{"id":127025,"date":"2025-10-06T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=127025"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:12:46","slug":"how-do-you-know-if-god-is-calling-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=127025","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Know If God Is Calling You?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"5171556b-cf76-496a-be4d-998b86e0c77e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph box\"><em>This week, the blog post is sponsored by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sbts.edu\/?utm_medium=display&amp;utm_source=challies&amp;utm_campaign=mdiv_awareness&amp;utm_term=blog\">Southern Seminary<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boycecollege.com\/\">Boyce College<\/a>, written by R. Albert Mohler, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"56b36fd4-8a20-46cf-b6eb-a1e994cd702d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">Has God called you to ministry? Though all Christians are called to serve the cause of Christ, God calls certain persons to serve the Church as pastors and other ministers. Writing to young Timothy, the Apostle Paul confirmed that if a man aspires to be a pastor, \u201cit is a fine work he aspires to do\u201d (1 Tim 3:1, NASB). Likewise, it is a high honor to be called of God into the ministry of the Church.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Internal Call<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"8c39165e-420e-4a04-8cca-ce31ec4d4108\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, there is an inward call. Through His Spirit, God speaks to those persons He has called to serve as pastors and ministers of His Church. The great Reformer Martin Luther described this inward call as \u201cGod\u2019s voice heard by faith.\u201d Those whom God has called know this call by a sense of leading, purpose, and growing commitment.&nbsp; Charles Spurgeon identified the first sign of God\u2019s call to the ministry as \u201can intense, all-absorbing desire for the work.\u201d Those called by God sense a growing compulsion to preach and teach the Word, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you know if God is calling you to ministry?<br \/>\nIn this article, Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. explains how to discern God\u2019s call\u2014through both an inward drawing and the confirming voice of the church.<br \/>\nMinistry is a high and holy calling. Could God be calling you? #SponsoredSee AlsoWho Will Your High School Student Be On The Other Side of College?In a Changing World, Our Commitment to Truth Remains UnchangedThe 10 Questions Anyone Considering a Call to Ministry Must Answer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":127037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[950],"class_list":["post-127025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-sponsored","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Challies_Am-I-Called_1920-x-1080-scaled-2-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127038,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127025\/revisions\/127038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}