Hey, church family. Welcome to our final installment of this special episode of DeVos where we've been walking through.

What does it look like to be called of God if God is beckoning you to join his rescue team in a specific way?

Again, every believer has been called to the Great Commission.

And I'm hoping and praying that through our church and through the power of the Holy Spirit

in this saturated event, maybe some of you heard God's specific call to go to the mission field,

full-time, long-term,

vocational missions to take the gospel, to plant churches, to people that have never heard

the name of Jesus. And I hope every single one of us have considered and reconsidered what it

looks like in your specific calling. If you haven't been called to go, we all are called to go,

if you haven't been called to stay, that how will we play a role in sending people in being

sent ourselves? Again, whether it's to your school, in your neighborhood, at home. And so we talked

about, we talked about the condition of the heart. We've talked about conviction coming from seeing God

and His glory. We talked about characters to sustain you. We talked about calling. That sometimes

there's a gap between the calling and the placing. So today I want to talk about response.

So what do you do with that? If God is calling you, are you ready to take a step of faith in the direction of Jesus'

beckoning in your life?

Matthew chapter 14, one of my favorite accounts of anything that happened in Scripture.

I've taught it over and over. I think I've

done a divo on it, but we're going to come back to it because it's so clear. Matthew chapter 14,

verse 22, it says immediately he being Jesus, made the disciples get into the boat and go before him

to the other side while he dismissed the crowds. The crowds that all showed shown up. He was teaching.

He had compassion on them. He fed 5,000 people. That'll bring a big crowd. And now Jesus

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