DESTINY - PART 3 -GOD HAS A PLAN FOR EACH LIFE THAT HE HAS CREATED

God has placed a stirring “to know my purpose for being” on the inside of each person. This stirring is meant to initiate the desire for you to seek to know God, Who is Love, and to learn that He will reveal His purpose for your individual life. Revelation 3:20-21 tells us that our purpose is to be an overcomer over God’s enemy Satan, and, therefore, the child of God’s enemy. This scripture also reveals that it is God’s will for each overcoming child of His to sit down with Him and His Father in a throne. And Revelation 4:11 reveals that God has created all things, and for His pleasure they are and were created. When His children honor, respect, and praise Him, He is pleased. He is also pleased when we mature in His Word so that we can be mature sons that He can tell divine knowledge to and take action to extend His kingdom in this earth.

In Destiny – Part 1 we learned of a man that had plenty, but instead of sowing good seeds of helping others, he was a miser and died alone. Neither could he take all of his wealth and goods with him to his eternal life in hell. Nor would his wealth have comforted him in a hell of torment and fire, without the Presence of the Lord Jehovah. In Destiny – Part 2 we discovered another young man that was rich and had plenty. He made the mistake of not believing the Word that Jesus spoke to him, and, therefore, he did not obey the Lord. Had the rich young ruler been obedient to give his “all” to Jesus, then Jesus would have given His “all” to him. God loves all people, but He blesses abundantly those who love Him and walk in His ways.

In Destiny – Part 3 we will discern another Man who had plenty…

“There was yet another Man and He had plenty, for the whole universe belonged to Him. For love He left the glories and riches of heaven to come to earth as a baby in a manager. He was born to be the Saviour of the world. He picked up His cross of self-denial and bore it to Calvary. There for sin He was crucified. The perfect Lamb of God left heaven to come to earth for you and me. He became poor that whosoever believed on Him could become rich. He left His throne, so you could become a king. He became a crimson worm and a Man of no reputation, so you could become a priest in right relationship with the Father. He became sin, that you might be a child of His Father God and receive eternal life. On the cross Jesus trusted His Father; He committed His soul unto Him; then in the fullness of time God raised Him from the dead to be forever King of kings and Lord of lords of the Universe once again. This was the destiny that Jesus had when He was born into this world. His destiny from the beginning lead Him to the cross, because He longed to honor His Father, and He longed to bring His love and salvation to mankind. All of the words He spoke and all of the seeds He sowed, were seeds of belief in His Father and seeds of love for the world. This brought Him face to face with His destiny of the cross, but it also brought Him to His destiny as Saviour of the World. Praise God!”

Third of Three…Excerpts from Chapter 21

Had it not been for His great love for you and me, we would have no Saviour or Deliverer Who could keep us from the great Wrath of God that will come upon the earth in the Last Days before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ or keep us alive to eternal life with Him. BUT GOD! But God has come to earth as a baby in a fleshy human body and has been the perfect Sacrifice before God the Father to deliver “whosoever will” believe on Him from eternal hell and damnation. JEHOVAH GOD IS A GOOD GOD—ALL THE TIME!

God is not a dictator, thank God, but He has the Big, Overall Plan for Human Beings. His MO is “seed time and harvest.” This is how He blesses. We sow seeds of kindness, and He blesses us with His grace and mercy! Our part is to submit our wills to His, and learn what His individual Plan for our life is, and then fulfill our purpose and plan in Him by being obedient to His Word…His Plan for “whosoever will.” At the end of your life, He won’t ask how many expensive cars you’ve had, or how many fashion clothes you have bought, but He will want to know, “Did you know My Son? Did you come My way? Did you love and help your neighbor?”

DESTINY - PART 2 - THE BLESSING OF INCREASE

God has a plan for each man or woman’s life. Therefore

you have a destiny in God, but each person must seek

the LORD to find out what that plan is and how to

follow Christ to the end of that unique destiny.

The LORD desires that each one come into His abundance

and walk in His blessings. Then it is up to

each Christian to become a good steward of the

blessings of increase that He provides.

“There was another man of plenty who was young and very rich (Luke 18:18-23). This young ruler asked the Lord, “Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” How do I live for eternity? Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? None is good, save one, that is God.” He said to the young man, “You know the commandments.” Do not steal, kill, bear false witness, or commit adultery. Honor your father and your mother. Then, give your wealth unto the poor, pick up your cross and follow Me. The young man was very sorrowful, and turned away from Jesus, for he was very rich. The first thing a person must do is to recognize that Jesus is God. Jesus was telling the rich young ruler that if you recognize that I am good, you must recognize that I am God and that I desire your obedience. The young man told the Lord He had kept those particular five commandments from his youth. And this is good. These commandments deal with our relationship with others. The Lord wasn’t telling the young man to take a vow of poverty, He was telling him to put God first place. You must love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and then you must love your neighbor as yourself. If he had honored “God by putting Him first in his life, God would have honored the young man with salvation, something that money can’t buy. If the man had sown his wealth into the poor and followed Jesus, he would have had treasure in heaven plus an abundant supply of wealth to meet all of his needs here (Luke 18:28-30). He would have peace in his heart as he became reconciled with God. He would have eternal life as a child of God. Jesus is not against a person having money; He’s just against money possessing the person. You cannot serve God and mammon (money). What was the young man’s destiny? The seeds he sowed were of unbelief in what God had said. It was hard for the young man to turn his wealth over to the Lord and trust Him for his every need. He had rather trust in his riches than trust in God. He refused to obey the Word of the Lord, and he went away very sorrowful. He did not choose to let the Word abide in him. God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise (1st Corinthians 1:27) and to keep His Word often seems to contradict the natural world. It seemed foolish to the rich young ruler to give his wealth to the poor, but had he obeyed the Word of the Lord, the enemy of his soul would have been defeated. What can a man exchange for his soul? The destiny of this rich, young ruler was not very bright, unless He repented later and obeyed the Lord.”

“God created individuals enough alike to be classified as a group—the human race; but He created each individual as unique and special. No one person has the same fingerprints, voice pattern, or DNA. God has given each individual a unique and special purpose and destiny for his life. There is a quest inside each person to search out that unique will of God in one’s life. A person doesn’t want to feel that he is just another grain of sand lying on the beach of humanity, unnumbered, defaced, and forgotten in the mass of billions of people. Just as a shepherd knows each of His sheep by name, for He has engraved their names in the hollow of His hand. The Creator has carefully and wonderfully made each individual for a special purpose in life. To know his purpose in life, each individual must seek to know the One who created him and put him on the earth. God has put in each person that is born a gnawing emptiness to know Him. Each person has a motivation deep in his heart to seek after the living God, but the circumstances and affairs of life sometime interfere with knowing Him. Motivated to find their purpose in life, some people fill their spirit emptiness with drugs, desire for wealth, alcohol, adultery, and other fleshly crimes against the Spirit, but none of these things quench the thirst for spiritual truth, reality, and satisfaction. Only the Spirit of God can fill that vast emptiness in the spirit of man and satisfy ever longing of the heart…”

Second of Three…Excerpts from Chapter 21

The blessing of increase from Almighty Jehovah God is for those who love Him and obey His laws and commandments.

PROVERB 8: 17-21
(17) “I” (the LORD) “love them that love Me; and those that seek Me early shall find Me.
(18) Riches and honor are with Me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
(19) My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and My revenue than choice silver.
(20) I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
(21) That I may cause those that LOVE ME to INHERIT substance; and I WILL fill their treasures.”

When you separate yourself unto Almighty God, you are separating yourself unto blessing, and “the blessing of the Lord makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.” (Proverb 10:22). Separating yourself unto the Lord to walk in His commandments and in His Ways is the seed of righteousness that sets you apart for the harvest from God – the blessing of increase. But to walk away from obeying His Word, as the rich young ruler did, is to sow seeds of unrighteousness and unbelief that brings in a harvest of sorrow.

DESTINY - PART 1 - THE HARVEST OF ABUNDANCE

Ah, Lord God! Behold, Thou has made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for You: You show lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of Hosts, is His name. Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: which has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day….Jeremiah 32:17-20

God wants His people separated unto Him-not to punish them or make it hard on them-but to separate them unto His blessings. God’s great love is unconditionally, and “whosoever will” call upon Him will be saved and delivered from temporal and eternal evils. But God’s blessings are for those who have separated themselves unto Him to walk in His ways and do His biddings to extend the kingdom of Christ.

God has a plan for each man or woman’s life. Therefore you has a destiny in God, but each person must seek the LORD to find out what that plan is and how to follow Christ to the end of that destiny. The Lord desires that each one come into His abundance and walk in His blessings. Then it is up to us to become a good steward of the blessings He provides.

“Destiny is defined as “what becomes of a person or thing in the end,” or it can be defined as one’s lot in life, the place where one is sent. Your destination depends upon the seed that you sow in life. Accepting the redemption that Christ provided and being obedient to God—His laws and His ways—paves the destined pathway to heaven, success, and eternal life. The destined pathway of death, destruction, failure, and hell is lined with the sins of pride, arrogance, rebellion, good intentions, and self-inportance. The worlds way to success is to put self ahead of all others but Christ reveals that the way to success is to humble yourself before God and put Him first place in your life. What does it profit a man or woman if they gain all of the world’s pleasure, fame, and wealth, but lose his or her soul? What can a man or woman give in exchange for his or her soul? The difference between success and failure will be the results of the seeds you sow by your own attitudes about what you believe.”

“There was a man who had plenty. Instead of helping his community by giving to them, he selfishly stored all of his abundance of grain of wheat, and rice and millet in barns. Time and again, he would tell others how grat he was and how powerful and rich he was with all those barns of grain. Full of self-sufficiency and self-exaltation, he thought he had enough money to buy whatever he needed and buy the control of the lives of other men. He had such an abundance of material wealth, he decided to pull down his barns and build even more expensive one to hold his grain. He told himself that he had enough goods laid up for many, many years, and that he would never want for anything or need anything from anyone. He told himself, “Eat, drink, and be merry.” You have plenty! Your’re in control! Then the Lord spoke to him, “Thou fool! This night thy soul is required of thee! When you are dead, then whose shall all these things belong to which you have provided?” Before the dawning of the next day, all of his self-sufficiency was gone. What a destiny! He could have been such a blessing to those around him; instead he was a nasty penny-pincher, hording up wealth for his grand self. He could have been praising the Lord for all he had, but he was praising himself instead. He could have been exemplifying Jesus with his love, faith, and purity, but he chose his own way. The person who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God will have the destiny of this man also. Whatsoever a man sows that will he also reap. Your destiny starts in what you are willing to sow (give) unto the Lord. You choose your destiny by your choices in life (Luke 12:16-21; Matthew 16:26).”

First of Three…Excerpts from Chapter 21

What you sow and grow is where your harvest of abundance will come from. Do you sow seeds of discord among your fellow employees or do you like to live in harmony with others? God blesses those actions and attitudes that exemplify Christ!