Merge
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Getting ready to preach to our students tonight at Merge. I did this last year during the month of January and had a blast. I thoroughly enjoy preaching to our teenagers. They are fun, authentic, and many are ready to make an impact for the kingdom. I am speaking at a Kaleo event at Ouachita Baptist at the end of February which triggered my interest in “calling.” So my series for our teenagers is entitled “The Called: Join the Movement” borrowing the subtitle from Alvin Reid’s book by the same title. We are the called. Revelation 17:14 says “These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful” (NASB). I heard one well known preacher say once that he has doubted his salvation but never his call to preach. I may not go that far, but I do know that His call upon my life has been a sustaining force for direction, perseverance, and hope. His call is a call to salvation, sanctification, service, and steadfastness. God does not have a volunteer army. All His soldiers are drafted, called, chosen. God called me as a young boy to salvation and captured my heart in sanctification especially in the teen and early college years and I have never been the same and never have looked back. While my path has been more crooked than I wished, there has been a path that God has ordered and ordained. I pray that these teenagers will know the call of God and do great things for our Great God. Until next time. . .Wes
