INFORMATION ON BOOKS
God Is Calling You: Discerning the Calling of God
God Is Calling You: Responding to the Calling of God
Purchase Information
Both books can be purchased from Amazon, Apple iTunes, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Indigo, Ingram, McNally Robinson, Russell Books, Spring Arbor, and other book retailers.
Introduction
God has a unique calling for every individual. This calling is the way you are to live on the earth. It encompasses all your being and doing. It defines and encompasses your total lifestyle and includes your spiritual life, family life, ministry and vocation. This calling uniquely fits God’s plan and purpose for your life. These companion books are about discerning and responding to the calling of God, so that you can live according to His perfect plan and will for you.
These books will help you to discern your calling from God and then pursue that calling with a passion, relying on God to fulfill that calling by doing His work in you and through you. In the process, you will experience miracles from God – all to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ! You will benefit by getting to know God in a personal way, deepening your daily walk with Him, and fulfilling your calling.
Table of Contents
The contents of this two companion books are as follows.
God Is Calling You: Discerning the Calling of God
Introduction
1. The Calling to God’s Love for You: It Is Not Your Love for God
Scripture Spotlight: Our Inseparability from God’s Love (Romans 8:35-39)
2. The Calling to Salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ: Your Greatest Miracle
Scripture Spotlight: The Salvation of Blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46-52)
3. The Calling to Spiritual Growth: Growing the Roots of Your Faith
Scripture Spotlight: Paul’s Prayer for Spiritual Growth of the Colossian Christians (Colossians 1:9-14)
4. The Calling to Grow in Grace: The Foundation of Your Calling
Scripture Spotlight: The Healing of the Impotent Man by Grace (John 5:1-16)
5. Discerning Your Calling: The Essence of Your Calling
Scripture Spotlight: The Calling of Peter (Luke 5:1-11)
Continuing Your Journey
Author Biography
Acknowledgements
God Is Calling You: Responding to the Calling of God
Introduction
1. Preparation for Your Calling: Learning to Walk on Water in the Midst of Storms
Scripture Spotlight: Walking on Water in the Midst of Storms (Matthew 14:22-36)
2. Stepping into Your Calling. The Miracle of Your Transformation
Scripture Spotlight: God’s Transformation in Your Calling (John 2:1-11)
3. God’s Vision for Your Calling: Building Your Temple for God
Scripture Spotlight: David’s Vision to Build the Temple (1 Chronicles 17:1-15; 29:1-21)
4. God’s Ministry of Multiplication in Your Calling: Multiplying Your Five Loaves and Two Fish
Scripture Spotlight: The Multiplication of Five Loaves and Two Fish (John 6:1-15)
5. Overcoming Obstacles in Your Calling: How to Conquer Your Goliaths
Scripture Spotlight: David Conquers Goliath (1 Samuel 17:20-54)
6. Possessing the Inheritance in Your Calling: Give Me This Mountain
Scripture Spotlight: Caleb Possesses His Mountain (Joshua 14:6-15)
7. The Call to Continue in Your Calling: A Charge from the Creator
Scripture Spotlight: Paul’s Charge to Timothy (2 Timothy 4:1-18)
Continuing Your Journey
Author Biography
Acknowledgements
Structure of the Books
These books are about discerning and responding to the calling of God, and much more. They are designed to be evangelistic and discipleship tools. Each and every chapter serves as a spring-board for the reader’s spiritual growth and development by providing a solid grounding in the Word of God.
God Is Calling You: Discerning the Calling of God
The first book comprises the first five chapters and focuses on discerning the calling of God. This book will help you determine the calling of God upon your life. The book begins by emphasizing that God loves you totally, unchangeably and unconditionally. He has demonstrated His perfect love for you by sending His Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for you. To live this life as God intends, it is imperative that you receive God’s love for you in Christ (Chapter 1).
The next chapter introduces the greatest miracle that anyone can experience - the miracle of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. Chapter 2 discusses your need for salvation, God’s plan for salvation, God’s calling to salvation and the miracle of salvation. Once you begin to experience the love of God (Chapter 1) by receiving Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord (Chapter 2), you need to grow spiritually in your faith and in your daily walk with Him.
In Chapter 3, I focus on the need for personal spiritual growth, daily surrender, prayer, Bible study, worship, fellowship, service and witness. However, you cannot grow spiritually by relying on your efforts, strengths and abilities. None of the ingredients for spiritual growth in Chapter 3 should be performed in the flesh, that is, with self-effort or in a legalistic manner.
Chapter 4 stresses that the way to grow spiritually is to grow in grace. You will get a basic understanding of what grace is, grace to overcome temptation, the law, and the law versus grace.
In Chapter 5, I explain the concept of your calling in more detail and discuss its importance. You will understand how your calling relates to ministry, your natural skills, talents, abilities, spiritual gifts, your deepest desires and burdens. You will see the difference between your calling and career. This chapter will help you discern the calling of God.
God Is Calling You: Responding to the Calling of God
The second book, or the sequel, consists of seven chapters and focuses on responding to the calling of God. While God does not want you to lean on your own preparation, He does prepare you for the call He has placed upon your life.
Chapter 1 deals with preparation, and storms are an important tool used by God to prepare you for your calling. It highlights several principles that will enable you not to be fearful but be faithful in pressing onward in the storms of life. God will empower you in the midst of storms and see you through the storms to victory. As God prepares you for your calling, He will transform your life and begin conforming it more and more to the image of His Son, our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. This is the will of God for every believer (Romans 8:29).
Chapter 2 brings out the many principles involved in the transformation process. God wants to transform your life and mine, conform us to His image and use our lives mightily for His glory.
Chapter 3 deals with the vision God has for you. This vision deals with what God wants to do with your life, and it has a special focus on what He wants to accomplish in your calling. Every Godly vision has certain Biblical characteristics. If you understand these characteristics, then you will be able to obtain and fulfill the vision God has for you.
As you seek to fulfill God’s vision, He will multiply the gifts, talents, abilities, resources and your very life and use them mightily for His glory – as discussed in Chapter 4. God is in the ministry of multiplication, as seen throughout the Bible. One such instance where God took two fish and five loaves and multiplied them to feed about 5000 men besides women and children is examined in detail. I draw out principles you can apply to experience the ministry of multiplication God has for each believer.
Given the reality of the spiritual warfare encompassing every believer, you will encounter several obstacles in fulfilling the vision and pursuing your calling. From the human perspective, many of these obstacles may seem like giants that dwarf you. How to defeat these giants is discussed in Chapter 5. These principles are drawn from how David defeated Goliath. Practicing them will prepare you to defeat these giants and overcome the obstacles the devil is likely to throw in your path.
As you overcome the obstacles in the power of the Holy Spirit, God will give you the fulfillment of your vision. He will give you your mountain as a part of your inheritance in the Lord Jesus Christ. There are several principles given to us in how Caleb received Mount Hebron as an inheritance and these are highlighted in Chapter 6.
The final chapter discusses the continuing charge you have to keep on preaching the Gospel in the specific way that God has called you – even after the fulfillment of the initial vision God gave to you. I describe this charge by using several key words – all of these begin with a C such as Charge, Consistency, Content, Characteristics, Conflict, Courage, Clarity, Cost, Consequence, Continuity, Correct, Completion, Crown, etc. In fact, more than 75 such C words are used.
Style and Format
Both books are written in the same uniform style and format, and each chapter is structured in the same way based on principles of learning. Each chapter begins with a Bible verse, laying the foundation for that chapter.
The first major section, Preamble and Preview, gives an overview of the chapter.
The following section, Central Concepts, discusses the key concepts. These concepts are illustrated with a key passage from the Bible that is exposited verse-by-verse in a section called Scripture Spotlight. Each verse is discussed using simple language and terminology to help you grasp its essentials.
Then I share my personal testimony of how God the Father has worked these concepts in my life by the power of the Holy Spirit to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Author’s Account.
Next, Quest Questions challenge you to do some soul searching and answer a number of questions at a personal level.
Then a section, entitled Principles and Precepts, highlights the key Scriptural principles found in the chapter. These universal principles can be applied easily – regardless of your situation or circumstance.
Life Lesson contains the most important lesson to be learned in the chapter.
The next section in each chapter, Prayer Power, contains an effectual Scriptural prayer you are encouraged to pray to experience the power and the presence of God – especially as it pertains to the concepts discussed in that chapter.
The final section, Message Ministry, gives the link to an audio message of about 30 minutes you should hear. Access to these messages comes with the book and there is no extra cost involved.
Book Supplements
As they are intended to be study books, each comes with an array of supplements including:
God Is Calling You: Discerning the Calling of God
God Is Calling You: Responding to the Calling of God
Purchase Information
Both books can be purchased from Amazon, Apple iTunes, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Indigo, Ingram, McNally Robinson, Russell Books, Spring Arbor, and other book retailers.
Introduction
God has a unique calling for every individual. This calling is the way you are to live on the earth. It encompasses all your being and doing. It defines and encompasses your total lifestyle and includes your spiritual life, family life, ministry and vocation. This calling uniquely fits God’s plan and purpose for your life. These companion books are about discerning and responding to the calling of God, so that you can live according to His perfect plan and will for you.
These books will help you to discern your calling from God and then pursue that calling with a passion, relying on God to fulfill that calling by doing His work in you and through you. In the process, you will experience miracles from God – all to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ! You will benefit by getting to know God in a personal way, deepening your daily walk with Him, and fulfilling your calling.
Table of Contents
The contents of this two companion books are as follows.
God Is Calling You: Discerning the Calling of God
Introduction
1. The Calling to God’s Love for You: It Is Not Your Love for God
Scripture Spotlight: Our Inseparability from God’s Love (Romans 8:35-39)
2. The Calling to Salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ: Your Greatest Miracle
Scripture Spotlight: The Salvation of Blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46-52)
3. The Calling to Spiritual Growth: Growing the Roots of Your Faith
Scripture Spotlight: Paul’s Prayer for Spiritual Growth of the Colossian Christians (Colossians 1:9-14)
4. The Calling to Grow in Grace: The Foundation of Your Calling
Scripture Spotlight: The Healing of the Impotent Man by Grace (John 5:1-16)
5. Discerning Your Calling: The Essence of Your Calling
Scripture Spotlight: The Calling of Peter (Luke 5:1-11)
Continuing Your Journey
Author Biography
Acknowledgements
God Is Calling You: Responding to the Calling of God
Introduction
1. Preparation for Your Calling: Learning to Walk on Water in the Midst of Storms
Scripture Spotlight: Walking on Water in the Midst of Storms (Matthew 14:22-36)
2. Stepping into Your Calling. The Miracle of Your Transformation
Scripture Spotlight: God’s Transformation in Your Calling (John 2:1-11)
3. God’s Vision for Your Calling: Building Your Temple for God
Scripture Spotlight: David’s Vision to Build the Temple (1 Chronicles 17:1-15; 29:1-21)
4. God’s Ministry of Multiplication in Your Calling: Multiplying Your Five Loaves and Two Fish
Scripture Spotlight: The Multiplication of Five Loaves and Two Fish (John 6:1-15)
5. Overcoming Obstacles in Your Calling: How to Conquer Your Goliaths
Scripture Spotlight: David Conquers Goliath (1 Samuel 17:20-54)
6. Possessing the Inheritance in Your Calling: Give Me This Mountain
Scripture Spotlight: Caleb Possesses His Mountain (Joshua 14:6-15)
7. The Call to Continue in Your Calling: A Charge from the Creator
Scripture Spotlight: Paul’s Charge to Timothy (2 Timothy 4:1-18)
Continuing Your Journey
Author Biography
Acknowledgements
Structure of the Books
These books are about discerning and responding to the calling of God, and much more. They are designed to be evangelistic and discipleship tools. Each and every chapter serves as a spring-board for the reader’s spiritual growth and development by providing a solid grounding in the Word of God.
God Is Calling You: Discerning the Calling of God
The first book comprises the first five chapters and focuses on discerning the calling of God. This book will help you determine the calling of God upon your life. The book begins by emphasizing that God loves you totally, unchangeably and unconditionally. He has demonstrated His perfect love for you by sending His Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for you. To live this life as God intends, it is imperative that you receive God’s love for you in Christ (Chapter 1).
The next chapter introduces the greatest miracle that anyone can experience - the miracle of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. Chapter 2 discusses your need for salvation, God’s plan for salvation, God’s calling to salvation and the miracle of salvation. Once you begin to experience the love of God (Chapter 1) by receiving Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord (Chapter 2), you need to grow spiritually in your faith and in your daily walk with Him.
In Chapter 3, I focus on the need for personal spiritual growth, daily surrender, prayer, Bible study, worship, fellowship, service and witness. However, you cannot grow spiritually by relying on your efforts, strengths and abilities. None of the ingredients for spiritual growth in Chapter 3 should be performed in the flesh, that is, with self-effort or in a legalistic manner.
Chapter 4 stresses that the way to grow spiritually is to grow in grace. You will get a basic understanding of what grace is, grace to overcome temptation, the law, and the law versus grace.
In Chapter 5, I explain the concept of your calling in more detail and discuss its importance. You will understand how your calling relates to ministry, your natural skills, talents, abilities, spiritual gifts, your deepest desires and burdens. You will see the difference between your calling and career. This chapter will help you discern the calling of God.
God Is Calling You: Responding to the Calling of God
The second book, or the sequel, consists of seven chapters and focuses on responding to the calling of God. While God does not want you to lean on your own preparation, He does prepare you for the call He has placed upon your life.
Chapter 1 deals with preparation, and storms are an important tool used by God to prepare you for your calling. It highlights several principles that will enable you not to be fearful but be faithful in pressing onward in the storms of life. God will empower you in the midst of storms and see you through the storms to victory. As God prepares you for your calling, He will transform your life and begin conforming it more and more to the image of His Son, our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. This is the will of God for every believer (Romans 8:29).
Chapter 2 brings out the many principles involved in the transformation process. God wants to transform your life and mine, conform us to His image and use our lives mightily for His glory.
Chapter 3 deals with the vision God has for you. This vision deals with what God wants to do with your life, and it has a special focus on what He wants to accomplish in your calling. Every Godly vision has certain Biblical characteristics. If you understand these characteristics, then you will be able to obtain and fulfill the vision God has for you.
As you seek to fulfill God’s vision, He will multiply the gifts, talents, abilities, resources and your very life and use them mightily for His glory – as discussed in Chapter 4. God is in the ministry of multiplication, as seen throughout the Bible. One such instance where God took two fish and five loaves and multiplied them to feed about 5000 men besides women and children is examined in detail. I draw out principles you can apply to experience the ministry of multiplication God has for each believer.
Given the reality of the spiritual warfare encompassing every believer, you will encounter several obstacles in fulfilling the vision and pursuing your calling. From the human perspective, many of these obstacles may seem like giants that dwarf you. How to defeat these giants is discussed in Chapter 5. These principles are drawn from how David defeated Goliath. Practicing them will prepare you to defeat these giants and overcome the obstacles the devil is likely to throw in your path.
As you overcome the obstacles in the power of the Holy Spirit, God will give you the fulfillment of your vision. He will give you your mountain as a part of your inheritance in the Lord Jesus Christ. There are several principles given to us in how Caleb received Mount Hebron as an inheritance and these are highlighted in Chapter 6.
The final chapter discusses the continuing charge you have to keep on preaching the Gospel in the specific way that God has called you – even after the fulfillment of the initial vision God gave to you. I describe this charge by using several key words – all of these begin with a C such as Charge, Consistency, Content, Characteristics, Conflict, Courage, Clarity, Cost, Consequence, Continuity, Correct, Completion, Crown, etc. In fact, more than 75 such C words are used.
Style and Format
Both books are written in the same uniform style and format, and each chapter is structured in the same way based on principles of learning. Each chapter begins with a Bible verse, laying the foundation for that chapter.
The first major section, Preamble and Preview, gives an overview of the chapter.
The following section, Central Concepts, discusses the key concepts. These concepts are illustrated with a key passage from the Bible that is exposited verse-by-verse in a section called Scripture Spotlight. Each verse is discussed using simple language and terminology to help you grasp its essentials.
Then I share my personal testimony of how God the Father has worked these concepts in my life by the power of the Holy Spirit to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Author’s Account.
Next, Quest Questions challenge you to do some soul searching and answer a number of questions at a personal level.
Then a section, entitled Principles and Precepts, highlights the key Scriptural principles found in the chapter. These universal principles can be applied easily – regardless of your situation or circumstance.
Life Lesson contains the most important lesson to be learned in the chapter.
The next section in each chapter, Prayer Power, contains an effectual Scriptural prayer you are encouraged to pray to experience the power and the presence of God – especially as it pertains to the concepts discussed in that chapter.
The final section, Message Ministry, gives the link to an audio message of about 30 minutes you should hear. Access to these messages comes with the book and there is no extra cost involved.
Book Supplements
As they are intended to be study books, each comes with an array of supplements including:
- Study Guide. Given the in-depth discussion of Bible concepts and passages, this resource is particularly valuable. The Study Guide is structured with an integration of principles from Proverbs 4 and the three well-known theories of learning - classical conditioning, instrumental conditioning and the cognitive theory - to maximize learning and retention of material in the book.
- PowerPoint Slides. A complete set of slides is provided for each chapter of the book. These slides are a good way of summarizing each chapter in a bullet-point format. Of course, they also can be projected on a screen and used as visual aids in a group setting.
- Audio Messages. Twelve audio messages, one for each of the 12 chapters of the book, are available in MP3 format. Each message is about 30 minutes. You can access these messages free of cost by using CallingYou as the password.
- Website. The books are supported by an informative and a useful website that can be accessed at https://www.GlobalEvangelisticMinistries.net. This website is linked to a variety of social media, including a blog, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+ and YouTube. While the audio messages are free, the Study Guide and PowerPoint Slides can be purchased from this website for a nominal price. In addition, the website contains several free materials such as additional audio and video messages. God bless you as you read and study these books and as God works in your life in a powerful way for His glory! Let us all glorify the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by discerning, pursuing, and fulfilling our calling!