{"id":13114,"date":"2026-07-19T19:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/?page_id=13114"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:57:31","slug":"answering-the-call-monday-july-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/answering-the-call-monday-july-20-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering The Call &#8211; Monday, July 20, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Also\u00a0I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,\u00a0Whom\u00a0shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I,\u00a0Here\u00a0am I; send me \u2013 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Isaiah 6:8<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As if led onto a stage\u00a0<br \/>Then, given a single page.\u00a0<br \/>Assigned a role to act\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Without time to react.\u00a0<br \/>To\u00a0make it recognized\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>That\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0incapable,\u00a0unqualified.\u00a0<br \/>Yet the Director tells me\u00a0<br \/>He knows of my reality.<br \/>Which\u00a0won\u2019t\u00a0hinder\u00a0<br \/>His power, as my Sender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The opening poem reflected my trepidation and disbelief when given the task of composing songs. I protested by reminding God of my deficiencies: that I was marginally acquainted with playing a keyboard, and that my voice merited the classification of merely carrying a tune. However, my protest was met with the response: <em>God did not request Moses to be a great speaker; He requested Moses&#8217; obedience to allow Him to use Moses&#8217; voice in a great way.<\/em> Thus, I was called to demonstrate God&#8217;s willingness to use anyone, at any level, who is willing to answer His call.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the remainder of this week, I will share excerpts that began years earlier under the canopy: &#8220;<strong>Works of Grace<\/strong>.&#8221; Hopefully, my willingness to expose my beginnings will encourage you to answer the call God has given you, no matter how inept you perceive yourself to be.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also\u00a0I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,\u00a0Whom\u00a0shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I,\u00a0Here\u00a0am I; send me \u2013 Isaiah 6:8\u00a0 As if led onto a stage\u00a0Then, given a single page.\u00a0Assigned a role to act\u00a0\u00a0Without time to react.\u00a0To\u00a0make it recognized\u00a0\u00a0That\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0incapable,\u00a0unqualified.\u00a0Yet the Director tells me\u00a0He knows of my reality.Which\u00a0won\u2019t\u00a0hinder\u00a0His power, as my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/answering-the-call-monday-july-20-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Answering The Call &#8211; Monday, July 20, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13114","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13118,"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13114\/revisions\/13118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2beencouraged.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}