This document provides encouragement to live up to one's calling through three essentials: 1) Keeping a heavenly perspective and not becoming prideful or complacent. 2) Continuing to live out one's God-given purpose in life like marching as a soldier. 3) Keeping godly company and being inspired by other faithful people. The goal is to run the race of life with endurance and complete the task Jesus has given of making disciples.

2. LIVE UP TO YOUR CALL

3. PHILIPPIANS 3:15-17 (NIV)
15 All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of
things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God
will make clear to you. 16 Only let us live up to what we have
already attained. 17 Join together in following my
example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a
model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.

4. “BOXING”
"I box--not as one who beats the air." 1 Corinthians 9

5. “WRESTLING”
"We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities and powers." Ephesians 6

6. “THE RACE”
“You were running a good race.
Who cut in on you?"-- or who hindered you? Galatians 5

7. "Do you not know that in a race, all the runners run, but only one gets the
prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize." 1 CORINTHIANS 9:24

9. Let’s see today as an aid station on our long marathon of the Christian life
- NOT to be eliminated but invigorated to keep going!

10. Beth Anne DeCiantis

11. 3 ESSENTIALS
We Nee In Order to Run the Race and Live Up to Our Call:

12. All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on
some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.
1. KEEP THE PERSPECTIVE HEAVENWARD (v.15)

13. There are a variety of gifts and callings, but there is only one
attitude for growing spiritually: Pursue Christ Above All Else!

14. PRIDE and COMPLACENCY

15. Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
2. KEEP LIVING OUT GOD-GIVEN PURPOSE (v.16)

16. “LIVE UP TO” = “STOICHEO”
– To proceed in a row as the march of a soldier, go in order; to
go on prosperously, to turn out well; to walk; to direct one’s life.

17. “Walk in a purposeful way,
March like a soldier.”

18. Knowing our core values in life will help us discover the
purpose and calling for our lives…
“The Because Factor”

19. ACTS 20:24 (NIV)
However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race
and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the
good news of God’s grace.

20. “My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship
with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.”
Billy Graham

21. LUKE 4:18-19 (NIV)
“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me BECAUSE he has anointed me to proclaim good news to
the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for
the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.”
“JESUS’ BECAUSE FACTOR”

22. “My BECAUSE Factors”

23. “The Worship of God, His Presence, His church and
His Great Commission”

24. “My Marriage, Family and Children”

25. ABLAZE GLOCAL
THE NEXT GEN MINISTRIES
“Discipling the Next Generation”

26. “Raising & Releasing Worship, Creative Arts & Media Teams to
Serve God, Build Churches and Advance His Kingdom”

27. “Compassion for the downtrodden, the poor and
the underprivileged ”

28. Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you
have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.
3. KEEP GODLY COMPANY (v.17)

29. The lives of godly people, seen in person or in a biography,
can inspire us to deeper spiritual growth.

30. HEBREWS 11:39-40 (NIV)
These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had
been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only
together with us would they be made perfect.

31. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:33 (NIV)
Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

32. Your destiny is determined by the company you keep.

33. Jason Betler

34. Jason Betler & Reinhard Bonnke

36. VICTORY COMES BY ENDURANCE!
"Let us lay aside every weight and send that easily besets us,
and let's run with endurance the race that is set before us.” Hebrews 12

37. MATTHEW 28:19-20 (NIV)
“Therefore go (As we go in life) and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching
them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you
always, to the very end of the age.”