THE CHRISTIAN WALK

Moshood FayemiwoThursday, August 4, 2016
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WHAT IS MY PURPOSE AND HOW CAN I KNOW THE WILL OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY FOR MY LIFE? (1)

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e are starting our series on how you can know the will of the True Lord God Almighty for your life. But first, you can't know the will of the Lord God Almighty for your life until you know how you, me and indeed, all human beings got to this world. The will of the Lord God Almighty is also His purpose for your life. I am very passionate about this topic, because it is one of the dominant and most recurring questions precious souls ask me in many of their letters, email and during telephone conversations. Furthermore, this matter is very important, because it is the first and actually the central question the Lord Jesus Christ will ask every Christian, indeed every human being on the Day of Judgment.

The Lord Jesus Christ likened His will and purpose for every human being to sowing and reaping, work and reward, input and output, and service and accountability in Matthew 25: 14-30: "Again, it (the kingdom of God) will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more and also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money. "After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. The man who had received five bags of gold brought the other five. 'Master,' he said, 'you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I have gained five more.' "His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' "The man with two bags of gold also came. 'Master,' he said, 'you entrusted me with two bags of gold; see, I have gained two more.' "His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' "Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. 'Master,' he said, 'I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.' "His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. 'So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

The moment you stepped out of this physical body known as death and pass unto the Other Side; which is the Spiritual World, every pursuit of life here has no meaning anymore. I mean, your earthly achievements; wealth and money, fame, political power, chains of university degrees, women, celebrity status, cleverness, prestige, royal titles, world accolades etc; you name it, will have no relevance. Pa Job got it right when he cryptically summed up earthly existence thus: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart" (Job 1:21). Immediately you, me and every human being that has been born or will ever be born on this planet earth shuts our eyes and die, and thus cross over at our individual appointed time, we have no power anymore to decide where we will spend eternity. As Apostle Paul aptly disclosed: "And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment," (Hebrews 9: 27 NLV). Whoever is your master and lord while here on earth will be waiting for you as you stepped out of your physical body. If you are a Christian and have given your life to the Lord Jesus Christ and had taken Him as your personal Lord and Savior while here on earth, you are saved. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him. He that believeth on him is not judged�" (John 3: 16-18). The meaning of that phrase "� is not judged" in verse 18 is that, you will not be subject to either going to heaven or hell. In other words, you're saved, period! If you had rejected and spurned the salvation offered by the Lord Jesus Christ while here, after you had been preached to and yet refused to give your life to Him, when you died, you are not saved, because: "�he (or she) that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God." (John 3: 18b). Period! You can argue hoarse on the day you died and pass unto the Other Side, Satan and his demons are waiting for you to take you to their side of the eternity, as simple as that. Again, I reiterate again as aforementioned, whoever owned you and was your lord and master while you were here on earth will be waiting for you to take you "home" as soon as you died, period!

If you are a Christian, have given your life to the Lord of lords, King of kings, My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and you are indeed a born again child of the True Lord God Almighty; there are three processes or routes you are taken home. First, your two guardian angels will manifest themselves to you, if you are a nominal and an "ordinary" Christian. Second, a large company of angels will join your two guardian angels to escort you to heaven, if you had labored meritoriously in the work of the Lord while alive physically here on earth. Thirdly, our Lord Jesus Christ would have told you that you are about to come home and so He would personally come down from heaven with His chariots and hosts of angels to take you home. As Peter disclosed in 2 Peter 1:13-14: "I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body; because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me." No born-again, Holy Spirit-filled child of the King dies suddenly; it is not in the Holy Bible. From Genesis to Revelation, every man and woman of God that labored meritoriously and carried out their assignments here on earth will be told when to come home (which human beings call death) after he or she had finished that assignment. Your assignment is the will and purpose of God for your life. In the Old Testament, the Lord God Almighty Himself would come and get you. "Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away," (Genesis 5:24). Do you read that? Abraham knew when it was time for his departure (Genesis 24: 1-9), Isaac knew when he was about to move to the Other Side (Genesis 27:1-4). Jacob knew when it was time to return home (Genesis 49:1-2). Joseph, Moses (he was specifically told and instructed by the Lord Jesus Christ when, how and where to die); David, and many more that worked faithfully with the Lord in the Old Testament knew when it was time to return home.

Similarly, in the New Testament under the dispensation of Grace, all those who walked faithfully with the Lord Jesus Christ and labored meritoriously for His Kingdom on earth also knew when their assignments were over and the time for their departure. Apostle Paul informed us in 2 Timothy 4:6-7: "For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." The Lord Jesus Christ Himself told Apostle Peter when it was time for him to return home after he completed his earthly assignment (2 Peter 1:13-14). And me, Moshood Fayemiwo also know when it is my time to leave this world as told me by my Lord Jesus Christ. Every redeemed, born-again child of the True Lord God Almighty should be able to know when it is time to return home and be confident to announce just as Apostle Paul announced his departure and said with confidence: ""From now on the crown of righteousness is laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day-and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing.� (2 Timothy 4:8). But you can't utter those words unless you have carried out your earthly assignments here as revealed by your Creator. Whether you will be carried home to heaven by hosts of angels or ride in the chariots of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself will depend on how far you had carried out the will and purpose of the Lord God Almighty while here. This is why the fulfillment of the will and purpose of the Lord God Almighty Who is your Creator is very essential and top most priority. But how can you carry out the will and purpose of the Lord Jesus Christ for your life, if you don't even know that will and purpose? So the question throws itself up again: how can I know the will and purpose of the Lord Jesus Christ for my life? But before we answer that vital and most significant question, we should dial back and disclose what you, me and every human being on earth that has been born or will ever be born do not have power over. These seven things are essential to know before you can discover the will and purpose of the Lord God Almighty for your life.

7 "PURPOSE IN ELECTION" IN THE JOURNEY OF LIFE For you to discover the will and purpose of the Lord God Almighty for you here on earth, it is apposite to know what has already been determined by your Creator, ever before you were sent to this earthly abode. You do not choose your purpose on this earth, but you discover it, because your purpose has already been chosen for you by your Creator ever before you were born. Here are the seven issues of life that the True Lord God Almighty has already determined and chosen for you before you were sent to this world.

First, the power of life; whether you would be born or not is not within your power to decide and determine. In other words, no human being that has been born or will ever be born into this world will be consulted and has been consulted about his or life. Were you told before you were born? In other words, your very life and existence was not determined by you and thus, it is not in your power to decide whether to come here on planet earth or not, but a supremely decision taken by the Lord God Almighty, your Creator. That was the reason Apostle Paul disclosed to the Epicurean and Greek philosophers in Mars Hill during his Pauline Discourse in Acts 17:28: "For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'" The Lord God Almighty is the Source of Life and He revers and treats it as sacred and that is why every culture in any clime anywhere in the globe frowns and enact heavy punishment for murder. You, me and indeed, all human beings on earth do not have power and say in God's decision on our existence. That is the reason the Lord God Almighty commanded against suicide, because life, your very life doesn't belong to you and hence, you don't have the power to take it, because God owns it and thus at death, "�the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." Similarly, the Owner of Life, the True Lord God Almighty also warned that, He Who gave out life to each of us will demand an accounting: "And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being."

The second issue of life that has already been determined by the True Lord God Almighty for each and every human being on earth is your race. Just as existential decision is onerously deistic, so also the color of your skin. You do not have any input into whether you should be born a White/Caucasian person, Black or whatever your race is; that is already decided by your Creator.

Third, your gender is not yours to decide. To be born as a man or woman, male or female is not yours to choose, but the True Lord God Almighty has already decided the gender to assign you before you were born. That is why all these transgender rubbish is laughable. In Genesis 4:25, we read: "Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, "God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him."" Did you read the inner sentence "�and she gave birth to a son?" The Holy Bible specifically and deliberately gave us the gender of the child, because Adam and Eve had female children along with Abel and Cain so when Abel was killed by Cain, there was only one male child alive; Cain. It was among his sisters that Cain got himself a wife so I laugh when some dubiously clever people shout hoarse that they have found a loophole in the Bible by asking: Where did Cain get a wife for himself after he murdered Abel? This lousy and argumentative people are so obtuse that they can't read between the lines, whereas the Holy Bible stated it plainly that "�God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him," (Genesis 4: 25b).

The fourth issue of life that has already been decided by the Lord God Almighty is which area of the earth you will be born into. During his submit at the Mars Hill before the Stoic and Greek philosophers in Greece during his missionary journey, Apostle Paul declared matter-of-factly to them that the Creator of the heavens and the earth has already determined where on earth each human being will be born into. Acts 17:24-26: "The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in emples made with hands; neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation�" If you were born in Nigeria, you were not the one that made yourself a Nigerian. You could as well be born in North Korea or somewhere else in another part of the world, so stop complaining that you are not successful, because you were born in Nigeria. Your success in life is not determined by the area of the world you were born into. I have been to some of the most horrid and underdeveloped nations in Africa and those born in those places are ready to trade places with you in a jiffy.

The fifth issue of life that is pre-determined by the Creator about your life here on earth is which family on earth you will be born into. You do not choose your family; your family has already been chosen by the Lord God Almighty prior to your birth. You will discover this fact of life throughout the entire Bible, so stop complaining and whining that the reason you are a failure is because of the family you were born into. The Lord God Almighty, your Creator knew how and what you were created to achieve on earth ab initio when He sent you to your current family. Many of us came from dysfunctional family and the odds were stacked against us, but when we accepted the Lord Jesus Christ into our lives, things changed. Forget about what psychologists, behavioral therapists and all those man-made and earthly-created "experts" are telling you that your family and environment were the causes of your current state of life. I came from such family, became an orphan in my teenage years but today I am the most highly educated and successful person in my family to the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, Hallelujah!

The sixth issue of life is the womb that will carry you for nine months of your life. In other words, the Holy Spirit chooses your mother for you and He decides who will carry you for the first nine months of your earthly existence. That is why there is a unique bond between mother and child. The soil that a seed will grow is very important to the growth of the seed, thus your mother is selected by the Holy Spirit, prior to your father meeting your mother. Trust me, part of what you will become on earth is the womb that carries you to life and that is why the Holy Bible put this commandment in the Word of Life: "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee." (Exodus 20:12). A Christian sister was having serious problems in her matrimonial life to the bemusement of her fellow Christian brethren. She is a medical doctor and her husband too is a medical doctor so these are highly educated professionals who should be able to make it in life, but to feed their family was tough and life was hellish for them. They have prayed, fasted, kept night vigils, made voyage to the mountains and all sorts of spiritual activity but their problems didn't abate. Then the couple were directed to a man of God with the gift of discernment or distinguishing between spirits (I Corinthians 12: 10c: "�and to another discerning of spirits..." The couple were asked about what happened at their wedding five years previous, and it happened that the husband didn't invite his parents to their wedding, because they were born-again Christians and so didn't need the blessing of the parents of the bridegroom. Their pastor misled the couple, because he didn't know how the Kingdom of the True Lord God Almighty operates world operates and forgot the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:12. Friend, no matter how "small" the Word or Commandment of the Sovereign Lord God Almighty is, if not properly followed, one can suffer unnecessarily. You can buy a Rolls Royce automobile, which one of the most expensive cars in the world, but if you remove the tire of that expensive car, the car is useless. So is the Word and Commandment of the Living God of the heavens and the universe.

The seventh and final decision of the Holy Spirit on behalf of every human being on this planet earth is your purpose. Everything that the Lord God Almighty created is created for a purpose. Look around, even the stones have a purpose. There is nothing that is on this earth that exists for nothing. You are here for a purpose and your purpose is the Will of God for your life. Your Creator put you on this earth for a reason; you do not choose the reason or purpose for your existence. You must discover it.

The above seven issues of life are known as "purpose in election" according to Apostle Paul in the Book of Romans. No human being that has been born or will ever be born into this world has any input or say into these seven issues of life. It is when the Holy Spirit decide these seven matters that you and me and every human soul is now put into the womb of the woman that will carry us for nine months. In order for you to discover the will of the Lord God Almighty for your life, you must know and understand these seven issues of life. The next stage to discover the Will of God for your life is to know further another sets of seven matters that are determined again during the nine months you are in your mother's womb. These seven issues will further be adumbrated upon next week.

UPDATE ON 2019 EDO STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

We receive many calls and email from precious souls here at The Jesus Christ Solution Center in Cameron, Texas on daily basis. In 2015 while I was still in Chicago, one Mr. Moses Wokili sent me an email from Kaduna, northern Nigeria asking for the Face of the Lord God Almighty on his political future. I replied that we should chat on telephone few days later and I told him to allow me to seek the Face of the Holy Spirit for seven days. He told me he wanted to go to the Nigerian Senate, but I told him I would not make any commitment until I heard from the Holy Spirit. After my consultation with the Lord God Almighty, I was directed by the Holy Spirit to tell him not to contest for the Senatorial Seat in Kogi State. I told him to relocate from his base in Kaduna and go and open his gubernatorial campaign office in Lokoja, Kogi State and he would defeat the PDP Gov. Idris Wada in the 2015 gubernatorial election. "The Holy Spirit said I should tell you that the next governor of Kogi State would be from Okene and so go for it because you're from Okene and will become the next governor of Kogi State." He thought I was joking. He started complaining and advancing reasons why it would be an uphill task. He mentioned former Gov. Abubakar Audu as a formidable politician and also very rich who could not be defeated. "Something would happen at the cusp of the election and Prince Abubakar Audu would be out of the way and it would be an open sesame for you to coast home into victory and into the Lugard House," I told him. Mr. Wokili refused and the rest is history.

Earlier this year, Mr. Linus Idahosa reached out to me about his desire to contest the 2016 governorship election in Edo State. As told, commanded and directed by the Holy Spirit, I told him to give me seven days to seek the Face of Daddy-the True Lord God Almighty- and would get back to him with Daddy's answer. On the eighth day, I received the go-ahead and told him to go and prepare for the election and if he carried out all the steps the Holy Spirit told me to instruct him, he would be the next governor of Edo State. Whether the prophecy on the life of Mr. Idahosa will become a reality is up to him. As James put it plainly in James 1:5-8: "If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do. As I have disclosed in this column few months ago, Mr. Ezenwo Nyeson Wike would not have remained the current governor of Rivers State, if the APC Candidate in the 2015 Governorship Election, Hon Dakuku Peterside had done what the Holy Spirit instructed us to tell him to do. Many people, including preponderant Christians do not know how the True Lord God Almighty rules the world. Many have written letters to me, sent email and even called on the phone that, the Lord God Almighty was punishing Nigerians with the election of President Muhammadu Buhari and blamed me as one of the facilitators of the current Buhari Administration. I laughed. Retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari became president, because of the disobedience of former President Goodluck Jonathan. I made this disclosure before and after the 2015 Presidential Election in Nigeria here in this column.

You see, in the Holy Bible, the Israelites were often defeated by the Philistines each time the Israelites disobeyed the Lord and sinned. On those occasions, the Philistines would rejoice and pay obeisance to their demon god of Dagon crediting him with their victory. Because of the spiritual ignorance of the Philistines, they couldn't decipher that their demon-god Dagon was no match for the Jehovah Lord God Almighty, but for the sins committed by the Israelites (1 Samuel 4, 5). Political leadership is not pre-ordained or pre-determined by the Lord God Almighty. When the Jehovah Lord God Almighty told Samuel in 1 Samuel 16:1 "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have selected a king for Myself among his sons," it wasn't the destiny of David to be the next king of Israel after the disobedience of Saul. Jesse had seven boys and David was the last born. The Lord God Almighty didn't arbitrarily choose David as King of Israel. It was not the destiny of David among his co-siblings to be king. In other words, it was not pre-ordained by the Lord God Almighty. Many people would not understand how the True Lord God Almighty chooses leaders until the Holy Spirit explains to you, if you have Him. You see, David was given charge of his father's sheep as a small boy while his other older boys were enlisted in the Israeli Army. David could have been dejected and whined that he was given such a job, rather he put all his heart into the job and looked after the family sheep like his life depended on it. Here was one of his testimonies as recorded in I Samuel 17:33-35: "Then Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth while he has been a warrior from his youth. But David said to Saul, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went out after him and attacked him, and rescued it from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him.�" David treated his father's sheep like his own; he was ready to lay down his own life for the father's sheep. This was what the True Lord God Almighty saw in the life and character of this young man and said; "If this my creature David could be so caring about other creatures-sheep-that I created alongside him to the point of even ready to lay down his life for these animal sheep; he would do the same when I made him king over Israel." That was why the Jehovah Lord God Almighty told Samuel that He- Lord God-had found a man after His heart who would be shepherd of my people Israel. In the Journey of Life, there is no destiny. Yes, you read that well; the Holy Bible is not the Book of Destiny. You will get the whole picture in the next two weeks after we are done with this series.

Next Week: We will examine further the seven issues and matters that the Holy Spirit decides during the nine months we are in our mother's womb. The story of David and political leadership alluded to above will help you to discover the will and purpose of the Lord God Almighty for your life.

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