This Is the Day: Finding Your Calling for Christ - Devotional

By Jaimee Wolfard

Several years ago, God began to speak to me in moments of silence where I was seeking His voice and through dreams. I needed to know what His plan was for my life because it felt like I was running in circles and hitting roadblocks. Life was tough, and it didn't seem like all the things I was doing for God and the church were helping make my path become clearer.

During a debilitating fight with cancer, I was at my weakest, and I still heard Him speaking to me. God never leaves us and is always wooing us to the call He has for us. During the editing process of this book, I was attacked two more times with different cancers. First, I was diagnosed with kidney cancer and had to have part of my kidney removed. Then, during my recovery, after having an annual mammogram, I was told that I had breast cancer again and had to have a double mastectomy. These diagnoses have not deterred me because I know that God gave me "this day" as a stepping stone toward my "that day," and I will be obedient. Each new day is a step deeper into what He has for me. The devil seems to be trying to delay or stop this message from getting out, but all it has done is reiterated that through my storms and suffering God gets the glory! I have learned that in my weakness He shines more to those around me as I give Him honor for every blessing and continue to praise Him even through my sorrows. My faith grows because I know that as long as I am living, He is not done with me. It starts with saying, "This is the day I will begin to follow Christ with all of me no matter what comes my way." Over the past sixteen years, during my search for His calling, God has used dreams, people, and His still small voice to guide me through the process of writing this devotional.

This book was written as God gave me revelation to the steps in finding my calling. I like to have things told to me straight and to the point. I feel God has given it to me in easy-to-understand, with-no-fluff guidelines. He knows what we need. I have heard from people of all ages desperate to have God give them an audible direction for their calling. We have to be in a place to hear Him, and I have outlined some of those for you.

I had to walk through this devotional for my life to be able to finish it for you. Each chapter was another step for me to follow so I could see His direction clearly. There is a prayer for you and reflection questions with journaling space for your notes at the end of each section to help guide you on your journey with Christ. God has changed my heart, and I hope that you find your calling as you begin your "This day."

"He has saved us and called us to a holy life--not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace" (2 Timothy 1:9 NIV).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886165999

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This Is the Day

Finding Your Calling for Christ - Devotional

Jaimee Wolfard

Copyright © 2023 by Jaimee Wolfard

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Prologue

Today, I listened. Today, I made a choice. Today is a new beginning.

Have you ever had a dream? Not just a dream while in REM sleep but a dream for your future? Let’s go one step deeper.

Have you ever had a dream of God’s future for you? A passion so evident that when spoken of you feel a tightening inside your chest, you well up with tears, and you find it so overwhelming you have to stop talking about it because you feel it is too much for you? Have you ever come to the conclusion that you aren’t good enough to accomplish your dream? Have you ever said This is a great idea. I will help someone do this if it is brought up because there is no way I could lead it. There is no way I have time? Well, you are not alone. My dreams began over fifteen years ago.

Let me start by introducing myself. I am simply a wife, a mother, a teacher, a worship team member, and a caregiver. I know there are so many more hats that I wear, but this gives you the main idea of what I do on a daily basis. There are so many things that I attend to in order to keep things running smoothly in every avenue of my life.

Unfortunately, many times, something suffers. See, I am not perfect, nor am I a superwoman. I get weary, disappointed, complacent, sad as well as all those opposites: energetic, joyful, proud, and longing for the next step. This is where I am at in my life. I had become so weary in doing well, sad with where I was in my complacency that I decided to make a change. I was tired of the mundane. I began to long for the next step, for something more. That desire is what led me to begin this journey.

Many years ago, God came to me in a dream, and I saw a moment of my life that had shadows of people. The faces were missing from bodies, but there were crowds of people. I could see myself on a stage with a microphone. I didn’t know what it meant, but I just prayed about it. A few years later, I had the exact same dream again. I quickly began praying and asking God to show me what it meant and who the people were on the stage with me. He wasn’t answering, so I stopped praying about it. I felt it was too big of a dream for me to conquer on my own, and I felt as if God wasn’t responding. I mean, really, there wasn’t much to go on; no audible voice, no prophet sent with a message at those times—so I shelved it. That’s a term I teach my students: to shelve it for later. It means to take those thoughts that are pressing on your mind and imagine that you are placing them on a shelf until you are ready to readdress the issue.

So I did. Many seasons of my life passed, and God allowed me to have this same dream again. Nothing new; no changes. Why? If I don’t know the next step, how am I supposed to take it? That was all I continued to ask.

Isn’t that what we all want? We want the steps planned out and clearly given to us so we can easily just do it. Just do it—that was the issue. I didn’t feel like I could do anything, and I felt completely unprepared for what I thought I was supposed to