Making Impact in your life

1 chron 12:32 (23-32)
Matt 5:14-16

The heads/captains were 200, which means there were more than 200 people in the group.
You must have an understanding of season/time you are living in. Have a duty mind set as to the task set,be ready to work. Know what is expected of you- your purpose in the Lord. And pray that you have influence and the impact you have on people that it be a Godly one. Like the people of the tribe of Isaachar.

A life of impact begins with a sense of mission and discovery of purpose. It is the discovery and pursuit of vision that enables you to make an impact. If you want your life to have impact focus it; goals are dreams with deadlines. So write a mission /purpose statement as everything will focus around that which will focus you and put you on a clearer path that will build a legacy.

But it all takes a strong character to follow through. So beware that the vision does not take you where your character may not be able to sustain you. Character is developed and revealed through test and life is a series if tests. Not all characters are good. For character is a very strong ingredient for making Impact in your life.
Impact/character = vision +time+purpose
You can't be part of the answer if you don't accept that you are also part of the problem. We must be self aware as that leads to pure clarity.

The power to your destiny is inside of you. Don't seek for it in the outside. Examine and validate yourself and your purpose will be revealed to you.

Don't concentrate or fixate on your past. It has happened and can't be changed, vut how your future turns out depends on your focus,purpose,timing, vision, impact which all builds from your character. So let your light shine so be responsible for yourself. For you hold the keys to your life, ask for guidance so that you may use the right key to open the right door and let the glorious light of Christ shine through you and people see God's love through your life

Purpose being revealed

2 Tim 1:8-10
Gal 1:15,16
Rom 12:3

Failure is natural,  the more you can realise that failure is natural, fight against it as it is usually driven by fear.

We all have faith, whether we we believe in God or not. But as a Christian our faith is ignited -kicked into gear, activated. The pursuit of destiny is vision plus purpose. Why? Calls for purpose
Where? Calls for direction where we need God to direct our path
What? Calls for duty/method/task
When? Calls for timing all these simplify life/destiny in God.

Vision simplified
1.You cannot go where you cannot see. Eg. Eagle &
The power ahead of you is greater than the power in your past. But you're moved but what you focus on. So focus on what lies ahead of us. Like an eagle soaring high in the clouds can still see tiny prey moving in the brush. We must have that sort of vision and focus. In order to pursue your destiny, let go of the past and let God take hold of your life.
2.The further you can see the further you can go.
3. Be fast to see
4. Be sure of where you're going ie. Know where you're going. Because regardless of how fast you can move, you shan't get there if you don't know where it is you're going/what your vision is.

Vision has a lot to do with perspective you regard what you see/happening in your life, will determine the decisions you make in your life. Because to pursue,  is to make a choice.

To move onto greatness you need to accept yourself and be grateful to God for who you are. But knowing where you're going without knowing the purpose isn't good enough. We need to be stationed in the right place for purpose comes before objects. Ie God created a place before He created people.

Isa 43:18
Mark 3:14
Calling is not commissioned. You may receive the call to serve God, but He may not yet have commissioned you a purpose/mission. You need to conceive and grow your vision before it is /can be 'delivered'.
Ephe 2:10

Lord I want you to make me into what you intended me to be.

Eccles 3:1
There are times to endure and tines to enjoy.
Psalm 139:13-16

Revelation of God to our purpose

Luke 12:13-21
Job 1:1

We need to strive to be like Job, whose description starts with being a faithful child of God. Not his riches, not his accolades, but his faithfulness and righteousness.  Same as Solomon. He was richer than David but he was more revered for his reverence to God first and foremost before all things.

If your purpose is to glorify God, all else shall fall into place. Because a revelation of God is a revelation of purpose.

Eccles 2:1-11
Gen 37:1-11
        39:2

Even Cain

Gen 4:1-17

Refusing to be the same, as the past, as your friends,as your siblings, as your parents. Believe that you will do better!

Be like Abel,  no-one is watching don't do it to impress others but God alone. Something amazing will come from you,whether you're the eldest sacrificed child or the youngest beloved has an easier ride child; with God,something amazing will come out from you.

If you want to blessed,it is in your own hands. You cannot rely on someone else to push you to your destiny. Do what is right by listening to God, sin is right there waiting to fill you with doubt, discouragement and devour you. Master it, with God's help you can master sin.  There was no witness to Cain killing his younger brother Abel, but Abel's blood was screaming to God, Abel's generous and selfless offering brought him closer and closer to God always.

God takes up the battle for His children and He cursed Cain in his body himself and anything he touches.
But God showed even Cain mercy that anyone who tried to kill Cain for what he's done or just because he is so so remorseless about killing his own brother,they would suffer 7 times worse Cain's punishment!!
Marriage is a gift, even Cain- who is an murderer,not a Christian,  hiding from God, yet he was blessed, with a wife, a child and riches as only the rich can build a house or estate. Cain was building a city!!
(there is a theory that Cain and Abel were twins)

But we are blessed for we are sitting in the presence of God!

God is with you always

Number 14:1

Don't let seemingly unanswered prayers be the cause if discouragement. Be like Elijah who prayed over 7 tines for rain and kept checking

1 Kings 18:41-43
Job 3:1-4,11-13

Job's soul was in anguish, he had done nothing wrong, lived a seemingly righteous life. But even through his anguish and discouragement, he still seeks the Lord even though he wished he was never born due to losing his loved ones. Job 23:1-11

When you cannot find God, know that He is carrying you.
James 5:17
1 kings 19:2-8

God always fed Elijah in his time of need, by sending a fellow brethren, or birds but when we are in anguished despair,  so low; God himself sustains us personally
Isa 43:1
Matt 11:28-30

Don't be discouraged, vut be encouraged for God is always with you.

Church as a family

Rev 7:9-12

When we call church as a family of God,  we must be aware that the word 'family' has different connotations for some people. As not all families are positive

Ephe 12:15
           2:19
Gal 6:10
       4:4-11
John 13:1-3

Accepting God as Father,means you take hus love but must also take his chastisement Heb 12:7-11. You must let God shape you life and correct you from bad behaviour.  God loves us enough to say No,Stop Change how you're behaving. If you do not allow God to discipline you it means you are illegitimate (ie. God is not your father,but someone else,not in the context of out of wedlock )

Gal 1:1,11
       2:4
       3:15
       4:12,28,38
       5:11,13
       6:1,18
Believing brings belonging Ephe 2:12-19. Open up your friendship circle. Make a conscious effort to befriend multiple ethnicities so that you may bring them to church and make your church more cultural ie.have an All Nations Day every week. The devil uses different skintone, accents as a divider of people, let's not let that happen.

"white people have watches, black people have time"

Love, serve,accept,honour,encourage,instruct,submit,bear one another's burdens

Rom 8:4-9

Thankfulness

1 Thes 5:18

When times are good it's easy to be thankful but it's hard to do when things seem to be going every wrong and it seems God has forgotten about you,be thankful.

Luke 22:17-19
Jesus knew His fate before He was born but He was still thankful to God for the future Heb 12:2 (-11). We may be currently unemployed, currently have financial struggles and or health struggles. But God is always with us, He has paved the future on earth, but especially in heaven. We sometimes go through hardships as a punishment /discipline.  But most times the hardships we go through is to serve a greater purpose which is a wondrous Glory of God!
2 Kings 20:1-6
Gen 50:20
God's Glory can be revealed in ways that to our human hearts and eyes we feel is unfair treatment especially when we believe in God and serve Him loyally. But let us take example from Joseph and Hezekiah, who through all their struggles and torment and anguish, they still always turned to God to be thankful and grateful to Him.