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Discovering your calling purpose
This document discusses the concept of calling and provides guidance on discerning one's calling. It addresses that calling has three aspects: what one knows about God, oneself, and the context. It also lists factors to consider like passions, gifts, values, and life experiences. The document provides a template for creating a mission statement and suggests focusing it on one's target group, desired outcome, preferred action verb, and vehicle to achieve the goal. Overall, the document presents calling as understanding God's will, oneself, and how one can serve and build the kingdom based on their skills and context.
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Discovering your calling purpose
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- 3. Understanding the willof God Peace Wisdom of Kairos Kingdom Language Fellowship Self-knowledge Holy Spirit Word of God Surrender
- 4. The Primary Call:Love Relationships Love the Lord God with all and your neighbour as yourself
- 5. Calling: ”The thing isto understand myself, to see what God really wants me to do; the thing is to find the truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die!
- 6. 3 aspects ofCalling: Nehemiah Focus on especially Nehemiah 1 and look at the 3 aspects to Nehemiah’s calling: 2. What he sees/knows about God 3.What he sees/knows about himself 4.What he learns about the context Or Abraham (Gen 12:1-9), Gideon (Judges 6:11-23), Paul (Acts 9:1-18)
- 7. Passions Gifts Style Me Core values Aspirations/dreams Regrets/mistakes/hurts. Imprints:principles,people. Decisions Where When Calling Context God
- 8. People Infants Children Youth Teen moms Single parents College Students Divorced Widowed Singles Career women Young married Refugees Parents Empty nesters Homeless Unemployed Elderly Disabled Prisoners Poor Hospitalized Others…………..
- 9. Issues Environment Child care Homosexuality Discipleship AIDS Politics Violence Injustice Racism Education Addictions International Economic Reaching the lost Technology Health care Poverty Family Abortion Hunger Literacy Church Sport Arts………….
- 10. Gifts Administration Apostleship Hand skills Creative Communication Discernment Encouragement Evangelism Faith Sharing Service Hospitality Intersession Knowledge Leadership Compassion Prophesy Shepherd Training Wisdom Sport
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- 12. Needs/challenges: What HIV/Aids does Poverty Violence the Ethnic strife Sexism context Crime Disrupted families call for? Corruption
- 13. Opportunities/Strengths: What Transformation Prayer does Church structures the Leadership development Agriculture context Keenness to learn Tourism call for? Sport
- 14. Where do youwant to build the Kingdom? 1. Services 2. Housing 3. Technology 4. Sport and recreation 5. Families 6. Science 7. Arts 8. Communication 9. Management 10. Justice 11. Ecology 12. Social Sciences 13. Education 14. Health 15. Religion 16. Economy 17. Agriculture
- 15. Mission Statement: • Godwants… ……………………………………………. • My Context calls me to… ……………………………………………. • I have a Passion for… ……………………………………………. • My Gifts are… ……………………………………………. • My Style is… ……………………………………………… • Marker people/events/decisions remind me that … ………………………………………………
- 16. Mission Statement: • Getyour specific target group! • Formulate your desired outcome! • Choose the verb that encapsulates your preferred action with them. • Decide on the vehicle with which you want to reach your destination.
- 17. Verb: • Train • Facilitate • Motivate • Build • Energize • Cultivate • Be a tree for.. • Be a crutch for.. • Care for • Comfort • Empower • …………
- 18. Callings to: • Relationship with God + others • Life purpose (Life Mission Statement) • Small moments of each day • Stewardship • Obedience • Even sometimes without logic (a person who stutters becoming a diplomat?!)
- 19. George Bernard Shaw: Thisis the true joy of life: …being used for a purpose..a mighty one! My life belongs to the whole community. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die! Life is a sort of splendid torch…..I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations!!!!!!
Editor's Notes
- #4 One of the most pertinent questions people normally ask when you state that you have found your calling by listening to God’s voice is: “How do you understand the will of God?” This slide says that 8 factors should be aligned before you can say, “This is the will of God.” The factors are stated in sequence on the slide. Surrender: Most important of all is to surrender yourself totally to whatever God asks. Word of God: We have to be deeply rooted in the Word of God before we understand His way of thinking. Holy Spirit: As the Holy Spirit communicates with our spirit, it gives us a sense of understanding deeper than superficial knowledge. Self-knowledge: You have to understand your talents and possible contributions within the Kingdom of God, but also understand what in yourself are the biggest hurdles to overcome in fulfilling God’s will. Fellowship: The fellowship of the believers should be used trusted much more in our decision-making process. Kingdom language: Understanding the uniqueness of the Kingdom of God and how it operates is a prerequisite in understanding God’s will. Wisdom of Kairos: God has a certain timing in which He does/prefers things. Discovering the golden Kingdom opportunities and what God carries in His own heart for a specific time helps us a lot in knowing His will. Peace: Only after making your initial decision in obeying God’s will, you will find peace of mind. Stating that you do have peace, before going through the 7 previous steps, and moving forward is often a dangerous approach in fulfilling God’s will. We have to distinguish between peace of spirit and peace in our emotions. Often God’s will disturb our own emotions but creates a deep peace in spirit. On this we often say, “I know what to do even if it will not be pleasant.”