Discovering Your God Given Purpose
As christian women we often ask ourselves what is my real purpose? What am I here to do for God? We are busy raising families doing volunteer work at church and most of us have jobs that demand our time and leave us exhausted.
Each one of us has been uniquely created by God for a specific purpose. That purpose brings fulfillment on every level of our being. It also serves God’s kingdom purposes.
There are a few keys to discovering that purpose and living it out in every area of our lives. Let’s take some time and see what God’s purpose is for your life and lets see what steps you can take, what actions you can do, what choices you should and shouldn’t make, and how you should live out a daily plan that fits with God’s divine purpose for your life.
Your First Steps
This seems like a daunting task, especially when you have many roles you live in everyday. You’re a mom, wife, co-worker or boss lady you get the point. Finding your purpose isn’t about finding one great big purpose or calling for your life. It’s about recognizing how God will manifest in our lives everyday when we are mom, wife, and co-worker or boss lady or what ever else we put our hearts into everyday. We must be open to the guiding of the Holy Spirit in every situation during the day.
The Holy Spirit will use us in ways we don’t even realize. He will use us to train our children in God’s ways. God promises parents that when we teach our children His ways it will never depart from them. This is the first commandment with a promise directly from God. God will use us to help our husbands to become the men of God that he is calling them to be. God will use us in the lives of our friends and co workers to help them through something. God will give us the wisdom to speak into their situations and bring them closer to God with their decisions and there lives.
Sometimes we will never know just how much we impact others around us. It could be something we say that turns a situation around for someone. It could be the way we serve God that changes someone else’s life and shows them the way to Jesus. We need to be ready in season and out of season as the word says in 2 Timothy 4:2.
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season, correct, rebuke and encourage with great patience and careful instruction. 2 Timothy 4:2 NIV
Check out what the Amplified Classic Version says,
Herald and preach the word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be at hand and ready], whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or unfavorable. [Whether it is convenient or inconvenient, whether it is welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the word are to show people in what way their lives are wrong. ] and convince them, rebuking and correcting, warning and urging and encouraging them, being unflagging and inexhaustible in patience and teaching. 2Timothy 4:2 Amplified Classic Edition
Wow! that puts things into perspective for us. We are to be ready knowing the word, living the word, and setting an example of how the word of God should be lived out in a persons life. No one is perfect, and believe me when I tell you they will see the one mistake you make and when you make a mistake make sure you bring it to the Father and ask for His forgiveness don’t try and cover it up when you do this then you show them that you aren’t really living what you preach.
Where do we begin to find our purpose? We start with prayer. We need to pray for God to guide us as we walk along life’s journey everyday so we can see the tasks God is giving us for the day God has Devine appointments set for us. We need to ask that He shows us so we can see what God wants us to do. Next we study His Word. God reveals Himself through his word. We will begin to see the gifts, the talents, and the passions God has placed with us that are meant to use in service in His kingdom.
Discovering God’s Purpose
The Bible assures us that if we seek God with all our heartsHe will reveal His will and Himself to us. This is a wonderful verse that shows God’s provisions for our lives.
“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 hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Before we were ever born God created the plans for our lives. Not only did He create the plans but he also has plans for our prosperity and God will never harm us. When bad things happen it’s not God doing them to teach us a lesson, but the enemy of our soul trying to get us away from the plans of God and to get us to blame God for everything that has gone wrong in our life. God has created the perfect plan for our lives, we also have free will and can choose to go in another direction that isn’t on God, but when things go wrong when we take control that’s all on us.
Check out Psalms 139:13-16
“For you created my inmost being you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secrete place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body, all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be”.
In verse 13 of this passage David acknowledges that God is the one who formed him at the deepest level—not just physically, but his very “inmost being” (soul, spirit, personality). The image of God “knitting” suggests careful, intentional craftsmanship. It means life is not random but designed by a Creator with purpose.
In verse 14 of this passage, “Fearfully” carries the idea of awe-inspiring, and “wonderfully made” points to God’s artistry in creation. He recognizes the beauty and complexity of the human body and soul as proof of God’s marvelous works. This verse also reflects the value of every human life.
In verse 15 of this passage, In the hiddenness of the womb (“secret place”), God saw David. The phrase “woven together” again emphasizes the imagery of skillful artistry, like a master weaver crafting a beautiful tapestry. “Depths of the earth” is a poetic way of describing the unseen, mysterious place of life’s beginning.
In verse 16 of this passage, David highlights God’s foreknowledge. Before David even drew his first breath, God saw him. More than that, God knew the course of his life—“all the days” were already in God’s plan. This verse speaks to both God’s sovereignty and His personal care that he takes with each one of us.
Our existence is not an accident—we are carefully made, deeply known, and fully seen by God from the very beginning.
