Hearing the Voice of God

This has been on of the most intensive units in this course. I have learnt that the Kingdom of God is about His dream society …

This has been on of the most intensive units in this course. I have learnt that the Kingdom of God is about His dream society for the earth where His will his done. It is about the aspect of ubuntu principle being implemented where people are not selfish but generous towards each other. The unit has also taught me not to build a ministry based on a gift but a call since the latter is bigger than a gift. The purpose of the gift is also to point people to God not to ourselves. I have also learnt to learn and recognize God's voice just like sheep learn over time to recognize the voice of God over others. Ministry zones also eye-opening where it is important to do the call of God in our lives within our anointing, passionately with all our abilities as we continue to build them.

The primary and most aspects of God's call is the call to Himself. The call is always about him. God is jealous about us. And …

The primary and most aspects of God's call is the call to Himself. The call is always about him. God is jealous about us. And it will be about us orienting or re-orienting in the direction of him or who he is. So there will be a direction to our call and little having orientation about it. The way we know if it the or a call it if it is about him. Tthe secondary calling is our specific outworking of his call. Calling is not just a mission statement that we put upon wall that sometimes inspires us. A calling is something we are asked to do. When God calls us, he is not just that he is saying something to make us feel inspire. he is actually asking something of us. So there is going to be a response and an action to it. Two aspects of God's call: -It's about him - It involve some sort of response. The call of God is mysterious and it is really hard to describe. * To Isaiah it is a booming voice from the sky *To John it might habe been a voice while he was on the island of Patmos. * To moses, it was a burning bush. * To others it might have been a still small voice. -It is a little bit undefinable. Therefore the call of God will come in a way that we can hear and hear it so clearly and then interprete it and act it out that we would be surer of that than some of the material things in our lives that we can see, touch and taste. There is nothing surer than the call of God. It is constant. The call of God is going to come to us loosing ourselves. That is, if I have the call of God and if I understand when God speaks, there is an obligation to obedience in that speaking, then am I going to loose who I am? and am I going not to be able to do what am always want to do? -God does call us to "be ourselves" and "do what we are". -But we are only "ourselves" and can only "do what we are" when we follow God's call.

We live in daily submission to a host of authorities who circumscribe our freedom: from parents to traffic police officers to dog catchers. All authorities …

We live in daily submission to a host of authorities who circumscribe our freedom: from parents to traffic police officers to dog catchers. All authorities are to be respected and, as the Bible declares, honored. But only one authority has the intrinsic right to bind the conscience. God alone imposes absolute obligation, and He does it by the power of His holy voice. He calls the world into existence by divine imperative, by holy fiat. He calls the dead and rotting Lazarus to life again. He calls people who were no people “My people.” He calls us out of darkness and into light. He effectually calls us to redemption. He calls us to service. Our vocation is so named because of its Latin root vocatio, “a calling.” The term vocational choice is a contradiction in terms to the Christian. To be sure, we do choose it and can, in fact, choose to disobey it. But prior to the choice and hovering with absolute power over it is the divine summons, the imposition to duty from which we dare not flee. It was vocation that drove Jonah on his flight to Tarshish and caused his terrified shipmates to dump him in the sea to still the vengeful tempest. It was vocation that elicited the anguished cry from Paul, “Woe is me if I do not preach the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:16). It was vocation that put a heinous cup of bitterness in the hands of Jesus. The call of God is not always to a glamorous vocation, and its fruit in this world is often bittersweet. Yet God calls us according to our gifts and talents, and directs us to paths of the most useful service to His kingdom. How impoverished we would be if Jonah had made it to Tarshish, if Paul had refused to preach, if Jeremiah really had turned in his prophet’s card, or if Jesus had politely declined the cup.

I am enjoying the journey here as I am really growing in knowledge and spirit. This section has really enlightened me in a lot of …

I am enjoying the journey here as I am really growing in knowledge and spirit. This section has really enlightened me in a lot of aspects, from knowing what a call is, a ministry and the mission. understanding your call in God's Kingdom is very important. For me when we are God it is really important to obey Him, He wants His people to OBEY. I came to understand that ministry is not only in church and for people in church but we need to represent and talk about Christ everywhere. In hearing God's voice, sometimes people ignore the voice of God because they want to prioritize their wants, which in turn can be not want God wants about us. So, it is important to hear God speak to us, and let HIs will be done not our will....remember it is never about us but it's about Him who called us. It is also important to stay aligned with God and always seek Him so to have a concrete relationship in Him/with Him. Also for the purpose of hearing Him when He speaks to us.