You Are Chosen!

1 Peter 2:9


⁹ But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Because you are blood washed you are as chosen as the children of Israel. Make definite in your hear that you are chosen. What does it mean to be chosen? It means to be selected out of all the numbers of possibilities. God chose you to stand in the gap in your family. He chose you to pray things through. Don't look down on your family. Be glad you are chosen. You may have to go through more hell because but it is an honor to be chosen. He will put no more than you can bare. Have you wondered why certain people didn't make the basketball team? They didn't have what it took to make the team. Others don't have what you have to make it.

Matt 22:14

¹⁴ “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Called - having the ability.

Chosen - you answered the call.

A lot of people don't have the maturity to answer the call. You have the grace to handle what you are going through. They need to get off your glory if they don't know your story.

Luke 6:12-13

¹² Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. ¹³ And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles:

Jesus called many but chose 12. Be glad you have what God is looking for. We are not just called, we are chosen even if we are still working things out.

1 Cor 1:27
²⁷ But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty;

God chose us because we are weak. We are chosen because we fall into the foolish (i.e bad credit but you still qualified for the car, you smoked, did drugs, fornicated).

Joel 3:10


¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords
      And your pruning hooks into spears;
      Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’”

David had 5 stones (1 Sam 17:40 - 57). Even though you are weak you are still chosen. You may not have any education but you still believe God for that job. You have never preached before but still believe God to impact the world one day. Your child has ADHD but you still believe that your child will be the best student. Your child may be in special education classes but you will believe he will do well on the ACT. We will lean on Jesus even if no one else will support us. Keep grinding until you shine.

Eph 1:3-4


³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴ just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

You are not hear because of you. God chose you before the foundations of the world (Jer 1:5) Your ancestors were praying for you. You may not know what your last name means but you can write your destiny.

John 15:16

¹⁶ You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

 He chose me and ordained me so that what I get I keep it. You have not because you ask not (James 4:2).

John 15:18-19


¹⁸ “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

If the world hates you Jesus was 1st 1st. If you are liked a lot it's because you are part of the world and you are not different.

Luke 6:26


²⁶ Woe to you when all men speak well of you,
For so did their fathers to the false prophets.

People should be talking bad about you. Stop thinking haters hate you because of you. It's the favor on you. If they are mad now wait until a few years from now. Be thankful you don't look like what you are going through.

Psalm 89:3

³ “I have made a covenant with My chosen,
         I have sworn to My servant David: 

A covenant is an agreement that can only be broken by death, sealed by blood. If God is everlasting and He can't die and the covenant  can only be broken by death, as long as you live God will be with you.