Function In God's Will.

Monday, September   11th.
Function In God's Will.

“Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.”
 Hebrews 10:7

The Lord made me know that those who were leaders in the Bible and made a mark in their generation, were those who walked in God's will for their lives. Every one of them. Do a study of the scriptures for yourself, and you will find it to be so. From Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, etc. These men lived in God's will for their lives and became great. Therefore, if you want to be remembered for all time, you must live your life for God's will.

Also, it is important you know and understand that, living in God's will for your life does not necessarily mean that you have to be called to be a Pastor, a Teacher, or an Apostle.

God's will for your life may be for you to become a medical doctor, a business man or whatever God has called you to be. The most important thing is for you to be sure in your spirit that you are doing exactly what God wants you to do.

I encourage you to discover God's will for your life and invest your whole life in it because you have only one chance at life. So, you have to use it well and make it count for all time.

Therefore, it is a necessity for each one of us to function in God's will for our lives.
 
When you are in God's will for your life, what you do will be endorsed by the Holy Spirit and God's power and His glory will be manifested in and through your life.

Prayer.
Dear Father, fill me with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding concerning every area of my life, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

For further study, read:
John 4:34, John 5:30, John 6:38.

Doing the Word.
During your daily prayer time, I encourage you to always pray Ephesians 1:17 and Colossians 1:9 for yourself.

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Have A Written Focus.

Sunday, September  10th.
Have A Written Focus.

“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:”
Isaiah 30:8

Many people don't like to write, but today I want to encourage you to write down your vision in a book. Have a book where you write down the great things God has shown you, what you are expecting and what you want your life to be like.

Do you know that God writes down His visions? That is what is documented in the Bible for us. The Bible begins with a revelation of the past and ends with a revelation of the future.

This principle of writing down visions is also being practiced by the business moguls of the world. Those who have turned out to be the wealthiest people in the world all have clear goals that are written down.

I heard about a research that was carried out by Harvard Business School; they asked their students concerning what they wanted to be, and about ten percent knew what they were going to be, but only three percent wrote it down. Among the seven percent that did not write out their vision, only five percent was successful later in their lives. Of the three percent that wrote down their vision, ninety-five percent of them became successful in life. This was because their lives had a written focus. The question I will like to ask you today is this: “Do you have  a written focus for your life?”

Instruction.
If you've not still written God's vision for your life, please write it down today.

For further study, read:
Isaiah 8:1, Habakkuk 2:2-3, Hebrews 10:7.

Doing the Word.
In your dream book, write down what God has shown you concerning your future. Write down what you expect daily, monthly and for the year. Write down what you see yourself having, doing and being like by the end of this year.

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Teach All Nations.

Saturday, September  9th.
Teach All Nations.

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:”
Matthew 28:19

Our opening scripture sums up God's vision. In this context, we shall define vision as God's redemptive plan and your role in it. Every Christian has a role in God's redemptive plan. One of our roles is to 'teach all nations.' The word teach in our opening scripture is from the Greek word 'matheteuo' which means ‘to make disciples, to become a pupil, to enroll as a scholar, to instruct’. This means that, when Jesus said  we should go and teach all nations, He wanted us to make them students of the Word of God.

The word ‘nations’ in our opening scripture is from the Greek word 'ethnos' from where we get the word ethnic. It refers to ‘a tribe, race, a people group, a multitude of individuals of the same nature, people of the same culture or people of the same habits.’ This means that Jesus sent us to make pupils of every people group, every tribe and every race.

This is why the Bible says in 2 Timothy 2:2, “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.” In Hebrews 5:12 the Bible says, “For when for the time ye ought to be teachers …” This means  God wants every one of us to become teachers. You should grow to the point where you are able to teach others the gospel of Jesus Christ because it is part of your role in God's redemptive plan. If you are not doing this as a believer you will begin to experience unfulfillment in your Christian walk because of your neglect of this important role which is part of your destiny in God.

Prayer.
Dear Father, I ask that you fill me with utterance, boldness and the opportunity to make known the mystery of the gospel to everyone within my sphere of contact, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

For further study, read:
2 Timothy 4:2, 2 Timothy 4:5, Mark 16:15-18.

Doing the Word.
No matter what you do as a Christian, consciously create time to get involved with soul winning and discipleship. You can start teaching others from where you are.

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Live For Your Purpose.

Friday, September 8th.
Live For Your Purpose.

“For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.”
Jeremiah 29:11 (AMP).

God has plans for you before you were born. You were born for a purpose. Find out that purpose and fulfill it. Remember that God will reward you according to what He has called you to do. So,  if you do not fulfill your purpose, how will you get your reward?

For instance, let's assume I employed brother A, to be my secretary, but every time I look at his duty post, he is never there. If he continues that way, he will lose his job. Why? He did not do what he was employed to do. Same thing with life. God has made you for a special purpose. When you live for God's purpose, you prolong your days. Living for God's purpose, also adds value to your life.

In Acts 27, when Paul's ship was attacked by a typhoon, why did Paul not die? He was able to live through the storm, because of purpose. God's purpose for his life was not over. So, he was able to see a future. That's why I know I cannot be killed. Why? I am living for the reason why I was born, and when you locate it and live in it, no man in this world can stop you.

Joshua 1:5 says, “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.” In other words, God was saying to Joshua, so long as you live for this destiny, no man born of a woman will be able to kill you. What about Joseph? Why was he not killed by his brothers who hated him? Or by Potiphar, when he was accused of rape by Potiphar's wife? He had a purpose, and he was living in that purpose. Therefore, all the wrong things that happened to him only helped in moving him closer to the fulfillment of God's dream for his life. This means that there is no disadvantage for the man who is living in God's purpose for his life.

So, find your purpose and live in it, because that is the reason you were born.

Confession.
In the Name of Jesus, I declare according to the Word of the Lord in Romans 8:28 that all thing work together for my good, because I love God, and I am the called according to His purpose.

For further study, read:
Acts 13:25a, Acts 20:24, 2 Timothy 4:7-8

Doing the Word.
Stay focused on your purpose and live for it.

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Your Destiny In God.

Thursday, September 7th.
Your Destiny In God.

“Then I asked, 'What am I to do, Lord?' The Lord told me, 'Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told everything you are destined to do.'”
Acts 22:10(ISV)

Many live their lives based on assumptions. They assume that God has called them to do what they are doing when God has not spoken to them.

For instance, Kenneth E. Hagin told a story of how he pastored successfully for twelve years, only to discover afterwards that God had not called him to pastor. So he left pastoring and again assumed that God had called him to become an evangelist. After three years, he discovered precisely that God had called him to be a Prophet and Teacher.

Don't gamble with your life. This is because you cannot claim God's perfect provision and protection for your life, unless you are in God's perfect will for your life, doing what God has destined you to do.    

When the Lord called Saul before he was named Paul in Acts 9:6, the first question he asked was to know the purpose of his call. And the Lord answered him, saying, “… Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.” There was no gamble, neither was he working by assumption. He knew the right city to go into and remain till he received further instructions from the Lord.

I believe one of the reasons the Apostle Paul had great success in what God called him to do was because he had a sense of purpose. He knew precisely what God had called him to do - See Acts 26:17-19.

Prayer.
Dear Father, I ask that You fill me with the knowledge of Your will concerning every area of my life. Thank You Father, for Your Spirit teaches me to do Your will and leads me in the path of righteousness, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

For further study, read:
Psalm 143:10, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 30:21.

Doing the Word.
 Ask the Lord to tell you precisely what He has called you to do. Follow the instructions that He gives you and do not assume or follow your own way.

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Vision Unlocks Potential.

Wednesday, September 6th.
Vision Unlocks Potential.

“And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.”
Judges 6:12

Today, I want you to understand that God's vision for your life unlocks your potential. Gideon did not know his potential and value until God's vision and purpose for his life was made known to him. Judges 6:14 revealed to Gideon God's plan and purpose for his life. The Bible says, “And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?”

Gideon didn't know that he had the potential to save the nation of Israel from the Midianites until he knew God's vision for his life. Judges 6:16 says, “And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.”

God's vision for your life reveals your purpose. Your purpose is the ‘why’ of your existence; it reveals why you were born and what God has made available you for. So, when you discover God's vision and His purpose for your life, it is a discovery of what God has already empowered you to do. Therefore, a discovery of vision and purpose is a revelation of your ability and potential.

Prayer.
Dear Father, I thank You for I am strengthened by Your Spirit to become all that You have made me to be; to do all that You have called me to do and to have everything You have ordained for me to have, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

For further study, read:
Genesis 45:4-8, Acts 7:35, Judges 3:9.

Doing the Word.
Receive grace to do all that God has called you to do.

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See Yourself The Way God Sees You.

Tuesday, September  5th.
See Yourself The Way God Sees You.

“I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.”
Psalm 82:6-7

Our opening scripture shows us that our limitations are based on the way we see ourselves. You rise or fall to the size of your vision. You are either limited by your vision or you are empowered by it. This is because your life is moving in the direction of your vision or what you see in your mind.

God called them gods in our opening scripture but they died like men and fell like one of the princes because they couldn't see themselves the way God called them. If you want to change the mental picture in your mind, especially if it is contrary to God's view of you, then you must learn to meditate on scripture. What has God said about you in the Word? What picture do you see in the Word? Meditate on it until you see yourself in the light of what the Word of God says concerning you.

When you meditate on the Word until you see yourself in the light of it, faith comes. It is the faith that comes through the mental picture you conceive from the Word of God that enables you to take the risk involved to see your vision come to pass. The level of sacrifice that a vision requires will determine the size of the people who follow it. This explains why those without vision spend their lives taking the path of the least resistance as they try to avoid discomfort.

Instruction.
Please meditate on Philippians 4:13.

For further study, read:
Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:1-3, 1 Timothy 4:15.

Doing the Word.
See yourself the way God sees you.

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