He Has a Destiny for Us

1996

He has a destiny for every single one of us, a purpose that He wants to see fulfilled. Do you know how many people make it that far? Look around. Do you know how rare it is for someone to have fulfilled the purposes of God for their life, from their life, from the reservoir and the gifts that God has bestowed upon them, from the grace and the mercy and the forgiveness that have been extended, the things that have been entrusted to them? Do you know how many people take that to the full extent, to serve God’s purposes in their generation and actually do something with what God has mercifully, by the Blood of His Son, invested in them? So few. Very few people on the face of the earth.

We look at those guys as heroes, as we look at past generations. Names spring up of people that possibly might have done something with what God gave them. There are tons, multitudes, the flock that is in drowsiness, wandered off the cliff, spent their whole life on themselves, never really fulfilling the supernatural destiny that God has bought for them with the Blood of His Son. They’re legion. It’s an infinite number of people nearly, that have never really walked in God’s call on their life, only just dabbled a little bit with it.

Because of certain things that they embraced, they held onto, they defended their right to be a certain way or think a certain way, and they knew in their heart it wasn’t Jesus. Jesus wouldn’t be thinking that way. Jesus wouldn’t love that thing, Jesus wouldn’t spend His time that way. They know in their heart that that’s not right, and then they would spurn the discipline, they would reject that. Either from some Pentecostal viewpoint of, “That’s of the devil,” when it was really God chastening them.

Or someone else who would say, “Hey! The rain falls on the just and the unjust. It’s just circumstances. No big deal.” And they’re not trained by it. They refused to be trained by it, and so it doesn’t yield that harvest that God promised. So they spend their lives being feeble and weak and lame, and they don’t run, and they don’t soar, and they don’t bear fruit for Jesus thirty, sixty, a hundredfold.