ARE YOU CALLED?< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Acts 31-11

The church in the days of the original apostle and the disciples of Jesus are completely different from the apostles and disciples of today. The ones in the old days were carrying in their life, a task to be completed to the glory of God and not just a title. Most of the apostles and disciples of today are only carrying titles that do not carry enough weight for delivering the assignments before them. Are you positioning yourself for the Lord to ordain you as an apostle in His hand, or are you making yourself an apostle? There is a difference in when God calls you and ordains you from, when man calls you and positions you. The point here is that the task matters not the title. Today a person takes sickness and diseases from the church to the hospital, instead from hospital to the church. What has become of the church today? When Peter and John encountered a certain lame man at the gate and not in the temple something happened, ÒAnd a certain man lame from his motherÕs womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple of which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple; 3 who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms.Ó(Acts 3:2-3)  Instead of the lame man getting what he asked for, he received an alarming result, a provocative result to the glory of God because he encountered the apostles /disciples that were on a task not just using a title.  Are you answering the title that the Lord did not ordain you to be? Carrying a title in the name of and in the service for God is a great privilege and without doubt, it is also a great attainment to be called into the service of the Lord. However, if the Lord has not called on you to be ordained for what you are answering to, it can be a situation of giving great occasion to the enemies for blaspheming the name of the Lord. Did God call you what the world is calling you? If He has called you to be, the signs will follow and if He had not, ask Him for His divine visitation. As a result of such an alarming power demonstration at the gate, only God knows what could have become of the worship in the temple on that day. As there were miracles then, then there are still miracles today that are having its way in rare places where there is no news coverage, except the one that the God of gods and the King of kings wants to announce by Himself to the world. It is time for us to seek God for a genuine relationship not a cheap relationship that is void of His presence. His presence is power.