The Unified Purpose

September 11, 2016

September 11, 2016
Amazing Life Church
“The Unified Purpose”
Greet People
It is my honor to stand before you each week and share
the heart of God. It is my consistent and persistent
prayer that God will encompass you with His favor and
grace. Blessing you with peace beyond your
understanding and surrounded with His unconditional
love.
We are living in an amazing time. Churches with vision
and faith are being positioned by the Holy Spirit to
change their communities and the world. These
churches, of which ALC is one, are churches that pray.
“Persistent, consistent, passionate, and compassionate
prayer will change your life, your family and friends,
and the world you live in.”
Before I share the message today let’s join together in
unity and pray this awesome prayer.Page 2
Matthew 6:9-13 NASB
9 “Pray, then, in this way:‘Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as
it is in heaven.
11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.
12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven
our debtors.
13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us
from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and
the glory forever. Amen.’]
I want to share some thoughts today titled, “The
Unified Purpose”
My theme will be destiny for a couple of weeks,
personal and corporate. It is my sincere belief that
before we can begin to acknowledge our personal
destiny we must align ourselves with His destiny for the
church. Although we each have an individual purpose it
is designed by God to fit into His plan for His church.
The proverbs give us a couple of ideas to reach for in
our quest for destiny.Page 3
Proverbs 16:3 NASB
Commit your works to the L ORD And your plans will be
established.—–Explain
Proverbs 15:22 NASB
Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with
many counselors they succeed.—–Explain
A passage from The Apostle Paul to the Ephesians will
begin our journey towards destiny as He tells us the
importance of connecting your destiny to the church.
Ephesians 3:8-12 NASB
8 To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was
given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches
of Christ,
9 and to bring to light what is the administration of the
mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who
created all things;
10 so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be
made known through the church to the rulers and the
authorities in the heavenly places.
11 This was in accordance with the eternal purpose
which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,
12 in whom we have boldness and confident access
through faith in Him.Page 4
Preach- “The role of the church is to bring
understanding of the Gospel to the Heavenly realm
and the unfallen angels.”
God called His church to educate the angels in heaven
about His grace. How, “By example.”
Hebrews 2:16 NLT says, “We also know that the Son
did not come to help angels; he came to help the
descendants of Abraham.”
Our Kingdom Authority reaches beyond what we can
see. Our destiny is bigger than you can imagine.
Corporately as a church, a body of Christ, and globally
the church of our Lord Jesus Christ is the single most
powerful institution the world has ever known.
It must be driven forward with compassion and love for
people and for God. It is not about creating boxes that
confine His purpose, it is about setting people free.
“Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it
is in heaven.”
Preach-It is the destiny of the church!!!!Page 5
Hebrews 6:16-18 NASB
16 For men swear by one greater than themselves, and
with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of
every dispute.
17 In the same way God, desiring even more to show to
the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His
purpose, interposed with an oath,
18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is
impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge
would have strong encouragement to take hold of the
hope set before us.
Verse 18 AMPC
This was so that, by two unchangeable things His
promise and His oath in which it is impossible for God
ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled to
Him for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength
and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the
hope appointed for us and set before us.
Preach Jesus
The body of Christ has been set apart in the world with
an unmistakably clear destiny. We have been called to
represent Jesus to the world, encourage one another in
our journey. Proclaiming freedom and individual
purpose to everyone we can.Page 6
The global Body of Christ is represented by many
members and each one has a distinctive purpose to
fulfill.
1 Peter 2:9-10 NASB
9 But you are A CHOSEN RACE , A royal PRIESTHOOD , A
HOLY NATION , A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION , so
that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has
called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
10 for you once were NOT A PEOPLE , but now you are
THE PEOPLE OF G OD ; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY ,
but now you have RECEIVED MERCY .
Message
9-10 But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for
the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy
people, God’s instruments to do his work and speak out
for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he
made for you—from nothing to something, from
rejected to accepted.
Preach—-Your destiny begins with the story of Jesus.