The Pursuit Of Purpose 12.2

Hola! Heitha! Good morning and how are you?!

I wish I could hear your answer, but can only hope that you are doing better than yesterday, if not financially then let it be in Wisdom. We should always strive to learn from each day and be more knowledgeable for the next.

Ok, it has been quite a journey going through The Purpose Formula and I hope that it has been very beneficial in terms of giving insights into how we find our Purpose, particularly in God.

Let's do a quick recap and bring it to a close shall we?

• First we learnt that our most nagging Frustrations that have to do with the world we live in are some of the best indicators of what our God-Given Purpose is. It is imperative to take stock of what truly bothers us that we want to do something about. We then can't just have them there to linger but these Frustrations must grow inside of us until they draw us into step number 2, establishing a Desire to change the matter.

• In step two, we have Desire. Here is where we then register our intentions to sort these things out. It is where we work within ourselves that we indeed intend to do what is necessary to make our mark. This step of course, comes with it's own damaging challenges which normally tell us that what we Desire to do isn't going to actually change anything, make any difference or do anything for us personally. These obstacles can really dent this step and deny it's growth. Our greatest encouragement here should be that The God of heaven and earth is NOT subject to the elements of this world and that when we partner with Him, WE CAN!

• When Desire has grown enough to now push us to find ways to fulfill it, we start Seeking them. We met Themba and Patience who found themselves in search for something and someone respectively, that was lost. In both stories we learnt that the value that you place on what/who you are looking for will propel us to either spend a little time and then give up, or to stop at nothing to find it/him/her. We need to place the highest value on this Purpose of ours and Seek out every way to manifest the solution/s. If the way isn't there, then let's create a way. God is an Inventor and He made us with the same characteristic.

• Lastly, once we find ourselves where we are not going to be held back by obstacles and challenges, then we become Zealous in our endeavors. In the Zeal Dimension, we are consumed by this Purpose and are driven to make things happen! Yet we learnt in the Book of Isaiah that it is the Zeal of The Lord that accomplishes great things and that if we now allow Him to Lord over our plans and ways, then we will certainly conquer for His Glory!

Welcome to your Purpose!

That about wraps up this beautiful, life-changing series and if you want more on it, please go ahead and leave me a comment right here or contact me on the details in TPOP 11.4. Also, if there is a topic that you would like me to discuss, let me know and we will see what we can do.

Here it is...
In the Kingdom of God, there are ways and means to succeed and be completely fulfilled. Living in His Purpose for our lives and learning to listen to and follow His Voice will cause us to do thing far greater than we could have otherwise. He is Lord and will always be, no matter how much this world tries to say the opposite. Let's walk in Victory, in our Purpose and in Power on planet earth! In Jesus' Mighty Name!

TGBTG!
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The Pursuit Of Purpose 12.1

The Pursuit of Purpose 12.1

Good Day, Good day, Good day! Oh yeah it is a good day in Jesus’ Name!

Hoping that you’re getting things done on your side as well, let’s keep going.

In the last post we spoke about the understanding that in the Zeal step or dimension, it is The Lord’s Zeal that shall accomplish great things. IF we immerse ourselves in His Hands and choose to be led of Him, then even the gates of hades cannot stand against us fulfilling our Purpose.

The Almighty is the One Who created this world that we live in and although He gave us authority over it to rule and to reign like He does in heaven…He is still Sovereign and even His foolishness, is far higher than our own wisdom. It is therefore imperative to remember that He is the One Who knows the plans that He has for us, to prosper us and not to harm us.

He made us, He knows us, He isn’t shocked by what we experience, so it’s easy to see why it would benefit us immensely to trust that His Way is simply the best way.

News Flash! God knows that we have plans in life! I’ve spoken to many people who think that submitting to the Will of Jehovah means not having plans at all in life. Errr, no! Check Proverbs 19:21 out;

‘Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.’

As we can all see, He is well aware that we plan things and aim to achieve them etc. So how is it that we submit to His Way? I will tell you.

Walking with God is a beautiful journey and He made us with a will of our own, which He also acknowledges. He does tell us in Isaiah 48:17, ‘Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.’

He teaches us that like David the king, we should go to Him and ask for direction on where to go and what to do. We do this in prayer and supplication, and then of course listening to Him answer. We have spent quite a while on past posts discussing how to hear from God…yes? Right…so that we should do.

At the same time, it is natural to us to plan things, our next meal, a trip overseas, to start a business, to have a child, to purchase a car, to apply for a new job and all that. In many cases, we jump at such opportunities and talk to God afterwards, right? I know, so does God. What Proverbs is then talking about is that whatever we are planning, when we walk with God, it is God’s Sovereign Will that will prevail. So we best brace ourselves for certain plans of our own, to fail if they are contrary to where He is taking us. Eish neh?

Here it is…

In Zeal, we must understand that God made us and gave us authority on earth as He has in heaven, yet He is still Almighty and He knows the way to navigate this world MUCH better than we do. Period! It is His Word that asks us to go before Him if we want to do something to propel us forward, but also knows that we have many plans. If we are in Him, it is His Will that will prevail and we must accept that with joy, for our own sake.

On the next post…
We Recap On And Close ‘The Purpose Formula’ Series
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TGBTG!

The Messenger

Stay Blessed, Be Multiplied

The Pursuit Of Purpose 12

Avuxeni! Molweni! Dumelang! Greetings from Pretoria!

 

I’ve had a lovely day, plans upon plans to move forward as I aim to get things done every single day. No messing around I tell ya!

I hope you are well and progressing as well in 2015.

Let’s do this! We are now in the last step of The Purpose Formula called, Zeal. By definition this word commands some respect:

·         ‘great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective.’

 

Someone who is Zealous is one who is highly passionate about something or someone and as far as I’m concerned, consumed by it. Zeal speaks of a serious commitment to a cause and the success thereof. Herein lies the driving force of fulfilling our Purpose in Him.

 Let’s look at the Word;

• Isaiah 9:6-7 says, “6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

• 7Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.”

 

King David observes this Revelation as he admonishes God in front a large congregation in 1 Chronicles 29:10,

 

• “10Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 11Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. 12Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 13Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.”

 

There is something that we learn about life when we walk the face of the earth…God Is Sovereign. That’s it. I heard someone say that God is a myth, while another says that God is just another option out there or even a last resort after you’ve tried everything. Yet another young man told me that God doesn’t exist.

Heh heh, this world is full of opinions and views and perspectives I tell you…and make no mistake, all the options that are available to us have caused unmistakable confusion. What do we do? Stay Tuned to these posts, we get into that soon.

 

For the purpose of The Formula at hand…the first thing that we see is that in this world, if we are to have True Success, we need to understand that it is the Zeal of The Lord that will accomplish it! Our zeal is limited to our own strength, but if it is the Zeal of The Lord that we are consumed by, then it is dependent on Him to get it done. Yes? Oh Yes!

Here it is…

It is The Zeal of The Lord that accomplishes feats both great and small in our own eyes, yet all have their place in the advancement of The Kingdom of God. The first thing we need to understand about this dimension is…Allow the success of our quest to depend on Him than ourselves.

 

On the next post…

A Closer Look At Zeal

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TGBTG!

The Messenger

Stay Blessed, Be Multiplied

The Pursuit Of Purpose 11.4

Goooooooooooood Day! Oh yeah! This is the day that He has made, it’s REJOICE TIME!

I hope you’re good on your side. By the way, I need to seriously apologize to my Tsonga readers. In my lack of wisdom, I didn’t actually check how we spell one of the greetings in this lovely language. I’m told that it’s actually Avuxeni rather than my assumed apsheni. My deepest apologies and I will be a lot more careful in future.

Right, let’s get to the examples as directed in the last post. Remember that we have learnt now that in the Seeking dimension or the Seeking part of the Purpose Formula, we need to place the highest value on the Desires that were birthed from our Frustrations so that we refuse to lose them.

Now, many people simply don’t know where to go to do certain things that they Desire to do. You may have a business idea that isn’t as prevalent in your area as others, or have an idea regarding manufacturing something that you don’t see all that much where you are or where you want to go.

You may even want to start a crèche or build a bottle making factory, or do a new kind of garden service, maybe even be a catalyst in your community for information about development therein. Some of you may want to start a netball, hockey, swimming, athletics, soccer, bowling club etc. Perhaps yours is to write a book, or record a music album or be a video and sound production company. Whatever your idea is, it’s important and deserves to be written down, recorded somewhere or typed up.

Then Seeking a way to manifest this idea is next. Since we now see it with high value, we need to make sure it is brought to life.

The internet is one place to go for information about doing what we want to do, but in my experience it has fallen short on many occasions when it comes to things available to us more locally. That’s just me. So I have resorted to do some running around to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC), The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) etc. The aim was to see what is available to us and what steps can be taken to do something.

These organisations above, including The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) are good places to go for research. There are ofcourse many other ways of getting started, from using the little money you have to sell sweets, vegetables, ice-cream from a bicycle and grow your business from there; or even to find someone who is well off financially and partner with them to get going…it’s all about doing something!

I may not have all the information that everybody needs to get started but I want to help you if you would like me to, in getting you on the move. You can contact me by sending me a facebook message on www.facebook.com/PreestG, www.facebook.com/TheMessenger37, leaving me a comment here on this blog, or by sending me an email mothobi.gabriel@yahoo.com. I’m here to help you fulfil your purpose where I can.

Here it is…

Once you have placed enough value on what is inside of you, no matter how big or small, then put it down somewhere, and do research. Network with me and if I don’t have an answer for you, we will find it together and develop ourselves for the Glory of God Almighty!

On the next post…

We Talk About Zeal-The Last Step In The Purpose Formula

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TGBTG!

The Messenger

The Pursuit Of Purpose 11.3

Hola daarso! A very good day to you sir or madam!

I pray that you are having a good day so far. On my side, it’s hot one part of the day and raining the next. It reminds me of Cape Town…ha!

Now, on the past two posts we had observed the two stories pertaining to Themba and Patience. We saw two levels of intensity to finding something/someone that was lost.

Since we are inevitably going to try a compare a thing to a person, let me bring to light the illustration that The Great JC (Jesus Christ) gave in Luke 15.

He was explaining what we have been talking about here. Between verse 4  and 7 we read,

• “What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. 7I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance."
• Then he speaks of the same value placed upon a thing as well by the woman in verses 8 and 9, “8Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? 9And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost."

We see here that whether it’s a person or thing, the value we attach to him/her or it is what will propel us to hang on to them or not. Therefore I submit that our friend Themba did not place as much value on the key ring as Patience did on her son.

When it comes to fulfilling our Desire, we NEED to place the highest value on it and use this to make us unstoppable in getting it done. Once we have settled within ourselves that we aren’t going to allow ANYTHING or ANYONE to stand in our way, then we can move on to the next part.

Here it is...

It’s a decision and not a feeling to allow NOTHING and/or NO ONE to halt us from fulfilling our Desire in sorting out our Frustrations as we continue our journey to finding our God given purpose. The time has come to raise warriors for The Kingdom who will keep head-strong about DOING the Will of God.

On the next post...

We Begin A Couple Of Examples On Getting It Done

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TGBTG!

The Messenger

Stay Blessed, Be Multiplied

The Pursuit Of Purpose 11.2

Hallo Hallo Hallo! I hope you are doing well wherever you find yourself at this point.

I bless The Almighty Who still remains on The Throne.

Now, we have a story to look at. On the last post we heard or rather read the story of Themba and his birthday gift.

Today, let’s observe another. Her name is Patience and she was invited to Gold Reef City in early December last year. Her husband was away in Paris, attending to a construction project he had been awarded.

She decided to take both Matshidiso (8) and Thabiso (6) with her and joined up with her friends who were also bringing their young children.

It was packed to capacity, with people from all over coming to enjoy the variety of rides on offer. Sure enough the group of eight buddies met together and allowed their children to go on different rides.

While her children were playing, she went to purchase some ice-cream for them as they had been pleading with her since they arrived.

The queue was quite long, but she was patient…lol. She came back and looked through the group of children that all belonged to herself and her friends. The kids were having great fun running around but, Thabiso was nowhere to be seen. She looked frantically for him with her eyes and moved around a little, with no success!

The ice cream quickly became a forgotten thing and she started to walk and then run around. She approaches Matshidiso and asks her with bated breath, “Ngwana o kae?!” (Where is the child?). The young girl’s facial expression changes from joy to shock as she also turns around and replies, “Mama, he was right here.”

Matshidiso goes looking for him and rallies her friends to do the same, screaming, “Thabiso!!! Thabiso!!!”

Patience goes to her friends and tells them about the missing boy and without hesitation, the search party is increased. After about 30 minutes without any luck, she runs to the security guards and asks them for help as well. She gives everyone she can a description of the child, not bothered one bit that she was asking absolute strangers for help.

Some three hours later with almost everyone at the place looking for Thabiso, an old lady comes holding him in her arms to one of the guards. She tells him that she found the young boy stuck having hurt his leg and because of the noise, his cries for help weren’t heard. He ended up falling asleep on the grass.

It was announced that the boy was found and there was great celebration. Patience immediately took her children so that they can get him medical attention. [To Be Continued…]

Here it is…

The altitude of the value we place on something or someone will determine the magnitude that we give it or them our expensive attention. It is this attitude that we must have when we are in the Seeking Dimension in order to fulfil the Desire to Deal with our Frustrations.

TGBTG!

The Messenger

Stay Blessed, Be Multiplied.

The Pursuit Of Purpose 11.1

Bawo ni! Dumelang! Apsheni!
I hope you are doing well in the Hands of The Almighty God!

I must tell you that learning a statement from Dr. John C. Maxwell which says, ‘Success is not a destination, it’s a journey.’ All I want to say to you here is that waking up every day and going to sleep having achieved something, should be the goal. No need to do everything at once, but do something daily en-route to the main objective.

Right, let’s do this.

Shall we take a deeper look into the dimension of Seeking. Let’s consider the story of Themba.

He received a birthday present from his girlfriend of six months, Teboho, a tailor made key ring. He went to Checkers Hyper in Menlyn Mall, East of Pretoria on a busy 25^th of May last year.

Since he hung it around his waist and pushed against many a customer, by the time he reached the till, he realized that the gift wasn’t there anymore.

Once he paid for his goods, he went and parked his trolley inside a smaller shop that sells cellphones and does cellphone repairs, asking the gentleman to watch it for him. He went and retraced his steps as much as he could remember, looking for the key ring. Unable to see it anywhere, he proceeded to look elsewhere all over the shop for about 20 minutes.

Unsuccessful, he prepared himself for the worst at the verbal hands of his woman and left the store.

A Picture has been placed in front of us here. We see that Themba knew that it was a valuable thing that he had in his possession and when he saw it missing, he took time to go and look for it all through the retail outlet.

He placed a certain value on the item and showed this by trying to get it back into his hands.

Is this how we should look at dealing with our Frustrations via Desire Avenue? [To Be Continued…]

Here it is…

The value that we place on what has been entrusted to us shows in our reaction to losing it or realizing it not being there or active any longer. The greater the value placed on it, the greater the need to retrieve it.

On the next post…

A Deeper Look At Seeking Part 2

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TGBTG!

The Messenger

Stay Blessed, Be Multiplied!