DIVINE PURPOSE 2-12-23 VIDEO GOD’S PLAN
God has given each person a purpose or a reason why we are alive at this time. Purpose means the reason for which something is created or for with something or someone exist. If you were still alive and breathing, and you must still have a purpose to fulfill.
In Hebrews, all these heroes fulfilled their purpose even when they didn’t understand their assignment, they all went forward.
Psalms 139:13 You formed my innermost being, shaping my delicate inside
and my intricate outside, and wove them all together in my mother’s womb. TPT
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Psalms 139:15 You even formed every bone in my body when you created me in the secret place; carefully, skillfully you shaped me from nothing to something.
16You saw who you created me to be before I became me! Before I’d ever seen the light of day, the number of days you planned for me were already recorded in your book. TPT
Rom 8:28 That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
29 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him.
30 After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.
31 So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? MSG
Job 42:2 I know that You can do all things, and that no thought or purpose of Yours can be restrained or thwarted. AMP
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Job 42:2 “I’m convinced: You can do anything and everything. Nothing and no one can upset your plans. MSG
Proverbs 4:25 Set your gaze on the path before you. With fixed purpose, looking straight ahead, ignore life’s distractions.
26Watch where you’re going! Stick to the path of truth, and the road will be safe and smooth before you.
27Don’t allow yourself to be sidetracked for even a moment or take the detour that leads to darkness. TPT
Prov 19:21 We humans keep brainstorming options and plans, but God’s purpose prevails. MSG
Eccl 3:1 TO EVERYTHING there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven: AMP
Isa 42:6 I, Yahweh, have commissioned you in righteousness to succeed. I will take your hand in love and watch over you. I will give you as a covenant’ for the people,
a walking-light to the nations.
7 Your mission is to open blind eyes, to set prisoners free from dark dwellings,’ and to open prison doors to those who are held by darkness:
8 I am Yahweh; that is my name. I will not give my glory to another god nor my renown to idols. TPT
Luke 4:17 he was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written,
18 God’s Spirit is on me; he’s chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, Sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free,
19 to announce, “This is God’s year to act!”
20 He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the assistant, and sat down. Every eye in the place was on him, intent.
21 Then he started in, “You’ve just heard Scripture make history. It came true just now in this place.” MSG
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LU 4:17 The scroll of Isaiah the prophet, was handed to him and he stood up to read.
18 He opened the scroll and rolled it out in order to find the specific place where the following was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to announce glad tidings to a starving people; he has commissioned me to announce the freedom of forgiveness [their true I-am-ness] to those held captive at spear-point by their guilt and shame; also, the blind may now look up and be restored in their sight! I am anointed to send out those who are bruised and traumatized, into the freedom of their redeemed innocence.
19 I announce that the Jubilee year of the Lord has come! This is the liberation celebration of the Lord, embracing humanity home!
20 Jesus then rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down, while everyone’s eyes were fixed on him.
21 He announced emphatically, Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing! MIRROR
Isa 55:11 So also will be the words that I speak; it does not return to me unfulfilled.
My word performs my purpose and fulfills the mission I sent it out to accomplish. TPT
John 5:30 I am able to do nothing from Myself [independently, of My own accord — but only as I am taught by God and as I get His orders]. Even as I hear, I judge [I decide as I am bidden to decide. As the voice comes to Me, so I give a decision], and My judgment is right (just, righteous), because I do not seek or consult My own will [I have no desire to do what is pleasing to Myself, My own aim, My own purpose] but only the will and pleasure of the Father Who sent Me. AMP
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JN 5:30 The dynamic of my doing is in my union with my Father; my intimate acquaintance with his voice is what inspires me – as I hear, I discern and my judgment is just; there is no conflicting interest here – my Father’s commission is my mission in life! MIRROR
John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me.
39 And this is the will of Him Who sent Me, that I should not lose any of all that He has given Me, but that I should give new life and raise [them all] up at the last day.
40 For this is My Father’s will and His purpose, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in and cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up [from the dead] at the last day. AMP
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JN 6:38 For I have stepped down out of heaven, not to make a name for myself! I did not come to become a mere historic hero! I have come to communicate the resolve of him who sent me! (I am here to demonstrate to you how persuaded my Father is about you!)
39 My Sender’s desire is for me to rescue every single individual – this is his gift to me – that I will lose no detail of their original identity mirrored in me! My rescuing mission will conclude in their joint-resurrection! This is the completeness of time!
40 And this is the desire of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son, through his eyes, and finds the conclusion of their persuasion in him, will resonate (echo) the life of the ages! And I will raise him up in the final day! MIRROR
Rom 14:9 For Christ died and lived again for this very purpose, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. AMP
John 12:27 “Right now I am storm-tossed. And what am I going to say? ‘Father, get me out of this’? No, this is why I came in the first place.
28 I’ll say, ‘Father, put your glory on display.'” A voice came out of the sky: “I have glorified it, and I’ll glorify it again.”
29 The listening crowd said, “Thunder!” Others said, “An angel spoke to him!” MSG
HEB 11:39 Their lives were trophies to their faith, as the substance of what was visualized by their hope, and the evidence of things their natural eyes never saw.
40 God saw the perfect picture in us; we now complete the history of their lives. MIRROR
Heb 11:39 Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised.
40 God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours. MSG
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Heb 12:1 Do you see what this means — all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running — and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.
2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed — that exhilarating finish in and with God — he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.
3 When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
Rom 6:18 And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action). AMP
Gal 1:4 Who gave (yielded) Himself up [to atone] for our sins [and to save and sanctify us], in order to rescue and deliver us from this present wicked age and world order, in accordance with the will and purpose and plan of our God and Father. AMP
1 JN 3:8 Sin’s source is a fallen mindset, from the beginning! For this purpose the Son of God was revealed! His mission was to undo the works of the Devil! MIRROR
Eph 2:8 For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;
9 Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.]
10 For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated 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 of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live]. AMP
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Eph 2:8 Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish!
9 We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing!
10 No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing. MSG
EPH 2:13 But now, wow! Everything has changed; you have discovered yourselves to be located in Christ. What once seemed so distant is now so near; his blood reveals your redeemed innocence and authentic genesis. MIRROR
EPH 1:5 He is the architect of our design; his heart dream realized our coming of age in Christ. … and to seal our sonship the spirit of his Son echoes Abba Father in our hearts.”
6 His grace-plan is to be celebrated: he greatly endeared us and highly favored us in Christ. His love for his Son is his love for us. MIRROR