What's my Purpose?

We are inundated with news through TV, radio, billboards, social media on our phones and devises, mail and email and even by word of mouth. We wake up with it and go to bed with it. The devastating events of our world have overtaken our minds, thinking, dashed our hopes, optimism and dampened our dreams. Every time we take steps forward, we’re knocked steps back past where we were due to the news we are hearing. NEWS is finding out, discovering. learning, hearing, about something we previously didn’t know. It can even be a clarification of something you knew, but didn’t have full information or the whole story. News does a lot of things to us physiologically, socially, mentally, emotionally and even spiritually. Depending on the news, your whole being can change in an instant. News of death, injury, sickness/disease, catastrophe, by nature, causes us to go limp, often leaving us speechless and helpless (the feeling of being thrown overboard with both our hands and feet bound). Bad news changes our whole disposition no matter how you try and keep your composure. Recovery time is varied. It depends on the news, the person and the support system a person has. There’s some other news that can have the same impact on our lives, in a positive way: That’s the Good News of Jesus Christ. The Good News of Jesus Christ is the birth, life, ministry, crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and one day coming back of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This Good News can not only change your whole being in an instant, but it can also change your eternal destination. Romans 10:9 says, “If you shall say with your mouth, that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart, that God raised Jesus from the grave, you shall be saved (your eternal destination will be heaven). John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have eternal life”. 1 John 5:11- 13 says, “And this is the record that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son, He that has the Son, has life, he that has not the Son of God has not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God”. Accept this Good News today. Extra, Extra read all about it!!!! God loves you and has an awesome plan, purpose, design, for your life. Jeremiah 29:11 says, “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.” If you have a pulse, you have a purpose. Each person is uniquely gifted by God. 1 Peter 4:10 says, “Just as each one of you has received a special gift (a spiritual talent, an ability graciously given by God), employ it in serving one another as (is appropriate for) good stewards of God’s multifaceted grace (faithfully using the diverse, varied gifts and abilities granted to Christians by God’s unmerited favor).” Let’s accept this gift of purpose. Let’s live out our unique design and be all that God desires for us to be. Don’t ask a child what they want to be when they grow up, let’s ask them what changes do they want to make in this world. God has uniquely designed us to make changes; to make a difference; to altar or modify the current state of mankind and the mess this world has become. God desires that all be saved, and none be lost. God has saved us and gifted us to reach this world for Him; to change the Bad News to Good News; The GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ. There’s a lot of NEWS in this world; good, bad and indifferent. You can’t change the NEWS but you can change how you respond, react, acknowledge, answer, reply to, come back, or counter to. Let’s herald the GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ. “Go ye therefore into all the world, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world”. Matthew 28:18-20

We’ve been taught from youth up that a closed mouth doesn’t get fed. We must ask for what we want. Open our mouths and talk. That seemed to work for the most part, however even after we asked for some stuff, we still didn’t get it. We experienced all the disappointment, frustration, discontentment and irritation of not getting what we truly wanted. Especially as children; a favorite toy, a game, a shiny new bike, etc. But even as an adult; a new job, a new house, a new car, a new start, a little more money, etc., are the all-time favorite requests. It probably never really dawned on us, especially growing up as kids, about this concept of we don’t get what we ASK for, we get what we BELIEVE for. It’s through life experiences, a few ups and downs, trials and errors, that this and most stuff in life really comes into play. Throwing in the towel should never be an option. Ron Wilkerson, Jr. once said, “If you have a pulse, you have a purpose”. A famous quote of Napoleon Hill says, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” I want to impress on our hearts and minds as we start this new year that we don’t just get what we ask for, we get what we believe for. You must believe your purpose. You must believe your heart. You must believe your worth. You must believe your destiny. You must believe your calling. You must believe your vocation. You must believe your wants, desires and yearnings. You must believe yourself. You must believe your life. You must believe your happiness. Edgar Albert helps us out with his poem, Don’t Quit. When Things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and debts are high, And you want to Smile but have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is strange with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won if he’d stuck it out, Don’t give up though the pace seems slow, You might succeed with another blow. Often the struggler has given up, When he might have captured the victor’s cup. And he learned too late, when the night slipped down, How close he was to the golden crown, Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems afar, So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit, It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit. CeCe Winans tells us to Believe For It. Let’s start this year having the faith that can reach the unreachable, fight the unbeatable, remove the unmovable, stand the invincible, see the invisible, expect the incredible, receive the impossible, Uproots my problems, know God can solve them, to vision your freedom, FAITH THAT CAN CONQUER ANYTHING!!!! DON’T JUST ASK FOR IT; BELIEVE FOR IT HAPPY NEW YEAR Let’s walk through the door in “2024”

(EDUCATE ~. ENERGIZE. ~. EXECUTE )