FAITH CAPSULE: God’s calling is God’s investment if man will answer to God.

1Kings 18:20-46, 19:1-3

Has He called you but yet you are in doubt? Doubt is not of God; doubt is a mission of devil against the called ones. Without doubt, answer to His calling and He will not forsake you. 1Thessalonians 5:24 recorded, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” From this day, put away doubt to engage His calling. When He calls you, He will invest His power in your calling as you answered His calling.
Invested power of God in the life of Elijah was demonstrated through his answering to the calling of God. Elijah demonstrated the power of God by overcoming the Prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. Elijah made a public show of their powerless god. He embarrassed them when they could not call their god to life. Elijah had the prophets of Baal assembled on Mount Carmel as he commanded, “…you call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and the God who answers by fire, He is God. So all the people answered and said, “It is well spoken.” (1 Kings 18: 24-25) The god of the prophets could not show up. Elijah mocked and ridiculed them before he called on His God for His power. The God of Elijah answered by fire. Having embarrassed the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, Elijah caused them to be overtaken and executed at the Brook of Kishon. All of Elijah’s exploits were the effect of God’s intervention because Elijah answered to the calling of God. Power of God will not be evidence in any man that calls self but not called by God. Just like the prophets of Baal with no power of God, any man’s congregation that is not of God will not prevail but will head in the way of destruction. With the evidence of the prophets of Baal’s lack of power of God, Elijah had them rounded up for execution.
Are you in doubt as regard to His calling upon your life? Doubt is not of God; doubt belongs to the enemy of man. It is important to know that without doubt, when God calls you, He will back you up. God is not a careless but a caring, considerate and attentive God for His called ones. God called Elijah and invested power in the life of Elijah because Elijah answered to the calling of God.
Have you been called by God? Peace of God will always back you when answering to His calling. God is a consistent God; God will not leave you nor forsake you.

Prayer for today: Ask for the boldness and character to answer to His calling.