Becoming an Instrument

Feel the Spark of Life

Experience inspiration as the spark of life. Inspiration is the driver of creativity and accomplishment. This ignition is breathed into the human creation as a contagious force designed to instill faith, joy, and perseverance in conducting the will of God on the earth. Without inspiration, the embryo of purpose is aborted by the cares of life.

Unleash your inspiration and experience the exhilaration of achievement. It is so very satisfying. Accumulating wealth falls miserably short by comparison. At best, wealth is only a measure of accomplishment. Ultimate satisfaction is in the experience of completing the mission. While suffering the most, Jesus experienced the joy of accomplishment when He said, “It is finished” (KJV, John 19:30).

Do not hesitate. When God’s purpose pounds in your heart to let it out, obey. Allow your success to be a testimony that will inflame courage in yourself and others to break out of fear’s bondage and release all of God’s gifts and abilities in pursuit of life’s highest purpose.

Ignite and fuel inspiration in others. Certain people are born with this specific assignment. Barnabas, a son of God’s own essence, was born and gifted with these abilities to help facilitate the first- century transition to Gentile world evangelism. Barnabas became known as The Son of Exhortation for the transition from Law to Grace. Fulfilling the plan of God was the highest priority. These qualities are always present when God makes major changes. Gifted people may have these qualities but may not have made God’s plan their highest priority. Yield to God, and be the Lord's servant to ignite and fuel inspiration in others. Great rewards await those who help others achieve God’s purpose.

Be confident. God has a plan and a purpose for every human being. The plan and purpose of God are given at conception. The design of God's plan and purpose, as well as the announcement, may date back beyond the foundation of the world, but the impartation of God’s purpose for everyone takes place at human conception. Job argued that God made and fashioned him in the womb (KJV, Job 31:15). David, the Psalmist, praised the glory of God’s creative work in writing that God saw his fetus before ever it was formed, and every member of his being was recorded in the Book of God before any of them existed (KJV, Psalms 139:16). The prophet Isaiah prophesied of the reign of Cyrus of Persia more than one hundred years before Cyrus became king. Isaiah identified Cyrus by name and specified God’s purpose for his life. Cyrus authorized the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Isaiah 44:28). The Lord spoke to Jeremiah, another prophet, saying, “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” (KJV, Jeremiah 1:5). Jeremiah became one of the major prophets of the Old Testament. The Scriptural history of Joseph is a revelation that God had an assignment for his life. God began revealing the course of Joseph's destiny through dreams while Joseph was still a child (KJV, Genesis 37:5–11). The understanding of dreams was a gift of God that was instrumental in Joseph's rise to power and completion of God’s call to preserve the posterity of Israel (KJV, Genesis 45:5–8). Paul was a person born with a calling from God who had veered off in the wrong direction and was persecuting the Christians, until the Damascus Road encounter with Jesus changed that course. Paul was sent to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles. The New Testament includes thirteen epistles written by Paul.