God created us for a purpose, and we all have a specific, unique vocational or life calling upon our lives (Jeremiah 1:5; Psalm 139:16). Only those who receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord can fully step into the calling that God has for their life. Merriam Webster Dictionary defines a calling as a strong inner impulse toward a particular course of action or vocation, especially when accompanied by conviction of divine influence. The call upon our lives is not a career choice but a call from the Holy Spirit. Your call may be to the ministry, the marketplace (business or work arena), education, politics, raising your children, etc. We must find out how to walk in it to live a satisfied and fulfilled life as God intended.

We are the body of Christ. There are many members in the body but one body of Christ and members individually (1 Corinthians 12:12, 27). God has appointed and anointed each of us to fulfill the purpose that He created us for and advance His kingdom.

Why did God give us a specific calling? It is to diversify and cover all areas needed to build His kingdom and bring order and kingdom rule wherever we go. It is just like building a house in the natural. First, there is an architect or designer, then a contractor over the project who brings in the specialized workers or subcontractors needed at the proper time. God is the architect and designer, and Jesus is the contractor. We are subcontractors or specialized workers. We are co-laborers with Him in building His house called Zion (Psalm 132:13-14; Isaiah 28:16; Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Peter 2:5).

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field; you are God’s building. 1 Corinthians 3:9

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There is a calling placed upon every person’s life, whether a believer or an unbeliever. God created us on purpose for a purpose. God knew us and wrote a book about us even before we were born (Jeremiah 1:5; Psalm 139:16). God reveals Himself through creation, the preaching, and teaching of His Word, prophecy, dreams, and visions, etc. It is the Holy Spirit who brings revelation and draws us to Jesus Christ (John 6:44). He calls every person to come into a relationship and reconcile with the Father through His Son Jesus (John 16:8-11).

Only those who receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord can step into the calling that God has for their life. As a Christian and believer in Christ Jesus, you have a calling. There are two types of callings the Bible talks about, 1) a general or faith calling that God has placed on every Christian, and 2) a specific or unique vocational or life calling.

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Do you remember what it was like when you were first in love? I can remember the feeling of butterflies in my stomach, the excitement of thinking about them, looking forward to spending time with them, doing special things for them, and talking to the person I loved. I couldn’t wait to talk or be with them!

That is what God wants in our relationship with Him. He desires to spend time with us and us with Him by worshiping, praying, and reading His Word. But God not only loves us, but He is good and has good things for us (Jeremiah 29:11; Romans 8:28).

Love isn’t just a feeling but a choice. God the Father showed His love for us by sending His Son, Jesus, to die for our sins to reconcile us to Himself and live through Him (John 3:16; 1 John 4:9). Jesus reconciled us and made peace with the Father through the blood of His cross (Colossians 1:19-20).

Love fulfills the law or the commandments (Matthew 22:36 – 40; Romans 13:10). Jesus told us the answer about how to love God in John 14:15; “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” We are to love God and walk in love. We love Him because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19). Love puts Him first and obeys what He says to do.

We must guard against being distracted by the things of the world that would lead us astray from His presence and love. We are to come out from the world and be separate (2 Corinthians 6:17). We must not allow and go back to the things we used to do before Christ that do not glorify Him or things He has told us to let go of.  He does not want us to remain or go back into bondage from the enemy.

We are called to holiness and to grow in holiness. (1 Peter 1:16). To be holy means to be set apart or separated unto. Idols need to be removed. The church needs cleansing as well as our own lives. Jesus is preparing us to be His glorious bride without spot or blemish (Revelation 19:7-9; Ephesians 5:25-32). We must follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and allow His power to be revealed in and through us. We are the body of Jesus Christ on the earth and are called to release His kingdom wherever we go. Jesus warns us against leaving our first love for Him (Revelation 2:4-5).

When we lose sight of His love and commandments by going our own way, we experience negative consequences. He gives us any commandments to keep us safe in His love. Remember how He wanted to walk with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to fellowship with them until their disobedience changed their relationship and they experienced separation from Him (Genesis 2:8-3:24). So likewise, our Heavenly Father experiences the pain of love when we walk away from Him and don’t dwell or abide in Him, receiving His love. However, His heart has not changed. That is why He sent His Son Jesus Christ to restore our relationship with Him. He doesn’t want to keep good things from us but give us eternal and abundant life (John 3:16; 10:10). Therefore, we must have a correct perspective on who God is so that we can love and trust Him.

God’s heart is yearning for you! He wants a deeper love walk with you. If you have been away from Him, turn your heart back to Him! God wants the restoration of your relationship and to manifest His love! So, ask His forgiveness and repent for anyplace in your life you have turned from your first love of Him. Then, ask the Holy Spirit what you need to do to restore intimacy in your relationship with the Father and obey what He tells you to do. Our love for Him grows as we spend time in His presence through worship, prayer, and meditating on the Word of God and by putting Him first! Then, when you have a revelation of God’s love, you can’t help but love Him and share His love with others!

There are many definitions of true love, but we can only find true love that never fails and is perfect in God because God is love (1 John 4:8, 16). New Testament Greek language separates the word love into four different categories: 1) Eros which is erotic, passionate love. 2) Phileo is the love of friends or brotherly love, 3) Storge is the love of parents for children, and 4) Agape, which refers to God’s love for us and our reciprocal love for God and others (1 John 4:19).

God’s love is unselfish, unconditional, unfailing, eternal, and is the highest form of love (Psalm 36:7; 136:26). He wants the best for you. Because of God’s agape love, He sent His Son Jesus Christ to reconcile us and redeem us (John 3:16, 15:13; Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:9-10).

There is no greater love than our Heavenly Father has for us, as His children (1 John 3:1). He loves us no matter what! His love transforms our lives and moves the mountains of circumstances that would keep us from knowing Him and receiving all that He has provided for us through Jesus’ finished work on the cross.

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God’s love brings healing because He has a true father’s heart, one full of compassion, understanding, and a desire for our health and wholeness. Therefore, being healed and whole has always been God’s heart for us, His precious children. Furthermore, Jesus understands what life is like for us because He went through these things also, i.e., temptation, disappointment, suffering, weariness, grief and sorrow, rejection, loneliness, etc.

God sent His Son Jesus because of His love for us (John 3:16; 1 John 3:16). Through the fall of humankind in the Garden of Eden, we lost everything. However, Jesus recovered all through His atonement (the reconciliation of humanity to God). Sin, death, disease, and poverty are part of the curse that Christ redeemed us from through His atonement on the cross. Healing is part of God’s redemptive plan. Everything that Jesus obtained for us through the cross is available to us. He took our sins, sicknesses, diseases, and infirmities upon His own body to bring us healing spiritually, physically, emotionally, financially, and relationally (Isaiah 53:4-5; 1 Peter 2:24).

Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil (Acts 10:38). We don’t have to see or understand everything that happens in our lives at the moment, but we can look to Jesus and trust that God is good, He is good at being God, and He will work all things out for good for those who believe and follow Him (Romans 8:28). When we truly know and believe that God loves us, we can trust Him with our lives and in any situation or circumstance that we may find ourselves.

Love originates in God because He is love (1 John 4:7-10). God’s love is unconditional, everlasting, and motivated by His grace. Because God loves us, He wants us to live in peace with Him and to receive eternal life so that we can live with Him forever and experience abundant life now (John 3:16; 10:10). But our sin separates us from God. It entered humankind through the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and has been passed on ever since (Romans 3:23; 5:12). However, God had a plan so that we could have peace with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1; 6:23).

Jesus is God the Son, who came in the flesh and revealed God exists (John 1:14; Colossians 2:9). He is God’s love gift to all of us to reunite us to the relationship with God the Father. God created us to have a relationship with Him and wants to be with us so much that He gave His Son to die to restore us to that relationship.

God’s love is victorious because He has redeemed us through His Son Jesus Christ, blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, and given us everything we need for life and godliness (Ephesians 1:3, 7; 2 Peter 1:3). Furthermore, Jesus defeated Satan and the power of death that held us in bondage and gave us everlasting life (Hebrews 2:14-15; 2 Timothy 1:10; Revelation 1:8).

God speaks prophetically from the calendar. Therefore, the Hebrew calendar moves forward on the first day of Tishrei (the seventh month), also known as the Feast of Trumpets and Rosh Hashanah, which begins on Monday at sundown on September 6, 2021. It continues until sunset on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 (Leviticus 23:23-25). Rosh Hashanah translates from Hebrew to “the head of the year” and marks the start of the Jewish New Year and the High Holy Days that follow, i.e., the 10 Days of Awe of reflection and repentance leading to Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement.

Rosh Hashanah is also a joyous celebration reflecting on what God has done and hoping for a happier new year. The feasts are parties. The Feast of Trumpets is one of the holy days that the Israelites were to keep. God revealed to Moses the exact time and how the people should celebrate. During the feast, the people would bring various offerings to the Lord (Numbers 29:1 – 6). All the Old Testament feasts in the Bible point to Christ Jesus. Since Jesus is the Word made flesh (John 1:14), He is not just in the New Testament but seen throughout the whole Bible. We can celebrate because we are grafted in (Romans 11:11-36).

The Feast of Trumpets and the shofar blowing represents making Jesus King and announcing His return (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; Revelation 11:15). He is preparing, equipping, and refining us. Let us hear what the Spirit is saying!

We can see from the Bible that numbers are important to Him. Numbers don’t define or dictate, and there isn’t any power in numbers, but they glorify God. They are prophetic or predictive markers, have layers of revelations, and have both a redeeming and non-redeeming version. They show us where we are to look and see Jesus. Prophecy is not to scare us but to prepare us.

We are entering the Hebrew Year 5782 and currently in the decade of the ’80s, or in Hebrew Pey, which is symbolic of mouth and breath (speech, word, vocalization). We must align our words with God’s mouth, open our mouths, speak out, and proclaim the truth, but there has been resistance (covering our mouths with masks, sheltering in place, social distancing, etc.). Yet, the world must hear our voice.

Beht (2) refers to a tent, house, or place where you live or where God lives. God is the strength of the house, and He is doing something with the house. The house or church belongs to Jesus, which is His body. I believe the Lord wants to cleanse, transform, revive, restore and rearrange His house, preparing and equipping us for new kingdom assignments and dimensions for the harvest of souls.

Listen to this podcast to hear what the Lord is revealing for the Hebrew Year 5782.