Keion Henderson - Your Life Is Calling You

I’m going to do something today that I have not done in almost nine years. I prepared this message on Sunday, but we didn’t get to it. Then I appreciated it downtown and prepared another message for today. All day long, I have been wrestling with what I wanted to say and what God wanted me to say. The message that I have for you on Sunday, I believe God was impressing on my heart, was so important for you to receive that I needed to go back and revisit it. I battled with it. I mean, I literally just don’t like getting up and saying something a couple of days after I just had it. But most of you didn’t hear it anyway, and the Holy Spirit said that this message needs to be shared in the earth. When I heard Him say it needed to be in the earth, at that moment I was thinking of the world, but you are the earth.

I was sharing with them in the staff meeting, and I heard Pastor John Gray say on one occasion that Satan was in heaven, leading worship. When the angels began to bow, they were bowing to the God who was behind him, but he thought they were bowing to him. John said that at that moment, God expelled Satan from heaven, and he fell to the dust. When I heard that, light bulbs went off in my head. Now I understand why Satan hates us so much- because we are made from the same dust that he fell from. So God reaches down and uses dust to create minstrels of worship. Now Satan is envious because he fell in what was worthless, and then God made it priceless. So when God said, «I need this in the earth,» I heard Him. But I was thinking of the earth; however, we have this treasure in earthen vessels. He was saying, «I need it in you. I need it in you.»

I’m going to talk to you about something because I believe with all my heart that for the next five days, this is going to weigh heavily on you to the point where some of you are going to break out with visions and dreams, and it’s going to drive you crazy because your mind will want to explode. You 're now going to have the fuel to move forward in what is worthy of the vocation to which God has called you. How many of you are ready to go to the next level in your life? They 're going to put it on the screen, but I want you to go to 1 Kings chapter 19, verse 16. I only have five or six verses that I want to read, but I believe in those five or six verses. I’m not going to be able to cover the whole story because one thing I’m also learning is that the Bible is so exhaustive that you don’t have to cover the entire thing. Sometimes there can be a single point, and if you get that one thing, it’s better than me giving you the entire chapter.

In 1 Kings 19: 16, I don’t want to get into too much detail. Let me just tell you what happened. Elisha the prophet is on the run from Jezebel; he’s hiding in a cave. God says to him, «I’m getting ready to anoint a younger man to pick up where you left off.» But that young man right now doesn’t even know he’s called. He’s doing something else; he’s working at an office downtown, maybe as a secretary or at a foundation. He’s wherever you work-just collecting a check. He doesn’t even know that if he ever gets into his calling, he’ll never have to worry about a check, but he thinks he’s in the right place because he’s doing well. He won’t realize that I’m getting ready to call him from comfort to struggle, and he’s not going to know it’s me because in his mind he’ll think the only way God would bless him is if things go up from here. But sometimes they go down first. Are you with me so far?

The Bible says that he goes and does just that. When he finds Elisha, he is tending twelve yoke of oxen, and he’s doing that. Elisha comes and puts the mantle on him; I’ll explain in a minute what that meant. But here is the text: verse 21. Elisha went back, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. He cooked the meat over a fire he made by burning the harnesses and the yoke. He gave the people meat, and they ate. Then he got up, followed Elisha, and became his assistant. I want to talk to you on the subject: Your life is calling you. Your life is calling you. Touch your neighbor and say, «Your life is calling you.» You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. Your life is calling you. The reason I think it’s important for you to understand this message is that there are two people in the text who are extremely important. Their names sound alike, and if you’re not careful, you will misconstrue them. No surnames-just Elijah and Elisha. Elijah and Elisha.