Your Destiny
Your destiny is your predetermined end; let us look at what God has predestined
for us (Jeremiah 29:11), says “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says
the Lord Yahweh, thoughts, of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected
end”; and (Romans 8:29-30), says “For whom He did foreknow, He also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first
born among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also
called, and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom He justified, them He
also glorified”.
Your destiny has to come out of your mouth; just like Abram, God called him the
father of many nations (Romans 4:17), “as it is written, I have made you a father of
many nations, before Him whom he believed, even God, who makes alive the dead,
and calls those things which be not as though they were”; however he didn’t fulfill
his destiny until God changed his name to Abraham, which means, father of many
nations; and every time he spoke his name he was saying what God had said.
Can you imagine how many people thought that he was either a liar, or a nut,
saying that he was the father of many nations, you see they knew the meaning of
his name; but as he continued, it came to pass; Isaac was born within the year
(Romans 4:18-21), says “Who against hope believed in hope, that he might
become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall
your seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now
dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’
s womb. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong
in faith, giving glory to God. And being fully persuaded that, what He had
promised, He was able also to perform”. The key here is that people must become
fully persuaded that God is able to perform what He has said.
God has called us the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath. He has
called us more than conquerors; III John 2 says “beloved, I wish above al things
that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers”. Let us speak
what God has said about us.
Jesus spoke only the words of the Father (John 8:26-29), “He that sent Me is true;
and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of Him. They understood
not that He spoke to them of the Father. Then said Jesus to them, when you have
lifted up the Son of Man, then shall you know that I am He, and that I do nothing of
Myself; but as My Father has taught Me, I speak these things. And He that sent
Me is with Me; the Father has not left Me alone; for I do always those things that
please Him”. We as followers of Christ are to do the same.
Remember that all things are possible to them that believe, and Paul writes in II
Corinthians 4:13 “we have the same spirit of faith according as it is written, I
believed and therefore have I spoken, we also believe, and therefore speak”.
Joel 3:10 says ‘let the weak say, I am strong”; we are to speak what God says, not
what we see or feel; remember we are to walk by faith and not by sight. Jesus said
“for verily, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say
to this mountain, remove here to yonder place, and it shall remove; and nothing
shall be impossible to you” (Matthew 17:20). A grain of mustard seed is the
smallest seed, and it is a seed that can not be mingled with other seeds, just like
our faith should be solid and not mingled with doubt or unbelief.
There is death and life in the power of the tongue. Jesus said, “O generation of
vipers, how can you being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of
the heart the mouth speaks. Good man out of the god treasure of the heart
brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil
things. But I say to you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give
account thereof in the day of judgment. For by your words you shall be justified,
and by your words you shall be condemned”.
This is a principle that applies to whosoever will; the Bible said in Genesis 11
something profound, in verses 1-7, “And the whole earth was of one language, and
of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to
another, go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly, and they had brick for
stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, go to let us build us a city and
a tower, whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make us a name, less we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord Yahweh came
down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. And the Lord
Yahweh said, behold the people is one, and they have all one language; and this
they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have
imagined to do. Go to, let Us go down, and there confound their language, that
they may not understand one another’s speech”.
You see, they were trying to build a tower to reach heaven; they were trying to get
to heaven by their own means; and God said that nothing will be restrained from
them. God had to confound their languages so that they could not understand
each other.
Remember that Jesus said “that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any
thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father which is in heaven”
(Matthew 18:19).
In the Old Testament God predestined for the Hebrews as His elect people
(Exodus 19:5-6), “Now therefore, if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My
covenant, than you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me above all people; for all the
earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel”.
In the New Testament eternal destiny depends upon one’s relationship with Christ
Jesus (Acts 17:28-31 and I John 5:1-5). Ephesians 2:10 says it this way “For we
are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before
ordained that we should walk in them”.
Our destiny is to be in God’s likeness; and He has provided for us “some apostles,
and some prophets; and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers. For
the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body
of Christ. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son
of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
(Ephesians 4:11-13).
Paul prayed for the saints in Ephesus “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of Him. The eyes of our understanding being enlightened; that you
may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His
inheritance in the saints” (Ephesians 1:17-18).
In Psalms 17:15, the writer says “As for me, I will behold Your face in
righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake with Your likeness”.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: May 22, 2009
Your destiny is your predetermined end; let us look at what God has predestined
for us (Jeremiah 29:11), says “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says
the Lord Yahweh, thoughts, of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected
end”; and (Romans 8:29-30), says “For whom He did foreknow, He also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first
born among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also
called, and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom He justified, them He
also glorified”.
Your destiny has to come out of your mouth; just like Abram, God called him the
father of many nations (Romans 4:17), “as it is written, I have made you a father of
many nations, before Him whom he believed, even God, who makes alive the dead,
and calls those things which be not as though they were”; however he didn’t fulfill
his destiny until God changed his name to Abraham, which means, father of many
nations; and every time he spoke his name he was saying what God had said.
Can you imagine how many people thought that he was either a liar, or a nut,
saying that he was the father of many nations, you see they knew the meaning of
his name; but as he continued, it came to pass; Isaac was born within the year
(Romans 4:18-21), says “Who against hope believed in hope, that he might
become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall
your seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now
dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’
s womb. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong
in faith, giving glory to God. And being fully persuaded that, what He had
promised, He was able also to perform”. The key here is that people must become
fully persuaded that God is able to perform what He has said.
God has called us the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath. He has
called us more than conquerors; III John 2 says “beloved, I wish above al things
that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers”. Let us speak
what God has said about us.
Jesus spoke only the words of the Father (John 8:26-29), “He that sent Me is true;
and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of Him. They understood
not that He spoke to them of the Father. Then said Jesus to them, when you have
lifted up the Son of Man, then shall you know that I am He, and that I do nothing of
Myself; but as My Father has taught Me, I speak these things. And He that sent
Me is with Me; the Father has not left Me alone; for I do always those things that
please Him”. We as followers of Christ are to do the same.
Remember that all things are possible to them that believe, and Paul writes in II
Corinthians 4:13 “we have the same spirit of faith according as it is written, I
believed and therefore have I spoken, we also believe, and therefore speak”.
Joel 3:10 says ‘let the weak say, I am strong”; we are to speak what God says, not
what we see or feel; remember we are to walk by faith and not by sight. Jesus said
“for verily, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say
to this mountain, remove here to yonder place, and it shall remove; and nothing
shall be impossible to you” (Matthew 17:20). A grain of mustard seed is the
smallest seed, and it is a seed that can not be mingled with other seeds, just like
our faith should be solid and not mingled with doubt or unbelief.
There is death and life in the power of the tongue. Jesus said, “O generation of
vipers, how can you being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of
the heart the mouth speaks. Good man out of the god treasure of the heart
brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil
things. But I say to you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give
account thereof in the day of judgment. For by your words you shall be justified,
and by your words you shall be condemned”.
This is a principle that applies to whosoever will; the Bible said in Genesis 11
something profound, in verses 1-7, “And the whole earth was of one language, and
of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to
another, go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly, and they had brick for
stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, go to let us build us a city and
a tower, whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make us a name, less we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord Yahweh came
down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. And the Lord
Yahweh said, behold the people is one, and they have all one language; and this
they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have
imagined to do. Go to, let Us go down, and there confound their language, that
they may not understand one another’s speech”.
You see, they were trying to build a tower to reach heaven; they were trying to get
to heaven by their own means; and God said that nothing will be restrained from
them. God had to confound their languages so that they could not understand
each other.
Remember that Jesus said “that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any
thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father which is in heaven”
(Matthew 18:19).
In the Old Testament God predestined for the Hebrews as His elect people
(Exodus 19:5-6), “Now therefore, if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My
covenant, than you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me above all people; for all the
earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel”.
In the New Testament eternal destiny depends upon one’s relationship with Christ
Jesus (Acts 17:28-31 and I John 5:1-5). Ephesians 2:10 says it this way “For we
are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before
ordained that we should walk in them”.
Our destiny is to be in God’s likeness; and He has provided for us “some apostles,
and some prophets; and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers. For
the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body
of Christ. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son
of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
(Ephesians 4:11-13).
Paul prayed for the saints in Ephesus “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of Him. The eyes of our understanding being enlightened; that you
may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His
inheritance in the saints” (Ephesians 1:17-18).
In Psalms 17:15, the writer says “As for me, I will behold Your face in
righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake with Your likeness”.
Sermon by: Harriet Bond
Date: May 22, 2009
