Living Life On Purpose Part 1

Posted by Paula White - Sun, October 18, 2009 at 04:50 PM

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Jeremiah 29:11-14 (The Message) This is GOD’s Word on the subject: “As soon as Babylon’s seventy years are up and not a day before, I’ll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. 12"When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I’ll listen. 13-14"When you come looking for me, you’ll find me. “Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed.” GOD’s Decree. “I’ll turn things around for you. I’ll bring you back from all the countries into which I drove you”—GOD’s Decree—“bring you home to the place from which I sent you off into exile. You can count on it.

Intro…
What does an “empowered life” look like to you?

If you could obtain your desires and they were available to you to live out your purpose, why would you choose to be powerless or live less then what God has created for you?

Reminds me of a short story I came across…

“Which came first: The Eagle or the Egg?

A little boy was wandering in the forest and came upon an eagle’s nest. He plucked an egg, brought it back to his farm, and giggling to himself, slid it under a mama-to-be chicken. Soon after, this chicken’s eggs hatched, and there among the chicklets was a female eaglet. This little eaglet grew up with her chicken peers, learning all sorts of chicken habits: how to walk like a chicken, squawk like a chicken, eat like a chicken. This eagle did it all. However, no matter how passionately she put her all into her chicken existence, she always felt something was missing. She didn’t know what, but she felt an inner emptiness. One day she looked up in the sky and saw a beautiful bird, soaring freely among the clouds. She felt this pang of awe mixed with a weird sense of connection. She longed to be up there flying, too. Suddenly, she had this flash of insight. She flapped her wings and to her surprise, she took off. That’s when she realized that all along there was more to her then mere chicken hood. She was meant to fly – as well as cash in on some other pretty nifty eagle perks.
…This eagle will now live a life of empowerment. Like this eagle, many of us have lived out a life that doesn’t belong to us.
(Existing like a chicken when we were created as an eagle)

You were created to be a” world changer” and a “history maker”,
engineered by God to succeed.

I. There are 3 Levels of Living
a. Almost (Natural)
i. An “utmost God” is not going to have an “almost” child
b. Most (Carnal)
i. Many are here
c. Utmost (Spiritual)
i. “extreme” of the greatest possible degree, extent or intensity
1. I believe that 2010 is the year of the church (God’s people)
2. The #10 means = the perfection of Divine Order
a. Completeness of order – “full cycle”
b. It implies that nothing is wanting
c. This is where you are living “A Life on Purpose”

II. A “Life on Purpose” = A Life of “Empowerment”
a. To empower is to give permission or power to do something
i. To enable
ii. To equip or supply with ability

Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

b. Anointed (Greek) = to furnish what is needed
i. God will furnish, supply and equip you with all that you need to win or succeed in every area of your life
1. You have to be in position
a. Matthew 18:11 “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.” (lost+ out of position or mis-positioned)
b. He came to position you for a life of empowerment
c. To put you back in line
d. To give you an advantage and enable you to do

2. You must realize God desires involvement in every aspect of human life.
a. Not just church on Sunday
b. He wants habitation, not just visitation

2 Peter 1:3-4 (NIV) His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

The word of God powerfully and brilliantly combines things in heaven with things on earth (according to Ephesians 1:10) and encourages all believers to be released into their purpose (or their “why?” in life) ultimately to bring forth His plan.

III. My Definition of Frustration
a. To settle for less than your destiny
b. To never walk out your “why?” in life
i. Purpose = is something set up as an object or end to be attained, intention resolution or determination.

IV. Purpose

1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Manifested = to render apparent or to appear
a. When you appear
i. You come into being
ii. You come into view
iii. You present yourself
1. The world is your stage. Waiting for you to act out (or live out) the script that has been written
2. Your appearance is for your purpose = His plan

b. Purpose come from the root word = propound
i. Propound means = to put before for consideration

c. Therefore, the purpose precedes the person
i. God was not waiting for you to arrive to find something for you to do!!

Psalms 139:16 (NIV) your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

d. Purpose gives life definition
i. It tells me why I exist
ii. It’s the reason of a thing
1. But I can’t discover it outside (or aside) from His presence (an intimate relationship with God)

Psalms 16:11 (NIV) You have made [a] known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Footnotes: Psalm 16:11 [a] Or You will make

e. When you are God connected you know that essentially you are a spirit being and God Almighty is the Father

1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

V. You are One with God in Spirit
a. This is where you get inspired “a life on purpose”
b. When you get inspired, it’s because you’re “in-spirit”

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (AMP) He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

c. We are essentially spirit beings, struggling with a human experience…
i. Therefore, often, the potential of “who we are” struggles with the reality of “where we are” (our current condition (or situation)
ii. So, when the kingdom of God is proclaimed through humanity, it is powerful because it evokes what already metaphysically exists in the hearts of ALL People
1. = our purpose and destiny

VI. Reformation

When the church (the body of Christ) grasps this, then the local congregations will begin to nurture the best and brightest (utmost) of the top mind- molders of society. We will penetrate culture because
we are “called”, pre-ordained for greatness out of God,
by Himself, for Himself

a. A conformed people for a transformed church to bring forth reformation
a. Reformation [a]
i. Reestablishing the original
ii. A realignment and adjustment to God’s original intent for your life and His church
iii. You are a reformer- you push to change the rules of religion
b. Religion
i. Comes from the Latin word = religare (to tie or bind)
ii. Religion restricts or binds you
iii. Relationship = frees or liberates you

c. Reformation
i. Reformation comes when people make a conscious decision to change the predictable outcome of their future
ii. Decree a thing (or) agree with His decree
1. Decree (Hebrew) =
a. to decide
b. to determine
c. to cut down or off
2. Decision =
a. to cut
b. Some things need to be cut. Stop nurturing what needs to be neutered
iii. And it shall be established (Hebrew = to rise)

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