CALLED

What does it mean to be “called”?

If I could scream in this particular regard, I would. What does it mean to be “called”?

I HAVE CRIED.

Matthew 11:28 “Come unto me all ye who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

Before 2018, I had received Prophetic directions and instructions on some events that would manifest if I did not watch out but on 3rd August 2018 I understood destiny's call on my life. I did not even think I mattered to heaven that much but on that day I knew I was one of heaven’s greatest weapons. I received my word and it was big and I was happy not knowing, training was now about to start.

I HAVE CRIED! I remember there was a day I was crying so much I told God to take his prophecy away because he did not add the pain to it when he made his servant tell me.

God will take you through the valley of the shadow of death so that when you say, “Even though I walk through valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil because you are with me”, it would not be for a show or just a recital.

To be “called”, is more than preparing for the most difficult final exam and unfortunately, this exam does not end, it is every day. You feel stuck or better still, will be stuck, so God will have the opportunity to say He brought you out of the jungle. You will fail and know that you have failed or are going to fail so that when at the end you succeed, God can and will say you succeeded because of Him.

The Holy Spirit is going to let you go through it!

He will let you experience it all and He will have “THE AUDACITY” to ask you how you are doing because He has every right and authority to ask you that because you are His own. You would tell Him you are not fine he would tell you “I know” (God please why do you do this?).

God can perceive what is happening, going to happen or has happened, because He is omniscient; He will tell you to go and eat or fast. Both instructions may be annoying depending on how you are feeling. Who wants to eat when they are depressed? Who wants to fast when they are trying to get over a depressing situation?

You would begin to quote scriptures like “The enemy will come against me like a flood but the Spirit of the Lord will lift a standard against him”, with meaning from the bottom of your heart because you will not just be reciting but you are quoting with experience.

In the midst of all of these things, He will be revealing Himself to you. He will tell you that are a soldier because that is what He has called you to be and He will still let you go through the fire and be with you in the fire and bring you out of the fire Himself so that you can say “THIS FAR BY GRACE”

Why God? What is all of this for? Why so much pain? Why so much sadness? Why do I lose and why do you watch me lose the very things that you gave me, even some that I did not ask for? Is this what it means to be “called”?

Then He said to me,

“Look at David, he was anointed and fought Goliath but not too long after he was running for his life and only became king after years. Look at Joseph after all that I showed him he was called to be, he only ascended that position after 13 years and within the 13 years, there was a story to tell. With every calling comes a duty and duty can only be executed by experience.”

When David was asked if he could fight Goliath, he said in 1st Samuel 17:34-37 NIV

“Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”

MAABENA FROM A BROKEN HOME, THERE IS A PURPOSE IN YOUR PAIN.

1. 21 days you wept and cleaned your own blood, there is a purpose in the pain.

2. You lost your phone a few weeks before taking a major exam; there is a purpose in the pain.

3. You were abused, frustrated and had to resign from a very good job in 2019.You had to go and sit home for 1year and 6 months before getting a job; there is a purpose in the pain.

4. You got scammed 1800 cedis just when you were going through the worst financial situation; there is a purpose in the pain.

5. The phone you bought for business with hard-earned cash was stolen; there is purpose in the pain.

6. You were made to sit at the front desk, rated as low as cleaner one time because of where you sat, even though you had a good professional qualification; there is a purpose in the pain.

7. You were supposed to take your professional exam on November 25th 2020. The day came and your computer crashed, and then it began to rain heavily at Aburi so the network shut down and the exam institution, of all the days, decided to have a system failure that affected exam candidates on the day you were to take your exam. You were only allowed to register for the exam one whole month later; there is a purpose in the pain.

8. You were constantly sidelined and rejected in almost all friend groups, rated as a girl from a poor struggling home; there is a purpose in the pain.

9. You were severely burned with hot water on your tummy when you were 6 years old and you could have died. The scars are still there till today; there is a purpose in the pain.

10. Your kidneys almost failed you in Class 5 and you were out of school for almost 6 weeks. You lost so much weight from this sickness, you began to look like sick child and couldn’t gain any weight until 8 years later, there is a purpose in the pain.

11. You invested a lot of money into two businesses only to barely make any returns; there is a purpose in the pain.

12. The abuse and bad treatment from almost every relationship and friendship; there is purpose in the pain.

I can’t even list all that I’ve been through from my childhood till now. I have had no breaks or no chance to say in or on any particular month in my whole life that I have had peace. 27 years living a fighter every blessed day. Nevertheless, in all of this, my greatest comfort is that the Lord knows me and He knows my name and He knows everything.

He told me

“MAABENA FROM A BROKEN HOME, I KNOW YOU, I HAVE SEEN YOUR TEARS AND I HAVE HEARD YOUR CRIES. YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT OF PAIN PEOPLE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SURVIVE, BUT AS FOR YOU, YOU HAVE DONE IT. WITH YOUR PAIN I WILL TELL A STORY. YOU MADE IT BECAUSE YOU WERE MADE FOR THIS. NOW TELL THE WORLD, THAT YE THOUGH YOU WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, YOU WILL FEAR NO EVIL FOR THE LORD IS WITH YOU. MY ROD AND MY STAFF THEY COMFORT YOU. I HAVE PREPARED, I AM PREPARING AND I WILL PREPARE A TABLE BEFORE YOU IN THE PRESENCE OF YOU ENEMIES”

HABAKUK 2:3

FOR THE VISION HAS YET AN APPOINTED TIME, AT THE END IT SHALL SPEAK AND NOT LIE. THOUGH IT TARRIES, WAIT FOR IT, FOR IT WILL SURELY COME, IT WILL NOT TARRY.