THE ROLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN OUR CALLING

I have always say that our calling is always in two fold: what we are called to be{destiny/vision} and what we are called to do{Assignment/mission}. The vision/destination is to be conform to the image of his dear Son....Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. The assignment is soul winning or the ministry of reconciliation even though God has given us different gifts and different ways of doing and fulfilling this mission; we must realize it is scoring the goal of soul winning . In a football match, no mater how well a player plays, if not converted to goals, the play is useless and a mere waste of time. The assignment of most people in the world is the pursuit of money. Using their gifts to get the gold, but the kingdom is different, it is using your gift to get the souls and not the silver and gold. Money is mere kingdom addition to facilitate and establish the purposes of God. It is not of the kingdom order for a believer to labor for Money, this is the assignment God has given to sinners. He has set the world in their heart that they may run after Gold and silver and gather them and heap them up. then God will do a wealth transfer...He will give it to his neighbor/righteous that is better than him than he might use the money to serve the purposes of God. So, in our God given assignment, the holy spirit works with us to convict sinners of 1. righteousness 2. Sin 3. Judgment Joh 16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Joh 16:9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; Joh 16:10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Joh 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. A believer is the greatest MESSAGE of God, He is God's witness to the world, for this is how the Holy Spirit helps him in fulfilling his assignment, by making and turning him into a witness through the power of Resurrection; so his life style must be a weapon that the Holy Spirit can use to convict the sinners/world about 1. Sin 2. Righteousness and 3. God's Judgment. it is not just using our gift that is the issue but using them in the power of the Holy Ghost to bring conviction to sinners ! These days only very people care for the power of the Holy Ghost. we have replaced the power of the Holy Ghost with the power of Money. We are more interested in using our gift to generate money than generating the power of God.This is the paradigm of the world and it must Change !! These days, we are almost doing all that we do because of money rather than the power of God. The 2nd part of our calling is the calling to be Christlike. Christlikeness can only be produce after one has passed the stage of being a disciple. The first stage is a stage of being a believer 2. a disciple 3. Christlikeness which many refer to as christian. it was the disciples that was first called Christians. At the first stage of our progress in the kingdom, we become a believer, at this stage the Holy spirit supplies us with a lot of GOD's kind of faith that makes us believe God and please him; we simply live by FAITH. The next stage is a revelation of his will to us as the holy spirit begins to guide us into all truth and begins to show us the things that has being freely given to us. we begin to eat and do the will of God and grow in his grace and favor.Joh 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. Joh 16:14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. Joh 16:15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 1Co_2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. After this stage, God begin to push us into a stage of pruning./purging..and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Purging is through FIRE called SUFFERING for doing the word, which most modern day believers hate. The Holy Spirit Will lead us into the Wilderness or Sufferings/temptation/crisis to be tempted of the devil.....Mat 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Heb_12:11 Now no chastening/crisis/suffering for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Jas 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 1Pe_1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 2Ti_2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: Rom_8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 2Co_4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; it is in this process we develop Godly Character and Christlikeness called the fruit of the Spirit...Jas 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience/Character or fruit of the Spirit. Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, PATIENCE/long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law