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Discovering Your Purpose
Discovering Your Purpose
WHAT IS PURPOSE?
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Purpose therefore in a more personal context can be defined, as, the original intent in
the mind of God, that prompted Him to create you.
CREATED FOR AND WITH A PURPOSE
TEXT GEN 1: 26
God created you with and for a purpose. There was a problem that God wanted
solved that prompted Him to create you!
The purpose for your existence was determined by God long before you were born
into this world. Jeremiah 1: 5, Rom 8: 29 30.
CALLED/SAVED FOR A PURPOSE
Rom 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them
that love God, to them who are called according to HIS PURPOSE
It is important for you to know that God created you to be a player and not a
spectator in the affairs of life.
Myles Munroe:
There are three groups of people that walk the face of the earth today:
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Only the manufacturer has the right to determine the purpose of his product, not the
customer nor the product itself. Any attempt to use a product in any way that is
different from the purpose for which is was created, is referred to, as, abuse of
purpose
You are Gods product. Therefore, He alone has the right to determine what your
purpose should be, not you or any other person. God has a manual for your life. It is
your responsible to find out what it says about you.
Luke 4: 17 (About Jesus)
And when He opened the book, He found the place where it was it written
You cannot talk about purpose without talking about vision, because, purpose gives
birth to vision.
God has a purpose for your life, and when it is revealed to you it becomes vision.
WHAT IS VISION?
Vision can be defined as, having an insight or revelation of Gods plan and
purpose for an individual or a nation.
When you have knowledge of Gods plan and purpose for your life, then you can say
that you have a vision for your existence. In other words, Vision means: to have an
understanding of your Creators intentions for creating you.
The variableness in Gods plans for our lives is not due to His inability to bring about
the fulfillment of His purpose for our lives with just one plan, but sometimes due to:
# . Nothing the devil does can stop the purposes of God. He always has a
back up plan.
i.e The Israelites journey to Canaan land.
WHAT IS TIME?
Time can be defined as a short interruption in eternity. A period that is allocated
to you, to fulfill what you were sent here to do.
Time is always given for the completion of purpose. Whenever time is used for things
that do not work towards the given purpose, it is wasted and the opportunity to reach
perfection is delayed or lost.
He who has time to burn will never give the world much light. Killing time
is not murder, its suicide. (Myles Munroe)
Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help
us to spend them as we should.
Psalms 90:12 (Living)
Key Points
Time starts when we are born, and ends when we die.
Eternity has neither beginning nor an end.
God, who is eternal, exists outside time.
God sees the end from the beginning and sets our course according to
His overall purposes.
God gives every purpose a time that allows it to reach perfection.
Time is always given for a purpose.
Time that is not used for its intended purpose is wasted and lost.
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and
took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the
wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto THE PLACE
of which God had told him.
Gen 22:1-3 (KJV)
JESUS:
Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and
Sidon. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts,
and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of
David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought
him, saying; Send her away; for she crieth after us.
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the
HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
Matt 15:21-24 (KJV)
EZEKIEL:
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this
roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. So I opened my mouth, and
he caused me to eat that roll. And he said unto me, Son of man, cause
thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then
did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. And he
said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and
speak with my words unto them. For THOU ART NOT SENT TO A
PEOPLE of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the
house of Israel;
Ezek 3:1-5 (KJV)
God will only draw to you, the people to whom you have been sent (i.e. Adam &
Eve). The sick, the diseased and the demon possessed all thronged around Jesus
everywhere he went, because of Acts 10v38:
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with
power: who went about doing good, and HEALING ALL THAT
WERE OPPRESSED OF THE DEVIL; for God was with him.
NB: Jesus was not moved to heal the daughter of the Canaanite woman,
because she was not from the house of Israel. He only responded to her on the
basis of her Persistence faith. (Matt 15:21-28)
is because you are not designed to do those things. You are not designed to do
everything, but something specific. Discover what it is and stick to it.
And the LORD God FORMED (designed) man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul.
Gen 2:7 (KJV)
After God designed you, He then put in you all the things - the ability, capability,
gifts, and talents - that you will need to get the job done. All these things are known
as your potentials.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils THE BREATH OF LIFE (potentials); and
man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7 (KJV)
For the gift (potentials) and calling (purpose) of God are without
repentance.
Romans 11:29 (KJV)
Your purpose is the reason why God has designed you the way you are. Dont try to
change it, but accept it and flow with it.
Your course of destiny will feel right will feel natural as you discover it.
People who have found their place in Gods plan are doing what is natural to
them.
4. Where do you bring forth fruit or produce good results?
You will need to sit and discover the area(s) where God has been using you the
most, or the nature of the lives he has been using you to touch.
A tree is known by its fruits Matt 12:33