elijah and John the Baptist raised their voices, roaring like a lion. They were not intimidated by the opposition. Nor were they there to increase their followers. They didn’t preach sugar-coated sermons to prove that they are dutiful to God yet not offending the world. Both of them were so bold to the extent that Elijah sarcastically addressed the prophets of Baal. Elijah mocked them and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.” (I Kings 18:27) John the Baptist called the Pharisees and the Sadducees coming to his baptism, “Brood of vipers” (Matthew 3:7). They were no respecters of persons.

Elijah dealt with the evil King Ahab and the prophets of Baal. While John the Baptist dealt with the Pharisees and Sadducees – the religious ruling class who were greatly respected and feared by the people. These two men boisterously lifted their voices for the one, true living God. They did this in the face of opposition, apostasy, and skepticism.

Your Voice

Do you have the boldness to stand out of the crowd? Do you prefer to mingle with the culture of the world or to stand up for what you believe? How can you let your voice be heard? It is not always about talking. Like a picture that can speak a thousand words, your actions will testify your faith.

2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” You have the power of the Holy Spirit that enables you to provoke a sleeping generation. Align with the Holy Spirit and allow His voice to flow through you at your workplace, home, or elsewhere. Make a sound expression of your voice by choosing not to participate in the ways of the world.

Choose to obey God, no matter how much others try to convince you otherwise. When you do, God will use your every move to break the hardened hearts of people that are far from Him.

Paul And Silas’s Calling

In Acts 17, we read how Paul and Silas continued their ministry in Thessalonica. They were received by Jason, a Jewish convert and early Christian believer. The Apostles’ successful ministry stirred up the rage of the Jews who did not believe the Gospel Paul preached. As a result, the angry mob tried to capture the Apostles.

But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.” (Acts 17:6)

Jason risked his reputation and his life for the Kingdom of God. He joined hands with the Apostles and turned the world upside down for Christ. He refused to be a nominal Christian that refused to take risks for the Gospel of Christ. I challenge you to do the same!

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