📅 Saturday, 3rd May 2025
📖 Romans 8:26–30, Acts 20:24, Romans 12:1–2, Ephesians 3:20, Genesis 6:3, Jeremiah 1:4–5

Theme: Purpose vs Problem – The Divine Contest for Your Life

In today’s session, the Holy Spirit brought us face-to-face with one of the most defining battlegrounds of destiny: the conflict between your problem and your purpose. You must understand this dynamic if you will ever walk in the fullness of your Calling.

⚔️ THE DIVINE CONTEST: PROBLEM VS PURPOSE

1. There is a constant contest between your problems and your divine purpose. Whichever dominates your focus will define your direction.

2. Every human life carries three realities:

   • (a) Weakness – donated by Adam.

   • (b) Mistake – what you do to yourself.

   • (c) Problem – what the devil arranges against you.

3. To learn from another’s mistake is wisdom. To learn from your own mistake is experience. Don’t waste either.

4. Discovery of divine purpose is the only path to freedom from the tyranny of problems.

5. Your purpose is the pipeline of God’s power and wisdom into your life—it solves what problems can’t.

6. Without movement from problem to purpose, you become trapped in the “begin-again syndrome.”

7. Often, your problems are pointers to hidden divine purposes. The devil wants to use them to hypnotize and distract you.

8. People run after power demonstrations in ministry but keep having problems because they lack wisdom.

📌 BIBLICAL CASE STUDIES AND INSIGHTS

9. Peter battled insecurity—yet carried the purpose of becoming an apostle.

10. Many problems are simply mirages, diversions designed by hell to pull you away from purpose.

11. Problems that appear massive disappear in the light of divine purpose.

12. Some issues—like your state of birth—are fixed, but others—like your state of mind—can change.

13. The weight of the devil’s attacks is determined by the magnitude of God’s purpose on your life.

14. The area of greatest satanic resistance often hides the greatest anointing in your life.

15. Divine purpose turns pain into tools. Let the understanding of your purpose convert trials into treasures.

16. When you see problems through the lens of purpose, their intimidation dies.

17. Don’t live in response to problems—live in pursuit of purpose.

🔄 GOD’S PLAN VS YOUR PLAN

18. There’s a conflict zone between God’s plan for you and your own plan for your life.

19. When you submit your plan to God, you’ll find His plan is good, acceptable, and perfect (Jer. 29:11).

20. You can never plan your life to match what God has already planned for you (Eph. 3:20).

21. Don’t walk into a “no man’s land” where the devil becomes your adviser—he will pack error into your life.

22. When you delay discovering God’s plan, the devil ensures that by the time you do, you’re no longer 100% fit to run it.

23. No cost is too great to embrace God’s plan. But rejecting it comes at an eternal cost.

24. Don’t push your plan against God’s. There’s no joy there—only pain and hardness.

25. Don’t be a carrier of a great calling and yet live as a prisoner of career.

❓ WHY FIGHT GOD’S PLAN?

26. Why should your life be fighting the plan of the One who formed you before you were born? (Jer. 1:5)

27. The vision of God captures all things in the universe and aligns them for your destiny.

28. There are three foundational questions you must answer regarding your Calling:

• (a) Has God called you to pulpit ministry or not?

• (b) Is it a part-time or full-time Call?

• (c) Are you called to be a founder or a helper/associate in the work?

🎧 SPECIAL INSTRUCTION

📝 Instruction: Go back and listen to the 2023 School of the Calling teaching on “The Container Call.” You must understand how your life container was designed to carry divine assignment.

🧠 REFLECTIONS

Are you being hypnotized by your problems, or are you being awakened by your purpose?
Are you pushing your own agenda or surrendering to the perfect plan of the Master?
Has your career become a prison holding your calling hostage?

Don’t postpone destiny. Don’t major on problems. Embrace your divine purpose—it carries power, deliverance, and eternal relevance.

Grace for obedience and clarity of purpose is released upon you!

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