by Charlie Rogers

Continuing on from last month’s letter concerning finding your call, one of the biggest challenges that I continually take to God, is for wisdom to reach the hearts of people concerning whether or not they care about what God has for them to do while here on earth. Let’s just be honest with each other, most people at one time or another just want to be saved and left alone. Most people not only do not know their part or their call in the body of Christ, but they do not have the desire to find out.

Yet Paul wrote in Romans 12:3-5 that each and every person that is born again has received the grace and a measure of faith for their part in the body of Christ.

Rom 12:3-5

3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. NKJV

The very first step in fulfilling God’s call upon your life is to care about what His desire is for you. As we can see in the above passage, we can’t deny that God has something for each one of us to do while here on earth. It is established in heaven and earth when you get born again that you are not just called to sit in a pew all your living days on earth. Paul also goes on tells us that we are one body fitted together and not to think too highly of ourselves, because each part in the body of Christ is just as important as the next and it is all by the grace He provides. Someday when we stand before the Lord Jesus Christ we will be judged according to our own individual call. Every call and what we do with it will be just as important as the next. We are each one a part of each other and each other’s call. It is important to come to a place of caring about what God has for us to do and accomplish here on earth. It is also important for us to come to a place of caring about others and their call here on earth.

You might say well I have to admit I really haven’t cared about what my part is in the body of Christ. You might be asking is it too late? As long as there is breath in you it is not too late to start caring to find and know His call upon your life. You might be one of those who is in the place described like this "I don’t have the desire to have the desire to care about my call". I am here to tell you God still has provided the hope and the way to come out of where you are at.

When we looked at Romans 12:3-8;

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. NKJV

We found that our call was given to us by the grace of God and to each person was given the faith for that call. We also know that according to Romans 5:1-2 that it is by faith that we access the grace that God has given to us. The more we access this grace for our call, the stronger we walk in our call and the more we help others in bringing them salvation and growing them up in the body of Christ. So the key is to obtain more faith to be able to grow in grace. Maybe you are one saying; I do not have much faith. How can I obtain more faith? He certainly provides the way for that also.

To get to what Paul talked about in verse 3 of Romans 12, you have to back up to,

Rom 12:1-2

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. NKJV

Here Paul is covering more than one area; I know even some preachers don’t want to talk about it, when you start mentioning things like fasting and praying in other tongues. However he does say for us to present our bodies a living sacrifice, (one that is alive but yet dead) holy and acceptable to God. We know that when we fast we put the flesh in a place declared dead, so that our spirit man may be able to come forth stronger in our lives. We also know what Jesus said in Matthew 17 when he cast the demons out of the little boy, when His disciples could not.

Matt 17:19-21 then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" 20 So Jesus said to them, "Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. 21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting." NKJV

So it must be when we fast that we get rid of doubt and unbelief, the opposite of unbelief is faith. Faith that we need to access His grace concerning our call.

I know you are thinking, okay now what about praying in other tongues, how does that fit in here? According to the entire chapter of Romans 8, when we praying other tongues we are invoking in our lives the law of the spirit of life and being freed from the law of the spirit of death. This in itself is an entire teaching. Then in Jude speaking about people who were ruled by their emotions and walking in the flesh, He said.

Jude 19-21

19 These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. NKJV

So now we know that when we pray in tongues we put down the deeds of the flesh and out on the other side we end up with faith, not to even mention 1 Cor 14:2 that when we pray in an unknown tongue we pray down the mind of Christ concerning all of our life. So now we know that when we fast and we have a life of praying in other tongues we start putting away the don’t care attitude or lifestyle and start to walk in faith necessary to access the grace God gave us. So for those of you that need a plan to find out God’s will for your life, we have step 1 and 2. Now let’s go a little farther.

Rom 12:2

2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. NKJV

Understand this, that you are either going to conform to the world’s ways or God’s ways, one or the other. If you conform to the world’s ways you are not going to have God’s plan or the faith to access His grace. But, if you start the transformation of yourself by the renewing of your mind and start conforming to God’s ways, then you are going to start walking more in faith and His grace concerning your call. Which brings us to His Word, which leads us to confession of His Word which changes you and helps change your unbelief to faith.

Rom 10:17

17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. NKJV

Then when we combine Meditation of His Word, Confession of His Word with Worship we are starting to conform to Him because we are renewing our minds, which have in the past been saturated in unbelief. We then start to grow in faith and start learning about and walking in the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God for ourselves. Because by faith we access the grace of God that has been given to each and everyone concerning their call in the body of Christ. Along the way we start to change the "I don’t want to know God’s call for me" to a desire to know.

You say "I don’t want to have the want to, to know the things of God." Can you read one page of the Book of John each day? Can you pray 15 minutes each day? Can you lift your hands and tell Jesus you love Him, thank Him you’re saved for 15 minutes each day? If you can do one of these you will change the want to in your life!