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Dream to Destiny Week 10
Passing the Purpose Test
Robert Morris
God gave Joseph a dream when he was 17 (4 points thisweek)
• But he had to go through tests to build his character
• So he could fulfill his destiny.
And so do we!
What is our God’s purpose for our lives?
• We are backing up a little chronologically from last week (59)
• He is 39 and this is when he is reunited with his brothers!
Genesis 45:3
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph; does my father still live?”
But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed in his presence.
Genesis 45:4
And Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near to me.”
So they came near.
Then he said: “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
Genesis 45:5
But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Genesis 45:6
For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
Genesis 45:7
And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:8
So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made mea father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.”
Let’s talk about how you can know and fulfil your purpose
1. Believe you have a purpose.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven
Everyone has a purpose.
God doesn’t create anything without a purpose.
• Every animal has a purpose and every plant has a purpose.
• I don’t know what the purpose for a spider is
We have a side by side (Ice CreamTruck)
• Debbie hates grasshoppers!
Grasshoppers are perverts!
God has a specific purpose for everything and everyone.
• God has a goal in mind for your life!
This plunger has one purpose.
• A ring toss game
• A birdbath for hummingbirds
• A really large cookie cutter
• A hat for bald men that won’t blow off
You can look at it and see that the designer had a specific purpose in mind
• The designer had a specific purpose in mind when He made you!
• This is what you look like in the spirit if you’re called to deliverance!
2. Understand that God is in control.
Genesis 45:5
“But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.”
Genesis 45:7
“And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:8
So now it was not you who sent me here, but God …”
3 times, he said, “God sent me”!
Joseph had a great perspective!
• What his brothers did was wrong.
But God is in control!
• He believed that God was in control of his destiny and not people!
No one can stop you from fulfilling your purpose butyou!
• There are times God allows and there are times when God causes.
• And there are times when God turns circumstances for our good!
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
You and I may fall and make mistakes and bad things may happen
• But God is able to work everything for our good and His purpose!
Isaiah 55:10 (NIV)
“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
Isaiah 55:11 (NIV)
so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”
God has spoken a word over your life and it will not return void!
• And that word is higher than your mistakes
• And other people’s wrong attitudes and actions!
God can even use your mistakes to get you to your destiny!
• When you believe this, you’re an optimist, not a pessimist!
• The parachutist was a pessimist!
(Trucks are going to be late too)
3. Discover your gift and your direction.
The Lord showed me the key to discovering our purpose.
• It is in discovering our gifts.
• Why would He give us gifts that don’t relate to our purpose?
Each of us has a primary gift God gave us to accomplish our purpose.
• We may be strong in 2 or 3 gifts and all of them relate to our purpose!
Romans 12:4
For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,
Romans 12:5
so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
Romans 12:6
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;
Romans 12:7
or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching;
Romans 12:8
he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
What is the major or motivating gift that God has given you?
• What energizes you?
What jazzes you?
What floats your boat?
• What churns your butter?
What fills your ipod?
(Diakonia)
1. Motivator – Desires to motivate people to serve God
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