Awareness of purpose is easily lost among the stuff of everyday life. Nevertheless, our efficient God is weaving our lives with purpose daily. No one is born for one event. There is purpose infused in 
every inch of our path through life. The flow of purpose is so intricately woven by God that we will only realize its full significance in hindsight. So, the true simplicity of purpose boils down to living aware of God daily. Thanksgiving, praise, worship, obedience and godly choices will flow out of that awareness. We tend the garden of our life, watering the plants daily, not sure when or how often they will bloom in our lifetime and thereafter. We are POSITIONED to be faithful in watering and He is faithful to bring forth fruit that is eternal. (Ninth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Positioned for Purpose”.)
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Daily Living and the Non-typical
Mary and Joseph never would have guessed their common, mundane lives were moving toward such eternal impact. In fact, they probably never fully grasped the magnitude of their purpose while they lived on earth. The issues and responsibilities of everyday life had to overshadow their thinking and senses at times. Seven-year-old Jesus most likely took his father’s hammer and left it by the creek to rust, after he’d nailed a boat together using his mom’s best serving bowl. At supper that night, I’m sure neither Joseph nor Mary sensed divine purpose at work in their lives or his! The majority of the time they were simply rearing a son. And they probably wondered if they were doing well. After all, everyone remembered the time they had accidentally left him behind while traveling. And you know they had typical friends and family watching their non-typical teenager with an opinionated glare. (Eighth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Positioned for Purpose”.)
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August is for God’s Fire to Burn
The month of AUGUST IS FOR GOD’S FIRE TO BURN the worthless things we have incorporated into our values, beliefs and practices; things that have been separated from the pure by His winnowing fork will burn. The fire burns what the sifting has made manifest so that the pure wheat, without mixture, may be profitable for the Master’s use. “He comes with a winnowing fork in his hands and comes to his threshing floor to sift what is worthless from what is pure. And he is ready to sweep out his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his granary, but the straw he will burn up with a fire that can’t be extinguished!” (Matt.3:12,TPT)
At-All-Times Worship
The heart of him who “worships the Father in spirit and in truth” is found in Ps.34:1-3, “I will extol the Lord AT ALL TIMES; HIS PRAISE WILL ALWAYS BE ON MY LIPS. My soul will boast in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together.” It is apparent here that those who have been delivered sing a song of deliverance, those who have been afflicted sing a song of restoration so that those who are in need can be encouraged and lifted to deliverance.
Not Outlived Purpose
Zach and Liz did not know they were born to produce the forerunner of Christ. And if they had known, at their age they would have felt certain that they had outlived purpose! Elizabeth’s age and health and natural mind could not see a pregnancy in her future, especially not one of such divine order. How many people of God, because of age and health and life’s circumstances, feel they have outlived purpose, not realizing there are people not yet born that they are destined to touch, not realizing there are circumstances not yet in existence they were born to affect or cover in prayer? (Seventh excerpt from Kathy’s article “Positioned for Purpose”.)
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Don’t Give Up
As the people of God assemble today, may they not give up on the promises and enablements of God for them and may they not give up on one another’s promises, gifts and callings. ”So let’s not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don’t give up, or quit. Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith.” (Gal.6:9, Msg)
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May You Have Energy
May you exert energy just because you want to delight yourself in the Lord Who is your wholeness and strength. May family and friends speak of your good health. “Your body will glow with health, your very bones will vibrate with life!” (Prov.3:8, Msg)
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Martha Didn’t Know She Was Headed to Unbury Her Brother
Do you think Zacharias, Elizabeth, Joseph and Mary had any sense they were POSITIONED for their purpose? I don’t think so! Neither did the Widow of Nain plodding along in the funeral procession, feel POSITIONED by God to dance home with a resurrected son, but she was! Saul atop his horse, on a Christian-killing mission, answering only to the Sanhedrin had no warning he was about to be blind, wrapped around that horse’s knees and entering training to be an apostle, but he was POSITIONED by the purpose of God! Murmuring Martha, grieving and waiting to give Jesus a piece of her mind over his tardiness, had no inkling she was about to un-bury the brother she had buried four days before, but she was POSITIONED … in destiny … in purpose … in history. (Sixth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Positioned for Purpose”.)
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