David Diga Hernandez - Holy Spirit, The Key to Your Calling

The Holy Spirit is the key to fulfilling your calling. Here are five ways the Holy Spirit helps you walk in Divine Destiny.

Number one: He qualifies you. Many believers refuse to step into the call of God simply because they don’t believe they are qualified. Whether it be their past mistakes or personal insecurities, they are afraid to step into God’s call because they don’t feel they have what it takes to do so. Here’s what the Bible says in Acts chapter 4, verse 13: «The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus.» What was their primary qualification for ministry? Simply put, they had been with Jesus. It’s in the presence of the Holy Spirit where you will find your calling. It’s time in the presence of the Holy Spirit that produces the power to perform what God has destined for you. It’s not a matter of how gifted, talented, intellectual, or charismatic you are, but how surrendered you are to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit within you is your qualification. As you surrender your life to the Holy Spirit, and as you spend time in His presence through prayer, the Word, and worship, something is transformed in you. Your character and nature are changed, and in that transformation, God creates someone who can fulfill the Divine mandate He has placed on their life—that’s you. As you spend time in the presence of the Holy Spirit, He will qualify you. Write in the comments section that you are surrendering to the Holy Spirit. However you want to phrase that, put it in the comments section right now.

Number two: He gives direction and correction. Another excuse that believers run into is that they simply don’t know what to do. «I don’t know what God wants from me. I know what God has instructed me to do in the scriptures. I understand the general commands of God: living holy, living a lifestyle of worship, living a lifestyle of evangelism, and so forth. But I’m not quite sure of what the Holy Spirit wants me to do specifically.» Here we see that the Holy Spirit gives direction and correction. In Acts chapter 8, I am going to read verses 27-31: «The eunuch had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and he was now returning. Seated in his carriage, he was reading aloud from the book of the prophet Isaiah. The Holy Spirit said to Philip, 'Go over and walk along beside the carriage.' Philip ran over and heard the man reading from the prophet Isaiah. Philip asked, 'Do you understand what you are reading? ' The man replied, 'How can I unless someone instructs me? ' And he urged Philip to come up into the carriage and sit with him.» Here we see an opportunity for the presentation of the Gospel. I think we complicate it by fretting over the specifics of our calling. The Holy Spirit will tell you what to do; He will give you instruction. You might be saying, «Well then, how do I hear the Holy Spirit?» That’s as simple as living a lifestyle of prayer, the Word, obedience, and listening for the voice of the Holy Spirit. Again, we complicate it because we don’t know what direction we should go, or we worry that we might do something that He didn’t call us to do. Well, the Holy Spirit has you covered there as well. Acts chapter 16, verses 6-7 says, «Next, Paul and Silas traveled through the area of Phrygia and Galatia because the Holy Spirit had prevented them from preaching the word in the province of Asia at that time. Then, coming to the borders of Mysia, they headed north for the province of Bithynia, but again the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them to go there.» He guides as you go. He corrects as you obey. As you walk along that path of God’s Divine Destiny, He’ll correct the mistakes that you make. Many of us imagine that the call of God is so fragile that if we make one mistake or do one thing that maybe He didn’t instruct us to do specifically, the whole thing is going to fall apart and derail everything about the call of God in our lives. That’s not necessarily true; there are some blatant sinful mistakes that you can make that can obviously delay what God is doing in your life. But I’m talking about the Christian who won’t budge, who won’t move, who won’t do anything in their calling simply because they don’t have specific instructions. Here we see that the Apostle did not have instructions to go to Asia, and we know he didn’t have those instructions because on his way there, the Holy Spirit said, «Stop; don’t go.» So, we see that if we’re listening for His voice, the Holy Spirit will correct our mistakes. This is why it’s important that as we walk in the call of God, we are attentive to His voice through prayer and the Word. Stop complicating it. Fulfilling God’s call is as simple as daily obedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Number three: Here’s how the Holy Spirit helps you walk in Divine Destiny. Number three: He gives power. Acts chapter 1, verse 8 says, «But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere: in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.»