GIVING THANKS WELL
He Helps Us Find Our Calling
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:17-20
However, you can’t discover the purpose God has called you to fulfill just by reading His
Word. Now, you can find out in the Word everything you need to know pertaining to the
inheritance that belongs to every believer. You can learn all about salvation, healing,
prosperity, righteousness, Heaven, the blood, and ministry offices. But you cannot find out
from the Word alone what God has called you to fulfill as an individual member of the Body
of Christ.
There is no “Book of Bro Lawon in the Bible” that I can turn to for personal instruction. I
have to discover my divine calling by revelation through the personal inward work of the
Holy Spirit.
No one knows our calling better than the Holy Spirit. He was in the Presence of God when
our call was first planned. That’s why He brought His supernatural language with Him when
He came to live inside us. We’re just too ignorant to know how to pray about our call. So, His
great reservoir of wisdom and counsel resides within our spirits, just waiting to be released
through tongues. 1 Corinthians 14:17-20 says, “For you indeed give thanks well, but the other
is not edified. I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all; yet in the church I
would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten
thousand words in a tongue. Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in
malice be babes, but in understanding be mature.”
Paul is saying that our prayer language is a preparational language.
- It prepares us to deal with the issues of people.
- It prepares us to deal with governmental and political and cultural issues.
- It prepares us to deal with disobedience, even national disobedience.
Praying and fasting with tongues brings us into a power that will deal with government
officials. The failure of the church in part goes right to the failure to use a vital tool that
God intended would ground us in His wisdom. The activation and use of this gift will
yield results and the time is now!
Prayer : do you pride your destiny? Do you value It? The parable of Talents shows
some don’t and it is taken and given to others.