Your purpose is what you've found that is worth living for and worth dying for.
Dying on the cross was not Jesus' purpose but a gateway to fulfilling His purpose.
There are some life experiences we need to go through in fulfilling purpose and you can't pray yourself out of it.
The life we live is a journey and there are many stops. Some stops are good in themselves but are not relevant to our journey.
In life's journey, there will be a period of anonymity, period of training, period of labour, period of adversity and period of reigning.
Your journey is personal, your training is essential, your mission is sacrosanct and you fulfilment is tied to carrying out your purpose in life.
There is a stage in life that, for you to be fulfilled in life, you need guidance.
To know your mission, ask yourself these questions. 1. What do I love 2. What am I good at 3. What the world needs 4. What can be paid for
When your passion and profession aligns, you have some level of satisfaction but with feelings of limitation.
When your profession and vocation aligns, it becomes fun to you.
To enjoy fulfillment in life, work should become play to you.
When your passion and mission align, you are full of delight but filled with a bit of no resources.
Fulfillment comes when your passion aligns with your mission,vocation and profession
Sometimes those processes might not be palatable, but:
1. Always have the end in mind. Hebrews 12:2 2. Focus on the gain not the pain. John 16:21 3. Be accountable. John 10:17-18 (how you use your time, resources an talent) 4. Take your life's mission very serious.
May you not miss out of life, your life shall carry weight in Jesus name.
We appreciate God's servant for delivering aptly God's word to us on Life's journey. We revive fresh grace and enablement for you in Jesus name.
God is always willing and able to do beyond our imagination.
God can move us from scarcity level to surplus for He is a God of more than enough
Scarcity: deficient in quantity, not easily come by.
- When it is intentionally absent.
Surplus: amount that remain when needs is satisfied.
Procedures to follow from moving from scarcity to surplus. 1. Identify your real asset
- You are never left with nothing.
- When you have Jesus, you have the real asset.
- Money may no b enough, but God can move in a way beyond our imagination whether we have or not.
- Know that it is not everyone that will b willing to assist you.
- When we do not have a way put, God always have way.
If there are no challenges, there won't be victory
Whatever challenge you might be facing, God knows you have the capacity to face it.
Solutions.
1. Seek wise Counsel
- To overcome challenges, you need to b rightly advised. 1Chronicles 15:12-13
There is a need to consult God to find out what the word of the Lord says about the challenge you are facing. Proverbs 11:14, 15:22, 24:6, 13:10, 2Chronicles 8:18
We don't have answers to every problem so we should always seek wise counsel from people.
2. Unbroken Focus
Nehemiah 6:13, Hebrews 12:12
If you don't give the devil the opportunity, he will never succeed in distracting you.
When you suffer injustice, leave the justice to God.
Areas to experience victory in your life. 1. Victory over sin 2. Living above self 3. Victory over sickness
How victorious Christian living manifests.
1. Through your desires.
- For God's presence: Psalm 24:4, Colossians 3:1-2, Hebrews 11:6, Matthew 6:19-21
- The farther you move away from sin, the closer you move and seek the presence of God.
- A growing desire for God's presence
is an expression of your love for Him.
- Our pronounced desires will decide if we are standing or falling in God. James 1:15
2. Joy.
- Romans 14:17. Not influenced by situation or circumstance but innate and expressed through the Holy Spirit. 1John 1:1-4
- Joy is so important