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Welcome, friend! I’m so glad you’re here!

Shalene Roberts
Faith

God Qualifies the Called

Somewhere she sits … the woman who needs to hear this. These words that speak of a deeper truth, words that whisper of the spark that may one day fan into a flame, words that speak to a longing she can no longer neglect.

Maybe she’s you. Maybe she’s your best friend. Maybe she’s your sister. Whoever she is, wherever she is, there is a woman who needs to hear this. God doesn’t call the qualified; he qualifies the called.

He called a shepherd boy to slay a giant. He called a stuttering man to command freedom for His people. He called a prisoner to interpret dreams, a young girl to save her race, a virgin to deliver His son.

And friend … He’s calling you too. But if you’re anything like me, you keep questioning the call because you feel unqualified.

I get it, but please hear me. He doesn’t need your qualifications. He just needs your heart. In fact, it’s your disqualifications that will bring the most glory to His name, because in the end you’ll be able to say it was all by His power.

So what are you waiting to do? What urging has gripped you and won’t let go? What has the Spirit placed upon your heart with a weight that cannot be measured?

Whatever it is … if He has called you to it, He will qualify you for it.

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Thirteen years to 3 weeks has give by in the blink of an eye. 

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Nothing prepares you for that.

He took a breath. The weight of an entire lifetime spent in red dirt hinging on this moment. He set his face like flint to that pitcher. The ball left the glove, and he swung. 

Strike one. 

He stepped away. Reset. Tapped the base. Then set himself once more. He swung, hit a line drive and sprinted headlong towards the base, setting his foot atop it just a fraction of a second after the first baseman caught the ball.

The final out. 

Nearly 15 years of our lives ended beneath stormy skies on that Dallas baseball field tonight. We’ve spent every spring since he was old enough to hit a ball sitting along a baseline. And it all came to a final conclusion in one out.

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