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You are an Elijah,
Moses, or David
under construction!
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Did you know God has called you for a special purpose?
Did you know God is looking at you to experience
the same miracles the people in the Bible experienced?
Did you know God has much more for you in store
than you could have ever imagined?
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God is greater than your thoughts.
His thoughts about you are different from your own thoughts.
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As a child, Elijah had no clue what God was going to do with him.
David was a simple little shepherd. Paul was a Christian-killer.
Moses was an orphan, raised in a strange family.
Joseph found himself imprisoned. God had a plan with their life.
They had no idea...
God did something no human could have thought of:
He poured out his Holy Spirit over ordinary people.
They became supernaturally empowered children of the most high God.
God Himself came down to the common, powerless level
of humanity and poured His strength into men and women.
This is what God has done for you. He has given you his Spirit.
Through your faith in Jesus Christ you received the Spirit of God.
Through your kneeling in front of God’s throne you were
sealed forever with God’s own power for your life.
It is He who makes the impossible possible.
It is He who gives you the power that characterized Jesus.
It is He who gives you the wisdom that made Solomon famous.
It is He who gives you the courage, just as He gave courage to little, inexperienced David. With this supernatural courage David
went out to battle Goliath, the giant fighter,
who had put to flight the whole entire Israelite army.
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Through the Spirit of God you can change
from a sinner into a saint, from a sparrow into an eagle,
from a loser into a winner.
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Don’t think that this does not apply to you… David could
have thought that, when the prophet Samuel came to his family
and only paid attention to his bigger and stronger brothers.
But God did not look at the outside appearance of these tough guys;
God looked at the heart of a small, unnoticed, underestimated boy.
God only had eyes for David who had been forgotten by others.
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God has not forgotten you. He has his eyes on you
because He knows your heart. He knows how you doubt yourself.
He knows how insignificant you feel.
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It is God who calls you. It is God who establishes you.
It is the Almighty who appoints you.
It is He who formed you in your mother’s womb.
It is He who carries you. It is He who remains faithful to you.
When friends and loved ones turn their back God remains faithful.
He will never leave you. He has designed and fitted you
for a purpose. Go in His power and move mountains.
Keep trusting Him. Wait on Him.
He will help you.
Formed through trials
When David was anointed as king by the prophet Samuel,
he had no idea what was going to happen next.
The Spirit of God went to work with this little shepherd boy.
He formed David in the desert, into God’s mighty servant,
there where no one could see it. When a bear, a wolf,
or a lion attacked his sheep, David, through the power of the Spirit,
grabbed and killed them single-handed. David learned
how to kill the enemies of his ordinary life.
God taught David to kill the enemies in his everyday life.
Before God can use you in his kingdom, He will teach you
to kill the wolves and bears of your everyday life, the sin in your life,
the pornography or addiction, the hatred or bitterness,
the conceit or unworthiness, the dishonesty and the selfishness.
Regardless of what it is, God is forming you.
This forming will last the rest of your life.
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Before you can be used in the way God used
David, Elijah, Samuel, and many others, He will form you.
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Jesus had to enter into the dessert to be tempted of the devil.
Forty days and nights He spent there in complete solitude,
without food, without luxury, without comfort.
That is where Satan came to tempt Him to sin.
In the deepest loneliness He had ever experienced.
God will test you to see if you can handle your calling.
He will test your reliance in the invisible.
He will test you to see if you will trust Him
and serve Him even in the midst of these trials.
God will test you to see if He can place His godly
miraculous power on your shoulders. He does not want you
to be destroyed through the power of His Holy Spirit.
Too many people fall into sin and drag others down with them
because they started an assignment from God without the character.
Although this is a process God will continue throughout
our whole life, there comes a time when He will
intensely focus on our character.
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If you find yourself in this time of testing, do not give up.
Know that God loves you and that everything
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Strengthen your hands that are weak and your knees that are feeble,
God tells you in his Word (Heb. 12:12). Let God form
and discipline you. Let Him purify you like a goldsmith
who purifies the best gold through the fire.
Your calling is worth everything.
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