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Why Are You Here? What’s Your Purpose? Part 1

Why do you like doing certain things more than others? Why do some things interest you and some things don't interest you at all? Have you noticed that when you do the things you enjoy doing you feel better and you actually feel somehow complete? Have you also noticed the conflict between what you enjoy doing and what life "demands" you should be doing? If you've experienced this then you are the victim of a society of pattern.

Patterns rule our modern society. We grow up to certain customs, adapt certain habits, eat certain foods at certain times, go to pre-school, school, college, university, get a job, get married, have kids, earn money, make debt - and in the midst of all this patterned life you try to find time for what you really like to do, sometimes called a hobby. Of course you enjoy your job and maybe it does bring some fulfillment, but why is your inner yearning to get out and do something else, something more enjoyable?

The reason you feel this way, the reason most people feel this way, the reason I have felt this way is one and the same. You feel frustrated because you are in the wrong boat! You are allowing Pattern to define your life instead of Purpose! A pattern is what you get when you pour ball-bearings into a tray and shake the tray so that all the ball-bearings fall into a pattern into the corner of the tray. You get a pattern when you spread some iron-filings onto a tray and place a magnet underneath. All the ball-bearings and all the iron-filings fall into a predefined pattern when an outside force is applied.

You are experiencing the same result. An outside force is causing you to fall into a predefined pattern. That outside force is society. Now for a lot of people that is a good thing. It gives them stability and sometimes security. Some people can't cope with the pressure of following patterns and drop out of society. Then there are others who rise above it. Imagine one little ball-bearing refusing to fall into the pattern and jumps right up and out and away from the crowd and away from the outside force. The surrounding ball-bearings will be a little upset, because now there's a hole in the pattern and they have to shuffle out of their routine pattern in order to fill the hole.

Now imagine you jumping out from your patterned environment and doing something different, something your really enjoy doing. Those around you, those with whom you have been falling into pattern, will get upset. You have upset their routine and now they must move around to adjust before they can settle back into their comfortable pattern. You can expect this reaction when you step out to follow your purpose.

And what is your purpose? In my next article I will give some tips which I believe will help you find your purpose. What is your opinion? Can we discover why we are here? If so how do you think we can uncover our purpose?

What is Intuition?

What is the Will of God?

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
       I will counsel you and watch over you.

 9 Do not be like the horse or the mule,
       which have no understanding
       but must be controlled by bit and bridle
       or they will not come to you. Psalm 32:8-10 (NIV)

At that time we understood that to mean we must use our own understanding and not be blindly led like mules who have no understanding. Today I would say the same.

Many people when they pray to God finish off by saying, "but your will be done". I have heard many a prayer being uttered with the following pattern: Please God do this, but if not, your will be done. Now I don't know how you feel, but that to me is assuming that God will primarily disagree and not give what is requested. Such a prayer request simply cancels itself out.

Tell me, if someone came to you and asked you for something like that (and many people do), would you know if the person was serious or not? For example: "Would you have time to help me? If not it doesn't matter." Now compare that to someone asking for help who really is desperate and needs that help right away: "Would you have time to help me - please - I need your help."

When people ask God for something then immediately withdraw with such a SAFETY SENTENCE, do you think God takes them serious. This is the God who tells us to have faith. This is the God who says you WILL receive what you ask for if only you BELIEVE.

So what is God's will? Why do so many people insist on placing qualifiers on God's promises. They say you can't ask for that, or request the other, or that's not according to God's will. They are so sincere in trying to protect God's interests that they INVENT excuses for God why He doesn't need to answer our worldly requests. But God does not restrict these promises in any way.

We are told by John that if we ask anything according to His will he will hear us (1 John 5:14). And what is according to His will? God's will is exactly what God says. Ask anything believing. (See my article on Faith for a closer look at this.)

Do you follow this? God has made it explicitly clear through His ancient servants, and many of His servants today, that His will is for us to ASK BELIEVING and to RECEIVE. This is what the will of God is. He wants to give us what we want. I believe God does not put any restrictions on WHAT we ask for because through the asking and receiving by faith we learn two things:

1. We learn to consider others in our asking.

2. We learn to ask for bigger and better things - growing from faith to faith.

Many of the same people who pray self-canceling prayers also criticise and reject modern day teachers who teach faith in connection with the Law of Attraction, thus cementing their disbelief in God's promises. Faith is independent of religion or theology. To ask and believe is a universal provision available to anyone who has a need or desire. Ask believing and you will receive. Its what the Bible says. It is only people who add the complications.

Faith then is God's will. Ask anything, no limits, no restrictions, no exclusions. I also believe that when anyone begins to learn this faith that they will also become aware of these great truths of the universe, the laws which have been put in place. God is not dumm. He knows that when you tap into this energy of thought and faith you will discover more and more of the Divine Energy made available to us.

Some of you may disagree with those last few comments, but you can't deny that God's will is to ask believing.

• Previous Posts:

• Are Your Actions Resonating with your Vision?
• Do Dreams Come True?
• Why Are You Here? What’s Your Purpose? Part 2
• Why Are You Here? What’s Your Purpose? Part 1
• My Son Went To War
• What is Intuition?
• Reasonably Unreasonable
• What is the Will of God?

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