Fulfilling Our Divine Assignments

Hi, this is Pastor Daniel Bracken. You're listening to Kings Alaska podcast. I hope the Word encourages you and you get a touch from God that brings transformation and equips you to experience life with people, power and purpose. Thank you for joining us. Enjoy the Word.

Stand up on your feet with me. If you're able to look at two main texts today, Matthew 5, verse 19, and then a little bit later, we'll go to Matthew, chapter 25. Matthew 25 is really our main text. Verse 21 to 23. Here we go.

Matthew 5, verse 19 in the New King James. It's up on the screen. Are you ready? Read with me right on the screen there in your device or on your Bible in the new King James. Here we go.

Ready, set, go. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Father, thank you for what you've done in this series and what you've done already this morning through the anointed time of worship and prayer, let us be forever impacted and changed. Let people get in contact with you and receive living understanding out of your word that after this service we would be charged with a holy charge from heaven to fulfill that which you've called us to do.

We thank you for it. In Jesus name, amen. You may be seated. Every single person has a call from God. Every single person has a divine assignment.

Every single one. Not one person doesn't have that. You have an assignment from God. It says in second Timothy, chapter one and verse nine, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose. So he called you.

What according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began. If you go to Acts chapter 13 and verse 36, you see a text about David, King David, and it says in, as I paraphrase it, when David served his purpose in his generation, he died from that text and from so many others. For I know the plans I have for you. Jeremiah 29:11. For I know the plans I have for you.

God has plans for you to give you hope and a future. When David served his his purpose in his generation, he died. Every single person has a purpose. Every single person has an assignment and an actual fact. The very fact that we will stand before God at the end to give an account for our life is evidence that you have something to do.

This is going to sting Just maybe hold the bottom part of your seat or something. Do, do something. Comfort yourself somehow. Brace yourself.

You're saved by grace, not by anything that you did other than just believe you will be judged by what you do. I don't like that. In fact, I didn't hear that for a long time. Maybe, maybe I had wax, spiritual wax in my ears. Take the spiritual wax out of your ears and hear and understand that, yes, you're saved by what Jesus did.

You'll be judged by what you do with what he gave you.

Time, talent, treasure what you do with your life, accomplishing his purpose or fulfilling your divine calling or your divine assignment. When you do that, it's called fulfillment. Nothing will fulfill your life. Nothing will be fulfilling in your life except truly fulfilling God's plan.

If you don't have a biblical perspective on what that means. And you will be tormented. Oh gosh, how I was tormented. I, I did not have a biblical view of success. I thought you were talking about a divine assignment.

Yeah, you have a divine assignment, and your divine assignment in fulfilling it is real success. So real success is fulfilling your divine assignment. In other words, you won't really know if you've truly been successful, although you'll have God's encouragement all the way along. But until you stand before him and you hear from Matthew 25, which we'll read in a moment, well done now, good and faithful servant, and there's a lot of keys there.

If you don't have an understanding of that, if you don't set this in your concrete while it's still wet, you've got to set this. I, I'm pausing for a moment to emphasize. If you don't set this truth about what real success is, because the success of the world and our humanistic culture says that with more influence that, that, that, that's, that's success with more money and finance that, that success with more worldwide impact. That's success. Is it.

Because you don't see that in Matthew 25, and you don't see that at the, at the, at the judgment seat of the believer. You don't see it's a judgment seat of the unbeliever, the judgment seat of the believer. Every single person here, if you're a believer, you're going to stand before God in the end, there's not going to be anybody stand to you. You'll give an account for your life. If you're not a believer, it is my sincere hope to convert you this morning into becoming a believer, receiving Jesus through your repentance that he died on a cross and rose again from the grave.

And if it was just about being saved. That's why I don't like altar calls. You know what an altar call is? It's a kind of Christianese there. But I don't like those moments where we just say, you know, just perceive Jesus and you go to heaven.

He's going to go to heaven. That's not true because all of us would be in heaven right now. It's not about just going to heaven. It's about actually fulfilling his plan in the earth because it was just about going to heaven. You've heard me a hundred times before.

You would croak and drop dead on the spot. That'd be it. You're born again, he goes straight to heaven. That's not true. You get born again to fulfill a divine assignment.

There's a purpose, there's a plan. And if you don't have an understanding of what real success and real fulfillment, or in the context of Matthew about becoming great. What is God to invite you? God invites you this morning. He invites us to become great.

That's not something you should repent of. A desire to become great is not something you should repent of. Unless you, what you define as greatness is not a biblical definition of greatness. So the success in the world's view, humanistic view, more money, more influence, more power, more authority, more likers, more, more and more is what we have in store. That's all from the world.

No, it's tormenting if you don't have this set. That's why I'm taking a real significant amount of time to impress upon you. Because in my 20s I felt like I was going to do something or be somebody great. I did not understand that being and doing something great according to the biblical definition of that, I had a worldly definition of it. So in my mind, I'm going to become a millionaire, I'm going to become famous, I am going to be the next president or whatever you desire or think is, is great.

And so then in your 20s, you know, you look at people who have the worldly success, you'll find they're not satisfied at all. That's why they kill themselves in the end with at the height of their career, they destroy themselves. I mean, there's so many stories. So in my 20s now, it's kind of like I'm a late bloomer. I'm.

I got a lot of issues, but it's going to be a right because I'm still Called to do. I'm going to be great in your 30s. I got born again in my late, late mid to late twenties. And then even as a believer, you think, well, what is, what is success is being a believer? What does that actually mean?

Answer the question rhetorically in your own mind. What does that really mean? What does it really mean to be successful, to be fulfilled, to be great in God's kingdom? This is usually not preached because most people say, well, I'm just a Christian, so I'm going to eat worms in the backyard, wave a white flag and hope Jesus comes and saves me. No, you're here to fulfill a divine assignment.

And fulfilling that divine assignment actually is then culminated in a reward and a commendation at the judgment seat of Christ. He says, well done. Well done is him evaluating you. Good and faithful servant. So again, in my 20s, I didn't know the Lord, but then I got saved.

And then in my 30s, I didn't really understand this. So things were sort of late and coming, you know, like, when am I going to get to pastor the big church? Or when am I going to be that evangelist that brings revival across America and all kinds of fire falls and, ah, when's that happening? And I didn't understand. It's not about that.

It's not about getting wealthy. It's not about worldwide impact. You never see in scripture. That's not in there. What is in there?

Being good, being faithful, being a servant. If you're distorted by the time you get to your 40s and you don't have it set, that you're going to think there's something wrong with you. And then by the time you get to your 50s, if it didn't happen according to what you think is success, what you think is fulfillment, then you're really going to think you're twisted and you'll end up just in a place of like, oh, well, you get to your 60s and you go try to buy a red Corvette or something to make yourself feel better. I want to buy a red Corvette anyway, just because I like them. No.

Anybody else like fast cars? Dr. Morocco said, you know, I was asking him, what is this whole thing about midlife crisis? He said, pastor Daniel, you're never gonna have that. I was like, yeah, amen. But what do you think that is?

He said, oh, the people that don't have vision have midlife crisis. What a revelation that is. If you have a. You have a vision to give your whole life to, you're not worried about trying to.

So God invites us to fulfill the divine assignment. But if you don't have a biblical perspective on what, what that is, you'll be distorted. You can't repent of longing and yearning and hungering and desiring to do something great for God. You can only repent of a wrong attitude and how to get it done. I just said something, I'll say it again.

You can't repent of. It's a part of your spiritual DNA to like, whoa, I want to do something for God that is from the Lord. That's from the power of the Holy Spirit to make an impact, to make a differ. That's from God. You can't repent.

Don't repent of that. You repent. You. That's religion that gets you to repent of passion for God. Religion tries to get you to shut up.

Jesus, son of David have shut up, tried to shut up. Blind Bartimaeus. I don't know why we call him blind Bartimaeus. Because homeboy got his eyesight. You can't.

Don't, don't repent of passion for God and hunger for God. Don't repent of that. Repent of trying to fulfill your, the desires of your heart in the wrong way. That you can repent of that. And we should.

So God wants us to walk in this. Not in confusion, not in this secular humanistic view of what success is, but a biblical perspective on what fulfillment is.

It is interesting to me and I just meditated on this over and over because I've been tortured with this in years past. Each person has a divine assignment which is going to, based upon your fulfillment, precipitate eternal rewards. You're going to be rewarded by God. God's going to reward you. There's rewards here in the earth, but there's rewards later.

And you know what's, what's fascinating to me is I'm not accountable for what I don't have. Gosh, I love that. Go to Romans. Go, go. Go to Romans.

Romans chapter 12 and verse 6 says this. Having then gifts differing according to the grace it has given us, let us use them.

Every person here has gifts and all of us have different gifts. Some of them are overlapping, some of them very similar. But all of us have unique giftings from God. Revelation 22, go there. Revelation 22 and verse 12.

The Lord says, and behold, I'm coming quickly. My reward is with me to give to everyone according to his work. What? Yeah. Everybody say, get your work.

Yeah, get your work. Everyone according to his work. Go to First Corinthians 15.

While you're going there. A lot of people despair over what they don't have. What do you mean? Well, I'll just use myself as an example. Early on in my walk with the Lord.

I mean, I would just see these, you know, silver tongue preachers. I mean, like Jesus in shoe leather taking one verse and thousands getting saved. And would read revivalists about George Whitfield and different ones. Ones they didn't have any microphone, didn't have anything like that. Thousands of people would come.

I would just look at some of the giftings and talents of men that were around. Around me, like Dr. Morocco and different ones. I thought, what an. In what a dizzying intellect, ability to memorize. And I just kept comparing myself with people that I thought were great.

I kept comparing myself with people that I thought really had it going on, real success. And in doing that, I just felt like just so subpar. I mean, I would just. I mean, like, man, I even tried to act like him. I thought, well, maybe if I can emulate them now.

We emulate their godly behavior, yes, but try to emulate the way that they talk or the way that they walk. I mean, I got Dr. Morocco's walk down.

I've studied the man. I am not Dr. Morocco. Hallelujah. And you know what? I'm not supposed to be, but I.

It's a torturous thing to be. It's tormenting and discouraging to try to compare yourself with somebody who you see as great in God or great in the means of success, of how you determine or what you perceive to be success, and then try to force yourself to match that. That is tormenting. I am not Dr. Morocco. I am not any of these great preachers or teachers, and that's who I'm comparing myself to.

But I mean, who. Who would you compare yourself to as you view of somebody who's really successful? The Lord rebuked me and said, stop it. I'm not going to be held accountable for the gifts that some other person has. I am accountable for the gifts that God gave me.

And you know what I've found? You might feel like you don't have any gifts if you'll just show up and be faithful. If you'll just. If you'll show up and be good and faithful and be a servant. You show up like that, you could come in here, brain damage or no brains at all, and God will give you brains and he will raise you up and use you.

And the other thing that's. It's this worldly overlay most people think, oh, I have to have this worldwide impact. You know, most people, like 99% of the body of Christ has small, very significant assignments. And together, all of us pulling together are going to reach the world. It's not the very few people are the, the, the Billy Grahams.

There's very few people that. There are the Reinhardt bunkies. And I've compared myself, like, I can't wait to have a crusade where the millions of people, you lose track of them because of the curvature of the earth. I don't know what the flat Earthers think about that. But.

You're not accountable for the gifts that somebody else has. You are accountable for the gifts that he gave you. And here's the other thing is that if you get tied up into that, you'll be discouraged and you won't develop actually what God gave you.

Lift your hands to Jesus all across this place, say, oh, God, help me. First Corinthians 15, verse 41.

There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, another glory of the stars. One star differs from another in glory. So if you look at the celestial bodies, some planets are larger than others, some stars are bigger than others. Actually, the sun, which is called a yellow dwarf, is only a medium sized star. It's not even a big one.

So there's others out there that are larger than the sun. And yet one second of energy from the sun is more energy than has been produced in the history of, recorded history of mankind. One second right there warms the whole Earth. Without the sun, we wouldn't be here. So just as there's differing bodies in the cosmos that some are big or greater, brighter, some are smaller.

Look what it says. So also in the resurrection of the dead, you see, there's a reward that you'll receive. There's different places and responsibilities. It's not just about going to heaven. There's a thing called a millennial reign.

I've preached it at other services other times, and you can get again, look at it up. Look it up in YouTube. God wants to reward you. And in that you're going to have a place of service in the kingdom. I mean, that's amazing.

So what's so amazing about that? Well, a lot of things. One, it makes every second of your life right now count. Every second counts. All your decisions count.

You'll be held accountable. And I, for a minute there, I was like, gosh, that's kind of terrifying. But I realize he'll move through me, he'll move through you. He'll move through us to fulfill his plan. Amen.

The very definition of fulfilling your divine assignment is founded doing God's will. Go to Matthew 25.

This is a parable of the talents, which I'm not going to go go all into. I'm just going to read verse 21 to 23 on the screen now. Matthew 25, 21 to 23. Let's read this. The Lord said to him, not let me, let me, let me set this up.

It's a parable about the kingdom of God. And he gives talents to these three. One does well, two does well. Third, the third one is a wicked servant.

And when he, he condemned, he commends these first two. The Lord says to him, the first one, well done. Thou good and faithful servant. You were faithful over few things. I will make you ruler over many things.

Enter now into the joy of the Lord. And then verse continuing, he also had received two talents, came in and said, Lord, you delivered me two talents. Look, I've gained two more talents besides them. Verse 23. And the Lord said to him, say it with me right out loud.

Well done, good and faithful servant. You've been faithful over a few things. I'll make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of the Lord. So, in its simple, reduced way, fulfilling the purpose and the plan, the divine assignment, getting biblical success, which is fulfilling the divine assignment, is at the end of your life, the very end, when it's over and you're dead and you're before him, he says to you, well done.

Now, let's just look at that for a moment. Well done. This term, well done means he has now surveyed everything that you've done in your life, and he's looked at it and he says, well done. It's a. It's an evaluation.

Bema, street, judgment. The judgment seat the bema. It's an evaluation. I We think judgment, like judgment, go to hell judgment. No, it's judgment, reward for the believer.

But then there's suffering, loss. And I don't really understand what that means. How could you suffer loss? But there's no tears, there's no sorrow in heaven, but you suffer loss. It's like God's trying to do something on the inside of us.

And to simplify what real fulfillment is, is hearing Jesus say, well done, good and faithful servant. Any single person, I should say every single person can hear that. You don't have to be Benny, Billy, James, you don't have to be any of the, the great names that you might perceive as great. You Have a responsibility and giftings all of your own. Pastor Karen has different gift things that I have.

Thank the Lord.

I had somebody say, oh, I want to be like you. I'm like, no, you don't. You do not. You want to be like you.

You want to emulate righteousness and holiness and purity found in scripture. Christ likeness, yes, but the talents that you have are different. All of us have different talents.

Being good refers to having intentions, to love God. The very definition of good. Dr. Morocco Years ago, did a, did a. It was like a five hour course on goodness. He.

God is the origins of goodness. He's the definition of it. The very definition of it. You study what goodness is. To be good is to have your heart and your intentions right before God.

It's not so much. Listen closely to what I'm about to say. It's not so much what you did, it's why you did it. It's not the fruit necessarily that you produce by doing that thing is why did you do it? It's motives, goodness.

Duty is ours, results belong to God. Say that duty is ours, Results belong to God. Just to simplify that, it's. It's loving God and it's loving people. It's making.

It's making a choice to love God.

I remember years ago, I was invited to meet this great man of God. I mean, it's somebody I followed and listened to my whole life. I mean, like from the time I was first saved. And he was visiting a church, and the pastor of the church invited me into the green room, called me up and said, hey, you want to come over to our church? So and so is here.

I'm like, whoa. He said, yeah, you want to come and meet him? I said, yes, I do. I remember walking into that green room, man, I felt like I was going to see Jesus. I mean, it was a big deal.

I walk into the green room and the pastor says, oh, this is Pastor Daniel. He steals everybody's sheep in the around here.

That's just exactly what I did. I'm like, dude, what he said. Just kidding.

Just wanted to punch him in his face. Anybody know I wasn't saved my whole life? I don't know about you. Oh, he just turned the other cheek. Yeah, I was gonna bludgeon his cheek.

I passed the test. I will never forget this hero in the faith who then had a view of me that I was someone other than a man of God. My relationship with him ended pretty much at that moment. It just never got past that. That was it.

And he Says to me, he says, I have a word for you. I'm like, okay. He says, make sure that the love of God rules your every decision. I couldn't help but think that he was thinking that I steal people's sheep and the love of God is not ruling my decisions. And I just said, yeah, amen.

That's true. Lord, help me.

The love of God ruling your every decision. Maybe. Maybe that's why I came there, just to get that one word. Because if you could do that, if you let the love of God, goodness, real goodness, mark out why you're doing everything, it'll help you. It'll not only help you, you'll stand before him to hear, well done, thou good your intentions.

It's powerful. It's a powerful thing. It's a motive of your heart. God looks past action and he looks at motives. We've been doing a series on David.

Perhaps we'll do another installment tonight. It's been impactful. 1st Samuel 16, 7. Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the. At the heart.

He defines you, really, by your heart's cry. So make sure your heart is bringing forth good intentions. Make it change your heart. Your heart needs training. Everybody say, good, I'm going to be good.

Yeah, it really is that simple. To be faithful means to be diligent. It emphasizes diligence in our work, being faithful, showing up on time, keeping your word. And, you know, faithfulness also implies time to me. So if somebody showed up and they did their job, day one, well, good.

You did day one. Day two, fantastic. You got two days under your belt. Day three, great. How about a lifetime?

It implies a lifetime of serving God, faithful, faithfully, keeping your word, faithfully being good, faithfully being diligent with what God's entrusted to you. And you know the thing about that? You know what's crazy about that? What is. What's crazy is that we want God to give us the whole enchilada.

We want God to give us big and awesome right off the bat, I can be faithful with this. Give me the whole thing. Oh, God, I'll be faithful. He's like, I'm sure you will. Why don't you let me show you?

Let me show you where you're going to start. Right over here. Right here. I want you to start right. No, I want that.

No, no, son, come here. Hear me. Right here. There. No, is smaller.

It's within that. You mean just there? No, no, that's the outside. We want. We want.

Massive. We want.

But instead, he calls you to.

Why? Why would he do that? Because if you can't learn to be faithful with the little things, when you are ruler over much, you're going to blow up. And there's a lot of discouragement with people, I've found, because what they have is too small. They want big.

They want worldwide impact in large crusades. Clean your car. Is that a word from the Lord?

Mow your lawn. Get a job. Not feeling the love on this side. I'm gonna go over here. Tithe.

No, I don't really make enough money. I'm gonna. 10 cents on every dollar. Is really simple. $10 cents, the Lord.

That's it. As being faithful in the little things. And if you'll be faithful in little things, he'll make you ruler over much. But if you can't be faithful in the little things, we want big and awesome and met.

Try that.

Wow.

And a lot of people don't. They don't want to be faithful in the little things. It's the small, small. Because small to them is insignificant. Small to them doesn't really have meaning.

Small to them is. Is something that. Like, meaningless. But not in God. Small things.

That's how it starts. Being faithful in the little things. And our best faithfulness is flawed, Faithful, steady over time, enduring. It's an endurance in doing good. Galatians 6 and 9.

Let me read it to you. Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season you shall reap if you don't lose heart. Faithfulness is proven over time. Luke 16:10. Who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much. It's consistency for years, not just in days.

Yes, and days, but it's days and years. Showing up when you don't feel like it, doing the right thing when it's just not convenient.

It's obeying when it costs you. It's continuing. When no one sees you, it's. It's continued. You know, the level of Christianity you have is what you do in the dark when nobody will find you, nobody will catch you.

That is your level of maturity in God. I want to hear. Well done, Thou, good and faithful. Are you faithful? How are you in faithfulness?

It's proven over time to be a servant. It's the third thing. Talking about fulfilling your divine assignment. Your divine assignment will have these aspects or qualities in it if you're going to fulfill it.

To be a servant. It's willingness to deny your personal agenda. Oh, I hate that. But that's what we're called, to be the greatest among you is a servant of all. It's not about a position, it's about a posture, Willingness to lay down your own will, a willingness to lay down your desire and need for recognition.

If you haven't learned this, you're probably, probably trying to get it to you now.

The real test of servanthood, want to hear it? Is can you serve when it's not your idea, it's not your preference, and you don't benefit from it.

Can you serve? Why are you laughing, dude? I've been tortured by that. Anybody else? Yeah.

It's not your idea, you're not going to benefit at all. And you only I, I've had, I've had to submit to things that I don't even think were a good idea. I'm not talking about immorality. You don't submit to that. No.

The real test is can you serve when it's not your idea?

Can you serve? Can you serve when it's, it's not your preference? I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that. But, but you've been asked to by the Lord, or you've been asked to perhaps by leadership to help out for the cause of the whole.

I don't hear too many Amens. Maybe we should move on. Many of you do things because you get something out of it. That is, that is not the nature that we're to walk in. That's not a Christ like nature.

And you're not going to get any reward for that. You get judgment for that. You get lost for that. Raise your hands all across the house, say, oh God, help me to be a better servant. Help me to be a better servant.

Go to Philippians, chapter two.

This is one of those scriptures that some of you want to black out and rip out of the Bible. But here's here it is. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself.

A servant. We're talking about, we're talking about a divine assignment. Let me, let me quick review. We're talking about a divine assignment, talking about what real success is. We're talking about fulfilling the plan that God has for your life.

And if you don't understand what real success, if you don't understand what real fulfillment is, then you will be disillusioned and go through a lot of pain in life trying to earn something that God doesn't want you to move towards. It's not about likers, it's not about money. It's not about worldwide impact. Now, God might bring all of those things to you as you make the first thing, the first thing which is loving him with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul and all your strength. That's being good, be good.

Number two, being a faithful, well done, thou good and faithful. Showing up on time, it's keeping your word over a period of time. How about over a lifetime? He said, but I've not been faithful. Well, change today.

Decide that you're going to be evaluated on your faithfulness or your lack thereof, and then take a look at it. Take a look at it and see what you can change. Being a servant, it's following through, it's serving other people, it's serving God, it's considering others more important than yourself.

We were coming back from a trip and local pastor who had retired, he'd been in the ministry some 60 years. We saw him at, at the Luggage. This is years ago. And I was with another brother. And it was one of those Alaska winter nights where it's, you know, 10 below zero, there's wind, and their, Their ride didn't show up and they had all this luggage, but the ride was on the way.

It's going to be about 20 minutes out. Our ride is right at the curb. And they, they were elderly. Man. I had been up for days.

It felt like. I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but I was so tired. I was. I felt like I had flu like symptoms from being so exhausted. And all I wanted to do is just get in the truck and leave.

And I, I'm. I'm. I'm so. I'm. My flesh is moving that way.

Thank God, the heater. Thank God I can go to sleep. Somebody's gonna drive back. God is good. And I'm like, oh, Lord Jesus, Lord, let bring somebody to help them.

Oh, God, anybody. Oh, but at least you prayed right now.

Oh, Lord. So I looked at the other brother and he's like, let's go. So we went and grabbed their luggage and we brought them over and we waited with them and gave them, gave them a snack. They were hungry and they were having a hard time walking on the ice and the snow and all that.

Their ride came and we got them in the ride and they drove off. And I will never forget the experience I had in my heart when I. As I drove off, my heart just burst like the Lord's like, good job. You know, if you live this way, you live according to the sermon on the mount. Matthew 5:6 and 7.

If you live that way. If you live that way, it releases this exuberance in your heart.

I got called a number of months later and they were. The pastor was weeping and says, you're a real Christian. And I said, thanks. And I just stumbled upon it. We.

We all just. There'll be opportunities where you can. Where you can serve one of the obstacles to fulfilling your divine assignment. And I think I'll close with this because my time is up just about. One of the obstacles to fulfilling your divine assignment, which has characteristics and a commendation that will be well done and evaluation.

Thou good, faithful servant. What are you supposed to be good, like God, basically faithful over a lifetime. And if you blow it, just get up, there's grace. It's. It's not the.

The. The rule. The. The. The taskmaster with the whip that you're going to stand before.

You stand before a loving, compassionate, merciful God. Start over, faithful servant, fulfilling what God called you to do, serving others. Philippians. But one of the great obstacles that you will run into is the process of that. The process on the way to fulfilling destiny.

As I said, we want. And he's really like, it's small. Start small. Be faithful with what he's given you. Be faithful with your finances.

Be faithful with your health. Be faithful with your relationships. Be faithful. Be good, faithful servant. Follow through on those things.

Because there's a process that you're in that is. Listen close. There's a process that you're in that is preparing you for fulfillment. A lot of people don't like the process. They want everything right now.

And the Lord's like, I'm trying to help you. It's this process of maturity and sanctification. You can fulfill your divine assignment. Come on, lift a hand to heaven and say, I can fulfill my divine assignment. And it can be challenging when it's slow and hard and small and insignificant in the eyes of some, But very significant in the eyes of the Lord.

And together, he works all things together for the good, for those that love God are called according to his purpose. And he uses all of our components as a body to fulfill his plan in the earth.

You might be the next Billy Graham.

You might be the next Latoya Gun. Say, who exactly? Who's that? You don't know her. Maybe some of you do.

Heaven knows her.

To be known in heaven and feared in hell. To walk with purpose and destiny. A road map. The Bible. Knowing your purpose to be a kingdom and priest.

Walk in your identity made in the image and likeness of God to fulfill his plan in the earth, which is to make him known and to fulfill the divine assignment. He said no. I. I thought I was going to hear if I was supposed to be a plumber or an electrician, an evangelist, or if I just stay as a housewife, household technician. The components of what you do. A truck driver.

The components of what you do.

You let the Lord lead you and guide you and direct you as you obey his word and you. And you serve him. And then he'll give you desires in your heart as you delight yourself in him. You'll have a desire to move in a particular direction. And then you just continue to be good, faithful servant, and the plan for your life will unfold before you.

You'll have divine appointments and signs and wonders, and God will break out and you'll find yourself at the right place at the right time. Set this. Align your heart with this truth that you will stand before him in an evaluation. So in all that you do, let the love of God rule your heart. As that man of God said to me.

You know what's funny? As much as that stupid pastor hurt me, He was hurt, okay? He. He was. He was hurting.

So he just threw up on me. And we camp out on that. Oh, that stupid pattern. Oh, that can. Oh, when in fact, maybe, maybe all that elevation in your heart that you had for that man of God or that situation, that circumstance that person was to give you.

You know how loud that is in my heart. Make sure the love of God rules your every decision. It is so loud in my heart. Maybe it wouldn't be that loud had I not been through that. I mean, like when he said it, it was just like an arrow from heaven.

I mean, that was 15 plus years ago. I heard it.

Be good, Be faithful. Be a servant. So that when you stand before him, you hear thou and faithful servant. Did you get something? Lift your hands to heaven, Father.

Thank you, Lord. We. We course correct today to align our hearts with what? The truth and what's really important.

Thank you. We realign or realign with these three virtues. Being good, being faithful, to be a servant.

You corrected the idea that we need some giant impact or big to receive accommodation. No, we're just supposed to be good and faithful and a servant. With what you've put before us, it might end up being big. It might end up being worldwide. It might.

It might end up all of those things. But at the simplicity, the core, we align our hearts with being like you. Being good. Help us to do that. Help us come on ask God to help you.

Help us to be good. Help us to be faithful to keep our word, to show up, to serve, to. To do what you called us to do day in, day out. Be faithful to read your word and faithful to worship. Faithful to give, faithful to support missionaries.

Faithful to pray. Faithful. Faithful. We. May we be faithful.

A lifetime of it. A lifetime of faithfulness. Not a flash in the pan. A lifetime of it. And.

And Lord, as servants that we would be servants because the greatest among you is a servant of all. May we be great in your kingdom, fulfilling divine purpose and destiny in Jesus name, Amen. Amen. We'll.

Yeah. 1024, gonna have a log jam, so I will do this this way.

Pastor Karen, would you take care of the discover track folks upstairs? I'll be there shortly. If you'd like to receive communion, I'm going to serve communion over on the side. If those of you that don't want to receive communion, raise your hand if you want to receive communion. Okay, very good.

I'm going to do two locations. And so as soon as I close, if you could just keep that communion music going. All right. And if you want to receive communion after I close, just migrate to one of these locations. Minister, would you take that location right there?

Pastor, would you lead people here? Would you stand up on your feet? I never close without giving an opportunity to get right with Jesus. So let's go ahead and do that. If you're here, you've never given your life to Christ.

Once you do it for the first time, or if you need to recommit to Jesus because you drifted, then pray this prayer with me right out loud. Say, dear heavenly Father, thank you for sending your son Jesus to die in my place. I believe he rose again from the grave and I ask you to forgive me, cleanse me and make me new. Thank you for loving me and thank you for hearing my prayer. Amen.

I pray, be filled with the Holy Spirit. Be touched, be healed, be encouraged and strengthened with mind your inner being. Thank you. Each and every one of us would fulfill the divine assignment. You have the map.

God's word. Knowing that we're made in your image and likeness. Knowing the purpose for all of us is to be a kingdom and to be priests in this world for you and to fulfill a divine assignment that in the end we would hear. Well done, thou good and faithful serpent.

Well, I hope you were encouraged by God's word. Thank you again for listening to Kings Alaska podcast. God bless you. For more great content, go to kcalaska.com and may God's face shine upon you and give you peace.