Quiet Voices Devotional Series,

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by Dwight Copeland, P.A.VE. Writer

"Is Christ Calling You?"

A Simple Step in Salvation

The New Testament or New Covenant is the completion of God's redemptive work for mankind. God is calling you right now if you are reading this devotion. Maybe you stumbled upon this website and began to investigate the materials within the website. Maybe you are searching for a meaning or purpose to satisfy your personal desires. Either way, I believe the Holy Spirit has given you an appointment of time here and desires you to receive His calling.

Calling in the New Testament is primarily used by the Apostle Paul throughout his writings. Generally, he uses this term or phrase to bring the reader closer to God and through Jesus Christ provide the opportunity to accept or reject salvation. Paul preached extensively teaching and exhorting the gospel to the Gentiles and the Jews. His ministry was extensive proclaiming all that God had desired him to teach with great power.

The book of Genesis, the book of beginnings primarily recognized by the secular world as the book that talks about creation is God speaking. The creation order becoming a physical attribute that you and I see today testifies of God's existence. Our senses know that something beyond “chance” encircles us. More than a dozen times the verses of Genesis begin with “and God said”…………

Gen 1:3 And God said

Gen 1:6 And God said

If God spoke and the heavens were put in order and after 7 days he rested, then doesn't your heart speak to you that maybe we should listen for God's voice in our hearts and do those things which He tells us to do? God's first created physical attribute that He spoke into existence was “light”. God wants us to see His glory attributes, power, and manifested those attributes into His creation for all mankind to know.

God is light declares the bible!

Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

2Co 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Mat 17:1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart,

Mat 17:2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

God gave His only Son to mankind to fill the great divide of sin that occurred from the first Adam. Jesus Christ is the only way to God the Father. Jesus was the last sacrifice for your sins, a perfect lamb without blemish that died for you on the cross to satisfy the sin debt offering for all mankind. Jesus came into this world to bridge the gap between man and God. God clothed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with the skins of an animal, the first sacrifice to satisfy the sins they committed-blood had to be poured from God's creation.

Jesus offered himself with great humility and obedience to God the Father as the perfect blood sacrifice as a propitiation for our sins. We are justified in the sight of God through Jesus Christ and Him alone. Without Jesus, you are eternally dead in your sins and eternally separated from God. Jesus called His disciples and they listened without hesitation and followed Him for 3 1/2 years. Jesus calls you through the power of the Holy Spirit with a still small voice that you “hear” in your heart and conscience - a little voice that tells you that you're a sinner and you need Jesus in your life.

The simple call of Jesus is what you're hearing now if you are reading this devotional. Jesus wants you to give your sins to Him. If you confess with your mouth your sins, then Jesus is faithful to forgive you of your sins. No sin is too great for Jesus. Sin separates you from the gift of God for peace in your life, eternal hope in your life. Light of the world, Jesus Christ is calling you today.

The call is simple the response you give is simple. There is no need to do a ritual, to complete some sort of servitude, pay financially to someone to clean you of your debt, to scar your body, to sacrifice something to gain God's favor.

Simply, call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. If you desire to be a part of God's kingdom and have eternal life then pray this prayer:

Lord, I want to leave behind the sins of my life. I am calling on Jesus to forgive me of my sins and make me whole. I confess that I am a sinner in need of Jesus and that His sacrifice on the cross of Calvary is all that I need. His blood covers my sins and frees me from Satan's chains. Jesus, would you come into my heart, change my life, walk with me and guide me and be my Lord and Saviour. In Jesus' name I pray.

Friend, if you prayed this prayer from your heart, then the simple call of Jesus has saved your soul for all eternity. The Light of the world has come into your heart and is living in you right now. The Holy Spirit is now within you in super natural means to forever guide you in your walk with God. God loves you and wants you to be obedient to Him. You need to learn more of God by reading His Holy Bible, finding a church fellowship, and seeking the Lord daily. God desires you to know Him intimately. He has a whole new life in store for you.

Today is a glorious day; all the angels of heaven are rejoicing that YOU have come to know the Lord. That's right; all the angels of heaven have rejoiced that You are now a kingdom heir and a “friend” of God. You are a saint, yes a saint! You are a precious jewel to God and He desires your obedience to Him.

Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Joh 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Joh 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

dwightcopeland@purpleark.org