Purpose is crucial. Purpose is
not limited to the terrestrial, in the world after now, you will be
questioned on how you fulfilled purpose. You can have a purpose without
getting married, but you should not go into marriage, without finding
God’s purpose for your life.
Here are a few things you need to know as it relates to relationships and marriage
1. Purpose precedes creation
Purpose is so powerful, so much powerful that it precedes your creation.
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5 KJV)
Before you were formed, God knew you. Ever before your dad asked your mum out, God knew you. Your purpose is not an after-thought; it is a pre-determined conclusion about your very essence.
See the way The Message Translation puts the above verse
"Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations–– that's what I had in mind for you." (Jeremiah 1:5 Message)
Listen to me; before you saw the light of day, there are plans for you! Nobody is a mistake here. Don’t believe that lie from the pit of hell. You are gifted in certain areas; you might just not have discovered them.
You didn’t just get here and God said, this guy’s head look like the head of an engineer, let him become one. God didn’t just say, okay, this girl looks like a Pastor’s wife; let’s make her one. No, it doesn’t happen like that. You see, you need to understand something about God. God finishes before He starts. Jesus Christ has been slain from the very beginning of beginnings. When God is getting ready to do anything, He will first of all finish it. Then, there will be a replay. Actually your life is a replay. Your life is script, it has been acted, and you are just aligning yourself. This is why it is important to have a vital relationship with the one that formed you. It is a spiritual hara-kiri to disconnect from the holy one of Israel, your creator.
2. It is your discovery, not your decision
The second thing I will like you to know is that your purpose in life is not a decision you make, it is a discovery you make. If purpose is so important to God that it precedes creation, then its discovery should precede marriage. Your purpose is not determined by your career. It is determined by God! You should go to school, but school is not supposed to chart a direction for you, it is supposed to give you a basic foundational intellectual attainment to aid the fulfilment of your purpose.
For all I care, you can study Medicine and end up running a boutique, because that is where fulfilment and your prosperity lies. Conversely, a businessman can build a hospital and employ doctors to run it. You just need to discover your purpose!
Every man, every woman has a responsibility to discover what God’s purpose is for one’s life. I want to recommend Papa Kenneth Hagin’s book, “Following God’s plan for your Life” It is a classical master piece, that will enlighten you more on this all important and crucial topic.
Before you start falling in love, rise in purpose first. As a guy, God has a purpose for your life. As a lady, God has a purpose for your life. You cannot marry anybody and everybody. There is somebody that will be aligned with God’s purpose for your life and your combination will be powerful. There are also people you can get involved with and it is like taking ten steps backward. People are either doors or walls. They either open you up or close you up. A businessman’s wife ought not to get marry to a Pastor, or else all she wants is the offering in church! The spouse that does not compliment your purpose in life will compete with it and will eventually suffocate the life out of you.
When you are deciding who to get marry to, the question of purpose should come up.
Why am I here?
Where am I going?
How do I get there?
With whom will I get there with maximum productivity?
Those are pertinent questions. That is why you should not marry an unbeliever who has no relationship with God.
3. It is the key to fulfillment in relationships and life
When the two people in a relationship or marriage are fulfilled in terms of God’s purpose for their lives, it helps a lot.
Do you know that two people, who are not fulfilled in a relationship or marriage, can trigger and aggravate emotions that can drive them apart? At the core of the imbroglio is lack of purpose, but at the surface would be unexplainable anger and being constantly touchy and grouchy, triggered by spiritual fatigue. When a man has not discovered his purpose, he gets fatigued so easily because he is involved in what he is not wired for. This has a cyclical effect on relationship/marriage eventually.
For example, if you talk to people who have a call of God upon their lives, but for one reason or the other have not been able to step into it, maybe in pursuit of some other business, they might have the money they wanted, but if they would be truthful to you they would tell you they are not happy!
Listen to me, there is joy that comes with fulfilling purpose. This often overlaps into you attitude and leadership propensities in your immediate relationship or marriage. There is a peace that comes with knowing that you are the center of God’s will for your life. Listen to me, there is nothing like it.
When I talked to a friend who was about to commit suicide, and God delivered him from the grip of spirit of death, an holy awe came upon me, I was moved to tears within, not tears of sorrow, but tears of joy and I trembled at the awesomeness of God in using me for such noble tasks! Listen to me; it is a privilege to be called! Many are called, few are chosen! When incredible healings of impossible cases take place in people’s lives, I ask myself, what did I even write about? Testimonies of conception, healings, changed lives, sexual perversion broken…all because the one that called is faithful. This unexplainable joy comes over me! When you are out of purpose, you miss this joy. And you know the joy of the Lord is your strength? That is why that joy is important! It is a rejuvenating joy!
Concerning Jesus, in Luke 10:21 KJV
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit… It means he jumped up , belly-laughed and full of ecstacy!
Not everybody would be called to the five-fold ministry. But, there are certainly things you can do in discovering His purpose for your life. Sometimes, when you are just there and you seemed to be finding it difficult or unsure of what God’s purpose is for your life, all you need to do is find a local assembly to serve or find a ministry like ours and support with your finances.
The same joy and fulfillment we have in blessings lives, restoring marriages, healing broken hearts, mending wounds and hurts by the Spirit of God, do you know you can practically share in that joy? When you identifying with the vision by making it easy to do what we are doing, it gives you the same joy and then ensures that when you step into you own vision eventually, there will helpers of destinies as well. You see, what you make happen for others, God will make happen for you! Let me show you in the scriptures, before you say Pastor is using style to raise money!
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours (John 4:36-38 KJV)
As you grow in God, and as you are faithful supporting others in their vision with your time or substance, your own vision becomes interpreted and explicit!
Here are a few things you need to know as it relates to relationships and marriage
1. Purpose precedes creation
Purpose is so powerful, so much powerful that it precedes your creation.
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5 KJV)
Before you were formed, God knew you. Ever before your dad asked your mum out, God knew you. Your purpose is not an after-thought; it is a pre-determined conclusion about your very essence.
See the way The Message Translation puts the above verse
"Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations–– that's what I had in mind for you." (Jeremiah 1:5 Message)
Listen to me; before you saw the light of day, there are plans for you! Nobody is a mistake here. Don’t believe that lie from the pit of hell. You are gifted in certain areas; you might just not have discovered them.
You didn’t just get here and God said, this guy’s head look like the head of an engineer, let him become one. God didn’t just say, okay, this girl looks like a Pastor’s wife; let’s make her one. No, it doesn’t happen like that. You see, you need to understand something about God. God finishes before He starts. Jesus Christ has been slain from the very beginning of beginnings. When God is getting ready to do anything, He will first of all finish it. Then, there will be a replay. Actually your life is a replay. Your life is script, it has been acted, and you are just aligning yourself. This is why it is important to have a vital relationship with the one that formed you. It is a spiritual hara-kiri to disconnect from the holy one of Israel, your creator.
2. It is your discovery, not your decision
The second thing I will like you to know is that your purpose in life is not a decision you make, it is a discovery you make. If purpose is so important to God that it precedes creation, then its discovery should precede marriage. Your purpose is not determined by your career. It is determined by God! You should go to school, but school is not supposed to chart a direction for you, it is supposed to give you a basic foundational intellectual attainment to aid the fulfilment of your purpose.
For all I care, you can study Medicine and end up running a boutique, because that is where fulfilment and your prosperity lies. Conversely, a businessman can build a hospital and employ doctors to run it. You just need to discover your purpose!
Every man, every woman has a responsibility to discover what God’s purpose is for one’s life. I want to recommend Papa Kenneth Hagin’s book, “Following God’s plan for your Life” It is a classical master piece, that will enlighten you more on this all important and crucial topic.
Before you start falling in love, rise in purpose first. As a guy, God has a purpose for your life. As a lady, God has a purpose for your life. You cannot marry anybody and everybody. There is somebody that will be aligned with God’s purpose for your life and your combination will be powerful. There are also people you can get involved with and it is like taking ten steps backward. People are either doors or walls. They either open you up or close you up. A businessman’s wife ought not to get marry to a Pastor, or else all she wants is the offering in church! The spouse that does not compliment your purpose in life will compete with it and will eventually suffocate the life out of you.
When you are deciding who to get marry to, the question of purpose should come up.
Why am I here?
Where am I going?
How do I get there?
With whom will I get there with maximum productivity?
Those are pertinent questions. That is why you should not marry an unbeliever who has no relationship with God.
3. It is the key to fulfillment in relationships and life
When the two people in a relationship or marriage are fulfilled in terms of God’s purpose for their lives, it helps a lot.
Do you know that two people, who are not fulfilled in a relationship or marriage, can trigger and aggravate emotions that can drive them apart? At the core of the imbroglio is lack of purpose, but at the surface would be unexplainable anger and being constantly touchy and grouchy, triggered by spiritual fatigue. When a man has not discovered his purpose, he gets fatigued so easily because he is involved in what he is not wired for. This has a cyclical effect on relationship/marriage eventually.
For example, if you talk to people who have a call of God upon their lives, but for one reason or the other have not been able to step into it, maybe in pursuit of some other business, they might have the money they wanted, but if they would be truthful to you they would tell you they are not happy!
Listen to me, there is joy that comes with fulfilling purpose. This often overlaps into you attitude and leadership propensities in your immediate relationship or marriage. There is a peace that comes with knowing that you are the center of God’s will for your life. Listen to me, there is nothing like it.
When I talked to a friend who was about to commit suicide, and God delivered him from the grip of spirit of death, an holy awe came upon me, I was moved to tears within, not tears of sorrow, but tears of joy and I trembled at the awesomeness of God in using me for such noble tasks! Listen to me; it is a privilege to be called! Many are called, few are chosen! When incredible healings of impossible cases take place in people’s lives, I ask myself, what did I even write about? Testimonies of conception, healings, changed lives, sexual perversion broken…all because the one that called is faithful. This unexplainable joy comes over me! When you are out of purpose, you miss this joy. And you know the joy of the Lord is your strength? That is why that joy is important! It is a rejuvenating joy!
Concerning Jesus, in Luke 10:21 KJV
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit… It means he jumped up , belly-laughed and full of ecstacy!
Not everybody would be called to the five-fold ministry. But, there are certainly things you can do in discovering His purpose for your life. Sometimes, when you are just there and you seemed to be finding it difficult or unsure of what God’s purpose is for your life, all you need to do is find a local assembly to serve or find a ministry like ours and support with your finances.
The same joy and fulfillment we have in blessings lives, restoring marriages, healing broken hearts, mending wounds and hurts by the Spirit of God, do you know you can practically share in that joy? When you identifying with the vision by making it easy to do what we are doing, it gives you the same joy and then ensures that when you step into you own vision eventually, there will helpers of destinies as well. You see, what you make happen for others, God will make happen for you! Let me show you in the scriptures, before you say Pastor is using style to raise money!
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours (John 4:36-38 KJV)
As you grow in God, and as you are faithful supporting others in their vision with your time or substance, your own vision becomes interpreted and explicit!
