With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility . . .: The Call

WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT Responsibility…

The Call

Michael Ebri

Copyright © 2011 by Michael Ebri.

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

CHAPTER 1 The Call

CHAPTER 2 Who Is the Elect?

CHAPTER 3 Why Would God Choose You?

CHAPTER 4 Knowing and Answering the Call

CHAPTER 5 Living the Call

CHAPTER 6 The Reward

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to all strongmen and women of God.

They are the anointed of the LORD God Almighty.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This is the visible message from the Living God committed to writing. The message concerns the responsibility and power given to men and women on earth. We acknowledge the courage of those who passed through the tough times set before them by God to accept or answer the call. We acknowledge the Holy Ghost, who, despite the flaws of the author, ensured the completion of this book.

Acknowledgement is given to the intercessors who gave themselves no rest, pleading where necessary and asking where necessary for the LORD to write this book. They are Joel Aidelokhai and Grace Isioma Ngbeken, who were assigned to the work by the LORD, and the evidence of this book is only a part of their proven service of God to mankind.

Pastor Isaac Tsughum of the Makurdi Christian Centre, Pastor Kunle Omotoso of the Redeemed Christian Church of God—the presence of God in their pastoral work upon this author is acknowledged. Also acknowledged is the awesome presence of God in Pastor E. A. Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, worldwide. The holiness of God in Rick Joyner and his works in God are acknowledged.

INSIGHT

When you are in competition because you want to create,

you will not do well; but when you have to create because it is given to you

to create, you will do well.

(The Call)

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

Purpose defines direction of a person: what is to be done and what is made done make the world of a person, and reveals his source of existence. The authorship of life remains endlessly indescribable

and infinitely unsearchable. His authorship of life satisfies His continuing depth of pleasure that is His will for every single creation. The will of God is infinitely, infinitely His existence.

Man, a part of His existence, is made to live and serve Him. His existence is the relationship with man where the purpose of God formed in man defines the existence of the man. It is the call.

The call is the purpose of God in man for the revelation of God and for the revelation of the character of God. Ye are gods indeed—living the character of God. It is the great responsibility upon those separated unto the life of God. It is the great power of God given to man—the separated of God to do the good will of God on earth. Everyone separated unto this will is a mould of the power and responsibility from God for mankind.

Some people have lived in ignorance so long, not living consistent with their mould of character from God. Such people have left their field of existence fallow. Who would plough this field? It has been so far a most difficult thing for many persons ordained as vessels of God by God for His service on earth to know and answer the call in which failure would then have to be the judgement of God to reward; it is dreadfully unpleasant to receive that reward in failure.

Some people fear to answer the call because they fear to lose out of the world’s thrill, living their own way from being called of God. There are those who undertake in the call but start off way too early in the call or way too late, so they appear to be failing and get discouraged.

This book serves as a manual to the responsibilities in the call in some details and the revelations of the mind of God for the call in some other details. It is given to enable you take your place in God for the inhabitants of earth. With fervent desire, God wants us to remain focused and that some may rise from their pitfalls and fulfill their place in Him while the time is on earth.

Michael Ebri

CHAPTER 1

The Call

Powers make powers. To make powers means to result other powers. The great desires of God in His Omnipotence Make powers. Whether these are powers intrinsic to a call or the perverse powers, God makes them from Himself. Every power has responsibilities. These responsibilities assume peculiar powers. The power in call is the sensitive revelation of God made strong in a man by God, to cause mankind and existence come under his wholesome influence; it is the responsibility of the person with the call to exercise.

(The Great Responsibility)

Every child of God that is anointed, and with the call into the vineyard of God, will have a unique encounter in acknowledging that call unto God’s work and responsibilities.

The vineyard of God is the earth. The call by God of any person into His vineyard is the call into sonship and service in God on the earth.

In the Holy Bible, Song of Solomon: 2: 1–3, God says : ‘I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.’

This is a call to a relationship—a relationship that is holy, divine, eternal, and rewarding. A call into a holy relationship because God is holy and without sin. The holiness of God would beget wrath upon iniquity. God is not going to keep a relationship with anybody who is not holy. The individual cannot come to God in sin, and that would be why God must give the person to Jesus Christ for washing of sins, by the soul-sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. God would then begin a relationship with that individual.

That relationship would be divine, because the Holy Spirit, who is the spirit of God, will help the person to work the will of God, as will be permitted through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The relationship would be eternal because Jesus Christ had redeemed the person by His eternal soul-sacrifice at Golgotha.

The Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible says about Golgotha: ‘The origin (AD 185–253) refers to a tradition that Christ was crucified where Adams was buried and where his skull was found’. The redemption work for man by Jesus Christ, on this ground, put a seal to the testament that the price for the redemption of man from the hold of Satan has taken a complete process that is indeed finished.

So then, the relationship would be rewarding, because Jesus Christ shall acknowledge the person before God the Father in the kind of mutual work that individual may have had on the earth with Him, in the Holy Spirit. That is, this reward will pertain to what the individual did with his calling in Jesus Christ. We should now understand that the Holy Trinity is involved in this call bestowed upon a vessel.

At any point of the pleasure of God, He designs a responsibility that will reveal a dimension of His power to a person whom He will cause to come to the earth or who is already on the earth to fulfill. God gives the person to Jesus Christ for salvation, and Jesus Christ gives the person to the Holy Spirit for ‘watering and feeding’. This is a process.

A person, therefore, with the call of God is a chosen vessel unto God to work a particular purpose in Him. That purpose is what we regard in this book as the call. The call is the power of God to establish His pleasures in the earth as it is in heaven.

The person must involve the three persons in God—God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and Holy Ghost—in the execution of that call at any milestone of the call.

Some persons have tended to leave out one of these persons of the council of God either because of ignorance or because of sheer stubbornness of will; Holy Spirit is ignored and left way off journey; but you don’t leave Him anywhere. You leave Him inside of you. You leave Him in manifestations of your call. You don’t go anywhere in the call without Him. To turn aside from Him is to refuse the call.

There are two kinds of call peculiar with God’s calling: the general and the specific call. The general is the one presented to all by Jesus Christ. The specific is the call by God the Father through Jesus Christ of an individual unto an assignment. The later call is the delight of this book. A call has a span. That is the length of time it should last. This will also determine the length of days the person with the call may last on earth. This may be confined by God to be within a month, a day, a year, or years for execution. The vessel with the call will have a right to live on earth before the manifestation of the call and, sometimes, after the call has been accomplished. We shall see why this is so.

We sometimes do not hear or understand at all that God has placed a call upon our lives or has called us for that specific assignment in Him. We just live on. We wonder who we are in God. We, therefore, grope for the call when we feel we have an inkling of what God wants us to do, not being sure. We grope like one in the dark, looking for a valuable and being sure that valuable is within our confines. We grope for the call like one who had perceived fresh water from somewhere and becomes desperate to find that water because he is thirsty, very thirsty. So he sets out, stumbling, falling, and rising, yet to search for the fresh water.

The question is, why then would God allow us to grope for the call, if we are vessels with the call? Why not we just get started into the call? There are admissible reasons. There are negative as well as positive reasons. Some of these reasons are presented—some here and some way into the book. Some of these reasons you can discern from the very scriptures are there. The invaluable truth of the call has demanded for the scriptures being written out as they are from their extract. You have the task to know the truth.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things he was troubled, and All Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet, And thou Bethlehem, in the land Juda, art thou not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come forth a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. Then Herod when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that