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Destined to be useful: Hell's attack

Part 3: Hell's attack When the Lord shows us the mighty things we can become for the sake of others, we look at our limitations and end up doubting the Word of God. We shut that voice of hope and convince ourselves that it was not the Lord that spoke. We extrapolate that we would not be successful because we are not well resourced, forgetting that it is not ours but the Lord's duty to endow us with every resource necessary for our calling.  Our problem is that many times, we feel so confident in ourselves that we are convinced that we love the Lord so much. Therefore, this blocks us from looking within, and acknowledging our inability to love or be burdened with the vision of the Lord without His help. We are too strong for the Lord — too strong to be purged. Too strong to hear Love's demands and to be affected by it. However, because of our many cares and the weights of life that we bear, we block ourselves from taking up our destinies. We decide not to be chosen. We leave

Destined to be useful: What is destiny?

 Part 2 : DESTINY  What then is destiny?  Luk 2:49 KJV "And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?"  What is this Father's business Jesus talks about? The Father's business is the Will of the Lord, and being about the Father's business is doing all that is in our might (yielding our vessels to the precepts of His Word as if of ourselves) to ensure that His Will be accomplished in us and through us.  Destiny is the Divine Intent (Will) of the Lord for the human race. This Divine Will of the Lord is to be united with mankind; that He (the Lord) may endow him (mankind) with His Love, and man may in turn live from this Love eternally. To the Lord, His destiny for mankind (as succinctly described above) is unchanging, however by virtue of His Love for mankind, He does not impose this Will on any man. The Lord rather admonishes man to choose this path by freewill. Hence true destiny is the Lord's mi