FAITH CAPSULE: Answering the title with no task to engage is not of God.
Acts 19:11-41
Answering the title of your choice in the name of God, not of God, is self-deception.
Answering to the title with no task to engage is not of God.
Deceiving yourself or others is telling lies to manipulate the world.
Anyone answering to the assignment of God when God did not call one in His assignment is self-alone.
Did God call you in what you are doing?
Who is your caller?
1 Thessalonians 5:24 reminds all, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Does the word of God speak to you?
Search yourself if you are on the assignment of the calling of God over your life.
Avoid living a life of waste!
The Bible records the story of Apostle Paul answering the calling of God, with the title as Apostle of God, healing the sick, and calling out the evil spirit in the life of many.
The Bible also records some Jewish exorcists who took it upon themselves to answer out of the calling of God.
Acts 19:11-17 records, “Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out of them. Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also, there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus, and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.”
Are you assuming a title or taking up an assignment not of God?
The written word of God is for learning to understand and know how to navigate this wicked world and live for the glory of God.
What is your title in the name of God?
Are you self-appointed or man-appointed Apostle, Prophet, or Pastor, parading as in answer to the calling of God?
You need no one to help you to deceive yourself.
Also, you will need no man to stop you from deceiving your world.
Stop yourself from deceiving your world.
Give yourself to the given task of God in your life, not just answering to the title.
Come out of religion and give yourself to the reality of Christ.
The judgment of God is not asleep but will come at His appointed time.
Live right, engage the tasks of God, and not give yourself to the assigned title to you by any man.
Your task will count before God, not your title.
Prayer for today: Ask to live life according to the calling of God.