Created for Purpose
Created for Purpose part 1
How often do Believers get lost in the newness of their salvation? It’s almost like, I’m a Believer, now what? There are always more questions than answers and an ever-growing desire to get it right. But what if I told you there is purpose in our personal relationships with The Lord? In other words, we don’t become saved just to sit. We don’t just become saved to “make it in”. We become saved to fulfill the assignment The Lord has predestined for us while we are here in the earth realm. And these assignments may vary from person to person. But know that no matter what your purpose is, you have been uniquely created just for it. And this is why it is so import for us to know who we are in our identity in Christ and know the impact and influence the Lord has graced us with for those assigned to our purpose.
One of the things that I want to say is that what we have been created for is not measured like in the natural realm. It’s not about doing something big, or small in the sense of the words, it’s about obedience and fulfillment. Once we get instructions and or clarity of our purpose, we can walk it out with leading of Holy Spirit until it is fulfilled. So today we are going to talk about our created purpose. What purpose looks like. Obstacles that may derail the purpose of our lives, and what Christ says about purpose.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
I love the word masterpiece. Why? Because it literally paints a picture of the handiwork that God put in, in creating us. Think of a priceless piece of art, walking around with arms, legs, breathing, fulfilling purpose. That is us. We are His, “Van Gogh’s, “The Starry Night”, and His Leonardo Da Vinci’s, “Mona Lisa’s”, when we put how valuable we are to God, into perspective, our self-awareness then begins to shift. We begin to go from a limited worldly viewpoint of seeing, to a place of worth and purpose. This is the place where we begin to recognize and remember that our very existence has been mapped out. All we have to do is obey and fulfill.
Acts 2:23
23 This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.
We can miss our purpose like these wicked men missed that Jesus was sent to save them. Sometimes our environments can cause us to miss it. Who is influencing you away from your God given purpose?
1 Peter 2:9
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Our purpose is to declare the praises of Christ.
How do we know when what we have been created to do has been fulfilled?
Acts 13:36
36 “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed.
God has a purpose for everyone.
“But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth” (Exodus 9:16).
Some have a purpose to allow God to show Himself through them. By making doing so, people will believe.
We can stop the purpose of God in our lives with our own agenda’s.
“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails”
(Proverbs 19:21)
“The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out” (Proverbs 20:5).
I love this explanation from online,
"All people are made in the image of God. Each of us are born with a purpose and calling that we can discover or completely miss. The influence of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers gives us insight to His purposes for us. We find peace and courage when we sense the confirmation of the Spirit that we are in the right place at the right time of our designated calling."
“Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose” (Philippians 2:12-13).
We come into a place of maturity when we discover God’s purpose for our lives. Some may take longer than others, but God will get the glory out of our lives. One way or another.
“He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace” (2 Timothy 1:9).
After salvation, our first calling before anything is being called to a holy life. It’s hard to walk in purpose when you aren’t healed or whole. But once wholeness and maturity comes, and identity is revealed, purpose begins to burst forth in our lives, so much so that we can’t sleep, or function because something is nagging and tugging at our spirit.
There is peace in purpose.
There is joy in purpose.
There is spiritual authority in purpose.
There is favor in purpose.
We have been created for purpose. Purpose is going to be tied in with your gift. What you love to do. As long as you are walking out your salvation and, in His will, purpose will find you.
