Hearing the Voice of God

"God's Call My Response" has reawakened a deep sense of my understanding regarding my part in God's mission of reconciling the world to Himself. I …

"God's Call My Response" has reawakened a deep sense of my understanding regarding my part in God's mission of reconciling the world to Himself. I understood from the lectures that I have a critical role to play both in God's General Call and Specific call which encompasses church based, marketplace, and community based ministries. To participate fully in these will require my abilities, my heart and the anointing of God that culminate in placing me in the grace zone to bear fruit and multiply. The condition of my heart is very crucial in doing ministry that will glorify God in whatever calling He has graciously assigned me. I pray for grace to glorify Him in all my endeavors.

I don't know where to begin, but this course has taken me down memory lane and brought my entire life before my eyes. I grew …

I don't know where to begin, but this course has taken me down memory lane and brought my entire life before my eyes. I grew up in a very remote community where the only church/denomination was the Roman Catholic Church. We all admired the priests and nuns who came monthly to teach us the Word of God. I remembered someone telling me in my dream I would be like them one day. I dismissed the dream because I did not want to be a priest. I came from the village. My parents were poor. I wanted to go to school and get a profession that would give me enough money to take care of my parents and siblings. While I admired the priests for the work they did, I did not want to be one of them because they were "poor." I heard the voice of God, but I did not listen. I pursued education for the sake of getting a well-paid job. I completed high school and enrolled in college the following year, majoring in Biology because I wanted to become a medical doctor. During the third phase of hostilities among the different warring factions during our civil war, all schools came to a close. This was after I had spent two years in college. I became internally displaced in the suburb of the city where the hostilities were not severe. In my newly displaced home where there were fifteen of us sharing a two-bedroom house, I felt a compelling need to start a morning and evening devotion. I was afraid. I did not know the Bible, but the voice kept pushing me. One day I talked to a friend about this, and he said he was thinking the same way. I believe this was a confirmation. We held the first devotion the following morning. Everyone said I should lead the devotion since it was my idea. I can never forget what the Lord did! The devotion grew from five persons on the first morning to eleven persons over four months. The devotion grew into a neighborhood fellowship as other people in the neighborhood started joining us. One of the neighbors offered us her porch which could accommodate about 35 persons, and we started meeting for weekly Bible studies. All of these took six months to unfold. When school re-opened, I was torn between the decision of whether to go back to school or to pursue the work of the ministry. When I considered what God was doing, the hunger and commitment of the people to the Word of God, and the sacrifices they were making to come for Bible studies, I felt guilty about abandoning them to go back to school. I decided to enroll in a Bible training school to be trained as a pastor. This is how I got into ministry and founded the Foundation in Christ Fellowship Church in Liberia. By God's special grace, we now run three churches and a school that has an enrollment of 267 children. Why this long narrative? It is in light of the impression this course has left on me, and what I have learned about the call of God. One important truth I learned is that the call of God is consistent. All through the many years since I had the dream, that little voice was always in my ears. His call has quality, spirit, and content. To hear God I needed to listen to Him, which I could not do for many years. I left him out of my plans. Then, I learned that God uses circumstances to clarify His call upon our lives. This course has helped me to take a deeper reflection on God's dealings with me to accomplish His purpose for my life. I am challenged to abandon myself to Him and serve Him diligently and faithfully.

It is a great privilege to be a trainee in this extraordinary platform I believe God led me here. I am blessed with new insight …

It is a great privilege to be a trainee in this extraordinary platform I believe God led me here. I am blessed with new insight about new ideas about Biblical leadership in particular "personal and team leader". As a pastor this particular course - God's call your response, equipped me with new understanding of God's calling, and my response to that call, hear God's voice, and many more.. Thank you

These teacheing have opened my eyes more to what calling is, how to response to call, how to listen to Gods voice in the word …

These teacheing have opened my eyes more to what calling is, how to response to call, how to listen to Gods voice in the word of God, not to start a ministry base on a gift and to plan after receiving a call from God... Hallelujah