Discovering you Divine Design

In order to understand who we are we need to understand who our maker is.


Before we became Christians they told us that “God has a wonderful plan for us.” After we become Christian we spend our entire lifetime trying to figure out what this wonderful plan is. How would you describe your life? I mean how are you living it out? Is it intentional or is it haphazard?

The key to living an intentional life is discovering your divine design. When we don’t discover what God designed us for we live unintentional, fruitless and frustrated lives.

Our divine design is all that God made us to be: our abilities, natural gifts and talents, our spiritual gifts, our temperaments and our passions.

Design begins with purpose. The designer begins with purpose, then an idea, then a blue print and then a final product.

Psalm 139 gives us the ground for our divine design

1.      God knows me

1-6  O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.  2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.  4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.  5 You hem me in-- behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.  6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

 

2.      God is with me

7-12  7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?  8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.  9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,  10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.  11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"  12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

 

3.      God is in total control of my life and destiny

Nothing in my life is beyond his control. There is nothing that escapes his control

The bad days, the good days, in my pains and joys….

13-18  13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.  14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,  16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.  17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!  18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.

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