Have you experienced the moment when your pursuit of walking in your destiny shifts to your destiny walking in you? There is a point when your destiny starts courting you; calling you; coming after you. There is a juncture where your destiny tells you to rest because it’s doing all the work. What you were once pursuing starts pursuing you.
I bet if you would relax a bit, you would find that your destiny wants to live in you just as much as you want to live in it. Maybe your destiny has already been sending you signals that it’s doing the heavy lifting for you behind the scenes.
Let’s “thicken the plot.” Is your destiny a place that you arrive at, or is it the journey that you experience while you’re pursuing the arrival? Don’t miss the journey while trying to get to a certain place. The present moment is so often missed by our focus on the moment that has yet to arrive.
Your destiny is determined. Relax a bit. I believe if you are tuned in to the fact that you didn’t just show up here, but the originator and sustainer of all life reached inside Himself, pulled you out, and sent you here, that belief alone sets you on course with your destiny.
Now of course you can have a destiny and ignore it. You can have a destiny and refuse to cooperate with it. You can have a good course—a God course, and choose an alternative course. Having a destiny and choosing to walk in it are two different things. But you have chosen to walk in your destiny. So be who God made you to be. You’re the most powerful person in the world at being you. Stay in your lane. Travel on your side of the road. Your destiny will love you for it…and start pursuing you. You must be exactly what God made you. It’s when you get out of alignment with who He made you that your life gets out of alignment.
Here’s 4 Other Things:
- Every moment in your past has brought you to your present.
Your destiny has brought you to this place. God never wastes any experiences. Every experience you’ve had up to this point has contributed to who you are. Don’t discount today in favor of tomorrow. Live in today while thinking into tomorrow.
- Stop striving to BE what you already are.
It should not require any effort for you to be who you are. Just be you. Striving is when you’re trying to make something happen that God is not supporting. Embrace who you are, while you’re endeavoring to improve the current version of “you.”
- Take a break and celebrate the path you’re on.
Don’t be so caught up in trying to pursue something that you fail to recognize how much you’ve already been successful at attaining.
- Begin to believe that every resource and person necessary for the fulfillment of your destiny will find its way to you.
The more faith you have in the fact that God has pre-chartered an amazing course for your life, the easier it is for that course to chart its way to you. Let’s believe that we are now walking in a place where our destiny is scheduling the events of our life, determining who calls our cell phone, and what shows up in your mailbox.
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Sometimes people talk about their past catching up with them, usually in a negative sense: they did something bad or wrong in the past and they are now realizing consequences. Have you addressed this issue? Great work on the blog!
John,
I have not addressed the issue of a person’s past catching up with them. Moreover, perhaps this post will give someone an alternative focus–a focus of “their destiny catching up with them.” Hopefully we can all come into a season where our destiny is so powerfully at work in our life that it dwarfs any consequence that our past caused. Thanks for your encouragement and participation! Thanks for being amazing.
Powerful word!!!
Thanks Anneshia! God is very clever.
Pastor Stan,
Encouraging!! Thanks for sharing…
Andrew,
I’m glad you found this encouraging. Thanks for taking the time to share such positive feedback!
Stan
For the longest time, I made no particular effort at being excellent. At the time, my thoughts kept telling me I had it all figured out. Fast forward to aeons of sunrises and sunsets, proverbial bumps in the road, et all…I lay in a broken yet *contempt heap at the feet of God. Surrendered. And the peace I feel, coupled with all the lessons on His Word, have me wanting to do above and beyond, what’s expected of me. Not because I think I have it all figured out, ha ha ha, we know how that played out, but rather, for the glory of God.
Mr. Ellis, may He that started a good work in you, perfect it, in Jesus’ name I pray, with thanksgiving, believing that it’s already happening, and may it all work to the glory of God, amen.
*content
Yvonne,
Thanks for sharing! I sense that God is moving you into a season unlike any that you have ever experienced before. I pray that uncommon wisdom, understanding, and clarity will be yours as you walk into this new season. I pray that the “next” season of your life will be the “best” season of your life!
Stan
Great article! I tend to want to push too much and try to make things happen on my own. This post reminds me to slow down and trust God more. I am passionate about my pursuits and being excellent at what I do, but this sometimes can rub people the wrong way, and then if they criticize me, I may take it personally or feel rejected, and will quit; my negative emotions and negative thinking can disrupt the flow of what God is trying to do. So I have been praying against a spirit of rejection, an independent spirit, and a spirit of arrested development. At 50, I am the classic talented under-achiever…I really desire to do what the Lord has destined me to do, but often I sabotage myself by bad choices or walking out into something before I am really ready. Thank God He can turn these broken pieces into something beautiful for His glory! It is only by His grace that He can redeem all of the knuckle-headed decisions I have made over the past 24 years as a Christian. I am between jobs right now as I resigned from the Christian School I was teaching at. Now I am praying God will miraculously set me on the right path again and to provide for the vision He is calling me too and provide provision for the sake of my wife and children. I hope someone can learn from my mistakes. Blessings!
This is what the Lord is having me to do to walk in my destiny.
1. Quit looking at past hurts or wounds; don’t look back and let the your past GO!
2. Have a vision for your the future you want and write it down!
3. Don’t try or have the need to make everybody like you. Be a God-pleaser and not a people-pleaser. God will take care of His people.
4. Put the things of the Kingdom of God first and God will supply the rest.
5. Seek Him with all your heart – daily!
6. Stay courageous and bold. Do not cower to the status quo or stay in your comfort-zone.
7. He has made me unique, has put a unique call and mantle on my life, not everybody will understand it, but shine my light, and go forth, doing what He has put before me this day to do!
8.God will turn-the-tables and what the enemy meant for evil will be turned back on Him. I am claiming Double restoration in 2015 for all the wasted years stolen from me.
Thanks for sharing so much of your story!! I love what God has given you regarding walking out your destiny. If you focus on those things you can’t go wrong. Your destiny will eventually overtake you! I pray that God multiplies your wisdom in this season.
Stan