He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without which no one can fathom the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:11.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I am your creator and I have made each and every one of you unique for a purpose, plan, and reward and I give you the power to fulfill it as specifically tailored to you in the time you have on this earth and then for eternity. There are assignments for both time and eternity but the purpose is always the same. There is a basic plan for all lives for earth as well and a basic plan for eternity but for each one of you when, how, and where it is carried out is totally unique although you are joined together with others, now known as the body of Christ, always known as My everlasting Covenant, which is not static but grows as prophecies are fulfilled and mysteries are revealed, always increasing in grace and favor as My magnificent promises manifest, making you partakers of My divine nature in your humanity to achieve your unique assignments.
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. 2 Peter 1:2-4.
And all has to do with My Kingdom, which is also yours as My gift.
Do not fear, little flock, for it has pleased and delighted your Father to give you the Kingdom. Luke 12:32.
Your purpose is eternal but it starts in time. Time was created by Me though I live in eternity and so will you when your time on the earth is completed. Time is a brief part of your existence but it is extremely important for your eternity.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.2 Corinthians 5:10.
Eternity has neither beginning nor end, for it is outside time. It is like the “number line,” the line with an arrow at each end, one in the negative direction for the negative numbers, and one in the positive direction for positive numbers. If you go the direction of increasing negative numbers and think of that direction as the past, you will find no beginning at which it stops for there is always a larger negative number. If you go in the positive direction and think of it as the future, you will find no end for there is always a bigger positive number.
You start your existence in time when you are conceived in your mother’s womb, though you were in My heart as a vision that was certain of coming with your life planned before you were formed in your mother’s womb since the sixth day of creation when I spoke out the purpose and the beginning of the plan.
Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You. Psalm 139:16-18.
Purpose proceeds production, it is the womb of creation. But once purpose is determined and I have designed you and created all the materials needed, it just awaits the time that is set for you.
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not reached the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14.
Time takes you to the height of your maturity, if lived to the full as I have planned for you from the start, and then you are ready to move to eternity.
Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Genesis 5:24.
Time is not your permanent home. I have placed you in time but I made you eternal beings.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without which no one can fathom the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:11.
Without being born again from above so your spirit is alive to Me and dead to sin (reversing what Adam did by replacing truth with a lie and taking all humanity out of the spirit realm to the flesh realm) you will not have eternity in your heart but the sentence to the dust of death and you cannot even see or enter the Kingdom.
Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. . . Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” John 3:3;5-6.
But once you are born again from above the spirit realm is opened in your spirit by gift of the Holy Spirit who regenerates you in My Word and you have eternity in your heart so you can begin to fathom what is the height, length, depth, and breadth of My love and what I have prepared for those who love Me.
But just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.” For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. But a natural (carnal) man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 1 Corinthians 2:9-14.
Think about the rose and learn a lesson from the way it grows. The rose bush is not beautiful until it blooms. At first it looks like brown sticks with vicious thorns but then as it becomes green as the bumps that are buds of leaves and flowers appear, and it develops more and more until the buds of the roses begin to open and reveal the color of the petals and the fragrance deep within. And as the bud continues to open and mature it finally reaches the maturity of its perfect beauty and symmetry and its fragrance is spread abroad. It can never be more beautiful than at its time of full maturity because then it begins to wither and die as its petals fall to the ground. When its purpose is fulfilled it dies, but if the fragrance of its life has been saved and distilled as perfume it will bless lives for years past its demise.
Nothing and no one should die before their purpose is fulfilled. Your purpose gives your time its meaning. Do not go from time to eternity until you can hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” People who are just “killing” time with idle lives are committing spiritual suicide and cluttering up the ground.
For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off, but the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word which was preached to you. 1 Peter 1:23-24.
Think about this: What can you show to justify the time you have lived thus far? What fruit have you produced? And that all comes down to your thoughts, words, and actions as the building blocks of your life.
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? 2 Corinthians 13:5.
And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them.” Revelation 14:13.
Every day should be used as an opportunity to fulfill My purpose and plan in your life.
So what is the purpose and what is the plan so you can be diligent with every second, minute, hour, day and year of your life? Living with purpose gives purpose to living, giving vision and movement forward and fosters the fruit of the Spirit in your life, including self-control.
It is time for you to redeem the time I have given to you. You can lengthen and shorten it. I will satisfy you with long life if you need that to accomplish the work I have given you to do but the wicked shorten their time on earth. And that is merciful if I look ahead and see they are only going to get worse.
Let us begin with purpose. You have a threefold purpose and a fourfold plan that is then tailored to your assignments on earth and in eternity. If you follow these you will not be unfruitful and your entrance to eternity will be richly supplied for you.
Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you. 2 Peter 1:10-11.
To find your purpose you cannot find the answer in yourself or human theories and philosophies. Why? Because you cannot know your purpose apart from knowing the original intent in the mind of the One who designed and created you. And that is also the same with all things invented or made by people on earth. When it was first designed and built, you might not have known the purpose of an electric fan, a hammer, a jar opener, a fly swatter, or a paper folded up fan (or even opened with a lovely painting on it) from just looking at it. But once explained what it was made for and how to use it by its creator it became very useful to you. But to be safe, such as an electric fan or a hammer, you must use it for its purpose or it could injure you, break things, or even kill you or others. This is true of handling your own life according to your purpose as well.
I designed and created you, I fashioned you with My own hands and breathed My life breath into you. It is not hard to find My intent for I set it forth for you quite clearly in the very beginning of My book, the Bible. I speak the end from the beginning and so should you to charter your course in life correctly towards the finish line.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:26-28.
Let Me break this down for you:
- You are made in My image and according to My likeness.
You are to be just like Me. Who am I? For in who I am you find your purpose because your purpose is the same as Mine for you are in My image and according to My likeness. You have My nature in you and you will not be happy and fulfilled until you are fulfilling purpose. That is why for you the path to life and fullness of joy is only found in My presence. Psalm 16:11.
God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16.
This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5.
I am love and I am light with no hidden darkness (evil) within Me. I think in love, talk in love, and walk in love. I have no other agenda. Everything that is not pure love is foreign to My nature, it cannot enter Me or abide in Me.
What does love look like? Look at Jesus.
Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father.” John 14:8-9.
God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. Hebrews 1:1-3.
He is your light for He is My Word made flesh and I am My Word and My Word is the light for your path and the lamp for your feet.
Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” John 8:12.
And what did His life look like? Love. Love never harms the neighbor but seeks to save him, by lifting and exhorting him to a higher level. My level of thoughts and ways.
You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. Acts 10:38.
When people came to Jesus they heard My Words and saw My works done by one who was also fully man just as He was one with Me. He was love in action– healing, providing, exhorting, giving all of Himself for you. And He came to release you from sin and draw you deep into oneness with Me in Him. For eternal life is to know Me as the one true God and the one I sent, Jesus Christ. He brought you back into right standing with Me by raising and joining humanity to the divine level and divinity to the human level in Him in one seamless life.
So your first purpose is to be love and light with no darkness in you, I made you like that and that is the only place you will find joy and fruitfulness.
So what do you know from this? If you are to be living your purpose in your time on earth (and in eternity), you should be thinking, talking, and walking in love. Anything done for motives other than love is a waste of your precious time. Envy, strife, malice, fear, abuse, offense, obscene language, and the like should never proceed from your mouth because that means they have pushed their way into your heart. The you are out of your purpose for which you were made and you will not have any lasting joy and close fellowship with Me since you will not be in agreement with Me and you will be toiling to work against the flow of the Spirit.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.
And here is some concrete advise on how to do that straight from My Word about how to think, talk and walk in love.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.
Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:29-32.
And doing these things will give you joy and set you free. I know because that is the way I walk and I am full of joy. Come share My joy with Me.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. Ephesians 5:1-4.
Because I made you by My Words, My Words will always bring joy when heard in your heart. Your heart will leap up as John the Baptist did in the womb of his mother Elizabeth when Mary entered with Jesus, My Word become flesh, in her womb. You have known My voice from the start. It is not the voice of a stranger but your creator.
These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. John 15:11.
- The purpose of fellowship and doing everything together as One: Fellowship and Partnership
The second aspect of purpose is fellowship which has to do with oneness because of our likeness. You are My family in the truest sense for which it was purposed to be. How can two walk together unless they agree? I made you in My image and according to My likeness so we could live in constant union and work together in dominion, purpose, plan, and power. Your thoughts and My thoughts, your words and My Words, your works and My works should be in perfect harmony and in the perfection of perfect love. Love never fails.
I have always sought fellowship with you from the beginning. I tell you that I came to the Garden and walked with Adam and Eve every day. I taught them things and let them take dominion over things. We had wonderful, delightful days until Adam turned on Me and separated himself from My Words for lies that made him unwilling to any longer learn from Me. He no longer wanted to walk in My ways of love but turned to evil. He was out of his purpose and it drove him out of his place and it caused toil, pain, sickness, death, violence and murder to come into the world. He became like the evil that had enslaved him. And the devil did so as well. Both fell together.
But the good news is I provided you a way back to perfect fellowship with Me because that is what I desire most of each one of you. Oneness in love. Oneness in purpose, plan, reward and power. Oneness together in My Kingdom both on earth and in Heaven forever. And that is what Covenant is all about. That is what the tabernacle I instructed Moses to build was all about and in its plan you see the way of salvation, Jesus. And in that you see My heart to have you always one with Me so I can care for you and lift you up to reign with Me forever. And that is what your life is all about. The precious plans I have for you outnumber the sand on the earth and the stars in the sky, for those, though they are too many for you to count are finite and I know them all, but My plans for you never end for they are eternal. They span eternity.
And now is the best time of all, for I don’t just dwell with you but I have poured Myself into you by the gift of the Holy Spirit by whom I have poured My love in your heart. You are filled with Me, that is, My divine nature of love. And that is who I am and so are you from the inside out. And the outside in. For I have put My Spirit in you and on you.
I love you. That is enough for this lesson. Tomorrow I will show you more, much more.