A Higher Calling: Moving Forward in Your Walk with God

By Shannon Fitzgerald Thomas

“If anyone would come after me let him deny himself, take up the cross, and follow me.” (MATTHEW 16:24)

There is a path that God has set for your life––a path that will allow you to be shaped and fashioned unto the measure of the statue of the fullness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13). It is up to you alone to decide to turn from your previous path, take up the cross, and walk with Him.

Elder Shannon Fitzgerald Thomas used to lean on his own understanding and seek the pleasures of the physical world. But then God illuminated his true purpose: to share the good news and spread the gospel to all His people. God made his purpose clear and guided him from his former life of sin and showed him into the way of His light. He now presses toward the mark for the High Calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:14).

You too have a path set before you; you can walk with Christ and live in truth and goodness. In A Higher Calling: Moving Forward in Your Walk With God, Elder Shannon Fitzgerald Thomas reveals the guidance God has instilled in him to share with the world so that all of God’s children might once again hear His voice and continue their walk with Him.

He is waiting for you; follow Him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781620237090

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Higher
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Moving Forward in Your Walk with God

Elder Shannon Fitzgerald Thomas

A Higher Calling: Moving Forward in Your Walk with God

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: From Darkness to Light

Chapter 2: Receiving the Spirit

Chapter 3: Hearing His Voice

Chapter 4: A Call to Obedience

Chapter 5: Cleaning out the Closet

Chapter 6: A Call to Service

Chapter 7: Personal Instructions

Chapter 8: A Call to Service

Conclusion: A Higher Calling

Foreword

As we walk this Christian life following the Savior and His teaching, we sometimes tend to come into a strange area when we think that we have reached as far as we can on this side of salvation. But I have come to the understanding that there is a higher calling.

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:14)

There is a place in Christ Jesus that only one who presses can enter into. New Testament Christians are not mediocre Christians—they are a humble powerhouse; not in word only, but in a living way.

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled! (Matthew 5:6)

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my parents for the example of life and love they set for me.

I would like to thank my beloved wife for praying with me and supporting me.

I would also like to thank my children—Dave, Ginelle, Carlos, and John—for being