Everything on Earth was created for a purpose. Nothing was made for nothing. You are here because God has a reason, a purpose for bringing you here.
God is not unintentional about creation. Everything He made, He made them because He wants them to fulfil a purpose, including you.
The greatest discovery of every man is the discovery of your purpose: the reason behind your creation!
You must know that God had a detailed plan for your life before your parents met each other. He had designed a blue print which your life would be governed by even before your mother conceived you.
See what He told the Prophet, Jeremiah;
"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." – Jeremiah 1:5
Before Jeremiah was formed in his mother's womb God told him that He already knew Jeremiah.
Even if you are a product of a rape case or an unwanted pregnancy because God allowed you to come to the Earth, He already had a detailed plan for your life; purpose.
Don't believe the lie of the devil that you're a mistake. No one is born a mistake. A mistake may have produced you but your conception wasn't a mistake. God saw it coming and He allowed it.
As long as you on Earth reading this then be rest assured that God has a plan and purpose for you. It is your duty to decipher what it is. It is your sole responsibility to find out what was God's intent for creating you.
This article presents three (3) practical steps on how to discover your purpose. I call them practical steps because no one will go through them for you. You must go through these steps all by yourself.
Here we go.
1. Ask Your Maker
If you would like to know the reason why the Tecno Spark 2 was made would you go and ask Apple?
No! You ask the Tecno company.
If you want to know what purpose Facebook was designed to serve you don't go asking Bil Gates of Microsoft but Mark Zuckerberg.
Consulting Amazon to tell you why Google Inc was created is a quest in futility.
If you would know the purpose of the creation of anything you have to ask the person who made that thing.
To know your purpose you have to ask God, your Maker. He told Jeremiah "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;..."
God formed Jeremiah and it was Him alone who could clearly offer Jeremiah in clear terms what He created Jeremiah for.
No book, pastor, prophet or seminar on purpose can accurately answer the question of what your purpose is. Only the one who created you and designed your purpose can tell you why He did so.
Now, how do you ask your Maker? How do you ask God what your purpose is?
It is simply by praying. Communication with God is done using prayer as a media. To inquire and be able to decipher the contents of the blueprint of your life you must do so through prayers.
Yield to prayers. Yield to fervent prayers. Inquire of the Lord in prayers until He speaks and makes purpose clear to you.
2. Identify Your Potentials
When God created you, He inserted potentials into you. These potentials He deposited into you is to help you carry out the task which your purpose demands of you.
These potentials are what we refer to as gifts and talents.
God has given us these gifts and talents so that by them we can be able to carryout the duties He designed in the blueprint for our life.
When God sends a man, He empowers that man. After God designed you and your purpose, He empowered you to fulfill it by depositing potentials; gifts and talents inside you.
See your purpose as the "sending" and your potentials as the "empowering" because in essence that's what it is.
Identify your potentials. What are those things you do with ease and with less mental and physical work?
What are those traits you exhibit which make people ascertain that "you're gifted"?
What do you do that you never learned how to?
All of these are your potentials expressed as gifts and talents.
3. Locate Your Passion and Pain
The last step on the path to discovering your purpose is to locate your place of passion and pain.
What do you do with a drive and a passionate sense?
What do you love doing so much that you do not care if you get paid or not?
What are you always thinking about? What are your meditations centered on or towards? What is that field of endeavour you feel fulfilled in?
This is what your passion is about.
Also ask yourself,
What give you great pain?
What do you see in the world that you wish to end immediately?
What is that anomaly that it you are given the power to stop you would do so without having a second thought?
The place of your prayer and passion are peculiar perks to the discovery of your purpose.
I am passionate about sharing knowledge (teaching) and seeing people in ignorance give me great concern.
So you see that my passion and pain revolves around knowledge and the eradication of ignorance.
Note that:
The response from God, the identification of your potentials, and the locating of your place and passion must be in line with each other.
There mustn't be conflict. All of the discoveries from these three steps must conform to each other.
With these three steps, I was able to catch a glimpse of what my purpose is and I am optimistic that when you follow them you would always be clear about why God created you.
SHALOM!