Called for a Purpose - the Lord has personally selected you. Wrapped up in the very word for “church” is the idea of being called out for a specific reason. God has called us out of our own plans for our lives, and out of the confusion of our past. Then once He calls us out, He calls us in, into the excellency of His Kingdom, into communion with Him, and into His plan for our lives. We “press on” so that we may grasp God’s plan for us. You will find your firmest purpose, deepest fulfillment, and highest joy

"Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me." - Philippians 3:12

We have not chosen Him but He has chosen us (John 15:16). 

The Lord has personally selected you. 

Wrapped up in the very word for “church” is the idea of being called out for a specific reason. 

God has called us out of our own plans for our lives, and out of the confusion of our past.

Then once He calls us out, He calls us in, into the excellency of His Kingdom, into communion with Him, and into His plan for our lives. 

It may sometimes seem that the plan lies just around the next bend in the road of our spiritual walk with Christ, just beyond our reach or not very well defined.

But we “press on” so that we may grasp God’s plan for us, the plan God had in mind when He “grasped” us! 

Keep moving on! 

His plan is there for you! 

And it is in His plan that you will find your firmest purpose, deepest fulfillment, and highest joy.

Written by Jack Hayford

DAILY MOMENT with Jack Hayford Ministries

Jack Hayford served as Chancellor of The King’s University (formerly The King’s College and Seminary) in Southlake, Texas, which he founded in 1997. From 2004 to 2009, he also served as President of The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. He was probably best known, however, as “Pastor Jack,” founding pastor of The Church On The Way in Van Nuys, California, where he served as senior pastor for more than three decades. A prolific and best-selling writer, Pastor Hayford was the author (or co-author) of more than fifty books and composed 500 hymns and choruses, including the internationally known and widely recorded “Majesty.”

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