Live For His Purpose (Daily Devotional)

Hello and greetings, thank you that we could spend a few moments together, in God's word and pray with each other. We are talking about living with purpose. I've been just looking at various aspects so far, joining with God into His purposes. As we get to the close of this week, I just want to encourage you, first of all, to live with purpose, that means you and I make the effort to discover the purpose of God and then we want to live in, we want to lock in and live for that purpose. The apostle Paul, as he is recounting his testimony, his experience with Jesus, this is an Acts chapter 26 before King Agrippa and he talks about how he had this powerful encounter with the risen Christ on the road to Damascus and he heard the voice of Jesus saying, Saul, Saul why are you persecuting me? He says, who are you, Lord? And He said, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. Then he hears the commission, he hears the purpose of the Lord. He says, I've appeared to you, this is Acts chapter 26, verse 16, ‘I've appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and witness of the things that you've seen and things which I'm yet to reveal to you.’ Paul later on goes and says this in Acts chapter 26 and verse 19, he says, ‘therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.’ Now, true, Paul's experience or encounter was very dramatic, very powerful. But sometimes God's encounter in our lives can be very quiet, very simple and yet it is equally important. The thing I want to highlight here is this, from the time Paul realized that the Lord Jesus had a purpose for his life, he says I was not disobedient to that vision. That means from that moment on, every day of his life, he lived in response to that purpose of God for his life. He lived in response with that purpose in mind, that means all the decisions he made, his choices, everything was aligned to that purpose. He was not living haphazard, he was not living randomly, he was not wandering here and there, no, he said I was not disobedient to this vision, I gave myself to this vision. I want to encourage you to live for the purpose of God, to live aligned towards that purpose and say God, this is what you want to do in my life, I want to pursue that, I want to live for that purpose. The choices I make, the decisions I make, what I just say yes to, what I say no to is because I'm responding to a heavenly purpose God has put in my life, live like that. Let’s pray, Father, we ask that you help us live life as a response to your heavenly purpose. Let everything that we say and do be a yes and Amen to the heavenly purpose you have put on our lives, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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