Walking in the fullness of your calling; if there has been any subject matter that has brought a lot of confusion
Self doubt, and many questions, it is the matter of “calling”
For people like me, I’ve never liked that word “calling” it always seems like a very
heavy responsibility which will take a heavy toll on me and I didn’t want that for myself!!
You know, the quiet, good believer that loves God wholeheartedly was what I wanted to be.
Guess what?! All these “safe grounds” the HolyGhost will collect them especially if God sees you are important in His agenda.
Invariably, every life has a specific, sacred, and purposeful call from God.
However, many times as believers, we are unaware of it, or it is unfulfilled.
As a result, we frequently assume that “calling” is only for prominent people, preachers, or prophets.
Ignoring the fact that teachers, doctors, and even their students have a calling.
Whether we are walking in the fullness of God’s call is more important than whether God has called us.
The Christian life is more than just salvation;
It involves living in accordance with the identity, purpose, and future that God has predetermined for us.
“Therefore, I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called.” — Ephesians 4:1
Dimensions of the Call of God; Walking in the Fullness of Your Calling
Walking in the fullness of your calling, this brings us as believers to:
The Call to Know Him (Intimacy)
Before God ever calls us to do something, He calls us to know Him.
This is the foundation of all fruitfulness. I mean “how do we become what we don’t know?”
It is in the process of knowing God that we garner the requisite capacity for doing.
“God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” — 1 Corinthians 1:9
Consequently, our primary calling is to walk with God.
Ministry, mission, career or even calling must never replace relationship.
It is from intimacy that identity flows.
The more you know Him, the more you become who you were designed to be.
The Call to Be Like Him (Character)
As much as God is interested in using us,
He is more committed to transforming us, for God will most definitely use a stone He has tried.
Especially when it has to do with perpetuating His agenda both in time and eternity.
Hence, our calling is not just about doing the work of the Lord, but becoming like the Lord of the work.
“For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son…” — Romans 8:29
So, the path to our calling will be filled with moments of shaping, pruning, and refining.
God builds His vessels before He fills them.
That’s why, walking in our calling demands yieldedness to this process.
Dimensions of the Call of God; Walking in the Fullness of Your Calling
The Call to Serve (Assignment)
Finally, our calling includes our unique assignment in the body of Christ and in the world.
This is where our gifts find expression and our life begins to impact others.
“As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the multifaceted grace of God.” — 1 Peter 4:10
Therefore, our assignment may not place us behind a pulpit,
But it may place us in the boardroom, classroom, courtroom, or living room.
It is wherever our obedience meets God’s need.
Barriers to Walking in Your Calling; Walking in the Fullness of Your Calling
Walking in the fullness of our calling requires intentionality.
Many times as believers, we fall short not because we lack desire—but because we face barriers.
Barriers that includes but not limited to this:
Identity Confusion
There is nothing that impedes God’s work and His purposes like identity confusion.
Where a “Daniel” wants to be a “Jeremiah” thinking that being a prophet is what qualifies you.
Forgetting that a Daniel “can” also be a prophet and a prophet “can” also be a “Daniel”
Choosing to go with the “seemingly” easy path forgetting that sometimes places that are unseeming is where the real labour is.
Therefore, we cannot walk confidently in our calling if we are unsure of who we are.
There is nothing as troubling as identity crisis, it keeps one in a wild goose chase.
Making it easier for the enemy to distort our identity because he knows everything else flows from it.
Jesus heard the Father say, “This is My beloved Son,” before He ever performed a miracle (Matthew 3:17).
Likewise, our calling must be rooted in our sonship.
Behove it to say then, that until we believe what God says about us,
We will live beneath what He’s called us to.
Barriers to Walking in Your Calling; Walking in the Fullness of Your Calling
Comparison
Nothing kills confidence and God’s project like comparison.
Stick to what God told you if you ever hear His sigh.
That’s why the moment we focus on someone else’s journey, we miss the grace on ours.
“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus…” — Hebrews 12:1–2
Your race is your race. Walk it with conviction, not competition.
Fear of Inadequacy
Walking in the fullness of your calling, another thing that stifles it, is fear of inadequacy.
Moses said, “I’m not eloquent.” Gideon said, “I’m the least.” Jeremiah said, “I’m too young.”
But “God never calls the qualified—He qualifies the called.”
This is not a cliche or an addendum, it is the truth so that one won’t suddenly begin to think that he ever did something that qualified him.
Qualification for service is first on the basis of God’s predeterminate counsel to incorporate man.
Not the other way round!!
Once we know this, fear dissipates. Because fear will try to make you delay destiny.
But faith says, “If God is with me, I cannot fail.”
“Not that we are adequate in ourselves… but our adequacy is from God.”— 2 Corinthians 3:5
Delay and Distraction
Sometimes we might know we are called and we don’t reject our calling outright—we simply delay or dilute it.
Many times as believers, we’ve been on this boat😭
Seeming as if those that God wants to use for special purposes keep running away sometimes like Jonah
While those that are fake and insincere litter trying to do God’s work.
May God help us to pick up the baton given to us quick🤲🤲
If not, years will pass. Life will happen. And before long, the flame has dimmed.
The embers of burning coals have become ashes.
Steps to Walk in the Fullness of Your Calling
Seek God’s Face, Not Just His Plan
Walking in the fullness of your calling.
Before asking, “Lord, what do You want me to do?”
ask, “Lord, who are You to me?” Intimacy precedes clarity.
We suddenly want to know God’s mind and opinion on a matter without any prior consistent relationship with Him.
Be not deceived, for God!!! Cannot be mocked.
If we fail to have a working relationship with God, when it matters the most we will miss it in clarity!!
That’s why, the more you know His heart, the more you understand His direction.
Say Yes in Advance
With all sincerity, this is always a hard place to be😭
This is the point at which we wrestle with our will, what we think people will say so
many things that are inconsistent with what God is impressing in our heart.
Yes, God often reveals our calling progressively.
But the posture of our heart must be one of obedience—even before the details are clear.
It is not an easy place to be, I speak the truth in God I lie not.
Our mind wants to analyse, decipher, decode and extrapolate.
But then if God ever succeeds in bringing us to the point of surrendered will.
Much progress will be made. It looks difficult but it is very possible!!
We have cloud of witnesses littered everywhere, who through faith obtained the promise
Steps to Walk in the Fullness of Your Calling
Start Where You Are
Sometimes, we wait for a stage or spotlight. They are not wrong but there has to be something before the stage or spotlight.
Where is the track record of faithfulness even in sanctuary cleaning.?
Often times, we think God doesn’t take record of these things.
Joseph was faithful in all his masters business, yes portiphas wife was used to accuse and send him to prison.
But that track record of faithfulness was what exalted him in due season!
Therefore, our calling begins with faithfulness in the little.
“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord…” — Colossians 3:23
Be Planted in a Spiritual Community
Callings are clarified, confirmed, and cultivated in the context of godly relationships and body life.
The Bible said that when the disciples prayed and ministered unto the Lord
The HolyGhost said “separate for me Paul and Barnabas for the work …..
The body has been bestowed with the authority to send a man, no man taketh that honour upon himself!!
Paul needed Ananias. Timothy needed Paul. You need a tribe that sees, speaks into, and supports your assignment.
Embrace Process
Walking in the fullness of your calling. Our calling will cost us something.
There will be stretching, waiting, rejection, and testing. But it’s all working for our good.
“After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace… will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.” — 1 Peter 5:10
Don’t resist the process—God is forging something eternal in us.
Walking Worthy of Your Calling
To walk worthy of our calling means to live in a way that honors the One who called us.
It means not settling for mediocrity when you’ve been marked for greatness
not the greatness of man’s applause, but the greatness of divine purpose.
We walk worthy when we reject compromise, serve sacrificially, steward our gifts with excellence……..
The call of God is not a one-time moment. It is a daily posture.
Each day, we rise and say, “Lord, am here again!.”
Conclusion
Walking in the fullness of your calling.
Ultimately, walking in your calling is about finishing well.
The goal is not to be famous—but to be faithful.
Paul declared:
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.” — 2 Timothy 4:7
The faith is meant to be kept not as an answer object in a showroom
But as a living evidence of our true and genuine walk with God!
May our testimony be that we discovered our calling, walked in it fully, and honored God in every season.
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References
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