I am called
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English I am called to become more like Jesus. Called to do a very specific job that only I can do. I am a messenger of his love, his forgiveness, his peace. I am sent, commissioned.
I am a servant of his righteousness. I have Christ’s mind. I have his spirit, the spirit of strength, love and prudence. I go, baptize, teach, and make disciples. I am a shepherd. I’m light. It gets light where I am. I am salt. I am the seasoning. I am a branch of the vine of Jesus and a channel of life. The fruits of the Holy Spirit grow in me.
I am a priest. Royal priest. God’s property. Belong to his chosen gender. I am the head, not the tail. I have authority. I am a serious enemy of the devil. What I bind is bound, what I loosen is free. What I bless is blessed.
We are his creatures, created in Christ Jesus to do in our lives the good works that God has prepared for us in advance. (according to Eph.2,10)
And, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Romans 6,18 (ESV)
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
2. Corinthians 4,6-7 (ESV)
You are the salt of the earth. If the salt loses its taste, what can you use to make it salty again? It is no longer good for anything; it is thrown away and trampled on by people. (according to er Math. 5.13)
I am the vine, you are the branches. Who stays in me and in whom I stay, he brings rich fruit. (according to Joh. 15,5)
Fruit of God’s Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, loyalty, meekness, self-control. (according to Gal. 5, 22)
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are Gods people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
1.Peter 2,9-10 (ESV)
Because it says: “Who can know what the Lord is thinking? Who can be his counselor? ”But we think in terms of Christ. (according to 1.Cor.2.16)
Because God did not give us a spirit of fear, but his spirit fills us with strength, love and prudence. (according to 2.Tim. 1,7)
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matth.28,18-20 (ESV)
And the Lord will make you a head and not a tail, and you will always rise up and not fall down, because you are obedient to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you to keep and do today, and do not deviate from them all the words that I command you today, neither on the right nor on the left, and do not walk after other gods in order to serve them. (according to Deuteronomy 28,13-14)
And he instituted some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as shepherds and teachers, that the saints may be prepared for the work of ministry.
This is to build up the body of Christ. (according to Eph. 4,11-12)
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1.Peter 5,8 (ESV)
Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” Matth. 18,18-20 (ESV)
Author: Gabriele Waechter
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