Fulfilling Your Destiny

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Fulfilling Your Destiny

• God Wants to Use You!

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Psalms 13914-19 (The Message)

• I thank you, High God you're breathtaking! Body
  and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in
  adoration what a creation!
• You know me inside and out, you know every bone
  in my body You know exactly how I was made, bit
  by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into
  something.
• Like an open book, you watched me grow from
  conception to birth all the stages of my life
  were spread out before you, The days of my life
  all prepared before I'd even lived one day.

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• Your thoughts how rare, how beautiful! God,
  I'll never comprehend them! I couldn't even
  begin to count them any more than I could count
  the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the
  morning and live always with you! And please,
  God, do away with wickedness for good!
• And you murderers out of here!

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God Chose You

• Jeremiah 14-10
• Now the word of the Lord came to me saying,
  "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."
• Then I said, "Alas, Lord God! Behold, I do not
  know how to speak, Because I am a youth."
• But the Lord said to me, "Do not say, 'I am a
  youth, Because everywhere I send you, you shall
  go, And all that I command you, you shall speak.

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• "Do not be afraid of them, For I am with you to
  deliver you," declares the Lord.
• Then the Lord stretched out His hand and touched
  my mouth, and the Lord said to me, "Behold, I
  have put My words in your mouth. "See, I have
  appointed you this day over the nations and over
  the kingdoms, To pluck up and to break down, To
  destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant."
  

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• "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and
  appointed you that you would go and bear fruit,
  and that your fruit would remain, so that
  whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may
  give to you.
• John 1516 NASU

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Diana Ross Sang

• Do you know where you are going to?
• Do you like the things that life is showing you?
  
• Where are you going? Do you know?

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Michael Fisher (Family rock skipping champion)

• The decisions you make today, will determine the
  course of your future life and the words you will
  speak on your deathbed

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Dr. John Oswald Sanders

• (17 Oct 1902--24 Oct 1992) was a general director
  of Overseas Missionary Fellowship in the 50's and
  60's while it was still China Inland Mission and
  authored more than forty books on the Christian
  life. He became an elder statesman and world-wide
  conference speaker from his retirement at 65
  until his death at 90.

• Many of us think after a number of years that we
  are finally entering the purpose of God for our
  life, when actually it is the culmination of a
  preparatory process that began before birth.

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Erma Griswold
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Which Saul do U want to be?

• King Saul
• Tall, handsome, wealthy, father was a war-hero,
  family was very influential
• Saul of Tarsus
• Short, ugly, from a mixed family, devoted his
  life to beating, jailing and killing Christians

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King Saul Acts Stupid

• 1 Samuel 151-26 TLB
• One day Samuel said to Saul, "I crowned you king
  of Israel because God told me to. Now be sure
  that you obey him. Here is his commandment to
  you
• 'I have decided to settle accounts with the
  nation of Amalek for refusing to allow my people
  to cross their territory when Israel came from
  Egypt. Now go and completely destroy the entire
  Amalek nation-men, women, babies, little
  children, oxen, sheep, camels, and donkeys.'"

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• So Saul mobilized his army at Telaim. There were
  two hundred thousand troops in addition to ten
  thousand men from Judah. The Amalekites were
  camped in the valley below them. Saul sent a
  message to the Kenites, telling them to get out
  from among the Amalekites or else die with them.
• "For you were kind to the people of Israel when
  they came out of the land of Egypt," he
  explained. So the Kenites packed up and left.

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• Then Saul butchered the Amalekites from Havilah
  all the way to Shur, east of Egypt. He captured
  Agag, the king of the Amalekites, but killed
  everyone else.
• However, Saul and his men kept the best of the
  sheep and oxen and the fattest of the
  lambs-everything, in fact, that appealed to them.
  They destroyed only what was worthless or of poor
  quality.

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• Then the Lord said to Samuel, "I am sorry that I
  ever made Saul king, for he has again refused to
  obey me."
• Samuel was so deeply moved when he heard what God
  was saying, that he cried to the Lord all night.
  Early the next morning he went out to find Saul.
  Someone said that he had gone to Mount Carmel to
  erect a monument to himself and had then gone on
  to Gilgal.
• When Samuel finally found him, Saul greeted him
  cheerfully. "Hello there," he said. "Well, I
  have carried out the Lord's command!"

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• "Then what was all the bleating of sheep and
  lowing of oxen I heard?" Samuel demanded.
• "It's true that the army spared the best of the
  sheep and oxen," Saul admitted, "but they are
  going to sacrifice them to the Lord your God and
  we have destroyed everything else."
• Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stop! Listen to what
  the Lord told me last night!"
• "What was it?" Saul asked.

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• And Samuel told him, "When you didn't think much
  of yourself, God made you king of Israel. And he
  sent you on an errand and told you, 'Go and
  completely destroy the sinners, the Amalekites,
  until they are all dead.' Then why didn't you
  obey the Lord? Why did you rush for the loot and
  do exactly what God said not to?"

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• "But I have obeyed the Lord," Saul insisted. "I
  did what he told me to and I brought King Agag
  but killed everyone else.
• And it was only when my troops demanded it that I
  let them keep the best of the sheep and oxen and
  loot to sacrifice to the Lord."

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• Samuel replied, "Has the Lord as much pleasure in
  your burnt offerings and sacrifices as in your
  obedience? Obedience is far better than
  sacrifice. He is much more interested in your
  listening to him than in your offering the fat of
  rams to him.
• For rebellion is as bad as the sin of witchcraft,
  and stubbornness is as bad as worshiping idols.
  And now because you have rejected the word of
  Jehovah, he has rejected you from being king."

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• "I have sinned," Saul finally admitted. "Yes, I
  have disobeyed your instructions and the command
  of the Lord, for I was afraid of the people and
  did what they demanded. Oh, please pardon my sin
  now and go with me to worship the Lord."
• But Samuel replied, "It's no use! Since you have
  rejected the commandment of the Lord, he has
  rejected you from being the king of Israel."

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Saul commits suicide

• The battle went heavily against Saul, and the
  archers hit him and he was badly wounded by the
  archers. Then Saul said to his armor bearer,
  "Draw your sword and pierce me through with it,
  otherwise these uncircumcised will come and
  pierce me through and make sport of me." But his
  armor bearer would not, for he was greatly
  afraid.
• So Saul took his sword and fell on it. When his
  armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell
  on his sword and died with him. Thus Saul died
  with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all
  his men on that day together.
• 1 Sam 313-6 NASU

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Stephen Preaches

• Acts 68-15
• And Stephen, full of grace and power, was
  performing great wonders and signs among the
  people.
• But some men rose up and argued with Stephen.
  But they were unable to cope with the wisdom and
  the Spirit with which he was speaking. Then they
  secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him
  speak blasphemous words against Moses and against
  God."

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• 12 And they stirred up the people, the elders and
  the scribes, and they came up to him and dragged
  him away and brought him before the Council. They
  put forward false witnesses who said, "This man
  incessantly speaks against this holy place and
  the Law for we have heard him say that this
  Nazarene, Jesus, will destroy this place and
  alter the customs which Moses handed down to us."
  
• And fixing their gaze on him, all who were
  sitting in the Council saw his face like the face
  of an angel.

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Saul Ravages the Church

• Acts 754-83 NASU
• 54 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the
  quick, and they began gnashing their teeth at
  him. But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed
  intently into heaven and saw the glory of God,
  and Jesus standing at the right hand of God and
  he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened up and
  the Son of Man standing at the right hand of
  God."
• But they cried out with a loud voice, and covered
  their ears and rushed at him with one impulse.

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• 58 When they had driven him out of the city, they
  began stoning him and the witnesses laid aside
  their robes at the feet of a young man named
  Saul. They went on stoning Stephen as he called
  on the Lord and said, "Lord Jesus, receive my
  spirit!"
• Then falling on his knees, he cried out with a
  loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against
  them!" Having said this, he fell asleep.

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• Saul Persecutes the Church
• 81 Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him
  to death.
• And on that day a great persecution began against
  the church in Jerusalem, and they were all
  scattered throughout the regions of Judea and
  Samaria, except the apostles.
• Some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud
  lamentation over him. But Saul began ravaging the
  church, entering house after house, and dragging
  off men and women, he would put them in prison.

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Saul becomes Paul!

• I have fought the good fight, I have finished the
  course, I have kept the faith in the future
  there is laid up for me the crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  Judge, will award to me on that day and not only
  to me, but also to all who have loved His
  appearing.
• 2 Tim 47-8 NASU

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Look at Gods Superstars

• Abraham- Let Pharaoh have his wife
• He was called a friend of God and
• Father of the faith
• Moses- Was a murderer
• But he spoke to God face to face
• Paul- Was a murderer
• But he wrote half of the New Testament

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David Committed adultery and murder but

• "After He had removed him, He raised up David
  to be their king, concerning whom He also
  testified and said, ' I HAVE FOUND DAVID the son
  of Jesse, A MAN AFTER MY HEART, who will do all
  My will.
• "For David, after he had served the purpose of
  God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was
  laid among his fathers and underwent decay
• Acts 1322,36 NASU

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Davids Army

• So David departed from there and escaped to the
  cave of Adullam and when his brothers and all
  his father's household heard of it, they went
  down there to him.
• Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who
  was in debt, and everyone who was discontented
  gathered to him and he became captain over them.
  Now there were about four hundred men with him.
• 1 Samuel 221-2 NASU

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God Chooses the Foolish

• Notice among yourselves, dear brothers, that few
  of you who follow Christ have big names or power
  or wealth. Instead, God has deliberately chosen
  to use ideas the world considers foolish and of
  little worth in order to shame those people
  considered by the world as wise and great.
• He has chosen a plan despised by the world,
  counted as nothing at all, and used it to bring
  down to nothing those the world considers great,
  so that no one anywhere can ever brag in the
  presence of God.
• 1 Corinthians 126-29 TLB

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The Salvation Army

• Norwich Citadel Band was established in 1882
  following a visit by General William Booth,
  founder of The Salvation Army, who came to preach
  at the newly opened corps (church) based in a
  former roller skating rink in the heart of the
  old medieval city of Norwich. The General
  implored its citizens to "Get a drum and rouse
  Norwich from one end to the other." This
  directive was immediately acted upon, instruments
  were purchased and a band was formed. By December
  1882 the band was heard playing and marching the
  streets proclaiming the message of God's love for
  all.

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William Booths Funeral Procession1912
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The Jesus People
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Which one are You?

• Dirty Crystal Goblet

• Clean Peanut Butter Jar

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God is Looking for Anyone

• "I searched for a man among them who would build
  up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for
  the land, so that I would not destroy it but I
  found no one.
• Ezekiel 2230 NASU

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God is Looking 4 U

• For the eyes of the Lord search back and forth
  across the whole earth, looking for people whose
  hearts are perfect toward him, so that he can
  show his great power in helping them.
• 2 Chronicles 169 TLB

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British Teacher Arthur Wallis

• If you would do the best with your life, find
  out what God is doing in your generation and
  fling yourself into it!

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John Wesley

• Give me 100 hundred men who love only God and
  hate only sin with all their heart, and we will
  shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom
  of God in one generation

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1 Corinthians 69-11 AMP

• Do you not know that the unrighteous and the
  wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in
  the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled)
  neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters,
  nor adulterers, nor those who participate in
  homosexuality,
• Nor cheats (swindlers and thieves), nor greedy
  graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers
  and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers will
  inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God.

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• And such some of you were once. But you were
  washed clean (purified by a complete atonement
  for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and
  you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and
  you were justified pronounced righteous, by
  trusting in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
  and in the Holy Spirit of our God.

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Transformation!

• Steps to fulfilling your destiny