Embracing God’s Plan for You: How to Discover Your Divine Assignment!

There are some people who live from moment to moment.

What they are going to do next doesn’t even enter into their mind until shortly before they do it. I think a spontaneous moment can definitely be fun. But living a whole life with no plan or purpose is not fun. It’s crazy!

God is opposite to this. He has purposes, and He has plans that facilitate those purposes. None of His words and actions are random. They are intentionally based in purpose and beautifully contribute to His other purposes. Because of this, when Jesus came to earth, He didn’t just show up and “wing it.”

He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake (1 Peter 1:20 NIV).

God chose him as your ransom long before the world began, but now in these last days he has been revealed for your sake (1 Peter 1:20 NLT).

So obviously, according to this verse, Jesus’ purpose of redeeming us existed before He was born. The details of that purpose and what Jesus was to do during His time on earth were already planned and written in God’s book, somewhat like a script for a character in a play. Our Lord Jesus was actu- ally born on purpose, for a purpose.

So I said to you, “God—I will be the One to go and do your will, to fulfill all that is written of me in your Word!” (Hebrews 10:7 TPT).

Look at these verses that show Jesus was aware of and lived for the work of His Father’s purpose.

Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work” (John 4:34 NLT).

My teachings and my miracles. The Father gave me these works to accomplish, and they prove that he sent me (John 5:36 NLT).

I brought glory to you here on earth by completing the work you gave me to do (John 17:4 NLT).

Jesus’ part in God’s purpose wasn’t forced on Him. Jesus chose it throughout His life, but most especially in the garden of Gethsemane before He approached His passion.

Mary, Jesus’ mother, was without question born for God’s purpose, yet God didn’t force that purpose on her apart from her will and participation. Remember her great statement after Gabriel told her about God’s plan for her.

Mary answered, “I am the servant of the Lord. I have heard what you have said. I want it to happen to me just like that.” Then the angel left her (Luke 1:38 EASY).

With her acceptance of God’s plan, Mary became a very unique “conduit” of the redemptive plan that had been kept in God since before the founding of the earth.

As for Jesus’ followers, Jesus let them know that there were specific things assigned to them by His Father as well.

We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can work (John 9:4 NLT).

Not only Jesus, not just His mother and 12 disciples, but we too are born for a purpose as well. Our lives are attached to definite purposes of God.

We have become…a re-created people that will fulfill the destiny he has given each of us, for we are joined to Jesus, the Anointed One. Even before we were born, God planned in advance our destiny and the good works we would do to fulfill it! (Ephesians 2:10 TPT)

Like Jesus, our purpose existed before we were born. God’s purpose is our destiny and there are specific works to fulfill it. Those works and details of that purpose were already planned and written in God’s plan and His Word.

You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed (Psalm 139:16 NLT)

Within the many purposes in God, each one of us has a part. God’s love for us and pleasure that we belong to Him as His children are unwavering and unchanged by what we do. Even if we fail to do God’s purpose for our lives, His love for us does not fail and come to an end. The very nature of God’s love never comes to an end.

Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every per- son, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end] (1 Corinthians 13:7-8 AMPC).

It is impossible for God’s love for us to be changed by any- thing we do or don’t do and is unaltered regardless if we follow His plans or not. However, there is a unique pleasure that we bring to God to the degree that we reflect and express His divine purpose in our life.

If we love and cherish Him, we want to bring delight to Him. We can do this through living a life that matches God’s intention. This is why Paul prayed nonstop for the entire church in Colossae regarding God’s purpose for them.

So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better (Colossians 1:9-10 NLT).

[Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight (Philippians 2:13 AMPC).

What is pleasing to God is when His purpose is carried out. On two occasions He said that Jesus was His Son whom He was pleased with. The first time was at Jesus’ baptism before He began His ministry. I believe that one thing this demonstrates for us is the pleasure that we bring the Father in just being His child.

When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased” (Luke 3:21-22 NIV).

The second time God said from heaven that He was pleased with Jesus was on the Mount of Transfiguration, closer to the end of His ministry before He went to the cross. This speaks to me of Jesus’ life and ministry of obedience that brought pleasure to the Lord.

While he [Peter] was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!” (Matthew 17:5 NIV).

Jesus was fully pleasing to the Father because He fully carried out the will of God and His purpose for Jesus’ life.

Jesus’ purpose as the Redeemer of the world was unique. Jesus isn’t the only one vital to the execution of bringing purposes of God from heaven to earth. We all have been born for His purposes, and it was for those purposes we were born!

Some people live and die and never know that their life had a divine purpose, but their ignorance of God’s purpose for them doesn’t mean that they didn’t have one. They just didn’t know it, let alone any details of it. When you don’t know your purpose and where you are going, anything can make you wander or turn around. Purpose makes a person and a pray-er resolute.

God’s purpose is as essential to an individual, group, the Body of Christ, or a nation as tracks are to a train. The train goes nowhere without tracks. A person, family, group, or nation goes nowhere of eternal value outside of God’s purpose.

All of God’s purposes have already been established in Him and can be accessed through His Word and in His presence. When people go there, details of God’s purposes can be discovered by the help and direction of the Holy Spirit. It is here, in the spirit, that not only a person’s own purpose and part in God’s purposes is discovered, but other parts of God’s purposes are disclosed as well. The discovery of these purposes is more valuable than finding a vault of diamonds and a vein of gold.

And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them (Romans 8:27-28 NLT).

The Holy Spirit pleads for us in our prayer, in harmony with God’s will. As a result, He works all these details together for His plan and our good. That truly takes the mind and intelligence of God to accomplish.