The scope of Biblical destiny is always the fact that God has a larger plan that He wants to see fulfilled. God calls individuals, but his plans affect the masses. Individuals simply channel the larger plan of God. God called Moses, yet it delivered a nation. God called David to be King and it unified a nation. Jesus called 12 men, and it changed the world. Do you see a pattern?
God has a calling upon His church; a destiny that He wants fulfilled. He may have given it over 2,000 years ago, but it must be corporately embraced in order to see its fulfillment. The larger plan is one of transformation of the lost, to bring restoration to lives and marriages. God wants to bring freedom to those that are prisoners to all the addictive lifestyles and hope to those who are hopeless. He wants to see people reconnect with the Creator that loves them and to be vessels of blessing to a lost world so that He can be exalted!
If we can accomplish something by ourselves it’s not from God. God doesn’t give us a destiny that is easily accomplished or attainable through our wisdom and resources. It’s supposed to be impossible. When you look at all the people that God called in Scripture, once they understood what God was calling them to, they’re first response wasn’t, “Oh, that’ll be easy!” But the impossible guarantees our reliance and dependence on God. It keeps us tethered to Him. This can’t happen without the supernatural power of God. We must have His intervention to see this happen. Then, when God does the impossible, He gets the credit, glory, praise and the people of God get to experience Him in new ways.
Zechariah 4:6 NLT “…It is not by force nor by strength, but by My Spirit…”
I believe this is where we are at as a church. God wants us to embrace the larger focus He has given to us. It has been wonderful what He has done in the past, but the past is not our destiny as a church. Every thing He's done previously has been in preparation for the greater work of God that is yet to come. That is our destiny in Him!
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