JOHN BOWLIN
MINISTRIES
Preaching and Teaching Everywhere
Your Destiny Was Chosen By God but It's Fulfillment is Decided
by You.
God has already completed your life, and He has already written a book about you and finished your life and you are already successful
Making to the and of that destiny is your decision. Is like a parent who pays thousands of dollars for her/his child to go to college because the parent already sees a degree. So, the child goes to college and instead of participating, disciplining and studying; the child wastes times, keeps company that distracts him/her and the child does not graduate.
The parents destiny for the child is that he/she graduates; but the outcome of that destiny is decided by the child.
You have already been chosen by God to succeed but, you have to cooperate with that decision in order for you to arrive to your destination that God designed for you.
As you approach life through the years; remember this year is already in me. You have to be careful who you allow to waste your time. Somethings that you have been putting up with you can't put up with them anymore. They are some things that you have to forget about this year; in order to move up to things that you are supposed to do. God is committed to the future He placed in you. Remember that your future is more important than your past. The Book (Bible) is your road map to your destination.
Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He [a]made us accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:4-6).
God set your destination before beginning....selah (stop and think about that)!
GOD PLANNED YOUR LIFE
God says I already pr-set your destination then I backed up and started your life" (baby born, conceived) now He says; your future is already finished! and I have a plan to get you there.
Your purpose is your destination..the Plan is the route; God has a way to get you to your destination. God has a way to get you to your future. There is a way that God set for it! God will always tell you your destiny! But He doesn't tell you the route.
The future that God prepared for you demands a great woman a mature man a wise woman and excellent man.
God has all these things set up and you call them traps, He calls them training.
"So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him" (Genesis 37:23).
"Then Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined. And he was there in the prison. 21 But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave[g] him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison" (Genesis 39:20-21).
"Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no man may lift his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt" (Genesis 41:44).
What would have Joseph done if God had told him the route? Would he have said; keep your throne and the money. I will stay and keep the sheep for my Father?
He works out everything to conform; so you get pregnant and you are in the church; you get off the road map that God has for you. So you are in this alley for 9 months and everyone is talking about you or you get into drugs and do something dumb, so God says what are you doing here; I forgave you...He makes everything...not just the good things....He says come on bring the baby in I am going to conform him...He says bring your drug addiction, bring it, bring it..I am going to conform your drug addiction I am going to show the world that I can make a drug addict into a world changer.
No mater where you are at; God wants to conform it back to His will for your life. He wants all your garbage He wants all your sins HE WILL WORK IT IN....
God says I am going to conform this thing and I am going to make you the envy of those that have criticized you, but YOU GOT TO RESPOND CORRECTLY....
GOD PLANNED YOUR LIFE
The crowning work of creation came on the sixth day when God created human beings. As He looked around Him, God pronounced His creation to be good. That includes you! God looked at the man and the woman He had made and declared them to be "very good." God has a good attitude toward you; He loves you! He created you in His image and drew you out of Himself! Think about that for a minute, let it sink in you! Before you were born, you were in God.
Before the beginning was, God is (Genesis 1). God is so big He began the beginning. There could not be a beginning without God, because God had to started. Before start started, however, God had finished the plan for your life. Your potential is not a trial and error experience. God designed and predetermined you to be a success story.
YOU ARE NOT A MISTAKE
Have you ever felt like you were a mistake? Have your parents told you they wished you had never been born?
Are you a child whose parents have told you: "I wish you would have died when you were a baby"?
You may have come into this world as the result of a rape. Your mother may have hated you in the womb because you reminded her of a man she wished to forget.
But, the fact that you were conceived is more important than how you were conceived. People go around dealing with how things happened, but God is simply concerned with the fact that He allowed your conception to happen.
You are here because God wanted you to be born. How you came isn't important. What matters is that you are here. And if you are here, God created you with care.
"You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb" (Psalm 139:13).
YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE GOD WANTED YOU TO BE BORN
David describes how God knit you together in your mother's womb without describing what that womb was like. The womg in which you were knit together is no longer important. You are important. Your very existence means God wants you to exist. You are somebody special simply because you were born.
God saw you in your mother's womb when you were a tiny baby, a on centimeter embryo. He looked into the secret place in your mother's womb and saw you. From the second your father's sperm and your mother's egg joined to form a child. God tenderly created you and watched you grow. God never would have allowed the sperm and the egg to come together if He had not planned for you to be born.
GOD HAS A BOOK ON YOU
Psalm 139:16 - "You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed."
God designed you to be somebody. He looked at your unformed body and declare, "This child is good." All His plans for your life were set out long before you took a breath. He wrote our the order of your days before you lived even one day. There is a book on you. Some chapters God wrote about you haven't even been touched yet.
Perhaps you are30 years old and still don't know God's plan for your life. You haven't started yet.
Perhaps you jumped ahead of God's plan. Though His design calls for you to be married in chapter 17, you got married in chapter two. You have ignored the things that God that God wanted you to experience in chapters 2 through 16 you so that you would be prepared for marriage in chapter 17. You have missed out on many experiences and discoveries because you moved ahead of God's schedule.
GOD OFFERS YOU A REWRITE
God wants to take you back to the beginning, because His plans far outreach your plans.
His design for your life is so great that King David describes it as vast (Psalm 139:17).
You may be thinking about being a teacher while God wants you to open a school.
You may have plans to be a clerk while God wants you to own the store.
You may want to work in a neighboring town while God wants you to go to Africa.
David says it this way:
"God, when I look at your thoughts in the book on me,
it's like all the sands in the ocean.
Your thoughts are endless. I can't fathom your
confidence in me."
God designed you to live out the careful plans He prepared for you. You are made in God's image. The plan He wrote for you is perfect and right. No detail or part is missing. You have the potential to live out all that God has planned for your life, but only if you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord. That's the first step toward understanding why you were born.
God gives you the chance to start over. He comes and puts you back in chapter one so you can live the many details of His Plan. That's what being born again is all about. It's the opportunity to start over; it is getting back to the first chapter of God's book on you. God has great plans for you that's why He gave you life.
Self-acceptance is the key to healthy self-esteem. Accept yourself as God made you. Allow His power to transform your weakness, rather than belittling yourself when you make mistakes.