Raised up for a purpose....

Sometimes problems occur when we try to use something for a different purpose than it was designed for (think about that)
A table is not a chair, neither is it a ladder, likewise a chair is not a ladder, it is a seat meant for people to sit on, that’s why we pray each week for them all to be filled in our church.

The bible is not a door stop, its not meant to be put on show somewhere on display, what its purpose is, is to be read and applied….
.and please get that, not just read, - but applied.

A person who lives their life outside of original purpose, is not doing what they were designed to do.

Right from wrong… how do we know ? conscience, society, the bible,

Have you ever wondered why we had to build jails ? it’s because people chose to live with wrong choices, outside of original purpose.

so then, What is our original purpose ?
According to God and His Word it is very clear..

Exodus 9: 16
But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

God has raised us up for a purpose…

Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.

The question we need to answer for ourselves today is that true of your life and mine ?
Are you living your life out of that purpose ? God’s name being proclaimed through your life, His power being seen in what you do and where you go, .....He has raised us up for that purpose….
there are stages of a person’s life, moving from ignorance through to behaviour change, based on belief….

Behaviour change is required to live out Godly purpose….

This life is not all there is…

Ecclesiastes : 3:11-14 (amplified bible)
11He 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.
12I know that there is nothing better for them than to be glad and to get and do good as long as they live;
13And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor--it is the gift of God.
14I know that whatever God does, it endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it. And God does it so that men will [reverently] fear Him [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is].

I don’t think God is into party tricks or magic…I think God sends His power so that people may believe and give their lives over to Him and live to love him and proclaim His name through out the entire earth including Craigieburn and wherever you are situated as you read this blog.

I believe that God wants to do so much more…in our lives

I believe that God wants to heal people of their illness and disease and also their hurts and pain.

I believe that God wants to set a fire in your heart after the things of the Kingdom.

I believe that God wants to save people from loneliness, suffering and despair and replace it with hope, peace and love.

I believe that God wants to set eternity in the hearts of everyone in this world without exclusion or prejudice.

I believe that God wants to pour out His power and equip people with gifts and abilities that He can use to reach this world, and to build up His church.

I believe that God wants to do this in you and in me, right now.

But I also believe that there is only one thing stopping Him from doing that in each of us, and that is an unwilling and closed heart.

God wants to send the fire today, to fall afresh on us today, and for some of us that will require some things to be broken in us….ego, pride, doubt, fear, self reliance….

But I also know that when God does it, His power will flow so strongly in us that we will be repaired and renewed and revived and Gods purpose will become real for everyone of us .

God says to each of us today without exception…

I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth through you..

amen amen amen...