Streams in my desert: You are Called for a Purpose - wrapped up in the very word for “church,” EKLESSIA, is the idea of being called out for a specific reason. We have not chosen Him but He has chosen us. 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. The Lord has personally selected you. 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

Friday, August 15, 2025

You are Called for a Purpose - wrapped up in the very word for “church,” EKLESSIA, is the idea of being called out for a specific reason. We have not chosen Him but He has chosen us. 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. The Lord has personally selected you. 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

Called for a Purpose

"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

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.