when you go after the general calling your specific calling will always become
clear there's a difference between calling and a career a career is
something you decide calling is something you discover calling is
something is decided for you career is something you decide and Bible says
whatever you do do as unto the Lord Bible doesn't mind you doing whatever
works for you that's in line with your gifts with your talents with your
personality as long as it makes money as long as it's not illegal and it's
not-it's not hurting somebody amen so career many people fast and pray God
I want to know what you want me to do in the career honestly I don't think we
should be praying and even fasting just ask the question is it illegal selling
dope is so you can't answer to that question is very simple does it benefit
other people with that career and number three you know doesn't make you money
because playing video games probably doesn't make money so you can't be doing
that as a career but a calling is not something you decide calling is
something that God decides for you can somebody say amen career is
something that is natural calling is supernatural you don't need any
anointing to do your calling and you don't need anointing I'm sorry you don't
need any anointing to do your career you need anointing to do your calling in
order to do your career you need to be educated you need to be connected and
you need to like Ilya mentioned to constantly fill your mind with knowledge the moment
you get educated the moment you get connected and the moment you use your
gifts and says next thing that happens is the your career will succeed even if
you don't have a prayer life even if you don't have a fasting life your career
will succeed in the same way is opposite is that if you have a calling and your
praying you will fulfill your calling but if you don't career doesn't become
successful because you have a prayer life some of people who pray in tongues
and they prophesy and everything but they're not good in their careers
because it takes more than praying in tongues to succeed in your career career
is something that's natural calling is something that's supernatural number
three career is some that changes calling never changes you
can always jump from one career to another you can start with being a
manager and move on to being a CEO you can be a police officer a sheriff and
start business with the day care you can be a real estate broker a real estate
agent and then start your own business you can always shift career is fluid
based on the season based on the economy and based on the trends and things that
make you successful in this culture that's why many of us who went to
college we went in studying for one thing and then by the time we finished
college we changed our major three times and that's completely normal people say
well I'm just undecided no that is normal career to can change and you
should never be afraid to jump from one thing to another whatever that's making
you money and whatever that's helping you to become who God wired you to be
but your calling never changes you never change it always remains the same
whether you're in Potiphar's house or in jail or the prime minister of Egypt you
still have the same calling can somebody say Amen
also career is something that you do for money calling is what you do for
eternity career is something that you do out of your ambition calling is your
mission career is your platform calling is your purpose and career I like what
Brian Houston said career is what you are paid to do calling is what you are
made to do career is what you are paid to do calling is what you were created
or what you were born to do on this earth has somebody say Amen I was born
for such a time as this you were born for such a time as this
you were raised to deliver you were called by God to be the person that you
are in today to be the light and the salt but the career is the platform for
the calling to become fruitful if you don't have a platform you have no place
to exercise your purpose and therefore we go to college to build a platform we
get education so we can get a great job we get a great job so we can get a great
income it gives us influence it gives us
it gives us connections it gives us relationships with people and God gives
us platform when God helps us to get a platform which we call our career and
that platform is not just to make us money it's not just to help us develop a
good retirement fund but it's also so we can leverage that for the purpose of our
calling can somebody say Amen Esther had a platform her platform was she was a
queen but the purpose for that platform was not to create a magazine to inspire
little girls in Jerusalem that they can make it in life her goal in life wasn't
to be an inspiration her goal was to be a salvation to her generation see the
problem with many of us today is that what we do is we we take clues from the
world and the world uses popular people connected people people who have
thousands followers on Instagram and Facebook people who have a platform
people have money and they say this I want to be an inspiration in the light
of eternity being an inspiration is the dumbest stupidest idea in the world when
people are going to hell in handbasket and they will be there for eternity and
there you are saying god help me to get to this level
I just want to inspire little girls it's like giving a hot dog to a blind person
walking to a cliff and patting yourself on the back that you started the charity
ministry in light of eternity if there will be no heaven in hell using your
platform for inspiration is the best thing you can do with your life but
because there is heaven because there is hell because Jesus died not to inspire
but to save because of that it becomes our priority to use our platform not to
inspire but to save the fear that we have many times is that if I begin to
use my platform for salvation I will lose my platform actually you have to
understand one thing your platform will die with you only your purpose will
outlive you your platform no matter if you're afraid
to leverage your platform for Christ and you're saying I don't want to lose
customers and I'm not talking about that at your job you get up and stand in
front of the on the reception desk and grab a microphone and say repent for
you will perish I'm not saying that I'm not saying every person you do a photo shoot
with you tell them the roadmap of salvation for five minutes and that's
and now we're ready to do a photo shoot I am NOT talking about that every client
that you meet with you ask him where they're coming from and if they go to
church but I'm saying you be fluid like water water doesn't need a big hole to
come out of the bucket it looks for a crack it looks for a tiny little thing
and it comes out many people are like rock when it comes to their purpose they
need a big opportunity they need their client or the person they do business
with to begin to cry and weep say my life is falling apart and only then
they'll hear the Lord say maybe I should invite him to church you're not a rock
you're a water you are fluid you look for opportunities you create the
opportunities and even if it's a small crack you drip drip drip drip drip but
you come out that's exactly how light comes out light doesn't look for for big
curtains to be open you open it just a little bit and the light begins to come
out not in the full measure but a little bit but it will begin to come out God
wants you to leverage your platform for your purpose your platform will die with
you your purpose will outlive you Esther instead of just limiting her life to
being an inspiration to little girls in Jerusalem who are orphans she was
challenged by Mordecai who came to her and said listen Esther you're a queen
your platform is you good-looking your platform you got 27 million followers on
Instagram your platform you post a picture and people rave around the world
that is your platform Esther you're popular Esther you're known Esther you did not get
here just because of your looks God gave you these looks and now there
is a purpose for this platform the purpose for this platform is not so that
you show what your mama gave you the purpose for this platform is that you
show the world what the father gave to the world which is his own son the
purpose for the platform whether it's on social media whether it's
your work or whether it's in your skill set is not just to make money Mordecai
said this he says if you remain silent the platform you're afraid to lose it's
already shaky and wobbly you're gonna lose it but he
says but if you choose to leverage your platform and overcome the fear of losing
those things that you have he says not only you won't lose them you'll secure
them and the world will never know you as the Queen but it will know you as a
savior nobody celebrates Esther as a beautiful woman today they only
celebrate her as a courageous Savior