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An individual that is marked by God is “strikingly noticeable” and “has a visible mark.”
When others encounter someone that is marked, there is an immediate understanding that the marked person doesn’t conform to the rhythm of the world. They are unique and march to their own drum beat. Growing up, they often felt a need to be noticed for their individuality, colored outside the lines, and thought about everything in a unique out of the box way.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
Here are 22 signs that God has chosen you and marked you for a POWERFUL purpose:
1. God Uses Your Uniqueness in Ministry
When a marked person partners with God, together they make a POWERFUL combination. Because they are already so different, it makes it easier for God to use their specific qualities to make them shine even brighter.
God used the uniqueness of the characters in the Bible to minister:
- Esther’s unique beauty made her an option to marry the King and save the Jewish nation.
- David’s short stature and young age made him a perfect option to show God’s strength in defeating Goliath.
- Ruth’s loyalty to stay with her mother in law led her to a new land and she was able to meet her Boaz.
- Paul’s passion for God was expressed in killing Christians, but God encountered this fiery man and redeemed his unique gift to spread Christianity.
- Solomon’s wisdom was used to inspire so much of our biblical instructions!
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2. You Are An Ambassador
An ambassador of Christ, seeks to represent God in everything they do, say, and even what they wear or where they go.
You are the type that desires to be a walking advertisement or role model for the Kingdom. When a marked Christian becomes an ambassador of Christ they beautifully reflect the love, integrity, power, and righteousness of the Kingdom of Heaven.
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. John 17:14-15
3. You’re Prophetic
You hear God VERY clearly about your own life and the lives of the people around you. He trusts you with the private details of people’s lives because you have integrity, you love others, and you’re called to prayer. (FYI, you can hear God clearly through the wisdom in the scriptures.)
“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.” John 15:15
4. You’re Focused
Your main goal is to please God, not to gain the approval of the people around you. You love and honor others, but you try not to be a people-pleaser because God’s opinion matters the most to you.
“No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer.” 2 Timothy 2:4
“For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.” Galatians 1:10
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5. You’re Open to Correction
You are aware that only God knows the depth of wickedness that can be hidden within your heart. So, you constantly ask him to search it and make it a worthy space for the Holy Spirit to live.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” Jeremiah 17:9-10
6. You’re Repentant
When God reveals your heart, you don’t runaway from the pain and blame others for what’s inside of you. You allow your sins to be highlighted and you feel a deep sorrow (not condemnation) for disappointing God.
“For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.” 2 Corinthians 7:10
7. You’re Unique
You don’t conform to the wickedness, lukewarmness, and pride that the world tries to feed believers. Instead you display the love, integrity, forgiveness, power, and righteousness of God.
“So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.” 2 Timothy 2:22-26
8. Your Relationships Reflect Christ
You work very hard to have a holy marriage, healthy friendships, and love everyone around you. You aren’t putting on a show or living a double life. Instead, you are truly putting in the hard work to live at peace with your enemies. You strive to have healthy communication and you are esteemed by the people around you.
“Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.” 1 Peter 2:12
“In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 5:16
“Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4
“Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.” 1 Timothy 3:2-7
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9. You’re NOT Quarrelsome
You have a commanding voice when its time, but you also take careful effort to tame your tongue. You know that most battles aren’t won by the exchange of words, but they are won on your knees in praying.
“If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.” James 1:26
“Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” Ephesians 4:29
10. You Strive to Be Gentle
You are full of wisdom, truth, and power, but you know how to communicate with gentle-kindness, peace, and love.
“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.” James 3:17
11. You Are Wise
You are humble and understand that you don’t know everything and can’t fix everything in the natural realm. During hardships and obstacles, you get down on your knees and cry out to God for his revelation and help.
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” Matthew 7:24
“And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.” Daniel 12:3
12. You Are Called
You are excited about the opportunity to live a purposeFULL life.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11
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13. You have Purpose
You feeling a strong nudge to serve God in a specific way OR wherever you are.
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10.
14. You Trust God
Although situations become hard, you know that God is real. You fight to keep your faith alive and you are determined to wait on God to work it out for you.
“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.” John 16:13
15. You Are Filled
You don’t look to people to make you happy, feel loved, nor powerful. You see Jesus as the one to satisfy your heart.
“Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” John 7:38
16. You Have A Renewed Mind
You are being given wisdom that uproots false theologies, Gospel messages, idolatry, and/or fleshly belief systems that contradict the promises of God.
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2
17. You Have a Vulnerable Heart
You are okay with being weak and not having everything together.
“God’s power is made perfect in my weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:9-11
18. You Lean On God’s Strength
You recognize that weakness is okay and you aren’t afraid to wait for God to strengthen you.
“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:31
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19. You’re Submissive
You are constantly seeking God’s voice and direction. And, you’re aware that sometimes God does things completely different that you expected. However, you aren’t prideful and focused on getting your own way. You desire to follow him at all costs, and you are ok trusting God in hard situations because you know he’s faithful.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6
“Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.” Hebrews 13:17
20. You Don’t Complain
You practice gratitude and being thankful to God. You try not to complain and question God’s timing.
“Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world…” Philippians 2:15
21. You LOVE to Pray
You believe that prayer is powerful and it shifts the atmosphere. And, you have a strong desire to pray allow God to make wrong situations, right.
“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” James 5:16
22. You’re In Love with God
God is your top priority. You seek you honor, love, and praise him with everything you do.
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27
Awere-Opanyinyena Dorinda
Thank you for helping me know God is with me. Because I have realized all these, initially I thought God was not with me in life nor am been marked by him. By God’s grace, I am definitely been marked. Thanks to the writer for letting me realize all these.
Christina Daniels
Wow! Thanks for such a powerful comment. It’s really nice to know you were so bless 🙂
Kenneth Gray
Hello,
I am in desperate need to hear from God. I gave myself to God through Jesus 42+years ago. In that time all I have received is silence from God. I am miserable because of this. I can’t do what God wants when He won’t tell me what that is. The whole “God speaks in many ways” is crap. If God speaks to me through dreams then that is useless as I don’t remember dreams. I barely ever even realize that I dreamed let alone what it was about. God speaks through other people. Useless as God has isolated me from other Christians. Almost everyone for that matter. God speaks through the Bible. I have never heard anything from a Bible. Nothing jumps out when reading God’s word. So that doesn’t work. No guidance from God there. God speaks through nature. Have you ever heard anything from a tree, animal, rock? Of course not, these things can’t speak. That way is obviously useless. God speaks through your circumstances. My circumstances are, no involvement from God and life long poverty. What could that be saying other than God doesn’t give a shit about me. I know this sounds bad, but if God wants to speak to me then He needs to do so in a manner that I can perceive. Useless if I can’t perceive it. Not telling God what to do or say, just being straight forward, honest. Silence isn’t speaking. I so need/want to experience something from/of God. This nothingness from/of God is torture. I don’t know why God is stopping Himself from speaking with me. Only God can stop God. God just isn’t here for me.
Thanks and God bless you, by the Holy Spirit, in Jesus holy name, Amen.
Christina Daniels
I will be praying for you as I’ve felt the same way before. Then, God took me on a healing and intimacy journey. Be blessed.
Wynne
Hi Kenneth Gray,
I ready your article and it was very honest and heartfelt. I can tell that you have a deep sincere desire to hear from God, but over the years you have been frustrated because of His silence. However, the silence does not mean that He is not hearing you. He knows your name and where you live. He knows your frustration and disappointments. He knows your inner most cry and all of your strengths and weakness. The silence means that He is still with you and has never left you. After Moses killed the Egyptian, he fled to a place called Midian and ended up creating a new life by becoming a shepherd, getting married and having children. For forty long years, Moses did not hear anything from God! He just worked and provided for his family. I am sure that Moses definitely felt alone and forsaken by God too (after all, Moses knew that he was called to God’s people prior to killing the Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew. He felt the call to his people, the Hebrews, even while living as an Egyptian after being discovered in a basket by Pharoah’s daughter as she was bathing the river. She raised Moses as her own child and taught Moses the ways and culture of the Egyptians.
By the time God finally spoke to Moses at the burning bush, Moses was 80 years old!!! Did Moses at sometimes believe that God did not call him after all? Yes, I’m sure he had his doubts. Did he think that God forgot about him after spending 40 years living in Midian? Absolutely. However, God did not forget Moses even though He was silent, and God has not forgotten, my friend. Even though you may not hear Him, He is there listening to your pain, frustrations and complaints. He is still watching over you (even though you may not believe) because you are still here — living and breathing the God-given air. Looking at nature and know that your Creator lives. He created this world in 6 days and on the 7th day He rested from all His work. Instead of complaining, start praising God in the midst of your circumstances. Ask Him to remove the doubt, anxiety and pain. Ask Him to open up your heart and speak to you and He will.
You are blessed because you are still here with a mouth to speak, eyes to see and ears to hear. I believe the Lord is speaking to you right now even in the silence. Remember that He does not always speak in the big and the miraculous but sometimes in a still small voice just as He did with Elijah while he was in the cave.
I pray that you will draw near to God so that He can draw near to you. Tell Him everything. He is not angry with you for how you feel because He knows that you are human and also, you are not the first or the last who feel that God does not speak to them. I have been in that place countless times, but I realize that I was really mad at God for no giving me what I want:-) I would say mean things to Him but like a child, I would run back to Him to say I’m sorry with repentance, sobbing and snotting all over the place. I knew that He loved me even though I could not see, hear or touch Him. I just trusted with the little mustard seed faith that I had. Sure, there were times that I doubted His love and even ran away from His love because I wanted to do things my own way; but I paid a price for that!
Please be encourage and remain hopeful in His love. He loves you with an everlasting love. He will never leave you nor forsake you. He is God and you are not alone.
Mandy
Jesus said his sheep hear his voice. You probably need to really repent and turn from your sin and be saved….then be filled with The Holy Spirit. 42 years is a long time not to hear God. It is not on his end, it’s on yours. I say this in love to help you. Cuz God has always been there for me even in my wrong he helped get me out… And I have heard from him and even felt him A LOT.
Christ Follower
This is such an unkind and spiritually immature response to someone who is showing up vulnerable and sharing from their heart. This truly breaks my heart.
Christ Follower
Praying you can hear from God in the most beautiful way. He speaks to us through so many ways and it’s almost always exactly how we need to hear from Him as an individual. He knit us together so He knows everything about us. He loves you so much friend. I’m so sorry this has been a long and quiet journey.
Melissa christian
I really needed this because I’m in love love with God.. and I know he loves me more than men…
Christina Daniels
Amen! Be blessed!
Hauwa Andrew
I really appreciate this
May God bless the writer
Christina Daniels
Amen! Thank you so much and I’m happy it blessed you 🙂
Sarah
I am marked as well
“God’s power is made perfect in my weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:9-11
And all of the above is me 🙂
Christina
Amen! May God continue to abundantly lavish his love and favor on your life 🙂
OLADEJO Adunola Victoria
How can I know God more
Christina Daniels
Hello! Thanks for inquiring. Here are some steps to know God more: https://www.adornedheart.com/steps-to-know-god-intimately-verses/
Maureen
Also waiting to hear from my daddy God
Christina Daniels
Praying for you!
Joy
Thank You for this inspiring word.
It’s true sometimes we don’t hear from God not that He has moved away but because we have.
I learned in order to hear from God, I had to repent and surrender my all. Everything I couldn’t fix and didn’t understand. I had to trust God completely and it’s not easy. There was times I didn’t want to pray but I had to pray until I prayed. I didn’t want to read my bible because all I could think of was my situation. I had to make a conscious decision to trust God completely and to honor Him and please Him. I realised that what I was going through, was preparation for someone else. I am so excited even though I am still going through my valley. But I’m much better now knowing God has a purpose…and that’s why we are here. To serve others as Christ did. Obedience to God is important and perseverance builds character.
My encouragement to you is don’t lose hope! Faith is trusting where we cannot see. He only has good things in store for you and I. Keep pushing no matter how hard it may be. God is faithful !!!
Remember it’s not the outcome of the situation but Gods promise.
Be blessed.
Christina Daniels
Amen!