Predestined. I was bought with a price and didn't know it. Jeremiah 1:5 says "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born; I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations." All I did was be born, and all hell broke loose. I never understoodwhy I was to endure so much from birth, through childhood, in adulthood, and even now in ministry. It is the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23)
Many are called, but few are chosen. All I know is favor isn't fair and the anointing is not free. I had many opportunities to give up and at times I thought I had, but God anointed me to hold on, although I'm still unsure of the end result. Why God? Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord Delieverth him out of them all (Psalms 34:19). I didn't know that I was created for conflict, formed for the fight, and built for battle.