Individual inheritance. Identity, redemptive gift and destiny.
Who am I – my identity.
How am I made – redemptive gift.
What am I made for – destiny or birthright.
Jer 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Psa 139:16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book (scroll) were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. 17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
There is a battle for your destiny. Problems to solve. Messes to up clean up. Raw materials needing to be shaped. Don’t let the obstacles, opposition or past mistakes stop you. See them as steppingstones.
God does the positioning, He creates and arranges the circumstances etc. God can explode the walls of the box your life seems to be in. Authority, position, power, laws may be against you. God can do anything as nothing is impossible for Him. He is looking for desire – willing hearts.
What is your destiny? How do you know what it is? Look at the physical deducible evidence – what you can see or deduce by examining your lives. Relational evidence – what God says to you. Heavenly supernatural evidence – what is on your scroll.
Most people just don’t know. Small % know from childhood but it is not often the norm. Majority find out in 30-50 age. Mid-life crisis. Time to reflect – ready to listen. Who am I? Why am I here?
Evidence from our lives. Look at things God has done in our design that have no cultural or nurture basis – unique to us. Desires and clues in our hearts. Examine our reactions to things what positive and negatives stir you.
Clues of God’s design not brokenness. Inquisitive desire to understand how. Word of God, drawn to study it, meditate in it and then encounter it. Emotionally stirred, affected by race issues, no natural connections, strong sense of injustice to fight on behalf of underdog. Drawn to the disadvantaged – at school always befriend the new boy.
Desires not explained by nurture. Things placed in us by God that light us up – Sci-fi and fantasy. God’s investments in us are like the Lego or jigsaw pieces of our destiny. Pathways to discovering our destiny. Do we have the desire to pursue?
Interest in history and future. Revivals – drawn to be involved in moves of God’s spirit. Mountains – climbing. Supernatural encounters and visions 1990-93 mountain. Prophetic word foundational in starting the ministry here.
Negative attacks – what has devil done in our lives – opposition to areas of destiny. Communication – fear speaking. Enemy activity – health. No fathering, no mentoring, no identity, betrayal, loneliness, no community, relationships.
Character issues are also clues – God focuses on traits that He works on. What and where are the challenges? Careful not to be limited by past that might be clue to our futures. Don’t let the obstacles of cultural constraint, gender, race or social standing issues stop you.
Surround yourself with the right connections and associations. Be willing to obey even if it is unusual. Be active not passive. Be wise in what you pursue. Be good stewards.
Simplest way to know your destiny is to hangout with the One who gave it to you. Develop an intimate relationship with God who has His vast thoughts about you. Learn to listen to and speak with God daily.
Einstein – I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details. Do you want to know God’s thoughts about you?
John 10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; James 4:2 …You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. Hear his voice and ask him to show you
Draw near to Him, get closer, go deeper. Heb 4:16 Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Heb 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith. Intimacy, open, real and vulnerable.
James 4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. Get to know Him, know His thoughts, know His heart for you.
John 16:13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth… He will disclose to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you.
1 Cor 2:9 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.” 10 For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
1 Cor 2:11 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. 12 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.
Ephesians 1:18-20 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.
Physical evidence – relational evidence – supernatural evidence. God is spirit and God is light. God is releasing a sound, vibrational frequency. Calling to us to resonate, come into harmony or alignment with our heavenly destiny. Engage with the spirit creative light realms. Spiritual dimensions we have access to.
Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, Ephesians 2:6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, Ephesians 2:18-19 for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
Destiny is both earthly and heavenly. Destiny is to rule in heaven on earth. You have a heavenly position of rulership. Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Created for a good purpose – our destiny.
Where is my destiny revealed? Psalm 139 on a scroll – double helix scroll. Encoded in our DNA – 97% as coded sequences of language. Restored 3rd strand of light DNA gives us access. In the record room of heaven. Engage it, desire it, fight for it, be prepared to be transformed for it.
Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; 24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way. God will reveal our destiny if we draw close to him. Where? How?
Psalms 42:7 Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls… Engage Him in the sound – worship. Psalms 40:7-8 Then I said, “Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart”. Engage Him in your heart.
Give God access into your heart. Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. 21 He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
Access into His heavenly presence. Rev 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.
Hebrews 10:19-22 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near…
Close your natural eyes. Open the eyes of your heart – imagination. Think of a door. Picture the door in your spirit – Jesus is knocking. Open the door, let Him in. Feel the love, acceptance and affirmation.
Hear the sound, feel the vibration. He affirms your identity. He affirms your calling. He affirms your destiny. Listen to His voice. Feel your heart engage. Feel the desires released.
Now think of the open door into heaven. Step through that door. Jesus takes you by the hand and leads you through the veils to stand before the Arc. Yod Hei Vav Hei Lion Ox Eagle Man. Presence of God manifests.
Open your heart. Let Him unfurl your scroll. Let Him write and reveal your scroll on your heart. Feel longings and desires. Eat the manna. Feel the energy. Pick up the rod and feel the authority, the confidence and boldness.