Be A World-Changer: Overview

When God created you He embedded within you a deep desire for purpose. Intuitively, you sense that He put you on earth for a reason. Deep down you recognize there’s something you’re supposed to do, some assignment you’re meant to complete. You know in your soul that God created you for a purpose that is unique to you. This is your unique calling – a ministry assignment that He designed and equipped you to fulfill.

The Great Adventure of the Christian life is to know, pursue, and complete your calling. It separates you from living a life that is random and haphazard, and a life that is focused and purpose-driven. It is the difference between being a “Wind Chaser” and a “World Changer.”

The diagram below summarizes the components of your calling. God has given you a gift to give to others so that some divine outcome occurs. He gave you one or more spiritual gifts to invest in a group of people or social issue that is near and dear to your heart. Moreover, God has given you a mental picture of how things will be different regarding your audience because of your ministry.

Our world is broken, and is generally is getting worse, not better. Poverty. Homelessness. Starvation. Unsanitary water. Divorce. Poor parenting. Divided churches. Uninspired leadership. Inequities abound. Corruption runs rampant. Children can’t read. AIDS in Africa is a pandemic. Half of the world’s population lives on less than two dollars per day.  Nearly 20% or 1 billion people in the world live on a dollar a day.

Yet, despite the obstacles, good things are happening in the world. Churches are reaching out to the poor. New houses are being built for those in need. Food is being distributed to the hungry. Unsanitary water is being made pure through technology. Marriages and families are growing stronger. Leadership is being strengthened. Corruption is being challenged. Children are learning to read. The gospel is being shared in places where the Name of Jesus Christ is unknown or unwelcome.

What is it that God has placed on your heart as the outcome for your Audience. In other words, What difference do you long to make with your one and only life? Consider your answers to the questions below:

Consider the positives:

• What change for the better do you yearn to take place?
• What impact on the world do you want to leave behind?
• What do you want to see improved because you walked this earth?
• What is the “one thing” God assigned you to help fix?
• What causes you to say, “The world would be better if only …?”

Contemplate the negatives:

• What moves you to tears?
• What’s wrong that needs to be made right?
• What unmet needs must be met?
• What problems must be solved?
• What causes you to say, “Someone should do something?”

In every generation God searches for those who love Him with all their hearts. He strengthens those who are fully devoted followers. This truth is captured in 2 Chronicles 16:9a. “For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him …”

Not only does He strengthen His followers; He identifies those ready to take on special assignments on His behalf. “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap …” (Ezekiel 22:30a).

God is looking for “stand in the gap” people. Somewhere in this big mess of a world there’s a wrong that must be made right; an issue that must be resolved; a truth that must be spread; or a need that must be met.

God has an assignment for you – a task based on your unique design. And God has equipped you for this job through your abilities, spiritual gifts, temperament, and life experiences. But most of all, your assignment is directly related to the audience God has laid on your heart.

What is it that lights a fire underneath you? What ember burns within you that only needs a little gust of wind to explode into a raging fire? Pray. Listen. Reflect. And move out!

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