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John 14:26
This makes the Holy Spirit our living bible. He delivers the word of God to us
directly at critical junctures in our lives as required. Through the ministry of
the Holy Spirit, God has placed His word in our hearts and minds. This is the
covenant, God’s promise.
I John 2:20, 27
We are assigned to know the Word and how the bible is to be instrumented
to introduce others to the Word. This is how God gives gifts to others through
us. This is how we are assigned an ambassador for Christ. He wants us to
use the bible in order to do our assignment, and to serve and benefit others.
The movements, the events, the undertakings, the behaviors, the pursuits
inside this book are invitations to explore our hearts and create a likeness of
who we want our lives to be like. This is a profound, life changing principle
that should direct every aspect of our relations with others. It is our assigned
purpose, our appointed position, our ordained ministry.
Our assignments are simply ways we express our love for God and serve
Him. We do this not for reward. God is our reward. We wait for the full
manifestation when Christ brings us home to our rightful inheritance.
Numbers 18:20
The Lord fulfills our ultimate calling while we engage in our assignment. We
are a witness to the entire nation that God called us to be a peculiar people
whose inheritance is found in God Himself. Our focus is founded in Christ
and him crucified. God gives us one word of instruction at a time. And it is not
just instruction and the next step that we need, but the continuous, daily flow
of instruction available to us while spending quality time in His
presence. Remember how the Holy Spirit speaks to us the word of God.
Acts 8:26-40
For Phillip to stay in tune with his assignment, he needed to hear the Spirit
speak, and he had to diligently listen and be willing to take the next step. He
was in a great revival where miracles were being performed; unclean spirits
were coming out of the possessed, and the lame and the sick were being
healed. The Spirit speaks and tells him he is to go to the desert. Phillip did
not judge himself as any more important than God’s direction nor did he think
that he was the “star” of the revival, so he was able to and chose to
quickly obey. Where did Phillip find himself when he took one step forward
in his assignment? No one knew where he was but God.
We each have a unique assignment. We were not born to do what someone
else is supposed to do and they were not born to do what we are supposed
to do. We are all born with a purpose and our assignment is to follow and
seek to finish that purpose before the Lord’s return. We are not a mistake.
Though we are in the center of God’s will, we still face all sorts of challenges.
Yet, we have divine grace to fulfill our assignment. Becoming who we were
created to be is possible only through the grace, power and anointing of God.
Our purpose has a heavenly origin, and therefore, it is beyond the perception
of our natural senses. It transcends the boundaries of human reason and
ability. We categorically need the Spirit of God to fulfill His unique
assignment. We need to go through God’s process of transformation and
maturation so we can be prepared to receive His anointing. To “anoint”
means to endow someone with divine ability to do what they could not do
according to their own nature and gifts. God purposes us to do His will. This
divine anointing is not given to us arbitrarily. It is not given to us with an option
to use it or not. And it is not given to us merely for our own purposes. It is
granted exclusively for the fulfillment of a specific purpose, call or
assignment. It is through the study of the word of God that we learn how to
connect our anointing with our purpose. This is why some are more capable
of reasoning the word of God for the deep revelations of truth. They do not
frustrate their calling, their purpose, their assignment. It is impossible for the
self to die without the anointing. It is the grace of the strength and wisdom of
God.
Acts 1:8
This anointing is the only place from which we can minister to others, to bless
others. It is granted exclusively to fulfill the divine assignment that separates
and consecrates us for a specific God-given mission in this life. Anointing is
a sign of God’s equipping us to fulfill an assignment He’s given us. When
God gives us an assignment, a plan, or a strategy, He is going to empower
us. This unction is also proof that we are operating in the right calling. It
comes to us in that place where we surrender our will, our full will, to the will
of the Father. After our redemption experience, the unfolding of our divine
assignment is the greatest undertaking of our lives.Our earthly influence and
heavenly reward are tied to the deployment of our divine assignment. There
is this certain thing we need to note about our divine assignment. It is the
fact that our assignment was finished and perfected before we were created.
It is now our task to find out and enter into what was finished before we were
created. Bear in mind the determined assignment of Christ and how upon
finding out and entering into that assignment he grew in wisdom and came
to do His Father’s work.
Psalms 139:15, 16
Luke 2:40, 49
Our assignment is why we are called. It is to bless the world with the worth
and quality of our personhood and attract others to follow our inspiration and
motivation to enter into the perfecting of the character that is Jesus Christ. It
is in Christ that we are to become a better excellence of ourselves. Because
we do not know how gifted and valuable we are to God until we allow God to
introduce us to ourself as we can be in Jesus. May I say that our divine
assignment is doing what God wants us to do; having what God wants us to
have; going where God wants us to go and then becoming who God
ultimately wants us to become, which is like Christ. In the journey of
providence, God is calling us to love others as we go and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost.We must share the truth of Christ with people who don’t yet know him.
In a world of people desperate for hope, we must be willing to share Jesus.
God places a word in our spirit...He gives us a revelation. As our lives
surround that revelation it comes to life within us. That revelation released
into the world through our thoughts, our words, and our actions is our godly
assignment. We listen to the Spirit of God. We make critical choices, hard
decisions. We trust God to fill every void with His grace and provision as we
walk in our godly assignment. God’s appointed assigment for us is
exhaustive. It applies to everything under heaven. There is not a single thing
that is random. All things are appointed. Further, every single thing under
heaven has an appointed time. All things matter, and there is a difference in
things under heaven and things under the sun. Under heaven is viewed from
the divine perspective. It is God’s design. It is not vaporous. God will deploy
angels on our behalf. They will be our resource for preparation, provision,
and protection.
Let this, I pray, be understood clearly...God has a very specific assigned
task for us. We are to carry forth the proclaiming of the everlasting gospel.
Please note that task is for “us”. We is “us,” and us is a group of people. But
there is an even greater task at hand to which we’re assigned. Our major
assignment is not to preach, to teach the gospel. This is not to say in any
way that it is not important to God's work. We have to make sure that we give
matters the right priorities. Proclaiming the gospel is certainly a huge and
very vital part of the responsibility assigned the people of God. But God's
major work is something far bigger and far more important than that. God is
reproducing Himself in His called, chosen elect. Right from the beginning,
God wanted to make sure that we understand where He is headed with His
Word. And it took the assignment of the cross to get His people on track with
His purpose. Our assignment in a broad generality is to gather His people,
but it is spelled out more specifically for the individual as the mystical union
with Christ...”I am crucified”. To outward appearance I live as other people
do, my natural life is supported as others are; yet in Christ, there is a higher
and nobler principle that supports and actuates me, that of faith in Christ,
and especially as eyeing the wonders of his love in giving himself for me,
giving me the assignment of transformation.
II Corinthians 3:18
Philippians 1:6
We are, I am, recipient of the performance of God. Being brought back into
the image of God. Not by chance, but assigned in the Determinate Counsel.
This is God’s transcendent purpose. Our worth comes from a Creator who
assigned a purpose to us before He created any of us.
When we walk with God, it may not make things easy in our assignment, but
it makes them possible. Walking with Him gives us assurance of His
presence and power in our lives. Many times He will also lead us into new
territory where we are surrounded by unfamiliar faces in order to teach us
lessons that we couldn’t learn any other way. God’s assignments are
blessings. True purpose can only be found by anchoring our lives in the
character and call of God. It defines our life - not in terms of what we think
but what God knows. And God knows exactly where we need to be and who
we need to be with, in order to equip us for our life assignment. And He is
working to get us exactly where we need to be. It's the place where our
passion for our assignment meets God’s promises. What does it mean to be
in alignment with God? It is when our hearts are right with God, where our
spirits, souls, and bodies work together in peace and harmony. We are three-
part beings; spirit, soul, and body. When we are aligned with God, the spirit
rules the soul and body...our spirits are born-again. By His grace, He
orchestrates every detail of our lives for the ultimate purpose of His glory.
God is gathering His people and we have a significant role to fulfill in His
working in us both to will and to do. We are to know our assignment in the
body of Christ. Our assignment may be as simple as being kind to strangers,
but it may also be serving as one sent from God to a hostile situation where
we lose our life, or any number of assignments in between. Either way, God
has equipped us with His spirit, He continually leads us and He will be our
peace as we work out the details through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
God didn’t create us to do a job for Him, He created us to be His child, plain
and simple. We must step into every opportunity to love people. We must
steward our love intentionally. We are to know acknowledgeably that God is
our Father and Christ is our Savior and in them is our assigned purpose
fulfilled.
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