A Purposeful Life

God placed each and every one of us here for a purpose. Many of us may spend an entire lifetime just existing or “getting by”. Everyone has a purpose in life, something that burns in your heart, something you may only perceive to be a dream. When I look back on my life 5 to 6 years ago I thought my purpose was all about me. I wanted to be rich, I wanted to have this or that, it was all me, me, me. Now that I have come into the Kingdom of God what really burns in my heart is to help others.

Do I still desire to have some of the things I wanted in the past, yes; but now I have this passion to bless others. If you look at your life and your situation, can you say that you are operating in life for a purpose or are you just living? I want you to really think about it because I believe if we started to really seek God regarding purpose the world would be a much different place.

Some may say “well my purpose is to go to work and provide for my family”, in that regard I would say that is definitely something you should do but is that your purpose in life or just your function as a leader in your household? Now it may very well be that your purpose it to do that, I’m not saying that that can’t be someone’s purpose in life. All I’m saying is just do an evaluation. Is there a dream in your heart that just won’t go away? Do you have a feeling inside of you that you need to be doing something other than what you’re doing now? If that’s you I believe God is speaking to you about pursuing what He placed you on this earth for.

You may say “I have a dream of becoming xyz… but I can’t see how it can be accomplished in my current situation”. I say that’s all God, chances are that God is not going to tell you to do something that you can accomplish yourself. If He did then why would we need Him? When God speaks and gives you vision it’s usually something that blows your mind away. He might tell a farmer to go and preach the Word in a major city; He might tell a teacher to go be an astronaut. What has He shown you lately? God wants the world to witness His greatness through you. He wants people to actually see His mercy and grace and not just read about it. God can only accomplish this through you and me.

Exodus 9:16 (NKJV)
But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.

In the above scripture God is talking to Moses when He gave him the task of going to Pharaoh to deliver the messages. It’s no different today; God still wants and is still using His people in the same manner. The biggest hindrance in this process is our own selves. We can be quick to say I can’t, or that’s just a dream, etc… This is real; God wants to use you in such a mighty way. He wants to show you off to the world, He wants to put you on the stage and say “See there, that’s My son or My daughter”. We just have to take that first step of faith. Will it be a bit freighting, it may be. Will you have doubts here or there, you very may well. But through it all God is God and He will carry out what He has spoken in your life. It will happen if you just keep on walking.

So I say make a declaration that you will first pray and seek God as to what that purpose is in your life and then act upon it. I know that you can do it because God has already done it.

Daryle Houston II
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org