Identity & Destiny IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’ DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’ 21 Vision Statements Everyone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purposeEveryone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purpose

Identity & Destiny IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’ DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’ 21 Vision Statements Everyone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purposeEveryone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purpose

Identity & Destiny IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’ DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’ 21 Vision Statements Everyone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purposeEveryone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purpose

Identity & Destiny IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’ DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’ 21 Vision Statements Everyone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purposeEveryone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purpose

Identity & Destiny IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’ DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’ 21 Vision Statements Everyone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purposeEveryone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purpose

Identity & Destiny IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’IDENTITY – ‘Who has God called me to be?’ DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’DESTINY – ‘What has God called me to do?’ 21 Vision Statements Everyone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purposeEveryone has a growing understanding of their identity and destiny in Christ and are being continuously equipped, trained, mentored and counselled to achieve their God-given purpose

Identity & Destiny 1Peter 2:9-10 (NIVUK) “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy”

Identity & Destiny 1Peter 2:9-10 (NIVUK) “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy”

Identity & Destiny 1Peter 2:9-10 (NIVUK) “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy” “Great High Priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God” “Great High Priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God” (Hebrews 4:14)

Identity & Destiny 1Peter 2:9-10 (NIVUK) “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy” “But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ” “But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philippians 3:20)

Identity & Destiny 1Peter 2:9-10 (NIVUK) “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy”

Identity & Destiny 1Peter 2:9-10 (NIVUK) “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy”

Identity & Destiny 1Peter 2:9-10 (NIVUK) “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy”

Our value What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died— more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died— more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? Romans 8:31-35 (NIV)

Identity and Destiny And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. Romans 8:30 (NIV) After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun. The Message

Equipped to Serve God’s destiny for your life will be consistent with the way He has wired you

Equipped to Serve “In (Christ) we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory” Ephesians 1:11-12 UK (NIVUK) “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” Ephesians 2:10 (NIVUK)

Challenge “What do you want me to do?” Acts 22:10 (NIVUK) “Act justly; love mercy; walk humbly with God” Micah 6:8 Destiny isn’t about what happens when we die or Jesus returns – destiny is about fulfilling His purposes here on earth