Faith for Destiny Success

Faith for Destiny Success 

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 15
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Faith is our convictions in God's word that motivates us to rely totally on Him to fulfill purpose and so become the exact thing He planned for us to be.

Apostle Paul said, 'I am what I am by the grace of God'. He knew who he was before meeting Christ and he could tell the difference after many years of walking with Him.

What difference exactly? Definitely, he didn't become richer neither did he become more acceptable in his society. In fact, he became the hunted and was consistently arrested to be killed, he was beaten and stoned many times, having lost the physical and religious status and authority he used to wield.

In Philippians 3, he gave his profile listing his accomplishments both by birth and by personal achievements, academics and others, but all, he had counted as dung for the excellence of knowing Christ Jesus.

But the grace of God has been sufficient in place of his weaknesses. He testified of his personal crucifixion with Christ so that he could live the life of faith, Galatians 2:20

But what kind of success was he celebrating speaking of who he had become by grace in 1Corithians 15:10?

He was celebrating the success of his divine destiny! A success he achieved by grace through faith. He discovered his destiny in Christ Jesus as one called and separated from his mother's womb to preach the gospel of Christ Romans 1:1, Galatians 1:15. But between his birth and the day he met Christ on the road to Damascus, he grew up and was trained in the Jewish religion and became a major persecutor of the same faith he was created to champion! He traveled directly against the path of his divine destiny!

He had influence and was affluent, which is what we celebrate as success today. But these are things for our sustenance and not a show of our destiny success and fulfilment. Being able to win bread and enjoy life isn't the reason we were planted here. These things are to fertilize us to bring forth fruits.  Fruit trees aren't planted just to be fertilized and to become big but to bring forth fruits for others to eat and enjoy its shade. What a tree enjoys isn't a sign of its success, the sign of a tree's success is in the fruits it bears. No tree eats it's own fruits! We eat to live, we don't live to eat and we only eat to have strength to fulfill purpose!

True success is destiny related. Apostle Paul discovered destiny and pursued it  by faith and he was able to say he became the success he was by the grace of God and eventually testified how he had fought the fight of faith and he finished the race with a crown waiting for him with Christ! That's success!

But how did he get there? He got there by faith!
He believed in his divine purpose! We also must believe in the purpose of God for our lives. We love to rate certain professions higher than others and we do everything to avoid others and be part of such vocations even when it's out of course with our divine destinies. Each of us has a reason and a fruit to bear for God and man and we must discover it and pursue it, fulfilling that is success. We must believe in God's purposes for our lives.

He believed in God's plan for his life, we too should believe in God's plan for our lives. We won't know the full details but we must be convinced of its existence and efficacy. We must believe God is working it out as things unfold in our lives daily. Everything is working together for us because we love God and are called according to His purpose. Ephesians 2:10

He believed in his potentials and the gifts of grace given him. We too must believe in those gifts and endowment God has deposited in us. It's a basic phenomenon that we normally appreciate the gifts of others when they'd put it to work than those we have. And many times we leave ours to go learn others we see being used well by others. But if we are to follow God's plan for our lives towards bringing forth expected fruits and fulfilling divine purpose, we must discover, develop and engage the gifts of grace God has graciously deposited in us. Paul said, he labored with the grace of God to become what he became!

He believed in his passions. Someone said, our assignment is related to the things we want changed the most. The areas of our anger is a pointer to the things that will bring us personal fulfilment and that's part of divine wiring in us for purpose fulfilment. Don't douse that fire. The things that interest you may not be a serious matter to people around you but those are the areas you'll eventually become an innovator, there is a fruit God is sending to the world through you in that area. Believe in your passion. Passion helps us to go through whatever troubles or sufferings on the path of our pursuit of purpose!

Paul believed in his grace motivated efforts. When out efforts are grace based and pushed by the passion to fulfill purpose we must believe in its power to produce much more than we even expect. There is a blessing in it. Yes, we can say whatever our hands find to do we must do well, that's expected but a time comes in the seasons of life when you can't just do all you can do, you'll have to do what God has equipped you to do with the equipment He has given you to achieve His purpose! Of course, it won't produce the fruit the very first day, but the work of faith will require patience and endurance. It'll require passion to keep pressing through all manners of failures and disappointments till the goal is achieved.

This is how we believe for our destiny success. God already has this plan laid out and if we'll believe and walk by faith through it, we'll have same testimonies like Paul!

[My Offline Bible] 2 Timothy 4
7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Good day to you!