Purpose

How many of us struggle with finding our purpose in life?  Some people are born with knowing their purpose and others of us have spent a lifetime trying to figure it out. 

In March of 2012 I was prophesied over being told that God said you are to “Write, Write, Write that you have a lot to say and you are to write it.”   I was blessed by that prophesy because I didn’t have a clue I could write.  Even though I wrote all the time, I didn’t know that I was born to write.

I thought I was born to be some kind of crafter.  Those that know me know that God has blessed me (big time) with a talent for crafting and creating.  It is one of my passions, I love to make things pretty!

I never dreamt that God created me to do anything other than share the love of making things with others.  I truly believe that He has allowed my passion for creating to blossom because I shared it.  I bless others by teaching them that they have it in them to make something out of nothing.  I bless others by lifting their self esteem when they find out that they can create something either from a pattern or coping what they see.  I bless others by giving them cards and gifts that I have made.  I don’t keep my talent to myself.  If I did, God would have taken it away a long time ago.

My writing purpose I am still struggling with.  I love to write and as you can tell I write as often as I can get time to type.  I have a book started.  I have written a couple children’s stories that are in the process of getting illustrations to make them come alive.  I have my God Blog.  I have my Facebook writer’s page.  I WRITE, but I have to ask God all the time, am I writing what You created me to do?  Am I writing what YOU want me to write?

I may not be a famous writer, but I am a writer.  I know that God has me writing and even if my writings only touch one person, those words were to bless them!  AMEN!

I have a great desire to help the homeless.  I don’t do much but I do what I can, when I can.  Here is a comforter, here is some water and food, and here are some necessities that will help you feel better about yourself during your current circumstances.  I wish I could do more, but this is what I have to give.  When I get more, I will give more.  My friends, you better believe and know that God tests me on that promise.  I pray I never let Him down or those He brings to me to help.  AMEN!

I also teach, I teach paper crafts, I teach sewing and quilting, I teach life skills to youth, I teach children’s church, I teach adults Bible Study and I teach my co-workers how to use their computers for other than checking their email.   I never thought I had what it took to be a teacher and yet I teach someone something every day.

I know that I know that I know God has me teaching folks His word.  He has me learning His word so I can teach His word. 

The Great Commission my friends was a commandment not a suggestion.  We are to tell others about Jesus.  We are to share the good news that is the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Our world is filled with lost souls that are seeking Him and they don’t even know it.  Whatever our purpose in life is, know that sharing the love of Christ is a part of your purpose.

Are you living your life with purpose?  Even if you don’t know your purpose, are you living on purpose?  What is your passion, what drives you, what infuriates you?   I am willing to say with some certainty that your purpose will be centered around that.  You are not too young or too old for you to find and fulfill your purpose.  David was a boy when he killed Goliath.  Moses was 80 when God sent him to Egypt to set His people free. 

When you ask God for your purpose He will show you.  Just enough to get you started.  He will give you a small assignment, if you obey, He will give you the next one.  If you don’t follow the first instruction, you won’t get the next one.  Are you obeying God?  Are you doing something while you are waiting?  Are you doing for others?  Get out of yourself and get into loving others.  Let God flow in you and through you.

Are you serving anyone other than your immediate family?  Do you help anybody?  Are you busy going for the crown that you don’t serve.  Maybe you have forgotten to?

Your purpose does not have to be big or have prestige.  Your purpose does not have to make you rich or famous.  Before you take your last breath, serve somebody.

Are you one of those that just go to church and eats, and eats, and eats, and eats?  Well my friends, are you full yet so that you can serve others?  Church service is not to be your entertainment on a Sunday morning.  It is to teach you, to fill you up so that you can live your life as God instructs.  One of His instructions is to love others, are you loving on folks that need you to love on them? 

If God gave you a car make sure you are giving someone a ride!

If God gave you money buy someone a meal or warm clothing!

If God gave you food make sure you are feeding someone who is hungry!

If God gave you talents make sure you use them to lift someone up!

If God gave you arms hug someone!

If God gave you words speak life into someone!

If God gave you feet walk over to someone and bless them!

Does your life serve a higher purpose than you?  Why should God give you more days if you are just going to sit around?  Why should God give you talents if you are not going to use them to bless others? 

When you serve people, God will provide, God will protect, and God will Guide you!  AMEN!

Be committed to your purpose - whether you feel like it or not.  You do what you got to do when you got to do it.

You don’t do things for your critics and enemies.  It is not about your haters.  It is not about those that misunderstand you.  It is not about what they think and what they heard and what they feel.

When you live on purpose, the moment that you remember your purpose, there is nothing that your enemies can do or say that will ever stop you again.

My loves, when you have income, influence and/or impact you are going to have enemies and haters.  Please know that the more income, influence and/or impact you have - the more enemies and haters you will have.

That is how you will know that you have greater income, influence, and/or impact when you are attacked.  That attack will inform you that you have become serious enough to be on the attack list of the enemy.

If you are not under attack that is because you are not making an impact.  The enemy is not going to waste his time and resources on an attack on those that have no impact! 

Ask yourself a question, “If I were satan how and where would I attack me?”  That is how/where he is going to attack you.  Your weakness will be used to his advantage and your disadvantage. 

However my loves, Greater is He that is in me that he that is in the world.  David encouraged himself in the Lord.  You need to remember your God has brought you this far and He will bring you out of this desert, He will bring you out victorious.  He will KEEP YOU!

Satan knows he has already lost, but he is trying to get as many of God’s people as he can to go down with him.  Misery loves company.  Don’t keep him company and help take away others that are heading to his everlasting party of misery.

That is your purpose my friends, to serve God.  To praise and worship God.  How do you show your love for God – loving others!  Who you loving on today?  Is it you or is it others that God has brought into your sphere of influence? 

You don’t have to have wealth to have influence. You have the influence of God, run with it!

I pray that if you are under attack that you are lifted up knowing that God has got you.  I pray that your purpose is made clear to you and that you live your life with that purpose in Jesus name!  Amen!

To God Be All The Glory, AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!

Until Next Time, God Bless!!!