Destiny By Design

This week we were learning about Destiny By Design.
We started this week out by saying how it is a week that we need to be very open and share a lot of things. It was very funny every second my mind would change from yeah, I can do this, I am excited to can't I just sleep through this week. : p

We the defined humility which is to be known for who you really are. We looked at how, when people know their purpose in life, they are willing to give their life for that purpose. We need to be desperate to hear Him and vulnerable  Our teacher this week was Myrna which was awesome because she was here for a couple of weeks so we already knew her. She told us that she is not going to give us our answers about who we are because we need to find that out through God, not the teacher or the class. We need to desperately ask God what He has for our life. So how desperate are we to know His plan for us?
You hear God well through your intimacy through Him: walk in relationship with Him, rule the earth, be His temple, give Him glory! Our purpose in life is to have relationship with Him. We need to give God our best moment. When we are most hungry for Him is when He is all you want. Give Him your all, he wants it! Our relationship with God will be reflected in our relationship with others. We then looked at what it is to have a heart of an orphan or the heart of a son of daughter of God. It was very surprising to see how many of us were sometimes in both or mostly the heart of the orphan.
Often times what we see in the spiritual is a reflection of the spiritual. Now God gave us free will. When He did that He ran the risk of us choosing not to love Him. When we love somebody we run the risk of being hurt. When we seek God it is easier to deal with disappointments. We need to love everybody with everything we are though! One thing Myrna said is that we may be the only Jesus that some people will see. Will they see the heart of an orphan or the heart of a daughter? We also need to all be in unity as Christians, one body, one family.
We were created in the image and likeness of God.
 Image: the idea of shadowing from a root, it's a shadow or a resemblance.
Likeness: Similitude, image or resemblance form a root to be like, to compare. It molds it is an appearance of the thing.
God designed us the way we are. Our abilities and our personality.
We are born with abilities-  mind, will, emotions.

Ability of intellect (mind): imagination. It's our God consciousness- it's what we evaluate what is right from wrong, memory. Ability of spirit and of mind.

Ability of emotion: Spontaneous reactions. allows us to fully enjoy life and relationships with others. Area of satisfaction and happiness of pleasure and pain, worship and adoration. An ability of soul.

Ability of Will: Self determination. The ability to originate our own actions, the self caused energy of personality, the essence of moral character. Commonly referred to as the "heart' of man. It's not programed it is essential to develop true relationships.

God gave us emotions to relate to us.
God intended that we evaluate with our mind and do what is right with our will even if our emotions are telling us otherwise. When we do what is right our emotions will eventually follow us. We CANNOT allow our emotions to control our mind and our will. God holds us responsible for our wrong actions because we have the ability to understand the right thing to do and have the ability to choose it.

God designed us to fulfill our purpose and our destiny.2 Timothy 1:9
God wants to reveal His plan for us! He had been preparing us to fulfill our destiny in Him since before we were born. With our dreams, our desires, our experiences. God has given us special gifts and abilities. We are one of a kind and original. He wants to use each of us to bless the nations of the earth, everywhere. We were intended for a particular purpose. When a child is being conceived, heck even before then, God has a plan and a destiny for them!

Getting to know God needs to be a daily thing, you have every day of your life to get to know Him! : ) God loves us so much that He send His son to die for us! He always was, is, and will be, the only thing that changes is us.
God wants us to have a correct perceptive of Him, get to know Him from His word.
Ask God to show us His heart. To show what He see's that we cannot see!

The next thing we looked out was dreams:
Dreams are very important part of God's plan for our lives!
Every accomplishment starts with a dream that God places in the mind of a person. (Proverbes 13:12)
Sometimes we may have an ordinary dream but the hope comes from the extraordinary.  Maybe it's something that you know in your heart but your mind struggles with a lot!
If you want to see the awesomeness of God you need to fight for it!!!
Dreams come from the heart, the mind tries to analyze it. (Proverbs 4:23)
The dreams that seem impossible are the ones that are from God. The ones that motivate our lives, that get us thinking what are God's plans for us.
The fear of failure prohibits us from dreaming, fear paralyzes us, it inhibits us from seeing the future.
Sometimes we want our dreams to come from our own strength, but those are the ones that never come to pass. When we try to do things for ourselves it never works.
Don't let fear of man stop you from dreaming. Don't give man the right to change your dreams, give them to God! Proverbs 29:25.
When you know something is from God you will fight for it! We need to be enthusiastic and excited, but we NEED to surrender them to God because He's the one who will make them possible, not us! God has a dream for you, ask for it. He'll give you little things, be faithful for them.
If you have lost sight of your purpose God will restore you!!! He restored David....


Experiences: God's purpose through our experiences is to teach us but also to help others: to challenge them, encourage them, comfort them, and to relate to them. The experiences that God allows in our lives are for a purpose. The most important thing is that we learn from our experiences.
God will redeem our worst experiences and we can learn from them!
God will use everything that He allows us to experience. God permits those things to happen but He doesn't create the situation.

Personality: Our personality is our soul print. We were fearfully and wonderfully made.
Outside of the relationship with God we cannot begin to fully understand the potential of our personality!
Personality is defined as habitual patterns and qualitites of behavoirs of an individual.
Where do we get our energy, where do we focus our attention.
How do we look at things and learn something new
How do we go about making our decisions and the type of lifestyle we lead.

By discovering our personality we can begin to identify our strengths and weaknesses.
There are two main types of personality:
Extroverts: Simulations from the outside
Introverts: Simulations from the inside.

Styles of Worship:
Naturalist: Inspired by nature, outdoors.
Senate: Love God with senses and appreciate beautiful worship services that involve their senses
Traditionalist: Draw closer to God through rituals, liturgies, symbols, and unchanged structures.
Ascetics: Prefer to love God in solitude and simplicity
Activists: Love God through confronting evil, battling injustice, working to make the world a better place
Caregivers: Love God by loving others and meeting their needs
Enthusiast: Love God through celebration
Contemplatives: Love God through adoration
Intellectuals: Love God by studying with their minds.

Our design:
We cannot find our destiny until we find our identity in Christ. We'll find our identity in our intimacy with God. The most true things about us are what God says about us.
The more we know who we are in Christ the less people's words will penetrate our hearts. Being secure in our identity in Christ gives us freedom and authority in sharing the gospel.
If we keep living in sin but say that we are a new creation in Christ how will anyone see that? How will anyone want to be a new Creation when you haven't even changed?

Gift: something you are given that you didn't deserve. Our gifts are God's presents to us. Use your gifts to be part of the church.

This week really impacted me! I loved sharing things from our hearts and learning new things about our family and ourselves. I also learned that it really is okay to dream, our dreams come from God! I am very excited for this! This weekend the boys went home for the weekend so we sort of had a girl weekend, it was a lot of fun, but we did miss them! It was nice to finally have a weekend of relaxing after to weekends of driving and craziness! Although the weekend was a little crazy, but mostly relaxing! : D