How do you know you’re called by God? Simply when, Christ takes hold of you, something special takes place! We learn to trust HIm as (17) he moves in and make His home in our hearts.
I guess though the hardest thing in all this is the ‘letting go’ —
Letting go of things that as we receive Christ into our hearts, are contrary to the things of the Spirit —
idle chatter
gossip
sexual promiscuity
swearing & inappropriate language
selfish motives
own status
Well, that is just a few. the key here in this chapter is in v18 — “To know how deep…. wide… long… high… is His love” ponder that for a moment – If Christ truly reigns in our heart, we learn to trust him by receiving more and more revelation everyday of His love for us!!!!
v19 Paul’s prayer is that we experience something of this great love, to know a real satisfying, rewarding awareness that life is complete!
V20, the consequence of this trust we are learning through His love poured into our hearts is together with Christ to do imeasurably more through his mighty power at work within us! Wow!
And finally, because of this your calling is confirmed, to do great things! — Remember to Pass it On!
Richie has been working with young people since 1992, in a variety of contexts, and in 2000 graduated from Moorlands College with a BA degree in Applied Theology/Youth & Community work with National accreditation (UK). Since then he has been involved in pioneering youth work as a Youth & Children’s worker in Berkshire, training and mentoring youth workers as a field work tutor for Centre for Youth Ministry, Oxford as well as engaging in local church work.
Richie first started out in radio in 2000 with a temporary license and a show on Hope FM in Bournemouth - since then he’s been involved in various project with radio including working with 16 - 25 year olds on a millennium volunteers project in 2002 and from 2006 to 2008 worked as a volunteer for Hospital Radio in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, presenting request shows, breakfast and a Sunday afternoon specialist show.
Richie moved to Ireland in the autumn of 2008 to work primarily for Spirit Radio Ireland in as the Operations Support Manager, as well as presenting a regular Saturday show and makes features and contributions to programming.
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