{"id":14027,"date":"2016-08-18T00:46:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/48-purpose-speaks-to-a-childs-potentialidentity-speaks-to-a-childs-destiny\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:46:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:46:50","slug":"48-purpose-speaks-to-a-childs-potentialidentity-speaks-to-a-childs-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/48-purpose-speaks-to-a-childs-potentialidentity-speaks-to-a-childs-destiny\/","title":{"rendered":"48 PURPOSE SPEAKS TO A CHILD\u2019S POTENTIAL;\nIDENTITY SPEAKS TO A CHILD\u2019S DESTINY."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cGod never starts anything He hasn\u2019t already finished,\u201d teaches Myles Monroe.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>How true. God instills purpose in all He creates. Your child was created with meaning and purpose. The good work He began in your child, God will see through to completion.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>We must imitate God\u2019s way of parenting. Everything we say, teach, and do with our child must be on-purpose. We are raising a child in the fear of the Lord. If our words and actions point to the Father, we are on purpose. If they point to anything else, we are off-purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The purpose within a child is always unfolding. It is never fully realized until that child comes to face to face with Jesus at Christ\u2019s seat of judgment.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>A purpose is not a goal or an objective. We continually realize objectives and reach goals as we journey toward our purpose in life. Ultimately, we all have the ultimate purpose of being \u201cin Christ\u201d and of \u201cworshipping and serving God.\u201d Jesus said, \u201cYou shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve\u201d (Matt 4:10).<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Identity reveals destiny. <\/b>One of the key questions your child will ask is, \u201cWho am I?\u201d He will discover the answer to that question when he finally asks, \u201cWhose am I?\u201d The identity crisis of every child is resolved when he receives Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Jesus reveals that we \u201cbelong to Christ\u201d (Mark 9:41).<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>When a child\u2019s identity is \u201cin Christ,\u201d then he knows his destiny\u2014to rule and reign on high with Him!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'><i>For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth\u201d <\/i>(Rev. 5:9\u201310)<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod never starts anything He hasn\u2019t already finished,\u201d teaches Myles Monroe. How true. God instills purpose in all He creates. Your child was created with meaning and purpose. The good work He began in your child, God will see through to completion. We must imitate God\u2019s way of parenting. Everything we say, teach, and do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/48-purpose-speaks-to-a-childs-potentialidentity-speaks-to-a-childs-destiny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;48 PURPOSE SPEAKS TO A CHILD\u2019S POTENTIAL;<br \/>\nIDENTITY SPEAKS TO A CHILD\u2019S DESTINY.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}