God says to call out to Him, and He will show us great and mighty things which we know not. God has a plan and a purpose for everybody's life. No person is here on this earth by mistake. He created us for good works, that people will see we are His handiwork and then glorify our Father which is in heaven (Ephesians 2:10).
The reason so many Christians fail to achieve anything in this life is because they've never really found out what God wanted of them in the first place. Successful Christians know they are an integral part of God's plan.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) says,
'"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 a hope and a future.'"
God has a plan for each one of us. If we'll hook up with His vision for our lives, we can't fail.
One vision that every person should have is for lost souls to come into the kingdom of God. God will add to that vision, but you've got to start there. He will plant desires within you heart to accomplish His will on this earth.
"Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart."
—Psalm 37:4, NIV
Stay where God wants you to stay; go where He wants you to go; do what God wants you to do. When God gives you a vision, stick with it. Many believers and ministers have received a vision from God and have begun to work toward fulfilling that vision, but somewhere along the line, they got mixed up. It became their vision, not God's. They started with God's ideas, but then they added a few of their own. Soon, it was more their own ideas than God's ideas. They began doing things on their own, claiming it was God who told them to do it.
It won't work that way. Keep God's vision clearly before you. Don't muddy up the works with your own fancy ideas.
When God tells you to do something, He always has perfect timing. If He says to do it now, you'd better do it now. If He says to wait, you'd better wait. It may not make sense to you at the time, but it will later on down the road. As time goes on, God will reveal His plans for you step by step.
When God called me at 12 years of age, He told me what I needed to do. I began to study God's generals, for one thing. On March 18, 1984, I finished everything God had told me to do up to that point in my life. The last thing God had shown me to do was to preach in my home church. Then for about two months, I didn't know what the next phase of His vision was for my ministry.
I didn't quit and give up during that time, though. I knew God had something more for me to do. You can't quit after you've accomplished one thing. You must wait for something bigger and better to come along. It will come. He who is faithful in little will be granted much more.
Now God's given me a batch of new directions for the years to come. My head's still swimming over some of the things He's shown me. My head tries to tell me I'm crazy for accepting the challenge. But I know God is a God of the impossible.
In order for you to accomplish the vision that God has for your life, you must know that God is the God of the impossible.
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