Psalm 139:15-16
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
16 All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
1. God had all of your days written out before you were born.
You are not a mistake going somewhere to happen. You haven’t been placed on earth by chance.
Where and when you were born, the parents God gave you (irrespective of the circumstances of your birth), your personality, and everything else about you was ORCHESTRATED by God for a SPECIFIC PURPOSE.
Jeremiah 1:5 NCV
“Before I made you in your mother's womb, I chose you. Before you were born, I set you apart for a special work. I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Made: (formed, shaped) reflects the basic meaning of molding something to a desired shape as a result of God's "planning" or "preordaining" according to His divine purpose.
Galatians 1:15 AMP
“But when He, Who had chosen and set me apart [even] before I was born and had called me by His grace (His undeserved favor and blessing), saw fit and was pleased.”
2. God choose you and set you apart.
It means He had many options at the time you were conceived and having considered who will be fit for the assignment, CHOOSE YOU!
He also set you apart; meaning that you may be good at many things but there is something SPECIFIC you were released into this earth for. That’s the reason the purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind or even your happiness.
3. You were born BY His purpose and FOR His purpose.
Revelation 4:11
“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”
It is therefore, pertinent that to understand the BIG picture; we begin our investigation with God our Creator, else life will never make sense.
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Sadly, since many don’t know what God has ordained for their lives and His plan. How can we ever expect to build God’s kingdom if we don’t know our part?
You may have journeyed through these years doing everything you’ve dreamed about without a clue of what He has in mind for your existence.
This realization that the LORD has a SPECIFIC and UNIQUE plan for you is a great place to start. However, you can’t assume that God’s will is automatically going to come to pass in your life. It won’t!
It is clear from scriptures that God desires everyone saved, however, we know not everyone gets there.
You are responsible for seeking and discovering God’s will and plan for your life.
Jeremiah 29:12-13 MSG
12 "When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen.
13 "When you come looking for me, you'll find me. "Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else.
Notice the emphasis ‘wanting it more than anything else’.
As long as you can live without knowing God’s plan for your life, you will.
The good news is that the LORD wants you to know His will for your life more than you want to know it.
I remember an experience I had many years ago, I had gone to a mountain to pray and seek the face of God concerning His plan for my life. The LORD then said to me, “I am more interested in you doing my will than you are. All I require of you is to say YES.”
4. Life is about letting God use you for His purposes, not the other way round.
Many people try to use God for their own self-actualization, but that is a reversal of nature and it is doomed to fail.
Most people speculate about their life’s purpose as they self-evaluate when they could actually receive revelation from God Who formed us with an intention by asking Him.
God has not left us in the dark to wonder and guess. He has revealed His purpose for our lives in the Bible.
It is our Owner’s Manual, explaining what life is about, why we are alive, how we are to function and relate with His creation. However, you're to search it out.
Ephesians 1:11 NCV
“In Christ we were chosen to be God's people, because from the very beginning God had decided this in keeping with his plan. And he is the One who makes everything agree with what he decides and wants.”
5. You will not fulfill God’s plan for your life accidentally.
It takes effort to accomplish God’s will after you have received a revelation of God’s will and are pursuing same.
Colossians 1:16 MSG
“For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels — everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him.”
I urge you to make sure you are doing what the LORD created you to do.
Ephesians 5:17 TLB
“Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to find out and do whatever the Lord wants you to.”
6. What is your motive?
Ecclesiastes 4:4 TLB
“Then I observed that the basic motive for success is the driving force of envy and jealousy! But this, too, is foolishness, chasing the wind.”
Understanding what the LORD wants will purify your motive, simplify your life and keep you at peace.
Everything apart from functioning in the light of your purpose has a decay index and lacks continuity.
In fact, nothing else can renew, refresh, revitalize, empower and sustain you as the pursuit of that which has eternal value.
2 Corinthians 4:18 Weymouth
“while we look not at things seen, but things unseen; for things seen are temporary, but things unseen are eternal.”
7. The eternal is that which predates your existence and is contained in the mind of God concerning you.
Hebrews 10:5-9 RSV
5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings thou hast not desired, but a body hast thou prepared for me;
6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings thou hast taken no pleasure.
7 Then I said, 'Lo, I have come to do thy will, O God,' as it is written of me in the roll of the book."
8 When he said above, "Thou hast neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law),
9 then he added, "Lo, I have come to do thy will." He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.
While it is great to know what He’s called you to do, you must do it according to His plan.
Function in the body He has prepared for you, i.e. within the context and space He has provided you. One mistake people often make in seeking God's purpose is that they assume whatever they're good at in the natural must be what God wants them to do. So, if they're naturally good at public speaking, they figure God must have called them to a speaking ministry of some sort.
I don't believe this is always true.
1 Corinthians 1:26-29
26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, [are called.]
27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise,
28 and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,
29 that no flesh should glory in His presence.
8. Everyone’s work will be rewarded
1 Corinthians 3:12-15 NIV
12 If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,
13 his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work.
14 If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward.
15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
It would be a shame to come to the end of our lives and not have a sense of knowing we accomplished what the LORD created us to do, yet this happens everyday.
Make your life count and give your all to do what you’re here to do in advancing the Kingdom of God. One thing is pertinent, we will all receive our rewards for how we played our part.
2 Timothy 4:7-8 NKJV
7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
A story is told of a retiring missionary coming home from Africa on the same boat as a very important person in government. Cheering crowds, with all the pomp and pageantry welcomed this diplomat, but the missionary slipped off the boat unnoticed. Feeling self-pity and resentment he began complaining to God. Then God gently reminded him, “But my child, you’re not home yet.”
We have attempted to cover three basic issues in life.
The first is identity: who am I?
The second is importance: do I matter?
The third is impact: what is my place in life?
I pray the Lord reveals His will to you and how to accomplish it in a greater way than He ever has before.
Together, as each of us does what He instructs us to do, we will make a big difference in this world.
Do you feel dissatisfied or unsettled with your life? Are you tired of just going to work, coming home, watching television, going to bed, then getting up and doing it all over again? If so, it may be God who has placed a holy dissatisfaction within you in hopes of provoking you to start seeking out His perfect will. Don't wait another day to begin the search for God's will in your life.
Go ahead and talk to the LORD, YOUR LORD AND MASTER.
Ask Him to show you where you fit into His plan as you rededicate your life to His cause.
Thank you LORD Jesus!
You're loved and celebrated!
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