All of us who are Christians have a God-given purpose. Many of us are familiar with the motto “God has a plan for your life.” Yet how many believe and behave with this in mind? How many Christians believe their job, business, gifting or parenting ability is really significant to God?
See, when you accept royalty that God has given you, it gives everything a purpose. Where you are and whom you touch right now is your royal purpose. You decide to accept or resist this. If you’re flipping burgers or working a menial job right now, remember all kings go through training. It’s in the training process that we often discover our purpose.
I remember going to Bible college and then seminary and really feeling God leading me to go to school. During this period of training for my kingship, God was exposing purpose. In both college and seminary other men were always hanging out in my dorm room wanting advice, counsel, wisdom and discipleship. It was strange but when God showed me this it helped me piece together that my calling had something to do with touching and healing hearts of men.
This of course now is my ministry through counseling, seminars and media. I didn’t know then that I was royalty, but God was faithful to expose His purpose during my time of training.
But how do we find our purpose? One way is to ask yourself two questions.
- What does the body of Christ ask from me regularly? (Note: It’s not “What do I want to do for the church?”)
- What does the culture ask of you? What do friends, family, people at work ask from you pretty regularly?
Does the church ask you to serve on committees, or to help set up chairs, or teach classes or drive the buses? Does your job always ask you to lead, manage and smooth things out or follow, support and encourage those around you? Take a minute and ask yourself this. This may be tied to your skills and give you a clue as to your kingly ministry.
Try to clearly separate your own desires from what people ask of you. Sometimes our desire to be something is totally different from our true purpose. I remember a king with whom I went to seminary. He wanted to preach, teach or do anything pertaining to upfront ministry. Yet when he would do any of this there was little to no life at all in it. On the other hand he could fix just about anything. He had a side business of a handyman and construction company. What the church regularly asked of him was to drywall, run wires or paint. He paid his bills his whole life by the manual labor of constructing, building and repairing structures.
He didn’t like his kingly calling, but he was so anointed at it and had unquestionable authority when doing these jobs. God anointed his hands to fix almost anything, yet he rejected his kingly calling to pursue a priestly calling that never really created any life. I personally love every king who does electrical, drywall or woodworking because I consider them geniuses!
Whether you are in training, find your purpose. When it’s clear as to why God made you, often the anointing and authority develop in you for that task. It may consist of being a salesperson, real estate developer, public school teacher, nurse or secretary. I know people in all areas of life who are truly kings or queens in their areas of influence. My brother-in-law, was teacher in Pennsylvania. He taught math for over two decades in the same school. He was made a team leader of the math department, and was asked to serve in many areas in his school. He had unquestionable authority given to him when he is serving in his kingly calling.
My other brother-in-law, owns a home building company. He has never advertised and has God’s supernatural anointing to build and construct homes and offices. Yet another brother-in-law, is an anointed pharmacist in a hospital. He is consistently promoted and intuitively understands his industry and has been given by God favor in his industry.
I use these only to illustrate kingly calls. Everyone has a sphere of influence that God has given specifically to him or her. I encourage you to find your kingly or queenly purpose. When you discover purpose, you often discover whom you are to serve. These are whom you are called to touch in a royal manner for our King.