SERMON: Understanding Purpose | Pastor Paul Enenche

ANOINTING SERVICE – SUNDAY, 9TH FEBRUARY 2020
ANCHOR SCRIPTURES: ECCLESIASTES 3:1; ROMANS 8:28; 1 JOHN 3:8; JOHN 18:37
MESSAGE TOPIC: UNDERSTANDING PURPOSE
BY: DR. PAUL ENENCHE

SERVICE OBJECTIVES:

1. Understanding purpose
2. Understanding the profit of understanding purpose

THINGS TO NOTE FROM SCRIPTURES AS REGARDS PURPOSE:

1. God is the God of time and purpose (Eccl. 3:1)
   He has a purpose for what He does and a time for what He purposes
2. God is deliberate, intentional, calculated and premeditated in all He does (Jer. 1:5)
3. God is never flippant, superficial, shallow or thoughtless in what He does (Jer. 29:11)
4. God is the God who purposes His acts and acts His purposes (Isa. 46:9-10; Acts 15:18)
5. God is the God who does what will count and counts what He does (Gen. 1:16; Ps. 147:4; Luke 12:6-7)
6. God is the God who ends before He begins and begins before He ends (Isa. 46:9-10; Ps. 139:14-16)

WHAT IS PURPOSE?

1. Your purpose is the necessity that influenced your creation by God (1Sam. 16:1)
   Your purpose is the reason for you in the world
2. Your purpose is the desire or pleasure you were designed and created to fulfill for the Creator (Rev. 4:11)
3. Your purpose is the assignment, mission or duty you were created to fulfil (Jer. 1:5)
   Your purpose is that particular duty you were designed to pour your life’s labour, energy and time into
4. Your purpose is the worth, benefit and value of your existence to both Divinity and humanity (1Sam. 18: 7; 2Sam. 18:1-3)
   Your purpose is the justification of your existence
   Your purpose is the gain, profit or merit of your life in the earth
   Your purpose is that which makes you valuable in the earth
   Your purpose is the value you are in the earth to create or add
   Your purpose is the difference you are in the earth to make
5. Your purpose is the sum total of the mark and impact you have been placed on the earth to make
   Your purpose is the uniqueness and distinctiveness you are to bring to bear on your world
   Imitations abound where people misunderstand their purpose for existence
6. Your purpose is the outcome or end-product you are in existence to achieve (2Tim. 4:6-8)
   Your purpose is the destination towards which your life is headed
   Your purpose is the comprehensive program of God for your life in the earth

PROFITS OF UNDERSTANDING PURPOSE:

1. Understanding purpose delivers people from the feeling of hopelessness, worthlessness and uselessness in life (Ps. 42:5; Job 14:14)
   When you understand the purpose you were created to fulfil, you no longer live like an accident of creation
2. Understanding purpose delivers people from the tragedy of the wasted life (Prov. 29:18)
   The clear understanding of your purpose delivers you from living at random or leaving life to chance
3. Understanding purpose helps to direct life’s energy, time and resources to what really matters to life (Phil. 3:13-14)
   Understanding purpose brings focus and concentration to life
   A distracted life is a purposeless life
4. Understanding purpose delivers people from wrong companionships and relationships (Prov. 13:20; Dan. 217-18)
   Your purpose influences your partnerships
   Your assignment determines your alignment
5. Understanding purpose delivers people from the plague of imitation and competition (2Cor. 10:12; Joel 2:7)
   Imitation is limitation and competition is complication of life and destiny
   There is a potential-productivity ratio that is a determinant of your purpose fulfilment
   When you know your purpose, you are free from envy and competitive jealousy; when you know your purpose, you run in your lane
   Every calling from God is a high calling; no calling is higher than the other
6. Understanding purpose fuels pursuit and persistence in life (Hab. 2:1-3; Heb. 12:1-2)
   Once you know what you are on earth to do, there is no plan B; you are empowered to be persistent in your pursuit.
   You can change the plans but the purpose remains; Purpose is a constant, plan is variable

COUNSEL:

1. Determine to understand God’s purpose for your life to avoid the tragedy of a wasted life (Jer. 33:3)
2. Knowing that your most important purpose in life is spiritual and eternal, you must determine to live in a way that will make the most spiritual impact for time and eternity (Eccl. 12:7)

PRAYERS:
Father, I come before You and ask for mercy and the grace to understand Your full purpose in every realm in my spiritual journey, life and career pursuit; that I will not miss You in my journey in life. Help me Lord, in Jesus’ Name
Father, I receive Your help to set my spiritual priorities in life. I receive that grace that will help me fulfill my spiritual purpose in life and in eternity. Help me Lord, in Jesus’ Name
ANOINTING FOCUS (1 SAMUEL 16:13,17):

• This is your destiny-opening anointing
• Anywhere you have been forgotten, you shall be remembered
• Whatever has covered your life and destiny is set on fire by this Anointing
• Every prison that has warehoused your life and destiny is opened now
• Every demonic attack, every oppression and affliction fighting your destiny, everything that has closed your life and destiny is set on fire by the reason of this Anointing
• The yoke is broken by the reason of this Anointing in Jesus’ Name

PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS:

• No devil shall tamper with your destiny
• Every arrow of hell looking for you is returned back to sender
• The agenda of hell is frustrated, arrested and resisted
• Every victim of easy discouragement, today the end of it is near. The capacity, tenacity and ferocity
• Grace to fulfill your purpose is released upon you today in Jesus’ Name
• Everywhere the devil is holding what is yours, it is released now in Jesus’ Name
• Every satanic gang up and conspiracy from hell against you is cancelled
• Every death is returned back to hell in Jesus’ Name
• You shall fulfill your days in Jesus’ Name

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