Stay faithful to fulfilling your calling:   
- - If developments or circumstances beyond your control have caused you to leave or be removed from ministry functioning that God has called you to do, be aware that your calling to ministry from God is not cancelled by God even though you have gone through a rough time and your ministry functioning has ended.  
- - Your calling to ministry from God remains valid and active for the remainder of your life, unless you have disqualified yourself in some manner (see verse 27 in 1 Corinthians 9:22-27).
- - " ...Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us" (from Hebrews 12:1).
- - In the account described in John 21:1-17 after the crucifixion of Jesus, Peter and some of his fellow disciples had returned to their previous occupation of fishing (verses 1-3).
- - Jesus appeared to them and essentially said to Peter, "Peter, what are you doing out here - returning to your former occupation of fishing?  I called you out of that secular occupation and into ministry, so why are you abandoning that calling just because you encountered some setbacks in your ministry functioning?  If you truly love me, you will stay faithful to fulfilling the calling that I have on you - even when the going gets tough" (from verses 15-17).
- - If your are no longer able to secure or afford the same kind of ministry work that you were previously doing, then God may want you to shift to a slightly different kind of ministry work, but nevertheless your calling is still in effect.
- - Find some way to resume and continue doing ministry work, in obedience to God's calling on you.

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Works Cited:
Bible. “The Holy Bible: New International Version.” The Bible Library CD-ROM. Oklahoma City, OK: Ellis Enterprises, 1988.
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