The Calling

“Many are called, but few are chosen.” — SCRIPTURE“I’m here for a reason, I wasn’t sent for nothin’.” — NIPSEY HUSSLE“I’m supposed to be here.” — KENDRICK LAMAR“God gives the toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.” — DMX

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION OF A MAN’S LIFE

There comes a moment — quiet, inconvenient, unexpected — when God asks a man one question:

“Are you ready?”

Not:

“Are you qualified?”

“Are you perfect?”

“Are you confident?”

“Are you successful?”

Just:

“Are you ready to be who I’ve been preparing you to be?”

That question is the moment when every chapter before this one suddenly connects:

Everything you:

• survived
• learned
• lost
• rebuilt
• struggled through
• healed from
• sacrificed for

…was training for your assignment.

Nothing was random.
Nothing was wasted.
Nothing was meaningless.

Your life was development disguised as difficulty.

THE CALLING IS NEVER ABOUT COMFORT

When God calls you, He does not call you to the easy thing. He calls you to the necessary thing.

He calls you to:

• lead
• build
• protect
• uplift
• correct
• serve
• multiply

The calling is not about applause — it’s about responsibility. It’s not about fame — it’s about purpose. It’s not about validation — it’s about obedience.

As Nipsey said:

“I’m here for a reason, I wasn’t sent for nothin’.”

Your calling isn’t an idea — it’s a requirement.

THE CALLING MAKES SENSE OF THE STRUGGLE

Once you step into your calling, something powerful happens: You realize nothing in your life was wasted.

The hood hardened you so leadership wouldn’t scare you.

The Eclipse broke you so God could rebuild you.

The hunger shaped you so purpose wouldn’t overwhelm you.

The discipline stretched you so success wouldn’t crush you.

The pain taught you empathy.

The struggle taught you strength.

The journey taught you wisdom.

Kendrick said it best:
“I’m supposed to be here.”

Your calling is the moment your past finally thanks you for surviving it.

THE SHIFT FROM “WHY ME?” TO “WHY NOT ME?”

At first, a calling feels impossible.

You ask:

Why me?

Who am I to build?

Who am I to change lives?

Who am I to lead anybody?

But here’s the truth:
Everyone God ever used felt unqualified in the beginning.

Moses stuttered.

David was overlooked.

Gideon was hiding.

Paul was a problem before he was a preacher.

God doesn’t call the equipped — He equips the called.

DMX reminded us:
“God gives the toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.”

Your story is not your shame.
Your story is your strategy.

THE CALLING ALWAYS INVOLVES PEOPLE

Your purpose is not about you.

It is about:

• the people assigned to you
• the community connected to you
• the souls that resonate with your journey
• the lives that grow because you decided to rise

When God elevates you,
He elevates everyone you are meant to bless.

Your calling becomes the bridge between:
your transformation → their transformation.

Your voice matters.
Your leadership matters.
Your platform is not accidental.

THE CALLING IS THE MOMENT YOU STOP HIDING

Most men never walk into their calling because they are hiding:

Hiding behind:

• fear
• trauma
• insecurity
• excuses
• survival mode
• old identities
• voices of people who never built anything

But here’s the truth:
The day you stop hiding is the day God stops whispering and starts revealing.

Calling requires exposure.
Exposure requires courage.
Courage requires faith.

You are not stepping into something new —
you are stepping into something true.

THE CALLING PUTS YOU IN POSITION

Once you accept your calling:

• Your voice becomes clearer
• Your decisions sharper
• Your vision bigger
• Your purpose louder
• Your circle smaller
• Your impact greater

You become:

• the person your childhood self prayed for
• the leader your community needed
• the man your village believed in
• the example your generation never had
• the blueprint

No resume required.
No permission needed.
No apology necessary.

When God chooses you, the door opens.

There are moments in every calling where God sends confirmation long before destiny becomes visible.

For me, the first whisper came as a child. I couldn’t explain it, I couldn’t describe it, and I couldn’t defend it, but I felt something in my spirit that I never told anyone out loud:

One day, I would help young people see the life they were meant to live before the world told them who they weren’t.
Not just with advice… but with a blueprint.

I didn’t have language for it back then.
I didn’t know what a blueprint was.
I couldn’t articulate “purpose” or “assignment.”

But I knew — the same way a seed knows it’s a tree long before anyone sees branches.

And later in life, God confirmed what my childhood spirit already sensed through people He strategically placed around me.

There was Sister Walters — near the end of her life, tired in body but sharp in spirit. She pulled me aside with urgency, as if Heaven gave her a deadline. She looked me in the eyes and insisted there was something God wanted from me. She didn’t tell me what to do; she told me who I already was. She spoke with the authority of someone who wanted no confusion in her final days, as if God gave her one more assignment:

“Don’t forget who you are. Don’t leave here without building what God put in you.”

And then there was Sister Ammons — my protector, my interpreter, the one who didn’t just see my potential but understood the size of the assignment. She gave me language I didn’t yet have. She reminded me of Proverbs 18:16:

“A man’s gift maketh room for him, and leadeth him before great men.”

That verse didn’t sound like encouragement — it sounded like instruction.
It sounded like a roadmap.
It sounded like God saying:

“Your gift is bigger than survival. Struggle is temporary. Room will be made for you.”

I didn’t know it then, but God was surrounding me with witnesses — people whose job was to protect my identity until I could protect it myself.

I didn’t know it then, but my story was already pulling me toward the young men and young women who never got the blueprint early enough.

I didn’t know it then, but everything I would later build — LD247, The Orderly Millionaire, Highly Favored, the digital mentorship platform, the youth portal — would become the same assignment expressed from different angles.

Leadership.

Blueprint.

Visibility.

Identity.

Purpose.

Community.

Restoration.

Different platforms, same calling.

None of this was random.
None of this was coincidence.
None of this was luck.

God was preparing me before I even had vocabulary for what He was preparing me to do.

Sis Walters carried confirmation.
Sis Ammons carried protection.
Scripture carried instruction.

And my childhood intuition carried identity — long before the world tried to rewrite it.

This is how calling works.

God always speaks to a child before the child can describe it.
God always sends protectors before destiny develops voice.
God always places one or two people who look directly at you and say:

“You are not small. You were never meant to be small.”

And when destiny finally arrives, it does not introduce anything new.

Destiny simply reveals what God planted in you the day you were born.

Reflection

CLOSING OF CHAPTER 14

This is where your story and your assignment collide. The calling is where:

your pain becomes power

your purpose becomes platform

your identity becomes influence

Once you understand why you’re here,
you realize the next chapter is not random…

It is opportunity — the place where faith meets execution,
and destiny meets design.