If He Calls You, He Will Do It!

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

I love the 5^th chapter of Paul’s letter to the church at Thessalonica. Hopefully you read that chapter yesterday if you are following the reading plan posted each day in our Freedom Fighter blog.

I want to highlight verse 24 today. It has been the testimony of my life for the past four decades. Some of you have experienced the truth of this verse in your life.

I have spent the last 16 years at America’s Keswick serving as the President/CEO of a 115 year old ministry that for 100 years was directed by the Raws family. I can’t tell you how humbling it has been to try and walk in the shoes of a family that not only had the privilege of birthing the vision – but who were deeply involved in every facet of the ministry.

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My two predecessors, Roger Williams, now the Executive Director of Mount Hermon Christian Conference Center and John Bryant, Executive Director of Christ Home served America’s Keswick as Executive Director’s using their unique gifts during their years of service.

I never went to school to learn to be an Executive Director of a Christian Conference center let alone oversee an addiction recovery ministry. Looking back I can see how my life/ministry experiences were used in my life to bring me to this point in my journey but I have to admit, there are more days that you want to know, that I find myself saying, “What did I get myself into?”

Just this past week a situation came up that I was clueless how to handle, but yet God gave me the wisdom and insight to think it through and to handle it. I sat at my desk in amazement almost asking the question, “Where did that come from?”

You see when God calls you to do something, even if you don’t think you can do it – if the call is there – this verses reminds us that if He calls you – He will also do it. Wow! Throughout the Scriptures from Moses to David to Daniel to Paul – God has shown His servants that He will accomplish through them more than they could have ever imagined.

Has He called YOU to do something? Well let Him do it through you! – Bill Welte is President/CEO of America’s Keswick

Team YOU: Isaiah 61-62; Proverbs 18; 2 Thessalonians 1

Motivations: The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love, is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the indiscretions of youth. But the Word says, ‘Thou hatest the workers of iniquity’ (Ps. 5:5). And again, ‘God is angry with the wicked every day’ (Ps 7:11). But men refuse to believe in this God, and gnash their teeth when His hatred of sin is faithfully pressed upon their attention. Arthur W. Pink

Practice to Remember: Level 1:James 2:5; Level 2: James 2:1-5

Powered Up:  If we look on prayer as a means of developing ourselves, there is nothing in it at all, nor do we find that idea of prayer in the Bible. – Oswald Chambers