Discovering Your Divine Calling Through Joseph's Journey

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "He is calling you to know him. That's the first part of your calling he is calling you to know him he is calling your voice he's calling you today he's calling you right now to know him he wants you to know him to be in relationship with him that's the first part of your calling that you need to know and that you need to walk in that you need to say yes to." [42:38] (22 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "A calling from God may be big and scary but he will always give us everything we need including his peace to be able to carry it out. We have a picture on the wall in our bedroom that that says this it says the will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you." [47:35] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "If God is saying hey I want you you know that he's calling you to follow him you know that he's calling you to to say yes to him surrender your life to him to invite him into your life if he's if you know that that's his call right now in your life don't wait another day don't live another day without him in your life trust me you won't want to once you finally say yes to him you're like why did i wait so long why did i try to live without him." [54:59] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "You may not be called to be the prime minister of a, you know, a country or, but wouldn't that be awesome if one of our young people here became president of the United States? That'd be pretty sweet. That'd be awesome. But likely you're not going to be called to something like that. You may be probably not going to be called to save your people from worldwide drought, but you are going to be called to things like this, to serve your church, to raise a godly family." [01:15:37] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "If you're still breathing, God wants to use you in some way to, to, to encourage somebody to build up the kingdom of God. Let me tell you really quickly, because I am way out of time, but let me tell you about my friend Bill Harris. Bill Harris was an amazing man of God. I met him at first at this church, and then he ended up moving out to Murrieta, part of our church that we planted out there. He died at like 94, 95 years old. But when he was on hospice care at his house, he's in there trying to lead the hospice nurses to Jesus." [01:17:06] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "Joseph he didn't know he didn't know what his dreams meant at first he didn't he didn't know how they were going to play out i know joseph did not say he got those two dreams and then he didn't tell his family well family i'm called to be the prime minister of egypt so i'm going to be taken off i'm going to head down to egypt because i'm going to go pursue that he had no idea that that's where it was going to land him he didn't know that that's what it was going to be carry out he focused on pursuing the general calling knowing god and living for god and obeying god and he made the most of every opportunity when a door opened up and god this is what you want me to do and he just walked through it he just lived for god but if he had neglected his general calling he never would have experienced his personal calling." [01:02:28] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "A calling from God may contradict our own plans but it will never contradict scripture okay so it's amazing though that even though that seems obvious you know like on the surface yeah of course god wouldn't do that but it can be so easy sometimes to give into a desire or give into a want or give to something in our life that that that doesn't match up with how the scripture tells us we're supposed to live doesn't match up with what god sent us we're the kind of people we're supposed to be but we fall into that and think oh but this is of course this is better for my life or this will help my family or this will help my career but a calling from god it may contradict our own plans sometimes you might think we're going to go this way and god says no i want you to go that way so it might contradict our plans but it will never contradict scripture." [47:35] (59 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "A calling from God may not make sense but it will often come with confirmation a lot of times god he confirms what he's asking us to do through through different situations um through other people i've had that in my life he'll confirm something through through other people and and um if you're unsure about a potential calling in your life right now just just ask god to make it clear he he he's not trying to make it difficult for you to figure out but here's what here's what here's what he does want i'll tell you what when when i was trying to figure out whether whether i should we should go plant a church or not you know as a youth pastor and it was a it was a good youth pastor job he's a big church and um it it was it was secure it was comfortable and it was thriving um and i was starting to feel like should we go plant a church um it i god didn't write it across the sky but that time of trying to of seeking god trying to say god is this your call is this your plan for me is this what you want our family to do before i was going to uproot my family and move out to another city from something that was secure." [49:09] (73 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "If you're trying to figure out your calling keep pursuing knowing god better and better and doing your best to live for him and guess what god's going to move in your heart and you're going to know what he wants you to do when i first started helping with the junior high group at this church i was just like the end of my senior year in high school um i had no idea it would be leading me into full-time ministry that was not on my radar whatsoever but at that time i was growing in the lord a lot you know i i was really just excited about living for jesus and trying my best to obey him in my life you know in my kind of small world at that time and i was just like i'm not going to do that i'm not going to begin this Armageddon i want to be good at everything i do i have to look at myself when i say that i'm mad i want to make my Little Hawaii Church um andentre in the Lord yeah that got the attention of my youth pastor and he asked me to join the junior high leadership team and i've told you the story before i you know what i told him i said as long as i never have to teach because i can't get up in front of people i did i told him i said i'll do as long as i don't have to teach." [01:03:56] (64 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "If God is calling you to do whatever it is, any of those things, or just a myriad of other things, if He's calling you to do it, then it's really important. It's really important. You might not think it's a big deal, but man, you want to just pursue that calling. You want to live in that calling, and you don't want to neglect that calling, because it's important to God. It needs to be important to us, because this can be important to His kingdom. The two most important days in your life is the day you're born and the day you find out why. So let me ask you today, have you found out why?" [01:15:37] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)