PURPOSE

Jer 1:4-12, “¶ Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations." Then I said, "Alas, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, Because I am a youth." But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am a youth,' Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, And all that I command you, you shall speak. "Do not be afraid of them, For I am with you to deliver you," declares the LORD. Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. "See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, To pluck up and to break down, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant." ¶ The word of the LORD came to me saying, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "I see a rod of an almond tree." Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it”

Gal 1:15 “But when God, who had set me apart {even} from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased”

Acts 13:36 "For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and underwent decay;

I believe one of my great passions is to see and or help people discover who they are, understand and fulfill their God given purpose.

• Purpose is the reason for existence. Before you were created, God had an assignment and then He created you to fulfill that assignment.
• Each and every one of us as a specific assignment to fulfill
• It is your responsibility to discover that purpose for your life
• Some purposes or assignments for other people are public or renowned and some are seemingly not public but that does not make anybody superior or inferior
• Your purpose may be different from mine but that does not make either of us more important that the other.
• The volume of what we do does not really matter but doing what we were designed to do.
• It is not being busy that matters but fulfilling your purpose
• It is important that we concentrate on discovering our purpose and not imitating somebody else.
• Many a times the enemy will try to occupy us with in trying to be what we are not and then we will not have time to be what we are supposed to be.
• Doing what is not your purpose is like putting on a left side shoe in your right foot!
• There is great joy and fulfillment in doing what you were created for
• It is said that ignorance of purpose of something leads to abuse of that “thing”, if you do not know or understand the purpose of something / somebody, you will abuse it or them.
• Ignorance of purpose of something will close you from seeing its importance or existence.
• Use my own two illustrations:
i)Borehole, we stayed in the house we are in for more than a year without realizing that there is a borehole, we could have had a garden as we would and during water cuts we would stay without water but there was a borehole in the yard!
ii)The gas stove, when we got married, my mother in law gave us a gas stove. I personally did not appreciate its importance but my wife would always tell me to get it fixed. Until recently I decided to get it fixed, we spent only 3.6 million and now we do not even care when there are electricity cuts! (In Zimbabwe we currently have problems, and there are frequent electricity cuts / load sheding. Now we have water for only 7 hours after every 2 days!)

•If you do not understand the purpose for your life, you will abuse yourself. That is why some young girls give themselves over to abuse by man.
•If you are ignorant of your purpose, you will not recognize the gifts, abilities and resources that God has given or put in you.
•Recognize your purpose and that of people gave to help you
•There could be a purpose why you are here today, in this church, etc
•Your purpose may be different from mine
•Your purpose may be inclined to spiritual, social or natural things or all. Your purpose may be more of making money, being a states man, preaching, being an academic, being a scientist, etc
•There is a reason why you were born
•Your purpose should not be stopped by other people, friends, devil, situations, economy, political systems, failure, poverty or lack
•Challenges might be on your way but should not stop your purpose unless you allow them to.
•You can do something, you have a purpose, you are not a mistake
•Do not waste time trying to be what you are not but instead, develop yourself in being what God created you to be.