He Has You

Child of God, the Lord has prepared for you all that you need to live a powerful, supernatural spiritual life, given to you freely by the Holy Spirit. You don’t ever have to strive for it, but only wait for it, in a place where the Holy Spirit is welcomed.

Only God can help you become who He intended you to be. “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10 ESV).

The Holy Spirit gives each one of the spiritual gifts we need to serve the Lord. Next, the Holy Spirit appoints us to the position we are to have in our service to God. Finally, the Holy Spirit gives us our assignments, the work that God has purposed for us to do.

We see God’s plan for our spiritual lives in the Word of God with the spiritual gifts, appointments, and assignments:

1. There are diversities of [spiritual] gifts, but the same [Holy] Spirit.
2. There are differences of ministries [spiritual appointments], but the same Lord.
3. And there are diversities of activities [spiritual assignments], but it is the same God who works all in all.

(1 Corinthians 12:4-6 NKJV)

The best orchestra has a diversity of instruments with a unity of purpose.

God has purposed for you to accomplish those spiritual assignments that were known from before time began. He knew what He would call you to do, and He knew everything you would need to accomplish His purposes through you.

Never settle for anything less than the life God has meant for you to live. The Lord told Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5 NKJV).

The spiritual gifts come first so that you can learn to walk in them in humility. Until you can realize the gift is not for you but to be through you, the gift will not be given. And unless you remain humble in the gift, then the gift will not remain.

It doesn’t matter how big your calling is, but only that you do it. “As each one has received some spiritual gift, he should use it to serve others, like good managers of God’s many-sided grace” (1 Peter 4:10 CJB).

Once your spiritual gifts have manifested in your life, it will be then that the Holy Spirit can appoint you to the position you will hold as you serve the Lord. This position is never to make you higher over others, but to draw you higher to walk in the purposes of God.

You can live higher than you do if you’d only let God help you. “For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13 AMP).

And once you have your spiritual gifts and are walking in your spiritual appointment, it will be there that the Lord will begin to give you your spiritual assignments. The uniqueness of the diversities in gifts, appointments, and assignments is endless.

Your ministry is wherever you are, to whomever God has placed in front of you. “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us…” (2 Corinthians 5:20 NKJV).

Nothing in your life is by accident. Everything in your life is for your good so long as you love the Lord. God uses your circumstances to prepare you for your calling, and then in your calling, He will place you in just the right circumstances.

Don’t only ask God to change your circumstances, but to have your circumstances change you. “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28 NKJV).

Every difficult thing you have gone through is the preparation for what He will ask you to accomplish in the future. Your spiritual assignment requires that you be spiritually prepared, and that means you will have to be broken in the natural things of life.

The Lord is more interested in changing the man than his circumstances. “After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace [who imparts His blessing and favor], who called you to His own eternal glory in Christ, will Himself complete, confirm, strengthen, and establish you [making you what you ought to be]” (1 Peter 5:10 AMP).

Never assume anything about how the Lord will operate, for surely His ways are always higher than our ways. Your spiritual gifts may vary as you might need them. Your spiritual appointment may cross lines or expand or contract, and only the Lord may know why. Assignments will be added, changed, or removed in ways that often do not make any sense to you whatsoever.

God’s purposes for you won’t always make sense to you so long as you’re trying to understand them from your own perspective. “‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts’” (Isaiah 55:8-9 NKJV).

We sometimes wonder what spiritual assignments are ahead of us, but we often miss those assignments staring us right in the face. And if you fail in an assignment, do not worry, for He is gracious and will help you learn from your mistakes before the next assignment.

Sometimes God puts us in a circumstance so that we can minister to other people who are there too. “And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison… But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them” (Acts 16:23,25 NKJV).

Your assignments will often be relevant to the appointment God has given you. If you are appointed to be a teacher, then many of your assignments will be various ways of teaching God’s children. You are blessed if you know the appointment that comes from God.

If you don’t know your calling, then just serve alongside somebody who does. “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear” (Hebrews 12:28 NKJV).

Just as your spiritual gifts are of His choosing, and your spiritual appointment is up to the Lord, so it will be with your spiritual assignments. You may like what the Lord assigns you to do, and you may not, but if He called you to do it, then you must do it.

Stop letting the devil divert you from doing what God has called you to do. The devil will put in your head to wait for God’s green light. When the devil puts up a red light, it’s okay to run it. “Put on the full armor of God [for His precepts are like the splendid armor of a heavily-armed soldier], so that you may be able to [successfully] stand up against all the schemes and the strategies and the deceits of the devil” (Ephesians 6:11 AMP).

The success of our assignments is not measured on the scales of man but by the measure in which we did what God put before us. The results don’t have to be seen to prove success, but only the fact that we were in His will tells us it was a success on heaven’s terms.

The success of your ministry is not measured by the applause of others but by a smile from God. “God’s kingdom does not consist of what a person eats or drinks. Rather, God’s kingdom consists of God’s approval and peace, as well as the joy that the Holy Spirit gives. The person who serves Christ with this in mind is pleasing to God and respected by people. So let’s pursue those things which bring peace and which are good for each other” (Romans 14:17-19 GW).

If you don’t know your spiritual gifts, appointment, or assignments, just ask the Lord to show you. The fields to harvest are many, and the workers are few, and He wants you to be one of His workers. When you’re on God’s payroll, the paychecks flow for eternity.

What you pour out on earth, you’re pouring into all of eternity. “For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done” (Matthew 16:27 ESV).

Blessings to you always,

Paul Balius