God’s destiny changes the direction of your life. It is impossible to keep living life the same if you embrace God’s calling on your life, because it's life altering. Once again, you look at the examples in the Bible and when Jesus called someone, their life was never the same.
Luke 5:10, 11 NLT “…Don’t be afraid! From now on you’ll be fishing for people!’ And as soon as they landed, they left everything and followed Jesus.”
Luke 5:27, 28 NLT “…He saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax-collecting booth. ‘Come be My disciple!’ Jesus said to him. So Levi got up, left everything, and followed Him.”
Are you willing to alter your life in order to follow where Jesus takes you and in what ways? The answer is simply what ever ways He tells you. We leave behind whatever keeps us from pursuing God’s agenda for our lives. You can say, "I have my life all planned out", but do you really believe that your plans are better then God’s? Do you know best what will satisfy you versus the One who created you? Are you afraid that God will disappoint you? For us to fulfill what God has called us to do corporately as a people, it will require us to alter our lives.
God always empowers people to do what He calls them to do. Something happens to you spiritually when you accept God’s course for your life. I believe the Holy Spirit is unleashed in you in new ways. Why do I say this? When we walk in obedience the Holy Spirit has freedom to work in our lives. When we resist God, the Holy Spirit is quenched and grieved in our lives. He’s hindered.
Ephesians 4:30 NLT “And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live…”
1 Thessalonians 5:19 NIV “Do not put out the Spirit’s fire.”
When you tell God yes, He begins to change you internally by changing your thinking, motives, goals, desires, and even your emotions. “You’re unleashing the work of God in your life because Biblical destiny is life-altering. You can’t stay the same!
Biblical destiny is a conditional promise 1. Unlike Webster’s definition, experiencing the fulfillment of God’s destiny for your life requires your cooperation. You can forfeit God’s destiny for your life individually and corporately. Let’s look at some examples in Scripture of those who forfeited what God called them to. All of them had a glorious destiny given to them!
-Samson in Judges 13:5)
-King Saul in 1 Samuel 10:24
-Jeroboam in 1 Kings 11:31, 38
Biblical destiny is this beautiful gift God gives to us, yet it is only realized as we walk in it. It is only realized as we walk in it God’s way. We must realize that it is conditional based upon our response.
The process of fulfillment is as important as the final product. The path getting there is as important as the final product. God has called the church to the ministry of transformation, but the path getting there is just as important. The journey toward destiny is just as important to God because there are lessons to be learned along the way.The final product may be transformation, but through the journey, He’s going to change us! As we are changed, He entrusts more to us. This is why embracing destiny is also embracing the path to get there.
James 1:3, 4 NLT “For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.”
God wants us ready to accept our destiny. Are you there at this very moment?
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