Activate God’s Purpose

“I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not for the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all.” -Ecclesiastes 9:11 (KJV) God’s Divine Purpose does not require you to chase after fame, stages, platforms, limelight and greatness. It is not entertainment! God’s Divine Purpose in you is already great and will make a way for you, one that you cannot even begin to imagine. Understand this, stay focused on God, give Him your attention. Allow Him to teach, groom and school you, so that you are fully ready and properly prepared, for when divine time, chance and opportunity show up in your life!

“For you created my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know that full well. 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; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” -Psalm 139:13-14 Who do you say you are? Who do people say that you are? What name have you called yourself? What name do people know you by? There is the name you have called yourself by and there are the names people have given you, but more importantly, what name does God call you by? What name has He given to just you? Find out.

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.” -Isaiah 43:2 Where was God, when the storms of life lashed out their vicious waves against you? Where was He when you lost your loved one(s), when you lost your job, when trauma hit, when you were violated and abused? Where was He when you meticulously planned your life and then suddenly, it all completely fell apart? Should we remain bitter, angry, lashing out at others because of our own pain and agony, or is there power to heal us to do good and not pay evil for evil? Is it possible to transcend our suffering, pain and agony, to cry our tears, and still do good to and for our world? Can our tears of agony, bring peace, patience, joy and love? Cry, weep, but don’t remain in the dark, paralyzing trap of pain, anger and bitterness. Rise to the occasion and heal, and as you do so, shine God’s light, love and peace to others, that they too, can experience healing, Allow your tears to spread love, not pain. Allow your tears to build, not damage.

How does one describe divine purpose that will not settle for less and how it yearns only for God it’s Creator? With what words does one even begin to use to explain what it is like when one discovers that divine purpose lies within him or her, and not in man-made ideologies, intellect, philosophies, traditions. Divine purpose does not lie in human wisdom; it was not created by human thought or hands, but by the Creator, God, of Heaven and Earth. Divine purpose yields to God and not to man or the things of this world. You have to experience God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit to discover, embrace and function, in divine purpose. Nothing else will do because it will not settle for less. You, are chosen. You were built with, and you carry, divine purpose. You will not find it out, it’s within you and it craves to give God glory, to bless you and to make you a blessing to others. Stop fighting it. It will not settle for less. God has a hope and a divine plan and agenda for you. Divine purpose knows why it’s here, do you know why you are here?

Did you know that God has a future and a hope for each and every one of us? He is sure about that hope and knows how to bring it to pass. He knows how to make it happen. But do we want God’s hope for our lives or are we looking in other places for hope of a better life? Waiting for God is not the easiest thing to do but when you do, you challenge God and you shake Heaven. The results are beyond your imagination. Be encouraged. Wait on God. Put all your hope, faith and trust in Him. Give Him no rest. He will not disappoint. He will not put you to shame. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” - Jeremiah 29:11 There is a future for you, a bright one. “Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.” Proverbs 23:18 Just be strong and wait for God. “Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!” Psalm 31:24. Shake Heaven by putting your hope exclusively on God. Give Heaven no rest with your hope until God answers you. Be unyielding, resist giving up, use hope as a weapon to make your dreams come true!

Who are we? Why are we here? What have we become? Who should we be? What have done to our world? We need help, fast! If we want to understand who we truly are, if we want to know God, we need the Holy Spirit. “For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:11. The Holy Spirit of God, Who knows God, wants to help us in every situation with Divine Help. He wants to divinely teach, guide, instruct and protect us. Our world is in trouble. We are overwhelmed. We have lost control, and we need God, whether we like to admit that or not. Listen, it is the Holy Spirit Who made us and God’s Almighty breath in us, but yet we resist The Holy Spirit. “The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of The Almighty gives me life.” Job 33:4. He created us and gave us breath, it stands to reason then, that He knows us and He knows better than we ever will, and, that He knows how to help us. But yet we resist Him! Our natural and carnal nature, the lusts of our flesh, the pride of life, the pleasures we seek and delve into overtake us and dull our spiritual understanding. “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14. We need help. Real help. Not man-made help. Our world is beyond that now. We are past that. We need potent, powerful help. We need God. We need the Holy Spirit. Just take a look around you. Let’s stop resisting the Holy Spirit and let’s seek His Divine Assistance. He is real! “Then he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.” Zechariah 4:6. We can continue to resist as our world deteriorates and sinks and crumbles, or, we can ask the Holy Spirit for help. We still have a window to ask. Let’s do so before it becomes far too late for us, collectively and individually.

Many of us have been deceived by what the Bible calls, “ravenous wolves”. Many lives have been destroyed by the appetites of these wolves who claim that they are sent by God, yet God clearly tells us, “And the LORD said to me: The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds”. Jeremiah 14:14. But the dangerous misconception here is that we use their ravenous appetites that have devoured our souls as a good reason to turn away from God, to deny God, to claim that He does not exist and to declare that there is no need to follow Jesus. That, is a dangerous misconception. We are lying to ourselves. “Jesus said to him, “ I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.” John 14:6. These ravenous wolves exist and they lie and mislead and destroy many, while using God’s name, when God did not send them. “They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, “Declares the LORD,” when the LORD has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word” Ezekiel 13:6. Let me make it clear that NOT ALL prophets are false, ravenous wolves, but sadly there are many of them roving the world looking for who they can devour next. We need to protect ourselves. The best way to do is by surrendering and yielding to the Spirit of Truth. God’s Spirit, the Holy Spirit. The same Spirit that filled Jesus and kept Him. We need to be vigilant, have insight, and be discerning. Only the Holy Spirit can help us discern these wolves. Only He can empower us. That same Spirit that helped Jesus. “And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, and the Spirit of Knowledge and the fear of the LORD.” Isaiah 11-2. We cannot allow these wolves to determine our belief or unbelief in God. We are responsible for that. We cannot use them as a reason or excuse to not believe in God and follow Jesus. That, is a very dangerous misconception.

Agony. Pain. Anguish. Trials. Hurt. Despair. Tragedy. Nobody likes any of these states of being. Grief. Misery. Sorrow. Heartbreak. Nobody desires or enjoys them. Torment. Oppression, Unhappiness. Gloom. Despair. Nobody wishes them into their lives. But they happen anyway, at one point or the other, to all of us. One of those or several of those conditions plague all of us somewhere down the road, in this journey called life. Put together, they are called AFFLICTIONS. Question is how should we handle them? How should we carry ourselves in our afflictions? What should we do during times of afflictions? When we are going through excruciating hurt, pain and agony, what should our attitude, mindset and determination be? What should they look like? What should we do when we are undergoing affliction? “When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions: wait for hope to appear. Don’t run from trouble. Take it full face. The worst is never the worst. Why? Because the Master won’t ever walk out and fail to return.... His stockpiles of loyal love are immense. He takes no pleasure in making life hard, in throwing roadblocks in the way...” Lamentations 3:28-33 (The Message Bible). God takes no pleasure in your grief, but He does want your attention. Permit your anguish, pain, heartbreak and tragedy to bring you to Him. Your afflictions may be many, your trials unbearable, but God will deliver you from all of them. He has only “stockpiles of love”, for you. When and how He will deliver you, will be according to His Divine purpose, blueprint, plan, agenda and His will for your life, which by the way, is the best place to ever be.

Drop the dead ends and risk faith. You have searched everywhere; gone to all kinds of places, sought out all kinds of methods and outcomes, talked to all kinds of people and received all kinds of temporary solutions and results. But even those, were all dead ends. You have searched high and low, looked to the right, looked to the left, looked up looked down, looked all around you, searched all around and found nothing but blank walls, dark holes and dead ends. Now you feel angry, despondent, frustrated and find yourself in even more darkness. Perhaps it’s time to do what the woman with the issue of blood, (Luke 8:43-48), twelve years of bleeding, did. Touch the edge of Jesus’s cloak. Touch the hem of Jesus, garment. Dare to take the risk of faith, stop going in circles and simply touch His garment. Dare to press through the crowd and touch Jesus. What is your “bleeding”? What “crowd” do you face? Dead ends will get you no where. They are dead! But take the risk of faith and touch Jesus, touch Life, touch Light, touch Truth, and be made whole. Take the risk of faith and be made complete.

Who or what do you draw strength, wisdom, courage and direction from? What kind of effects do you want to leave on this Earth? Destructive or constructive ones? What do you want your end of life to look like? What is your purpose on this Earth? “Your soul knows that within you lies unlimited gifts and powers, and hand in hand with God, before you were formed, there have been divine plans for you to live and function a certain way, beyond your understanding and your limitations.” -Listening to the Cry of Your Soul. https://www.xulonpress.com/bookstore/bookdetail.php?PB_ISBN=9781631293146&HC_ISBN=