PURPOSE 2017

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 311

January 3, 2017

Yikes, I just typed today’s date with the year 2017.   That does not even compute. Two of my granddaughters had something they used to say back a few years ago. It was “Is this real life!”

So I ask myself this morning: “Is this real life”? Can we possibly be in the year 2017? On new year’s eve this weekend I did not stay awake until 12 midnight, my body said you need to go to bed and get sleep.  We had church on Sunday, New Year’s day but even if the year was changing on a night other than Saturday night, I don’t think I would have been able to stay up.  Up until a few years ago I would never have been in bed before ringing in the New Year. But real life does catch up with you, ha-ha!!

So Sunday morning my son-in-law, who was here from Va. Beach, said something that I want you to think about.  When I answered his question about whether I stayed up until midnight with a negative his statement was: the New Year comes whether we are up or not.

May I tell you this morning that God has a plan, a master plan, or PLAN OF THE MASTER, that He wants each of us to be a part of, and that master plan is happening whether we are sleeping through it, ignoring it or deciding to get in our place and be a part of it.

Now because my husband and I were sleeping through the change of years, the year still changed but there was no celebration in our house at midnight.

Let me tell you that even though God’s master plan will prevail there are areas of our immediate location and the world, and people in those locations, that will not be a part of the fulfillment of that plan because we as children of God are sleeping or just not interested in getting the good news of Jesus Christ to a world drowning in the lies of satan.

I tell you this day that you have a part to play in the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to this earth and to the spread of the good news that the price has been paid and we can walk in a Peace that defies all logic or understanding.

2 Timothy 1:9 (KJV)
⁹ Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

YOU HAVE A PURPOSE!!!

When Saul, whose name was changed to Paul, had an encounter with the Lord Jesus, Jesus said to him:

Acts 26:16 (KJV)
¹⁶ But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;

When Barnabas came to Antioch and saw the new believers, Acts 11:23 shows us that he instructed them to cleave to the Lord and His purpose.

Acts 11:23 (KJV)
²³ Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

This morning, on the third day of a brand new year, I encourage you to seek God with your whole heart and let Him release through you the purpose and destiny you were created for.

Maybe you are all into the purpose you were created for but may I tell you that God seeks to do more in your life. He seeks to take you to greater levels of purpose and ministry. He desires for you to keep growing and climbing to higher and higher purposes in Him.

As we release ourselves into the mighty hand of God and to His purposes we can change our world and see His Kingdom prevail in 2017.

God has a plan that is traveling on. Are we a part of it or are we sleeping.

Wake up and be all you were created to be!

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Father, thank you that each of us are created on purpose and for a purpose. Thank you that 2017 is going to be the year that many of your children find and walk in their purpose and those who are walking in their purpose are going to greater dimensions with you. I decree and declare that each person who reads this will awaken to all that you have place within them and will arise and walk with confidence into 2017. I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ.  Amen

2017 will be amazing!

Love, MeMaw