Episode 37

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19th Sep 2024

Your Vocation Is Not Your Identity

#37: You know how you go to a social gathering and you’re meeting someone you’ve never met before and they ask, “so what do you do?”

The general reply is that I am dot, dot, dot you fill in the blank. The thing is the person is asking us “what do you DO” and we respond, “I AM.”

It would seem that we wrap our identity in our vocation and rightly so I mean we spend the majority of our time at some type of work.

On this episode we are going to explore how we are not our vocation.

Let's go to the show.

Key Take-aways:

  • 2:05 - introduction to vocation
  • 3:45 - how vocation has been a chew toy for me
  • 5:45 - God is our source
  • 6:38 - serving God vs. serving people
  • 6:55 - being good at something doesn't mean you have to do it forever
  • 7:15 - an example of removing something I counted as a source in exchange for God as my source
  • 10:00 - God uses everything in our lives
  • 10:20 - when your vocation is taken away
  • 11:30 - being vs doing
  • 13:36 - wrap up

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Heavenly Position Guidance Challenge:

For this week’s Heavenly Position System Challenge, I’m going to challenge you to do the same. Take out your journal and find a quiet place if possible. Read Ephesians chapters 1 - 2 and then write down everything those chapters say that you are. There is no right or wrong here. I would challenge you to take 30 minutes for this exercise so you can marinate on what you are reading. Ask Holy Spirit to point out to you how God sees you in these verses.

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The summer of my senior year in high school, I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. As I approached my twenties, I was wondering what my purpose was and what I should be doing. As I entered my 30s, I felt as if God was calling me to entrepreneurship and started my own company.

After a few years of running my company, I started searching again for my purpose. I was working 7 days a week, 15-hours a day. I started questioning, "is this all there is?" I felt like I had missed the secret to life. Little did I know, I had.

After over a decade of running my company at the same pace and with two failed pregnancies, I hit my knees and begged God to help. I knew along the way I had left Him out of the equation of my life.

God did send me someone an amazing mentor who taught me how to operate my business by God's grace rather than my grind. In fact, I could operate every area of my life this way. One key was by co-partnering with God.

It was during this time I learned to tap in to the power of the Holy Spirit that resides in followers of Christ. This was the missing secret to life I had been searching for all those years. Now with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, I can experience His fruits, love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, faithfulness, goodness, patience and self-control.

God has called me to share my experience with others so they can tap in to this same resource in every area of life. Join me each week on Spirit Led Life as we explore tapping in to the power of the Holy Spirit residing in followers of Christ.