You Are Created With Purpose

You Are Created With Purpose

by | Jul 3, 2023 | Blog Post

Every person is created with purpose, uniquely designed by God to fulfill a special role in His divine plan. Biblical purpose, faith-driven living, and God’s calling are essential in understanding why we were made. Jeremiah 29:11 reminds us, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” No matter where you are in life, God has a purpose for you that is meaningful and significant. When we align our lives with His will, we experience spiritual fulfillment, joy, and divine direction.

In this blog, we’ll explore how to discover your God-given purpose, overcome doubts, and live with faith-driven confidence. By seeking Him through prayer, scripture, and obedience, you can step boldly into the life He has designed for you—one filled with hope, impact, and spiritual growth. Whether you’re looking for Christian inspiration, biblical encouragement, or faith-based motivation, remember that you were fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14) for a reason. Embrace your God-ordained destiny and walk in the power of His purpose today!

God has created each of us with a unique calling, and walking in our purpose means embracing His plan with faith and confidence. Ephesians 2:10 reminds us, “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” When we align our lives with God’s will, we experience spiritual fulfillment, joy, and divine direction.

But how do we discover and walk boldly in our God-given purpose? It starts with seeking Him through prayer, scripture, and obedience. When we trust His timing and step out in faith, we unlock the doors of opportunity, spiritual growth, and kingdom impact. Even when challenges arise, we can find strength in knowing that God equips us for every good work (2 Timothy 3:17).

In this blog, we’ll explore how to identify your purpose, overcome doubt, and walk in faith daily. Whether you're searching for Christian encouragement, biblical wisdom, or faith-based motivation, remember that your life has divine meaning and eternal significance. Step forward with confidence, knowing that God is leading the way!

Obedience Is Better Than Sacrifice

Obedience Is Better Than Sacrifice

by | Apr 3, 2023 | Blog Post

OBEDIENCE IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE

What exactly does this mean?

Obedience is better than sacrifice in everything that we do as we serve the Lord, and as Children of God, we are to live in total and complete obedience to the LORD, no matter the cost.

Scripture - 1 Samuel 15:22 (Saul's Disobedience)

So Samuel said - "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices.  As in obeying the voice of the LORD?  Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.

In 1 Samuel 15:7-23 we read where Saul was given instructions to kill everyone including the king.  However, instead, he spared the kind and the animals.  Because of his complete disobedience, the kingdom was taken from him.

Instead of obeying what the Lord told him to do through Samuel, Saul caved in under the pressure from those around him and also he failed to listen to the Lord and disobeyed a simple instruction.  This is why Samuel told him that obedience is better than sacrifice.

THOSE WHO CHOSE TO BE OBEDIENT

Why Obedience Is Better Than Sacrifice?

KING DAVID

In the scripture, David is know as a man ofter God's heart.  Like Saul, he was anointed king of Israel.  The difference between the two is that when David's sin with Bathsheba was exposed by Nathan the prophet instead of puffing up himself with pride, he humbled himself before the LORD and repented.  Saul on the other hand, tried to defend his disobedient action by telling Samuel that he brought back the animals for sacrifice to the LORD. 

Irrespective of his motives for not killing the animals, this was still disobedience in the eyes of the LORD.  

 

ABRAHAM

In Genesis, we read about Abraham whom God instructed to leave his relatives in the land of Haran and to go to another land.  Abraham had no idea where he was going, however, instead of questioning the LORD, he trusted His direction.  Because of this, Abraham was deemed righteous.

Although I have only mentioned David and Abraham, there are more patriachs in the Bible who have chosen to obey the LORD despite what may or may not happen to them.

We are called by the LORD to trust Him and always be obedient no matter what we think or feel.  Although we may not understand, we must at all times trust the process because the LORD knows the beginning from the end.

Many of us have been called to go into ministry full-time or to start a business but have refused to answer the call from God.

The first thing we often think about is; how are my bills going to be paid; where am I going to get money from, etc.  We start thinking about us and what is going to happen to the lifestyle that we have created for ourselves.

Regardless of not knowing or understanding what is going to happen, we have to be in total obedience and step out of our comfort zones.

Let us remember that the will of God will not take us somewhere, where the grace of God will not protect us.

His Love Chastens Us

His Love Chastens Us

by | Dec 2, 2022 | Blog Post

HIS LOVE CHASTENS US

His love chastens us and as children of God, if we continue to be disobedient and want to do our own thing, we will suffer the consequences of our own disobedience.

Learn From The Past

In 2 Kings 17, we read that the children of God sinned against the Lord.  They worshipped Baal and other false gods.  Because of this, "the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only" (2 Kings 17:18).

Let us allow this to properly sink in, "the Lord removed them out of His sight."  Since God did this to the Israel, why do we think that He will not do the same to us if we continue to be disobedient.

Scriptures tells us that He is the same yesterday, today and forever.  The Lord have been so good to us and when we think of it, is really that hard to be obedient to Him?  Don't get me wrong there are times when we do miss the mark without knowing that we have.  This is something totally different when compared to willful disobedience.

My Journey

In my current walk with the Lord, there are times when I have been disobedient.  However, due to my disobedience, the Lord has chastened me.  This chastening is not meant to cause me to turn and run from the Lord but it is instead there to draw me closer and back to Him because I have missed the mark.

If I am being honest, I do not like the chastening, but I have to stand and face it because there is absolutely nowhere I can go and the Lord does not see me.  As David says in Psalm 139:7-10, "where can I go from Your Spirit?  Or where can I flee from Your presence?  If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold you are there."

His love chastens us

His Love Corrects & His Love Chasens Us

In reading the Bible, I have come to realise that out of His great and unspeakable love for us, when we mess up, He corrects us.

As parents, when we see our children heading into situations that are not right, as human father who corrected our children when they are wrong, about the choices they are about to make or have made.  This is the same thing with the Lord, He hates sin but loves the sinner.  When we mess up by being disobedient, it seperates us from Him.

Let us continue to accept the heavenly Father's chastening even when it is painful.  It is out of His never ending love for us, He corrects us.

As the Scripture tells us in Hebrews 12:6 "For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives."

 

FINAL THOUGHTS

The scripture tells us that when we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).

When we mess up and disobey the Lord, out of His love, He will forgive us.  In Hebrews 8:12, we read "for I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."  Wow, is all I can say.  Not only with the Lord forgive us but He will also forget them.

I read in the Charles Spurgeon Bible this today (13/11/2022), that "the Lord cannot in strict accuracy of speech forget anything.  But He wishes us to know that His pardon is so true and deep that it amounts to an absolute oblivion, a total forgetting of all the wrongdoing of the pardoned ones."

 

Let Us Pray

Heavenly Father, at times I forget that it is not about me but it is all about You.  Father, there are times when I am selfish and only thinking about me.  Lord partial obedience is still disobedience.  Help me Lord when I stumble and You chasten me not to run away but to embrace Your love.

Thank You Lord for your love that surpasses all understanding.  In Jesus name I pray, amen.

Who Does Our Hearts Belong To?

Who Does Our Hearts Belong To?

by | Oct 29, 2022 | Blog Post

Who Does Our Hearts Belong To

 

Who Does Our Hearts Belong To

Who does our hearts belong to is a simple question, I have come to realise after reading 2 Kings 9 & 10 that we can do the work for the Lord but our hearts to do not belong to Him.

In reading it, I was taken aback but this can actually be true.

 

 

In 2 Kings 9, Jehu was anointed to be king over Israel.  He was to execute the judgment against Ahab's generation and Jezebel because of what they did to Naboth the Jezreelites (1 Kings 21).  He was to totally wipe out all of Ahab's generation and anyone considered to be friends of Ahab.

In 2 Kings 10, we read this taking place.  Jehu order all 70 sons of Ahab be killed.  In fact, he went as far as to have all those who worshipped Baal instead of the one true and living God to be killed.  One can say that he was God's instrument of judgment from the prophecy that was spoken by Elijah.

Who Does Our Heart Belongs To

Where Did It Go Wrong?

 

We further read from verse 29 that instead of moving forward in the things of the Lord, Jehu sinned against the Lord.

We read in verse 31 "but Jehu took no head to walk in the law of the LORD God of Isreal with all his heart; for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Isreal to sin.

It may seem difficult to comprehend that someone who did such exploits for the Lord still failed to follow the Lord.

The fact is, his heart was not longing after God.  He did not enquire of the Lord what next to do like others in the Bible such as David did.

Who Does Our Hearts Belong To

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Food For Thought

We all need to examine ourselves and our motivesfor serving the Lord Jesus.  Are we serving Him based only on impulse or are we serving Him based on a willingness out of love and adoration.

Just like Jesus who was agonising in the garden and asked the Father to take the cup of what He was about to go through from Him.  However, out of His obedience and willingness, He stated "not my will but Yours be done."

As we sit and meditate, let us get our hearts right with the Lord so that we can be sensitve to what the Lord wants us to do and walk in obedience and love.

Let us not be like Jehu whose heart was not searching and seeking to do the Father's will but only carried out his task as someone who is employed.

Let us instead be willing to say "let Your will be done".

Whose Report Do We Listen To?

Whose Report Do We Listen To?

by | Oct 2, 2022 | Blog Post

WHOSE REPORT DO WE LISTEN TO?

Often times, we listen to other people instead of going straight to the source, which is God Himself.  I am at times guilty of this, however, as my relationship grows with the Lord, I am learning to trust what He says above everyone else.  At times, it is not easy but this is a learning curve and we cannot be too hard on ourselves.

Learning from the past

After 12 men came back from spying out the land of Canaan, 10 gave a bad report.  They saw the giants of the land and were afraid.  Only Joshua and Caleb did not fear the gaints because they trusted the Lord and had faith in Him. They witnessed firsthand all the miracles performed by the Lord in the exodus from Egypt, therefore, they had no reason not to believe that the Lord will do it again.

The mercy of the Lord kept them through the 40 years of wondering in the desert.  They did not lack anything.

Due to the unbelief of the 10, (Numbers 13 - 26-33) the Lord's anger rose against them.  They had completely forgotten all the miracles/signs that the Lord did for them.  Not only did they see the mighty power of God in Egypt against the Egyptians, while they were in the desert, they were completely taken care of.  They were fed, given water to drink and they were protected from any danger through the mighty hand of the Almighty God.  Surely it could have dawned on them that since the Lord took them through and kept them all these years, He was not about to forsake them when they were so close to the Promised Land.

When they realised the fatal mistake they made in not trusting and believing on the Lord, they took it upon themselves to fight the Amalekites on their own (Numbers 14 - 39-45).  Those who went failed miserably because the Lord was not with them in battle.

In the end, they came back crying to the Lord, however, the Lord would not listen to them because they failed to listen when Moses told them not to go (Numbers 14 - 41 -44).

Whose Report Do We Listen To

Examine Ourselves

In examining our own lives, we must ensure that we learn from Israel's mistake/rebellion in their failure to believe and trust God.  The Lord has come through for us in the past and He has fought so many battles for us.  Battles that we did not even knew we were in.

We may and will come against obstacles &/or gaints that is occupying our promise land, however, when the Lord says go, we must go despite what we see in front of us.

If He has taken us this far, surely He is not going to leave us on our own to fight these gaints.

Whose Report Do You Listen To?

Final Thoughts

We must not be like the Israelites and go into battle without the Lord in the midst to fight along side us.  We must never take the battle in our own hands because we will lose, then we will have to suffer the consequences.  We will have to tend to our own wounds because we did not obey the voice of God when He spoke to us.

As the Scripture tells us, the battle is not yours, it is the Lords (2 Chronicles 20:15).

Standing Firm On The Promises Of God

Standing Firm On The Promises Of God

by | Feb 1, 2022 | Blog Post, God's Love

Standing Firm on the promises of God

STANDING FIRM ON THE PROMISES OF GOD

Standing firm on the promises of God can at times be very hard to do especially in the society that we currently live in.  At times, we may wait for years before we can see the promises of the Lord actually come through.  When we read in the Old Testament, we read about Abraham whom the Lord had promised a son.  In Genesis 12:1-4, when Abraham was 75 years old, the Lord promised him a son.  

Some may think that this is impossible but with God, all things are possible.  However, during the years, Sarah grew impatient and told Abraham to go into her servant Hagar, Genesis 16.  At the age of 86, Abraham’s son, Ishmael, was born through Hagar.  This, however, was not the promised son.  For this promise to fully come through, Abraham had to wait another 14 years.  Abraham trusted God despite how old he was.  He knew that God's word is truth.

Due to her impatience, after Ishmael was born, Sarah started to develop a not so liking of Hagar anymore.  This must have cause some tension in the household of Abraham.

 

 

Trust In The Lord With All Your Heart

After the promise child, Isaac, was finally born, tension was more evident in the household of Abraham.  

Genesis 21: 8 - 13 reads as follows:

The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. 9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, 10 and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”

11 The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. 12 But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring[a] will be reckoned. 13 I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.”

Although it saddened Abraham to sent Ishamel away, the Lord told Abrham not to worry but to do as Sarah told me.  He willing did not question it but obeyed.

It can be said that because Abraham had a relationship with the Lord, he knew that God's word is truth.

If we are being honest with ourselves, we probably would not even want to listen much less to comply because we would be stressed.

Could it be that was would not obey because we do not trust in the Lord even though we have seen and experienced His faithfullness in the past.

HE IS NEVER CHANGING

The Lord is never changing because He is the same yesterday, today and forever.  Therefore because of this, we can always depend on Him and stand firm on the promises of God because He is not a man that is made of flesh and blood and He cannot lie.  When we look at Noah, after the flood, the rainbow was placed in the sky as a covenant to Noah.  We all know the story where the Lord promised Noah that He would not destroy the earth by flood again.

Scripture tells us that we are to walk by faith and not by sight, 2 Corinthians 5:7.  We are also told that without faith it is impossible to please God.  Despite how long it is taking for God's promises to come through, we must at all times remain steadfast and have no doubts.  Be diligent and stand firm on the promises of God although it can at times be difficult to hold on?

I am not going to tell you that it is easy.  At times, I find myself doubting the Lord but despite the doubts from the enemy, we have to push all doubts and fear aside and hold us because God's word is truth.

Although this may not work for you but I find that in the season of waiting, I pressing in more.  I draw closer to the Lord by getting more into His Word, speaking to Him more, just soaking up His presence more and more.  Does this helps during the waiting process, yes it does but that does not mean the enemy will not come in to try and cast doubt but you just have to just hold on.

The scripture tells us that when we have the spirit of heaviness, we are to put on the garment of praise (Isaiah 63:1).

Put On The Armour of God

In Ephesians 6:11 we are encouraged by the Apostle Paul to put on the armor of God and one of them the shield of faith.  With this shield of faith, we can rest assured that no matter what the enemy is throwing at us, we know that the Lord will keep all His promises and because He is a promise keeper, we can stand firm on the promises of God .  Throughout the Bible we read that God is faithful and God’s Word is truth.  

When you are able to trust in the Lord with all your heart, even when all hope seems lost, you will not be overtaken but you will overcome. 

Armour of God

TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART

At times we may find it difficult to trust in what the Lord has told us.  While we may not be able to see the end, we must not forget that He is the Alpha and the Omega.  He knows the end even before it happens.  I can attest to this when it comes to trusting.

Sometime last year (2021) I started a business printing t-shirts and all things that are based on the goodness of Christ Jesus.  I was so scared to step out because so many negative thoughts kept coming in my head.  But despite what my mind was telling me, I kept pressing on and stood firm on the Lord’s promises.  I went from not having a clue with regards to creating t-shirts, to now creating hoodies, stickers and bookmarks, notebooks, just to name a few. 

I am still scared, of course I am but instead of trusting in my own abilities, I stand on Jeremiah 29:11, where He tells me that He knows the plans He has for me.  I also stand on Philippians 4:13 where He tells me that I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.  Instead of trusting in my own strength, I have come to rely on the Holy Spirit to lead me.

I am not going to say that everyday is cloud nine so to speak, but instead of giving up and throwing in the towel, I keep putting one foot forward.  I keep showing up for work even when I do not feel like doing it.  I do this because I know that God's Word is truth.

Do I know what is going to happen with this business?  Of course not but there are so many bible verses that confirm the promises of the Lord and each time the enemy wants to plant the seed of doubt, I am gently reminded by the Holy Spirit about the many promises.

We do not know what the future brings but with God on our side, we can rest assured that it is going to be great.  This is why it is so important that you trust in the Lord with all your heart and in doing so, He will direct your path.

 

Save Through Faith

Final Thoughts

Our God is faithful to us and we are told that if we confess with our mouth, He will forgive us our sins and because of this, we can stand firm on the promises of God.  It does not matter what sin we have committed, He will forgive us when we repent.  Does this mean that if we comint a crime, we will get away?  No, no, He is a just God and because of this whatever, sin we have commited, any consequences from this sin, we will have to pay.  It is at this time,, we will realise that He is there beside us comforting us while we "pay the time" so to speak.

The Lord your God is faithful and wants us all to have eternal life, this is why when He made the promise in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3:15, the promised Messiah was foretold to come.  This is another evidence that shows that God's Word is truth.  Whatever He says, it will come to pass.

When life is throwing the kitchen sink and everything in it at you, stand firm on the promises of God as well as your faith knowing that you serve a faithful Father who takes full responsibility for you and wants only the best for you.

Feeling afraid, do not be discouraged because the Lord Jesus is able.

Thank you very much for taking the time out the read this blog posts, and I hope that you are encouraged.  If the Lord has promised you something, hold unto it because He is faithful and He will come through and remember, no matter what, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5-6).