Live Dead | Willing | Pastor Vanessa

When we think about the call of God, most of us focus on the big giant changes: God telling us what career to pursue, what person to marry, what city to move to. We think the call of God is only for the people who are in ministry or only for the big decisions of life, but the truth is God is always calling. He is always calling us to take a step. He is always inviting us to a deeper and closer relationship with Him. He is always giving us opportunities to trust Him more, even if sometimes we don’t realize it.

So the question is: when God calls, what is our response?

We learn from Jonah that when God calls us to something, we can say no. Disobedience is always an option, but it takes away our opportunity to live in the fullness of life God wants. We will miss out on God’s best.

We also learn from Jonah that when God calls we can go, but with the wrong attitude. Expecting that God will do what we want or second guessing what He said along the way.

But neither of those are God’s best. So what is the alternative? The Jesus way.

Jesus answered the call of God in a much different way. He willingly obeyed, laying down his will and his desires to pick up God’s desires for His life. When he fully surrendered, everything changed, and he was able to do the hard things ahead of him with peace and authority.

The full life that Jesus wants to give us is on the other side of a full yes to His call. Let’s be the kind of people that fully commit to the call of God, no matter how big or small.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. What is something that you feel God is calling you to do?
2. What is stopping you from fully committing to doing it?
3. How have you seen God provide in the past when you said yes to Him?
4. What is something you could do to take a step of faith this week?

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