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:

  1. Esther’s unique beauty made her an option to marry the King and save the Jewish nation.
  2. David’s short stature and young age made him a perfect option to show God’s strength in defeating Goliath.
  3. Ruth’s loyalty to stay with her mother in law lead her to a new land and she was able to meet her Boaz.
  4. Paul’s passion for God was expressed in killing Christians, but God encountered this fiery man and redeemed his unique gift to spread Christianity.
  5. Solomon’s wisdom was used to inspire so much of our biblical instructions!

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2. You Are An Ambassador

When a marked Christian becomes an ambassador of Christ they beautifully reflect the love, integrity, power, and righteousness of the Kingdom of Heaven. You become a walking advertisement or role model for the Kingdom.

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.

“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 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 know 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, 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, but 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 you know 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. When it’s time 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

“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

“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

“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. You are ok with 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

“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

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James 5:16

22. You’re In Love with God

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