Your Calling Is Already Written
After a decade focused on secular work, I'm dedicating all my skills and network toward God's specific calling. Here's why that's the only rational response to understanding how God's economy works.
The Awakening
Most of us spend our lives in what my friend Peter Han calls the "Tree of Knowledge" system—trusting our efforts, measuring our value by production, believing security comes from achievements and bank accounts. I've lived that way for years, pursuing what the world calls success.
But here's what my teachers have shown me: Every single person who knows Jesus as savior has a calling. Not just pastors. Not just missionaries. You.
As Derek Prince, one of the great Bible teachers of the 20th century, taught from 2 Timothy 1:9: "God has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began."
Before time began. Your calling isn't an afterthought—it's part of an eternal plan.
Why This Isn't About Becoming a Preacher
I'm not trying to become a priest or stand on stages. God absolutely calls some to preach—it's a vital, holy calling. But that's probably not your calling, statistically speaking. The profound misunderstanding that keeps so many trapped is thinking God only calls people to "religious" work.
There's a critical distinction here that most miss: the "works" God prepared for you (Ephesians 2:10) are not religious performances—attending more services, joining more committees, or volunteering at church events. Those can be good, but they're often just religious busyness that helps you avoid your actual calling.
Your calling is the specific work God designed you to accomplish using your unique gifts, experiences, and position. It's not about adding religious activities to your life. It's about discovering how God wants to use everything He's already given you for Kingdom purposes.
God needs kingdom-minded engineers, artists, entrepreneurs, teachers, parents. He needs people transforming every sphere of society, not just filling pulpits. As Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12:18: "God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be."
Your specific calling might be:
- Building technologies that strengthen families instead of fragmenting them
- Creating businesses that operate as kingdom outposts
- Raising children who know their divine purpose
- Developing systems that make righteousness easier than sin
The tragedy isn't that we lack preachers—it's that millions of Christians exhaust themselves with religious performance while never discovering what God specifically created them to do. They're busy doing "church work" instead of their Kingdom work.
The Economics of Obedience
Here's what most Christians don't understand: When you operate in your God-given calling, you tap into a completely different economic system.
Jesus promised in Matthew 6:33: "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."
Not might be given. Will be given.
Consider the biblical pattern:
- The Israelites gathering manna—only enough for each day (Exodus 16)
- Elijah fed by ravens during famine (1 Kings 17:4-6)
- The disciples catching 153 fish after obeying Jesus (John 21:11)
- Paul declaring "My God will meet all your needs" (Philippians 4:19)
This is about understanding that when you're doing what God called you to do, He becomes responsible for provision. As Psalm 37:25 testifies: "I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread."
From Self-Reliance to Spirit-Led Flow
There are only two ways to make a living: the atheistic way of toil and strain, or the Kingdom way where God guides your boat while you row. See: Eat From the Tree of Life, Not Knowledge for Peter Han's framework on shifting from self-reliance to trusting God's provision—a practical guide that transformed how I approach both work and rest.
The Atheistic Way: Toil, strain, anxiety, constant insecurity because everything depends on your performance.
The Kingdom Way: God guides your boat while you row. Trust replaces control. Provision comes through obedience.
I've done it the atheistic way—achieved what looked like success but with constant fear it would disappear. Now I'm learning what happens when you build in the Spirit rather than the flesh. When you focus on relationship with God over relationship with outcomes.
Discovering Your Specific Calling
Romans 12:1-2 gives the precise formula:
"Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."
Notice the sequence:
- Present your body - Total surrender, not partial obedience
- Mind gets renewed - You start thinking Kingdom thoughts
- Discover God's will - Which is good, acceptable, and perfect
As Ephesians 2:10 declares: "We are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
God has already written your calling. You just need to discover what He's already prepared.
Why Most Never Find Their Calling
The statistics are sobering. Recent studies show the average person spends about 143 minutes daily on social media—that's 870 hours per year. Add in the 819 hours annually just looking at our phones, plus television and streaming. Meanwhile, even active Bible readers average only about 65 hours per year in Scripture (15 minutes daily, 5 days a week).
That's 13 times more hours on social media alone than in God's Word.
They treat their calling like amateur athletes while expecting professional results.
Paul compares us to Olympic athletes in 1 Corinthians 9:24-25: "Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever."
Finding and fulfilling your calling requires the same dedication. The generals of faith understood this—they were captive to obedience, not casual about it. See: Obedience Is Everything for why uncompromising obedience is the single thread uniting every person who moved in supernatural power, from Wigglesworth to Sumrall.
Your calling demands:
- Daily surrender (Luke 9:23)
- Cultivating sensitivity to the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:32)
- Immediate obedience when God speaks (James 1:22)
- Staying within your sphere of authority (2 Corinthians 10:13)
The Cloud of Witnesses
Hebrews 12:1 reminds us: "Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us."
Your calling isn't performed in isolation. Every saint who's gone before is watching. Your faithful grandparents. The martyrs. The reformers. They're all cheering you on to discover and fulfill what God created you specifically to accomplish.
Derek Prince taught that there are no carbon copies in God's kingdom. What God has for you, He doesn't have for anyone else. If you don't do it, it won't get done. There are no stand-ins in God's theater.
The Invitation
God is faithful. As 1 Thessalonians 5:24 promises: "The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it."
Not you will do it. HE will do it—through you, as you walk in obedience.
I'm about to bet everything on this truth. After years of building in my own strength, I'm surrendering to build only what God directs. I've finally understood: We can make success happen through self-reliance, but if we build it in the flesh, we have to sustain it in the flesh.
When God is your source, provision flows through relationship, not performance. Security comes from obedience, not accumulation.
The question isn't whether God has a calling for you—He does, settled before time began. The question is whether you're curious enough to discover it and faithful enough to trust His provision while you pursue it.
Derek Prince discovered this when God spoke to him as an insignificant corporal in 1944: "I have called thee to be a teacher of the scriptures." No platform, no technology, no audience. Forty-one years later, his teaching reached every continent and over half the earth's population.
Your calling is already written. God is already faithful. The only variable is your obedience.
Will you answer?
"For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." — Ephesians 2:10