Like this woman many Christians are walking around feeling as though their lives are counting for a divine, definite purpose, but feeling like your missing something. These Christians know they are saved & will make it to heaven, but wander around feeling unfulfilled.

A sailor when asked where he sailed responded” I’m only restricted by the ocean.” Maybe you are like that. Void of direction. Drifting aimlessly through life, without purpose.

A saying I’ve heard,”A saved soul but a lost life…”

2Timothy 1:9 God has saved us… & called us according to His purpose.

Why is there so much boredom, restlessness, & unfulfillment in the Church today?

David Ravenhill says I believe the problem stems from the fact that many believers have no sense of vision, no understanding of God’s divine purpose for their own lives or for His church as a whole.

For many Christians the bible seems like a huge jigsaw puzzle with thousands of bewildering pieces. They never have grasped a glimpse of the whole picture together- they simply lay aside the scriptures convincing themselves that it is too complicated to understand. Is it any wonder then that we have no sense of vision. Satisfied with salvation alone, we give little thought to understanding God’s divine purpose, or finding our own place in God’s plan- the destiny for which you were created.

Acts13:22 & 36.

I have found David, The son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will…For David after he had served the purposes in his own generation, fell asleep, & was laid among his fathers…

Serving the purposes of God in our generation that is our high calling. That is where we find true fulfilment. Nothing satisfies apart from it. To be joined together with Christ, labourers together, united in spirit, intent in one purpose. What a privilege! What a calling!

When Christian Herter was governor of Massachusetts, he was running hard for a second term in office. One day, after a busy morning chasing votes (and no lunch) he arrived at a church barbecue. It was late afternoon and Herter was famished. As Herter moved down the serving line, he held out his plate to the woman serving chicken. She put a piece on his plate and turned to the next person in line.

"Excuse me," Governor Herter said, "do you mind if I have another piece of chicken?"

"Sorry," the woman told him. "I'm supposed to give one piece of chicken to each person."

"But I'm starved," the governor said.

"Sorry," the woman said again. "Only one to a customer."

Governor Herter was a modest and unassuming man, but he decided that this time he would throw a little weight around. "Do you know who I am?" he said. "I am the governor of this state."

"Do you know who I am?" the woman said. "I'm the lady in charge of the chicken. Move along, mister."

Do you know who you are?

Do you know what authority you have?

Do you know your purpose?

Abraham was called into the purpose of God.

Genesis12:1-3

Get out of your country, from your family & from your fathers house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you & make your name great; & you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, & I will curse those who curse you & in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

Abraham’s blessing was only to be retained but released. God’s desire was that through Abraham all the nations of the earth would be blessed.

If you read the readers digest, you know that a condensed form of a best selling book appears in the back of the magazine each month. Whilst leaving the basic message & essence of the book in tact, the editors reduce the book to a fraction of its original number of pages.

That’s remarkable but Jesus gave us the ultimate condensed book when He reduced the entire old testament to two verses Luke 24:46-47! During Christ’s appearance to His disciples after His resurrection, He said:

…these are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses & the prophets & the Psalms concerning me. And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the scriptures. Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, & thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer & to rise from the dead on the third day, & that repentance & remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem”.

We are witnesses of the gospel, not in the sense of witnessing a car accident, but in the sense of being responsible for & proclaiming the message of the gospel.

But as important as that message is Jesus told His disciples not to rush out immediately but instead he commanded in

Luke24:49 Tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.

Endued:- filled or clothed with power. This only comes from spending time in His presence.

God is looking for people who do what He wants them to do

Neil Marten, a member of the British Parliament, was once giving a group of his constituents a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament. During the course of the visit, the group happened to meet Lord Hailsham, then Lord Chancellor, wearing all the regalia of his office. Hailsham recognized Marten among the group and cried, "Neil!" Not daring to question or disobey the "command," the entire band of visitors promptly fell to their knees!


Jeannette Turton