GOD’S PROVISION FOR FULFILMENT OF DIVINE PURPOSE (A)
TEXTS: Acts 26:16; Romans 8:28; Ephesians 1:11
We continue on the subject of divine destiny and purpose by
looking at God’s role in the fulfilment of His purpose.
God is committed to ensuring that His children not only
understand His purpose for them but also fulfil it. Paul said to Archippus: “And
say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the
Lord, that thou fulfil it” (Colossians 4:17). This implies that there
is a difference between ‘receiving’ and ‘fulfilling’ purpose.
1. God communicates His purpose
Anything God wants a man to do, He tells the man. God won’t
require you fulfil a purpose He didn’t reveal. He told Abraham to move to a
land He would show him (Genesis 12:1). He told Moses to return to Egypt to
deliver the Israelites (Exodus 3:10). Joseph found himself at age thirty (30) saving
lives; but God had shown him glimpses of it thirteen (13) years before that time.
God sent Jonah to Nineveh, but he left for Tarshish in disobedience. God always
communicates His purpose, but it is either men are not interested in seeking it
out (discovering it) or are not committed to seeing it out (pursuing and
fulfilling it).
2. God preserves His purpose
God is under obligation to guard His purpose onto fulfilment.
The devil is anti-God’s purpose. When God created man, the devil came against
man. When God raised Joseph, the devil came through his brethren to kill him
and through Portiphar’s wife to make him sin and miss out. When God brought
Jesus, the devil through Herod went all out to kill Him. But God is committed
to safeguarding divine purpose against the wiles and devices of the devil. Even
when Satan thought he got man’s dominion, God restored it through Jesus. He
kept Joseph safe. He kept Jesus safe. He kept Daniel safe. He kept the three
(3) Hebrew children safe. When you are committed to God’s purpose, both you and
the purpose are preserved! This is why one of the most secured men on the
street is a he that is so committed to doing nothing but God’s will, counsel
and purpose.
Whenever you are committed to a purpose that is of God, there
are angels of commitment specially designed to enhance that purpose, and one of
their enhancement package is preservation.
3. God sustains His purpose
Every purpose of God needs spiritual sustenance. When God
sent Elijah on assignment, he preserved him from Ahab and Jezebel, and he also
sustained him by special arrangements. At first, God mandated the ravens to
feed him (1 Kings 17:4). From there, he raised a widow to sustain him (verse
9). At a point, God sent an angel to go and feed him 1 Kings 19:5-7). What was
God doing? He was sustaining His purpose.
When you are committed to God’s purpose for your life you
provoke divine provision and spiritual facilities to sustain the purpose. God
will not watch His purpose become stranded. The devil is sponsoring many agents
from hell, putting them on TV and satellites so as to send many to hell. God
has a plan to rescue perishing souls, and so He not only sends men to win them,
He sustains His purpose. God’s purpose cannot be stranded.
It is error to compromise in the name of trying to “help
God”. You don’t have to lie because you feel the work will fail. If it is God’s,
it will not fail. Not to understand God’s sustaining power for purpose makes a
man vulnerable to discouragement and compromise.
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