I was praying today about the call of God, and about my nation, asking God for any details He might be willing to give me about what it is He wants me to do. He took me back again to the first 3 chapters of Ezekiel. This is the passage that God spoke to me from at the beginning of this Fire School year and has been in my heart ever since. I did my first blog of the year on it. I’ve been meditating on it, and praying from it on and off since October, but today God spoke to me quite specifically through it. This is what I wrote in my prayer diary as I prayed today:

 I’m reading chapter 1 of Ezekiel and am feeling God say to me that the vision Ezekiel had of God was the foundation upon which his call was built. It was not based upon the needs of his people or what he saw going on around him, but upon what he saw of God - the deep revelation and knowledge of Him. Ezekiel was called to his nation, but his nation wasn’t the one who called him. His nation actually rejected him.  I feel like God is saying to me that I need to know my call, but more than this, I need to know the One who calls me. This is very important. If I take up a call to my nation based on the need, then when my nation tells me it dosn’t need me or want me, I will give up. The people of Israel rejected the word that Ezekiel brought them from God and told him they didn’t need it, but Ezekiel faithfully continued coming to them with that message because he knew it was God who called him to do it.  I also feel God is saying to me that if your call or ministry is a response to a need that you see in man, then you will always be looking to man to motivate you and encourage you to keep going.  It will be that perceived need that sustains you.  But if your call or ministry is a response to what you see in God’s heart for your nation and your people then you will turn to God to motivate and sustain you.  His heart is unchanging and unfailing in love, so you will have a firm foundation and a true source of strength.

 The details He has given me so far today about what it is He wants me to do are the words of Ez 3:5-6,8: ‘I am not sending you to a foreign people whose language you cannot understand. No, I am not sending you to people with strange and difficult speech….But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are. I have made your forehead as hard as the hardest rock! So dont be afraid of them or fear their angry looks, even though they are rebels’.

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I was praying today about the call of God, and about my nation, asking God for any details He might be willing to give me about what it is He wants me to do. He took me back again to the first 3 chapters of Ezekiel. This is the passage that God spoke to me from at the beginning of this Fire School year and has been in my heart ever since. I did my first blog of the year on it. I’ve been meditating on it, and praying from it on and off since October, but today God spoke to me quite specifically through it. This is what I wrote in my prayer diary as I prayed today:

 I’m reading chapter 1 of Ezekiel and am feeling God say to me that the vision Ezekiel had of God was the foundation upon which his call was built. It was not based upon the needs of his people or what he saw going on around him, but upon what he saw of God - the deep revelation and knowledge of Him. Ezekiel was called to his nation, but his nation wasn’t the one who called him. His nation actually rejected him.  I feel like God is saying to me that I need to know my call, but more than this, I need to know the One who calls me. This is very important. If I take up a call to my nation based on the need, then when my nation tells me it dosn’t need me or want me, I will give up. The people of Israel rejected the word that Ezekiel brought them from God and told him they didn’t need it, but Ezekiel faithfully continued coming to them with that message because he knew it was God who called him to do it.  I also feel God is saying to me that if your call or ministry is a response to a need that you see in man, then you will always be looking to man to motivate you and encourage you to keep going.  It will be that perceived need that sustains you.  But if your call or ministry is a response to what you see in God’s heart for your nation and your people then you will turn to God to motivate and sustain you.  His heart is unchanging and unfailing in love, so you will have a firm foundation and a true source of strength.

 The details He has given me so far today about what it is He wants me to do are the words of Ez 3:5-6,8: ‘I am not sending you to a foreign people whose language you cannot understand. No, I am not sending you to people with strange and difficult speech….But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are. I have made your forehead as hard as the hardest rock! So dont be afraid of them or fear their angry looks, even though they are rebels’.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 4:53 pm and is filed under Fire-School. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.