DAY 15 - LORD, MOVE ME INTO THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH I WAS CREATED.
God created us all for a purpose. Whether you know your purpose or not, you are predestined for greatness. It is rather unfortunate most of us grow up without knowing this purpose and so wander around trying to figure out what it is we are meant to do in this life. When we don't realise the purpose for which God has predestined for us, we don't have an accurate understanding of our identity and so we either strive to be like someone else or something were'r not. We compare ourselves to others and feel as though we always fall short. God doesn't want that for you. He wants you to have a clear vision for your life. He wants to reveal to you what your gifts and talents are and show you how best to develop them and use them for His glory.
Many of us wished our parents knew to pray for God's purposes in our lives. Because though you might not know what the future holds, the prayer will guide and point you in a right direction. I will love to encourage each and everyone one of my readers, especially parents, to start praying towards the purpose for which God has for your children.
No matter how far off the path you have gotten from the plans and purpose God has for you and your children, when you surrender your life to the Lord and declare your utter dependence upon Him, He carves a path from where you are to where you are supposed to be, and He sets you on it. It may take you longer than it would have taken had you been on the right path from the beginning, but if you keep walking closely with God, He will get you where you are supposed to be.
PRAYER
Lord, I thank You that You have called me with a holy calling, not according to my works, but according to Your purpose and grace which was given to me in Christ Jesus (II Timothy 1:9). I know that Your plan for me existed before I knew You, and You will bring it to pass. Help me to "walk worthy of the calling wig which I was called " (Ephesians 4:1). I know there is an appointed plan for me, and I have a destiny that will now be fulfilled.
Help me to live my life with a sense of purpose and understanding of the calling You have given me. I lay down all pride, selfishness , and anything else that would keep me from moving into all You have for me. I don't want to miss out on Your purpose for my life because I did not walk he way You wanted me to. I repent of every day I haven't fully lived for You. Help me to live he way You want me to from now on.
Lord, help me to understand the call You have on my life. Take away any discouragement I may feel and replace it with joyful anticipation of what You are going to do through me. Use me as Your instrument time make a positive difference in the lives of this email whom You put in my path. Help me to rest in confidence of knowing that Your timing is perfect. I know that whatever You have called me to do, You will enable me to do it.
I pray that nothing will draw me away from fulfilling the plan You have for me. May I never stray from what You have called me to be and do. Give me a vision for my life and a strong sense of purpose. I put my identity in You and my destiny in Your hands. Show me if what I am doing now is what I am supposed to be doing. I want what You are building in my life to last for eternity. I don't want to waste time going after things that are not what You have for me. Help me to be content where I am, knowing You won't leave me there forever.
Lord, I know that "all things work together for good" to those who love You and are called according to Your purpose (Romans 8:28). I don't want to presume that I know what that purpose is. Nor do I want to spend a lifetime trying to figure out what I am supposed to be doing and miss the mark. So I pray that You at the gifts and would show me clearly what the gifts and talents are that You have placed in me. Lead me in the way I should go as I grow in them. Enable me to use them according to Your will and for Your glory. Amen.
Scripture for Meditation
Ephesians 4:1-3
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
II Peter 1:10
Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble.
I Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Ephesians 1:11-12
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
Romans 8:30
Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
#inspired...ann #WiseQuotes
*Stomie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman(2006)
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