Raising Men of Purpose

READ: Hab. 2:2
MORE LESSONS: Joel 2:7-8
Bible Reading in One Year: Matthew 26-28

One of the vital preparations for the coming of the Lord is building and raising men who will do the job. Our desire is that God will raise a new generation of men that will do greater things than we are doing. If God uses a man to raise a good number of people and send them, each to a nation of the world to make great impact, that is when the ministry of the man actually becomes global. Global impact and ministry is activated by raising men. In raising men, you have to identify and launch each man into what he has actually been called to do. The best result comes when a man is found doing exactly what he is called to do. You can't get the best of results by copying somebody else because you will always be behind the person you are copying. As a matter of fact, you can only copy what the man has done; you can't know the remaining concepts, ideas, dreams and visions inside him. He has a purpose and destination which his methods and actions are geared toward. Meanwhile, you can enter into error copying his methods because you don't know his purpose for those methods. Be sure you are doing exactly what God asked you to do and not just copying somebody. And when you do it, you can be sure your allocation will meet you in your location.
Get your priority right: put God first in your life. Making the most of life begins with recognizing that you are in destiny for a purpose. God didn't bring you here without a purpose. What God wants you to do and from which you are running away may actually just be the key to those things you think you are pursuing around. Be prompt in pursuing God's purpose for your life. Several people have made God to be prompt in attending to their matters by being prompt in what they are doing for God. The men the Lord is raising at this time are men of purpose and vision. They are those who will be able to stand upon their watch like Habakkuk said: I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me… And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it: Hab.2:1-2 (NIV). Finding men that will run with an assignment is much more important than the method of the assignment. However, don't ever forget that you are not raised for yourself; you are raise for others. God raised you and blessed you for others around you. I pray that in life you will be numbered among God's men of purpose.

Prayer/Action
* Father, open my eyes of understanding to know your full purpose for my life.
* Father, I receive wisdom to guide everyone under my tutelage that they might fulfill the purpose they are called to.

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