Make Destiny Decisions and Dreams For Fulfilling our God Given Destinies

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Even when the people out there in a island who think no one cares for them, God cares for them.

It is not so much about charity.

The places where it is unreachable or very hard to reach, God send missionaries.

The main thing is the God we serve.

God already care for them all the years of their lives.

It is about bringing the gospel to the people, God is real!

He knows the name and needs of the child in Cambodia.

What we do for God is what will last.

Making destiny decision and dreams

When we don’t know much we make wrong decision.

EPHESIANS 1:11 KJV

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being PREDESTINATED ACCORDING to the PURPOSE of HIM who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

G4309 PREDESTINATED

Original: προορίζω

Transliteration: PROORIZŌ

Phonetic: pro-or-id'-zo

Thayer Definition:

to PREDETERMINED,

DECIDE BEFOREHAND

in the NT of GOD DECREEING FROM ETERNITY

to FORE ORDAIN,

APPOINT BEFOREHAND

Strong's Definition: From G4253 and G3724; to limit in advance, that is, predetermine:- DETERMINE BEFORE, ordain, predestinate.

The devil has another plan. For us to go opposite direction from God

DESTINY is defined as your future or the

pre-ordained path of your life.

EPHESIANS 1:11 TPT

Through our union with Christ we too have been claimed by God as his own inheritance.

BEFORE we were even born, HE GAVE US our DESTINY;

that we would FULFILL the PLAN of GOD who always accomplishes every PURPOSE and PLAN in HIS HEART.

2 KINGS 2:1 NLT

When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind,

ELIJAH and ELISHA were TRAVELING FROM GILGAL.

Elijah = "my God is Jehovah"

Elisha ="my God is wealth" or "God is salvation"

2 KINGS 2:2 NLT

And Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has told me to go to BETHEL.”

But Elisha replied, “As surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live, I will never leave you!”

So they went down TOGETHER to BETHEL.

2 KINGS 2:3-4 NLT

The GROUP of PROPHETS from BETHEL came to Elisha and asked him, “Did you

know that the Lord is going to take your master away from you today?”

“Of course I know,” Elisha answered. “But be quiet about it.”

Then Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, for the Lord has told me to go to JERICHO.”

But Elisha replied AGAIN, “As surely as the Lord lives and you yourself live,

I will never leave you.”

So THEY WENT ON TOGETHER to JERICHO.

Fifty men from the group of prophets also went and WATCHED

FROM A DISTANCE as Elijah and Elisha stopped beside the Jordan River.

Then Elijah folded his cloak together and struck the water with it.

The river divided, and the TWO of them WENT ACROSS on dry ground!

2 KINGS 2:7-8 NLT

2 KINGS 2:9 NLT

When they came to the OTHER SIDE, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me what I can do for you before I am taken away.”

And Elisha replied, “Please let me inherit a DOUBLE share of your SPIRIT and BECOME YOUR SUCCESSOR.”

He asked Elisha to vocalise what he wants

To be used by God there is a desire.

To go into destiny, future purpose

God did not mean for anyone to born again in this world than go heaven right away.

It is up to us to choose. No condemnation

2 KINGS 2:10 NLT

“You have asked a DIFFICULT THING,” Elijah replied.

“If YOU SEE ME when I am taken from you,

then YOU WILL GET YOUR REQUEST.

But IF NOT, then YOU WON’T.”

As they were WALKING ALONG and TALKING,

SUDDENLY a CHARIOT of FIRE appeared, drawn by horses of FIRE.

It drove between the two men, separating them, and Elijah was carried by a whirlwind into heaven.

ELISHA SAW it and cried out,

“My FATHER! My FATHER!

I SEE the chariots and charioteers of Israel!”

And as they disappeared from sight, Elisha tore his clothes in distress.

2 KINGS 2:11-12 NLT

The one whom you cannot see with physical eye is the one who will live with u for eternity.

Attach to the one that brings us to our destiny and ready for eternity.

Jesus is the One when we stick close. The fire is the holy spirit

Holy Spirit depicts fire

Revelation of God as Father.

What is it that Elisha received?

What was left was a cloak.

ELISHA PICKED UP ELIJAH’S CLOAK, which had fallen when he was taken up.

Then Elisha returned to the bank of the Jordan River.

He struck the water with Elijah’s cloak and cried out,

“Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?”

Then the river divided, and Elisha went across.

2 KINGS 2:13-14 NLT

When you go into your destiny, God becomes the God of you

The one behind you, behind what you said, is God.

GILGAL = "a wheel, rolling"

SEPARATION, (from the flesh, the past, and unto God)

BETHEL - House of God

JERICHO - place of FAITH, Walk by faith

JORDAN - Death & RESURRECTION POWER

We were separated from the world

The past has gone. The past buried.

Your failure weaknesses are gone.

God made you in the same image through Christ.

You have a purpose. Destiny beyond

Jesus’ death and resurrection is ours!

ROMANS 12:1 AMPC

I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies

of God,

to MAKE a DECISIVE dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a LIVING sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well

pleasing to God,

which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) SERVICE and spiritual WORSHIP.

God will empower you after you make decision.

ROMANS 12:2 NLT

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by CHANGING the WAY you THINK.

Then you will learn to know GOD’S WILL for you, which is GOOD and PLEASING and PERFECT.

Born again is a experience of our hearts

What pleases God? Faith.

Without faith is impossible to please Him

Everyone has the power to overcome

“Reinhard Bonnke attended the Bible College of Wales in Swansea when

he was 19 years old.

After graduating from the Bible College, he had a free day to spend in London and got on a double-decked bus.

As the bus was moving along, all of a sudden, he felt the Holy Spirit say to him – “Get off this bus”.

Bonnke obeyed the prompting and found himself walking along one of the streets of London, uncertain of where he was.

Then he came upon a plaque on a gate of a house which read “George Jeffreys”.

He thought to himself if this could be the house of the great George Jeffreys,

a Welsh minister who founded the Elim Pentacostal Alliance in Britain.

George Jeffreys was considered one of England’s greatest evangelists, after John Wesley and George Whitefield, and was also saved and transformed during the Welsh Revival.

Reinhard was unsure and it was then that the Holy Spirit said to him, “You will never know if you don’t ask”. So he knocked and a woman came to the door. Bonnke asked if the house belonged to George Jeffreys, the George Jeffreys who shook England, and she said yes.

“Is he alive?”

“Yes.”

“Does he live in this house?”

“Yes.”

“Is he now in the house?”

“Yes.”

“Can I see him?”

“No.”

And it was then that he heard a deep voice coming from the inside, “Let him come in”.

When he walked in, he saw a frail old man and after some introduction, Mr. Jeffreys laid his hand upon Bonnke and blessed him.

Bonnke staggered out of the door because the presence of God was all upon him.

He then left London to return to Germany the next day and his father met him at the railway station.

His father said, “Reinhard, did you hear the news?”

“What news?”

“George Jeffreys just passed away.” “No, that can’t be; I was just with the man.”

All of a sudden, he realized that he caught something from the previous generation.

One generation was passing and handing over their mantles to the next generation.

Reinhard Bonnke is perhaps the greatest evangelist we have seen in our generation.

He has seen more people saved than any other person alive.

And he has been found worthy to obtain the MANTLE of a great evangelist and his ACT of OBEDIENCE to the HOLY SPIRIT POSITIONED him to RECEIVE GRACE from GOD.”

ACTS 16:9-10 MSG

That night Paul had a DREAM:

A Macedonian stood on the far shore and called across the sea, “Come over to Macedonia and help us!”

The DREAM gave Paul his MAP.

We went to work at once getting things ready to cross over to Macedonia.

EPHESIANS 2:10 NLT

For WE are GOD’S MASTERPIECE.

He has CREATED us ANEW IN CHRIST JESUS,

so we can DO the good things he planned for us long ago.

EPHESIANS 2:10 TPT

We have become his poetry, a re-created people that will FULFILL the DESTINY HE

HAS GIVEN EACH of US, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One.

Even before we were born, God planned in advance our DESTINY and the good

works we would do to FULFILL it!

PHILIPPIANS 3:12-13

I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection.

But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.

No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it,

I don’t depend on my own strength to accomplish this;

however I do have ONE COMPELLING FOCUS:

I FORGET ALL of the PAST as I FASTEN my HEART to the FUTURE (WHAT LIES AHEAD) instead.

Jesus came to prepare eternity for us.

PHILIPPIANS 3:14

I’VE GOT MY EYE on the GOAL,

where God is beckoning us ONWARD —TO JESUS.

I RUN STRAIGHT for the DIVINE INVITATION of reaching the HEAVENLY GOAL and GAINING the VICTORY-PRIZE through the ANOINTING of JESUS.

PHILIPPIANS 3:15-16 MSG

So let’s keep FOCUSED on that GOAL, those of us who WANT EVERYTHING GOD HAS FOR US.

If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment,

God will clear your blurred VISION —you’ll see it yet!

Now that we’re on the RIGHT TRACK, let’s STAY on it.

Don’t look at the distractions from left and right

Church cannot be just coffee and tea. Not just fellowship.

PHILIPPIANS 3:17-19 MSG

Stick with me, friends.

Keep track of those you see running this same course, headed for this same goal.

There are MANY OUT THERE TAKING OTHER PATHS,

CHOOSING OTHER GOALS,

and trying to get you to go along with them.

God will clear your blurred vision

Fix our eyes on Jesus. That is the only clear vision

PHILIPPIANS 3:17-19 MSG

I’ve warned you of them many times; sadly,

I’m having to do it again.

All they want is easy street.

They hate Christ’s Cross.

But easy street is a dead-end street.

Those who live there make their bellies their gods; belches are their praise; all they can think of is their appetites.

There are far more to life

PHILIPPIANS 3:20-21 MSG

But there’s FAR MORE to LIFE for us. We’re citizens of high heaven!

We’re waiting the arrival of the Savior, the Master, Jesus Christ, who will transform our earthy bodies into glorious bodies like his own.

He’ll make us beautiful and whole with the same powerful skill by which he is putting EVERYTHING as it should be, UNDER and AROUND HIM.

HEBREWS 12:1-2 NLT

THEREFORE, SINCE we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the

LIFE of FAITH, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin

that so easily trips us up.

And let us RUN with ENDURANCE the RACE GOD HAS SET BEFORE US.

We LOOK AWAY FROM the NATURAL REALM

and we FASTEN our GAZE ONTO JESUS, the CHAMPION who initiates and perfects our FAITH.

Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding

its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.

Life of faith

Jesus paid the price that no one can pay.

When you have the goal reached and you know you are nearing, that is the last lapse

Run with endurance

Look away from natural realm

We choose whether we want to look right left or straight

The champion who initiate and perfect our faith