Discovering Purpose 04: Seven Principles of Purpose
Ephesians 1:11 - 'We were also chosen to belong to him. God decided to choose us long ago in keeping with his plan. He works out everything to fit his plan and purpose.'
Seven Principles of Purpose
The following seven principles of purpose will help us to understand God’s Original intent for us in creation.
- God is a God of Purpose.
- God created everything with a purpose.
- Not every purpose is known to us because we have lost our understanding of God’s original intent for us.
- To discover purpose never ask the creation; ask the creator.
- Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.
- God’s purpose is a key to our fulfillment.
- We find our purpose only in the mind of our Maker.
God always knew what He wanted to create before He made it, similarly He always knows what He wants to carry out before He accomplishes it.
- Genesis 1:3: “And God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light.”
- Psalm 33:11: “The plan of the LORD stand firm forever, the purpose of his heart through all generations”
- Isaiah 14:24: “The LORD Almighty has sworn, ‘surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will happen’“
- Isaiah 55:10-11: “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it withought watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes 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.”
- 2 Timothy 1:8-9: “God…has saved us and called us to a holy life, not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.”