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 hurting somebody amen so career many people fast and pray God I
want to know what you want me to do in their 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 you 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 sets 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 and the same way is opposite is that if you have a
calling and you're 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 and 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 thing 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 what 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't 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
that gives us influence 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
helped me to get to this level I just want to inspire little girls it's
like giving a hot dog to a blind person walk into 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 it's
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'm 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
your job you get up and stand in front of the on the reception desk and grab a
microphone and say we repent for you'll perish I'm not saying that I'm not
saying every person you do a photo shoot with people 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 fluid you look for
opportunities you create 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 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 platinum Esther you popular Esther you
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 it's gonna
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 will lose them you'll secure them and the world will
never know you as a 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