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Focusing on Our Purpose

So I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step. I fight to win. I’m not just shadow-boxing or playing around. Like an athlete I punish my body, treating it roughly, training it to do what it should, not what it wants to.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Until you find your purpose, you would keep going round wasting your time doing the things that are not important to the reason you were born. Your life is composed of seconds, hours and years, so you would be actually be wasting your life.

When you find out your divine purpose, you can finally start working on the reason God created you and put you in the earth for.

A man of God once said that when the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable. A lot of us go through a lot of our challenges because we have not found our divine purpose, and unknowingly, tend to be ‘abused’ by life itself.

What we need do is,

1. Ask God to tell you why you were born and to start guiding you into it.

2. Meditate on what God impresses on your heart in answer to this prayer. Find out what it would take to get to that level of achievement. Find someone who has achieved that level of success in that or a similar field and read their life stories, books, articles, etc. If they are still alive and you can quickly do this, try to get access to them. Learn from them the level of discipline and the habits, skills and attitudes it would take to acheive your divine purpose.
– Pr 15:22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

3. Pray that the Lord would show you where you should start working on immediately. Pray for strength and zeal to do all you need to do now.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 – In a race everyone runs, but only one person gets first prize. So run your race to win. To win the contest you must deny yourselves many things that would keep you from doing your best. An athlete goes to all this trouble just to win a blue ribbon or a silver cup, but we do it for a heavenly reward that never disappears. So I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step. I fight to win. I’m not just shadow-boxing or playing around. Like an athlete I punish my body, treating it roughly, training it to do what it should, not what it wants to.
Proverbs 22:29 Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.
2 Chronicles 31:21 And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.
Proverbs 12:1 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

PRAYER POINTS

1. Pray for the nation Nigeria, that the government of this country, knowingly or unknowingly does exactly what the Lord wishes them to do.
2. Pray that the Lord would enable you to see your divine purpose even more clearly, and strengthen you to focus fully on it.
3. Pray that you are filled with passion and sold out to God’s divine purpose for you.
4. Pray that as from now, you start moving obviously toward your purpose.
5. Thank You Father, for NOTHING cans stop Me in the Name of the Lord Jesus!
6. I command every wrong spirit hovering around my life to desist in their operations and stop in their manoevers right now in Jesus Name!