The Calling

I’m calling…

I’m calling your name…

I’m calling you out…

I have called you out.

It is time to come out.

It is time to stand out.

It is time to take up your position.

Why is it that you feel so out of position?

For it is time for you to take up your position.

I see you standing in the throne room, wearing your prison rags, bruised and battered.

Hear what it is that I am saying to you…

“The time of your testing is over”

You have been testing the water, testing the boundaries, testing the limits, yet now I have pushed you over the edge.

In the place without limit, in the place without boundary, what is the point of the test?

For the one who owns the country apportions the land, defines the boundary.

The one with absolute power has no limit, possesses no limit, yet defines the limit for others.

I have a question for you?

”Where will you draw the line?”

Imagine this, a vast sealed land, with no road, no path defined. Where would you draw the line, the lines, the path?

For I know that you love to join the dots, to connect things in ways never done before.

There you sat with an acknowledged industry veteran, who asked for your view, your considered judgement upon his work, upon his concept.

For a moment, you wondered how this could be, then you wondered what it is you would say…

Then you could hear your words flow, as though you were an observer, listening to two experts sharing their knowledge on a difficult topic.

You were taken aback, for I have taken you back, I have pushed you forward, I have called you, I have called you to come out, I have invited you to a new position.

You marvelled at the words you spoke, for it was so easy for you to speak on this subject, to share your experiences, your unique experiences.

Yet what was the subject? In his words “a regular issue, something I have observed over my career that no-one has addressed before”

Why was this such a surprise to you?

You wonder at the path you have walked. You for the first time in a long time question the path you are on.

Yet is this not your answer?

Is this not sufficient validation for you?

Is this not your calling?

Is this not a new thing, an old thing made new.

You know the plans I have for you.

For the time is coming and is here now, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh.

For these words echo in your ears “Who are you, and what are you doing here?”

For I have made you for such a time as this, I have crafted each step to bring you to this point.

For your experience defines you, and yet it is now time for you to define the experience of others.

For you know what it is like to break the limit, to break things, to deal with all that is broken.

Isaiah 61:1-4 THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor, and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the physical and spiritual captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord the year of His favorand the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, To grant consolation and joy to those who mourn in Zion—to give them an ornament (a garland or diadem) of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment expressive of praise instead of a heavy, burdened, and failing spirit—that they may be called oaks of righteousness lofty, strong, and magnificent, distinguished for uprightness, justice, and right standing with God, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified. And they shall rebuild the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former desolations and renew the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.

For you are my way maker, through you I will define the path.

You stand there, once again on the brink, upon the edge.

For the raging torrent flows, it stands between you and the promise.

And yet, and yet it is I that stands between, I stand in your between.

It is I that will stand in your between.

I’ll stand in for you, I will be your substitute.

I will do your relief, I’ll be on duty for you.

For you shall draw the path, draw many to the path, redefine their path, outline the path, lead the path, literally show them the path, take them for a walk down the path.

For you shall lead them forward, for there is no turning back.

Even the enemy shall advance and then wish they had turned back, wish that they could turn back, yet their way is pre-determined.

For you cannot be defeated, you cannot be limited, there is no limit to your step, for where you step is a new limit, a new boundary, the place of expansion.

For did I not say I will expand your territory?

For that which you stand upon is so small, and yet will soon become so large.

For that which you stand upon, the platform upon which you stand shall expand.

For what was spoken in private between us, shall soon be public, for the word has gone out.

The word has been extended to them.

The word shall expand and encompass and define them.

They shall be defined by your words.