Properly Placed - Placed For Paramount Performance

"We are most alive when we are doing what we were born to do" In other words ,death is evident when we cease to perform our God ordained purpose.

Genesis 1:26-28 ; Psalm 135:15-18 ;Isaiah 55:2 ;John 15:5 ;John 14: 12-14;John 8:29; Esther 4:13-14;Ephesians 4:16

Dear Friend,

God has appointed every one of us to a chief place in the kingdom to be fruitful. He intended for us to be fruitful in every area of our lives for us long us we remain fitted in our rightful place and doing His will. Whenever we cease from performing our God ordained purpose we are merely existing and not living. This can be summed up in the words of Bishop Shelton Bady, "We are most alive when we are doing what we were born to do."
The hen will do better to lay eggs than to milk as a cow. On the other hand, men will do better being men than to be women .In other words you are placed where you are by God for paramount performance. We live better and enjoy life better if we stay in our God ordained place and finish our assignment. We will be blessed and fulfilled and others will be blessed by our faithfulness too.
Sometimes we become so occupied with daily rigors of the day we allow our purpose to slip into oblivion. He did not intend for us to be consumed by our needs. As a matter of fact He instructed us to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all the things we naturally need ,will be added automatically. Psalms 55:2 indicates that there is something more precious to pursue in life than to amass wealth. The most precious things to pursue are the things of God and to accomplish our God ordained purpose in the ordained place. Jesus came to give us life to the full
In order for us to fulfill our God ordained purpose. There is no time for retreat. He did not say we should serve our purpose until we become offended or tired. Since we are on the battle field as members in the army of the Lord, we have to gird our loins and be ready to stand till we fulfill purpose in the ordained place. We do not have to leave our place ,because someone made us upset? Which ever place God has appointed for you to fill, He makes grace available for you to be fruitful. Don’t be distracted by setbacks for they are meant for you to overcome and flourish.
Joseph knew very well of God’s faithfulness and did not give up even when he was wrongfully accused. He knew that God placed him for a paramount performance which was, to preserve the lives of many including his ‘mean’ brothers. Esther fulfilled her purpose in delivering the Jews from the hand of Haman. If she had allowed fear to grip her ,she will not have utilize the grace of God available to her to fulfill that purpose and the Jews will have faced severe challenges.
If everyone stays in their place for paramount performance, there will be growth in the body. Each one of us will participate to meet each others' needs and thereby make every one fulfilled and flourishing. All needs are not monetary. We have a need for significance, to love and to be loved. Therefore when we perform our God given function the love of God is shared abroad to every one.

Properly Placed - Love the Lord

If your heart is not in it God does not want it. You can not be properly placed if you do not love Him with all your heart!

Colossians 2:18-19;John 15 :1-7;Mark 12:28;;Romans 5:8
Dear Friend,

We are the body of Christ. Each one of us is a member of the body of Christ and we are all required to play our part so that the body, as a whole will fulfill its purpose on the earth. We learned in the previous lesson that God has placed ministry gift in the body to minister to the needs of each body part so that every joint will supply for the body to grow and be effective.
The head of the body is Christ. And we are admonished in Colossians Chapter 2 not to allow holidays, traditions of men to come between us and God but to hold fast to the Head of the body which is Christ. Every part of the body is connected to the Head, from which all the parts are connected. How you feel, see, smell hear, and touch are all coordinated in the head. Therefore, from the head, every part of the body receives information and instructions on how to function. For as long as you are connected to the thoughts and plans of the head, you are in your right place and are guaranteed to function efficiently!

In John Chapter 15 ,Jesus makes it clear that He is the Vine and we are the branches. And the only way the branches will be fruitful or nourished for longevity is to remain connected to the Vine. Every branch that does not bear fruit is taken away by the Father(Vine Dresser).Every branch that bears fruit ,He prunes so that it can bear more fruit. God's ultimate desire is that you increase more and more in the area you function in the body. Pruning hurts ,so if you are not feeling its hurt from the Lord, you probably have already been plucked off because you have not been fruitful. Even though the enemy uses what we feel, see, hear and see to lure us from the Vine, we are supposed to stand our grounds in teeth-gritted determination to stick to the vine. When the flow of nourishment and help from the vine or the head is unbroken you are destined to bear much fruit. Your prayers yield results when you truly abide in God and His words. Abiding does not mean visiting once in a while it means where you live!

Loving God with everything you are is the whole essence of abiding in Him. We love Him with our spirit by spending time in fellowship with Him. We love Him with our soul by filling our thought s with His word and yielding our will and emotions to line up with the dictates of His word. We love Him with our bodies by serving him.

You cannot be properly placed unless you are in love with the Lord. When you love Him ,He flows through you. He does not have to ask anything from you, because you already know what His yearns to be done and you do it. He also loved us when we did not deserve it. And His love towards you is everlasting. His love for you is forever. It will never change no matter what you do. He is love and love never fails. He has put the same love in you, in your spirit so that your love for Him cannot fail if only you abide in Him and obey the ministry gifts He has sent your way! When you make a mistake or sin, repent and get back in fellowship like the prodigal son in Luke 15. Like the father in that story,He is waiting for you to come back into His divine order for your life. Get connected to your God ordained pastor and local church and allow Him to flow through you. It is never too late start right.

Properly Placed - Spiritual Maturity

You cannot be properly placed in the body of Christ if you are not first ,connected to a pastor in a local church.

Ephesians 4:11-15;Matthew 11:28; Isaiah 1:18;Esther 2:8-17;2 Corinthians 4:7

Dear Friend,

God has called each one of us to perform specific functions in the body and also in the world. For as the body is one and has many members, ‘but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many. Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.’ And God has appointed apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers as gifts in the body. A gift is to anyone who is ready to receive. God has given them the grace for them ;
To equip us for successful Christian living
Equip us for the role each of us has to play in the body of Christ or local church
And also to make the whole body strong by making each member strong

Ministry gifts possess the grace from God to properly place the saints .Thus, when you are not first connected to a pastor in a local church you are placed in danger of not being properly placed. Those who hop from church to church are disjointed and disconnected and thus cannot be fruitful.

To be properly fitted for ministry implies change. Esther was called to be queen in a foreign land but she had to go through preparation under supervision. She had to be worked at and made to fit properly where she belonged. Someone who knew the king had to teach and train her on how to please the King. These gifted individuals, the apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher fit the misfits, physically abused, spiritually dead to be ready and prepared for the Lord. These gifts are men and women just like us, but God uses imperfect people to train imperfect people to do a perfect work so that God alone will be glorified. These gifts are in earthen vessels. They are not flawless. Whether you like them or not they have what you need to be successful in life. Connect with them through the pastor assigned for your life. Your help from God is in them.
When gifted leaders know the grace of God on their lives they can build any body into spiritual maturity, becoming like Christ.
They do not assume but raise people into a belief system based on the word and not based on feelings ,traditions and the media.
They also raise us to become spiritually matured by feeding us the word so that we no longer become children tossed about by every challenge that comes our way. Therefore we become very productive and matured in loving and strengthening one another. The word of God can change our mind ,will ,and emotion so we can embrace thoughts of God and become matured in our approach towards life.

God wants us to come to maturity, however maturity will come only to those who receive the diverse ministrations of the ministry gifts He has placed in the body and become diligent in adhering to the instructions they give. When we embrace the word they preach or teach under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and become doers of it we become mature with time. And God will give us our full inheritance to enjoy here on earth ,according to Galatians chapter 4.:1-7. When we become matured, being able to love God with all our heart our soul and strength and neighbor as our selves ,then our coordinated function works together for our good.

Connect with your God ordained pastor right now and allow yourself to be properly placed in a local assembly. Yield to the workings of the Lord through these gifted individuals and let them use the grace on their lives to work on you till you become fitted in your God ordained place. Once you submit to the these gifts , the grace of God flows from them into your life to enable you to abound in every good work.