Hey, church family, welcome back to a special edition of Devo's. Again, we're walking through.

How do you know what God's call in your life is? We talked about preparing our hearts.

We're talking about conviction. We talked about character. Now, we want to talk about calling.

How do you know when God has called you and and who

does he call? You see, oftentimes you think God calls the best of the best of the best. Let me assure

you from personal experience and knowledge. It's the exact opposite. He doesn't, he doesn't wait

until we have our resume all together and then say,

oh, that's it. God doesn't draft like that. Actually, God drafts like the Jaguars. Every time you

look at the draft, they're like, what are we doing? Because if they ever won it all, you would be

like, that must be the Lord. Well, that's how God

drafts. I mean, look at us. Look at me. And so, I want to look at 1 Samuel 16, because this is the,

this is the calling of King David to what God has called him to do. It says this, and the Lord said

to Samuel, Samuel was the prophet. How long will you grieve over Saul since I have rejected him from being

king over Israel? Now, we talked yesterday about character. It was Saul's character that got him

rejected from God's place of appointing. You see, ultimately, the reason that God rejects Saul is because earlier, Saul rejects God.

Saul rejects God's law. Saul rejects God's prophets. Saul rejects God's priest. And Saul begins to do

whatever Saul wants to do. And ultimately, what God says is, okay, Saul, I am going to turn you over to yourself.

Romans chapter 1 would say, this is the wrath of God upon him. And so he says, I've rejected

Saul as the king of Israel. Fill your horn. He's telling Samuel this. God says, fill your horn with

oil and go, and I will send you to Jesse, the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself

a king among his sons. And Samuel said, how can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me. The Lord said,

take a heifer with you and say, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord and invite Jesse to the sacrifice.

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