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| Pulpit on sunday |
As believers in Christ, it is our core responsibility and duty to locate our positions in Him through His Word. The good plans and purposes for which God created us are all wrapped up in His word. This impliedly means that until you discover His purpose for your life, you could persistently keep living a life of trial and errors. Worst of it all, you could find yourself copying another’s calling and destiny unknowingly.
Interestingly, God through His word had revealed all things to mankind. His ways are no longer hidden from His people; hence to ignore hooking up to study intensively is at the individual’s detriment. This is because God is a Spirit, and can only relate to man in the physical realm through His Spirit. Importantly, to flow with the Spirit requires the knowledge of the Word, if not, to connect to the Spirit may not be possible.
Without doubt, God is a God of purpose and never made anything on the surface of the earth without plans and purposes. The book of Ephesians 2:10 makes this clear, “For we are God’s [own] handiwork [workmanship] created in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead og time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].AMP
Remarkably, the scripture clearly shifts the responsibility to Christians and not to God. The scripture says “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). It didn’t stop there, it emphatically stated in Colossians 4:17 ” ….Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfill it. From the two scriptures above, it is evidently clear that it is our responsibility to ensure that our callings and destinies are actualized accordingly.
Suffice to say that all the provisions, expectations, solutions, deliverance, healings, favours and other spiritual blessings we pursue have been wrapped up in the Word and delivered to mankind.
In living a life of purpose and divine plan, inevitably, you should have a good knowledge and understanding of the Word knowing that His word is the wisdom of God.(Proverbs 1:20, 33, Psalm 119:130.
Concerted study of the Word with consciously yielding to the Holy Spirit will usher you into His divine presence where both secrets and mysteries of the kingdom would be revealed to you. Deuteronomy 29:29 says “The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
Submit yourself to Him today because the more yielded you are to Him through His Word, the more He would be willing to work out His good purposes in your life which would make you a light in your world. As you know the word, it enables you to fulfill the will of the Father.