Is your Life PURPOSE driven? ...my testimony

Is your Life PURPOSE driven? ...my testimony.

In this post I begin by quoting the words of the Lord to Jeremiah in chapter 1:5.

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you: Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."

Decipher the code in this verse and you will be empowered and inspired to live purposefully! A lot of times I hear and "feel" these same words ringing true in my life. Today I have accepted that I too am God's messenger. My assignment is to the cyberworld. But hey, like most people, I fought off this thought for several years until quite recently, hence this site. The religious world would refer to me as an "Apostle to the Internet". But in God's superior Spiritual Faith Kingdom, I am just His servant, His messenger. I am merely a tool for His pleasure, to be used as He has pleasure. My part as a messenger/servant is to carry out His command as I hear His Voice. Period. Ohh.. and this gives me a lot of joy knowing that I am on His side and He is MY Mentor.

You see my dear friend, (is it ok for me to call you friend? You agree, good!),
"YOUR PURPOSE IS NOT YOUR DECISION, BUT MUST BE YOUR DISCOVERY, EVERYDAY". Decipher this code and you too will have joy that surpasses all understanding. You and I were created for a purpose and given a specific assignment to accomplish. You are not here by chance or some coincidence. I don't care what you have heard or what you have been told about you. It does not matter whether the world calls you 'illegitimate' or legitimate. As far as I am concerned you are in this world because God willed it and He has a big plan for your life! I will repeat this once again, God has a purpose and plan for your life. You are not here by accident. It has nothing to do with your parent's situation at the time of your conception. It does not matter whether you have not known your mother or father or both. Let us reason together here. No self pity or self debasement! Stop everything you are doing with your life right now (if you have not already done so), and make a conscious decision to discover your purpose and assignment. Are you struggling with the plans you have put in place? Nothing is working out for you, eehh? You have tried this and that, still no progress? Ofcourse you will
struggle. They are your plans. They have no authority as a basis for success! God's perfect laws have the final say in His universe. So wisen up. Stop! Halt! It is a setup!!! I pray you will receive your revelation and walk in it. God wants you to succeed and you can only succeed when you discover your purpose and assignment. Within your purpose are all the plans, the templates are already laid out for you to walk in and succeed, be it in business, in your marriage, in your career, your health, etc; just imagine, all these for you to walk into with boldness, confidence and divine ability to overcome barriers as He leads you by His mighty hand!

Let me share a personal experience and hasten to say that God does not begin to speak into your life after you make a pledge to follow Christ, No, no, no, but it all began when you were just a thought in God's mind, when the Lord decided to create you. Several years ago (perhaps seven or eight years now) I had just made contact with the internet which henceforth I will refer to as the cyberworld, (see my first post "Here I am finally ..."). I learned how to dial up and how to enter an internet address and behold the wonder of connectivity! I was so excited that every 'free' opportunity I had, I made sure I connected! Then one day I had this distinct thought. I saw myself using the internet to reach out to millions of people, pointing them to a purpose driven life in the Lord. Strangely enough at this time I had not even "given my life away to the Lord", I was miles away from Him, busy doing "my own thing" in the other world! It is only now that I am able to see that this was a setup by God on my life.

In 1996 after we both 'retired' early from our careers (my wife as an accountant in one of the banks in our country and me as a computer manager in another bank. We were set to enjoy life after forty, as the world says it. We set up a family consulting business in Accounting and Information Technology. This was a set-up too, but we were still blind at the time to see it that way). The very following year we had some nasty experience in our business life which negatively impacted upon us as a family so much so that we experienced tremendous hardships in our daily lives. It could only have been by His grace that we managed to pull through each day. Ironically it was through information that we got from the internet that we got "baptised" into trauma. We lost a lot of money which led to the grounding of the start-up.

This affected especially the children's school fees, our daily sustenance, you know, the usual stuff. (Thank God that today these are not our hurdles anymore, we have handed them over to Him who is able.) Ummmhh.. our God is able.

Anyway, 2 years later the nasty business trauma eventually drove my wife into totally surrendering her life to God. That's how 'bad' it was. As for me? No! I was macho. I had to show the world that I could turn around the business. I mean I was an 'expert'. I still had youth and vigour on my side. What and who could stop me? So I continued with life as usual, just like before and trying to "fix" things.

But my dear friend, it was not to be. Everything I tried just came to nothing, zero, ziltch! Eventually... yes you guessed it, the family business or 'cash cow' had to be taken down. At this time it was just taking in more grass than the milk we were getting out of it. The milk from this cow had even stopped converting to butter and cheese! When it went down, we could not even salvage any 'meat' out of her. Strangely though, the hide survived. Read on!

My wife by now had found a new rhythm (hey, we had not heard of iTunes and the iPhone was miles away to come!) and she kept listening and dancing to it. After a couple of months, I began to notice a change in my wife. She was no longer downcast like before, she now had so much peace and joy all over her. But me? You know what, I began to mock her and make fun of her "new found rhythm of peace and joy". Little did I know that this too was a set-up! Before long I too succumbed. What had happened? Where did I lose it? I must confess here and now it was because I saw a positive character change in her. The transformation was real. Too real to ignore. (this is something worth giving attention to for you married people who have spouses still struggling with making that decision! I pray one of these days the Lord will inspire YOU to testify too.) With hindsight now, I have come to realise God called me out ages ago and the same word to Jeremiah (which I have quoted in the opening part of this post) is true for me as it was for Jeremiah then.

Today my wife and I have a peace and joy that we truly cannot understand. We can only ascribe this to God's Love for our lives. We still have problems in our lives but the joy is in knowing that we have handed over our lives to Him. We have the assurance in these words in the book of Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future". With this assurance I am certain that all things that happened in my life prior to my 'giving up' have been a carefully calculated set-up of events engineered by God to get me into the palm of His plans. I am truly rested in Him.
Now, coming back to the subject of this post, I have identified the code in God's call to me and have deciphered it and it is good! I am inspired and truly empowered. Today I go about life each day knowing who I can put my trust and hope in. Because He knew me before I was formed in my mother's womb all I do now is to wait upon Him to unfold His plans for my life each day. And you know what? A few ghosts and skeletons from our "past lives" still try to haunt us, but hey! we are no longer shaken with fear and trauma because we know that the one we believe in is greater than the little kings of this world!
Friend, if he has performed another miracle today in my life, it is the miracle of being alive today. I cannot take it for granted that I will be alive tomorrow, which transforms into today. So my life today is truly a gift of life, a miracle which I must cherish today whilst it lasts today. I will say, thank you Lord for the life you have given me today and I will praise you and honour you today.
Hey remember the hide that remained over from our cash cow? Yeah.. the lord preserved this into real leather! From the time I succumbed and "killed" the family 'cash cow' which I talked about earlier, the Lord has been wonderful. We are no longer in full time consultancy, but hey listen to this. In 1997 just before I "fell" to the Lord's authority over my life, we had done some one off small jobs with some two to three clients. Wonder of all wonders! The lord has kept three of these going up to date. This is how the Lord has been working it out for us ten years on! Ten years since we closed shop! Every time we get to a crunch point with our daily sustenance, we get a call from one of these three companies especially for me to go and do some maintenance with the software we originally supplied. All of them still use the software we originally supplied. Ten years ago! We have been upgrading to latest versions as and when the need arises. Now two of these clients are small to medium and the third one is a large bank. In all cases the reference point is the work we did for either one of them just before we killed the family cow. What is interesting is that all things considered, we do not "qualify" to continue to get these jobs. We no longer have a "physical" presence in the business world. There are established firms that can easily do what we are doing. But friend, we don't deserve it but God's divine intervention continues to bring us this favour. We are no longer in "formal" business now as our efforts are now concentrated elsewhere.., in doing His bidding wherever he commands us for that day. Glory be to God!!!!!
I pray today that you too will 'succumb to Him' and discover for yourself the purpose for your life and your true assignment here on earth. I pray too that you will have a fulfilled life as you follow your purpose with passion, after discovering it. Go and truly accomplish. Go and manifest God's Love for your life.
In the upcoming posts (hey, I urge you to subscribe to the feeds so that you don't miss the coming posts) I will be talking about issues that are components of purpose and assignment and how they relate to various areas of our lives inter-alia, business, relationships, marriage, career, finances, health, parenting faith etc; etc; and etc.
This is it for now. Keep tuned. I praise the Lord for you, for having been allowed to visit this blog today and lending your ear. Come again soon. Do not delay.

May He richly bless you and yours and give you the ability to succeed henceforth.

TheWordSmith
3rd August 2007
Lusaka
Zambia

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Do so TODAY, if you haven't yet. He is the way, the truth and the life. Let's fellowship one with another today.

PP.S.
Recently the Lord permitted me to start an online business and interestingly I have ended up signing up with a company which was one of the few I took an interest in at that time, I mean soon after my discovery of the internet around 1996/97. At that time I saw great potential in this company but well I never did anything about it because it was not in my "line of business interest". So recently, almost 10 years on, I went back to check them out and discovered that the company is still alive and growing. They have no hype about them.

Their products are truly impressive and being an IT person myself, I see a lot of integrity in their line of products which including, site designing (you do this without knowing any coding), hosting and much more. They have one of the best online affiliate programs too! When I returned to the internet recently, I knew it was again the Lord's setup. I did not hesitate. I joined the affiliate program and bought the site builder product. the price is good too for the quality! Hey..lemme not push you after all seeing is believing right, yes? Yes! There is a lot here to benefit from, especially trust and integrity. Go check them out. You won't regret. I am still happy. The support is fantastic.
The main product is called Sitebuildit! Check it out here.