Understand Who You Are

As believers, we have at our disposal many scriptures that reveal to us who we are in Christ. Many of us in the Christian body quote great Bible scriptures, and this is very good and I encourage everyone to practice this regularly in their everyday walk with God. However, in understanding who you are I want to shine the light a little more brightly on personal areas. We  have come to know  about a few of our biblical heroes: Abraham, David, and Joseph who lived at different times, yet one thing they all shared was that each through a prophetic word came to understand who they were in God. Each revelation changed the course of each of their lives. It is imperative that you discover who you are and why God placed you in this world.

God uniquely created you for such a time as this no matter your size, shape, color, or gender. Everything that you need to accomplish what God sent you here to do is all inside of you. The reason why I strongly urge you to personally understand who you are is because knowing who you are will give you peace, resolve, tenacity, and confidence. When you know who you are, you will not spend your time trying to find it in dating different people. If you know you are destined for a life in New York, you will not take a jet plane to California, no matter how nice and beautiful the jet plane is. Here is another example: take a woman whom God is calling her to missionary work overseas who is on a date with a nice eligible bachelor who hates the thought of traveling overseas and wants a stay at home wife. It does not matter if they get along with each other, or both love God, or really enjoy one another’s company. This relationship will never work if the woman abandons what God has called her to do, in order to become married and appeases her new husband as a stay at home wife. Whatever God has called you to do, he will make provisions for his will to be accomplished in your life which will result in a successful marriage.

Understanding this one step has helped me tremendously. Since I have a firm grasp on God’s purpose for my life, it makes dating so much easier. I do not have to go on several dates to see if there is a match or to see if this person or that person could be my potential spouse. The more defined your purpose and destiny is, the better you will be. Almost instantaneous your decision-making process about pursuing a possible relationship is evident. Because the closer you walk with God, the more defined his will is for your life. It goes back to if God created marriage and he is the third party to your marriage, God will not go into a contract to fail but to win and win victoriously.