PRINCIPLES OF PURPOSE

Genesis chapter 1







Today we are walking in: The Principles of Purpose!!!







Today we look to the word-PURPOSE- H6213 ’asah--to do, work, make, produce; to act, act with effect, effect








The Torah testifies...............

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The prophets proclaim..................






Isaiah 14:26

This is the purpose H6213 that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.









The writings bear witness...........................






Ecclesiates 3:1

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose H6213 under the heaven:







Seven Principles of Purpose




Yah’s Purpose Is the Key to Our Fulfillment.




Yah desires that every man find his purpose and fulfill it. If a man wants to know who he is in order to live fully in that reality, he must first understand Yah‘s principles of purpose. He has to learn these anchors for living from the Word of Yah. Otherwise, he will fall into a trap of confusion where many of us are right now.




Proverbs 19:21 is a foundational Scripture in regard to understanding Yah‘s purpose: “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is The Most High’s purpose that prevails.” This crucial truth tells us that we can make all the plans we want to in life, but if we don‘t make our plans according to the purposes for which Yah created us, then our plans will be in vain. We won‘t live up to our full potential, and we will be unfulfilled. We may even pursue goals and engage in practices that are harmful for us. We have only one life, and we have to make that life count if we are ever to fulfill our purpose.




How Are You Using Your Life?




What value do you place on your life? Do you know that one of the most dangerous things in life is wasting time? It is said that time is a commodity that you never are able to recapture. Once you‘ve lost time, it‘s gone forever. What you‘ve lived, you can never relive. So the best thing to do with time is to use it in a way that will bring the greatest results. The best way, the only way, to use time effectively is to do what you are supposed to do when you are supposed to do it. Effectiveness does not mean just doing good things, but rather doing the right thing.




Good versus Best




It would be terrible to be busy doing the wrong things your entire life. Wouldn‘t it be sad to be serious and committed and faithful to the wrong thing? It‘s possible to do what is good but not what is right. What I mean is this: it is possible to do good things but not the things that are best based on Yah‘s purposes for you. One of HaSatan‘s greatest weapons against my life is to get me busy doing things that are good but that are not right and best for me.




Yah created each of us with a purpose. That purpose is what‘s right for us. Suppose Yahusha had become a priest in the Sanhedrin, the highest council and tribunal of the Jews.




That would have been a good thing. Suppose He had become a member of the Sadducees and been one of the leaders in the social structure of Galilee and Judea. That would have been a good thing. Suppose He had become a social worker, helping the poor, having massive crusades, feeding multitudes of people every day with bread and fish. Would that have been a good thing? Sure. Suppose He had devoted every hour to healing the sick and raising the dead. That would have been a good thing, wouldn‘t it? Yet it would not have been the right thing for Him.




There was a time when Yahusha began to tell His disciples that He would be crucified. They didn‘t want to hear that. “Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Most High!‟ he said. “This shall never happen to you!” (Matt. 16:22). The disciples‘ reaction to Yahusha‘ purpose was, We rebuke You. Get that thought out of Your mind. You will not die. But Yahusha turned around and rebuked them for their shortsighted perspective. “Yahusha turned and said to Peter, Get behind me, HaSatan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of Yah, but the things of men” (v. 23). Yahusha was saying, in effect, I know why I was born. I know the purpose for My life. Don‘t distract Me with things that are merely good. I must pursue the highest purpose.




One of the reasons Yahusha knew His purpose was that He was continually seeking Yah and in constant communication with Him. That is the pattern each of us needs to follow. Why? It‘s dangerous to live without Yah. If you don‘t know Yah, you‘ll never know your reason for existence. And if you don‘t know why you were born, you could live a completely wrong life. I didn‘t say a bad life. There are many good people who are pursuing relationships, careers, and goals in life that are not best for them. What we have to concern ourselves with is living effectively. The only way to live a fulfilled life is to know why you were born.




Fulfilling Your Purpose




Have you ever had a new car break down on you right in the middle of traffic? You got out and kicked one of the tires. You just wanted to curse at it because the car wasn‘t fulfilling its purpose. It was brand-new. It looked sleek. It had a nice paint job. But you couldn‘t drive it. What made you angry at the car?




It‘s simple: the car‘s purpose was to transport you, to make you mobile; but the car was not taking you anywhere. No matter how great the car looked, it wasn‘t right; it wasn‘t fulfilling its purpose.




Many men are like that car. They‘re stopped in the middle of traffic, and they don‘t even realize it. They‘re spending their lives doing things that look good, but they don‘t know Yah or they know much too little about Him and His ways.




We have to realize that good deeds are not a substitute for rightness. Knowing and fulfilling your purpose is the only way to do what is right. Remember our foundational verse: “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is The Most High’s purpose that prevails” (Prov. 19:21). One of the reasons why this verse is so important is that many people are planning to use charitable work as their ticket into heaven. It‘s very dangerous to attempt to bribe Yah. Yah is not impressed with all the good things we do. He‘s waiting for us to do what He‘s asked us to do in the first place.




Discovering our purpose enables us to stop wasting our lives and start fulfilling our potential. However, then we must be careful not to become sidetracked along the way. The greatest way to destroy someone is to distract the person from his or her true purpose. Sometimes people will do this unintentionally, as we saw from the example of Peter and Yahusha. However, whether people try to distract us out of the best or worst of intentions, we must learn to remain steadfast in the purpose for which we were created.




Remaining Constant in Your Purpose




Nehemiah fulfilled an important purpose in life, but he might have been persuaded to be sidetracked. He was in exile serving as cupbearer to the king of Persia when he heard that the city of Jerusalem was still in a broken-down condition. He was distressed over this news and determined, I‘ve got to repair the city. So he prayed, and then he obtained permission from the king to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem. Yah‘s favor was on his plans because this was the purpose for which he was created. He went and started to rebuild the wall with the help of the remnant of Hebrews in Jerusalem.




However, some men from the surrounding area didn‘t like what Nehemiah was doing, and they tried to stop him. They ridiculed and slandered him, but he kept on with the work. They conspired to kill him, but he armed some of the workers with weapons and thwarted the plot. They tried to fill him with fear and make him flee for his life. One of the last things they tried is usually the most effective means of sidetracking people. They said, Come, let‘s have a meeting; let‘s discuss what you‘re doing. Maybe we can help you. (See Nehemiah 1–6.)




Again, the best way to prevent a man from accomplishing something is to get him to do a good thing, like have a meeting, instead of what he should be doing. Yet Nehemiah wasn‘t fooled. He told them, “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?” (Neh. 6:3).




Reinforce Your Purpose




I can‘t emphasize strongly enough that knowing your purpose is crucial for your life‘s course. Every young person comes to a time when he or she leaves childhood and enters adulthood. That period is called adolescence. This is the time in which young people are trying to discover who they are and why they are.




This is also often the time when we lose them or gain them, lose them to a destructive lifestyle and a wasted life or gain them for a positive, fulfilling future.




Purpose, therefore, is key to a young person‘s effectiveness and happiness in life.




Did Yahusha have an adolescent problem? The answer is, very simply, no. Why? His purpose was reinforced from birth. His earthly mother and father were told why He was born. Somehow I believe that Yah would love for all parents to know Him so well that they would have an idea of the life purpose of their children.




The messenger of The Most High said to Joseph, “You are to give him the name Yahusha, because he will save his people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21). Joseph shared this message with Mary. When Yahusha was born, Mary could talk to Him about His purpose. Even though, at the time, she didn‘t fully understand the implications of His name, she could tell Him, You‘re going to be a Savior.




The Hebrew meaning of the name Yahusha is The Most High is salvation. In essence, Yahusha‘ name means Savior. When He was a boy, His friends would say to Him, Savior, come out and play with us. His parents would say to Him, Savior, come in for supper. When people heard Him coming, they‘d say, Is that you, Yahusha? How are you doing today, Savior? All His life, He heard that name. Yet it was not just a name; it was a reason for being, and He grew up with that purpose in His mind.




When Yahusha was twelve years old, He went to Jerusalem with His parents to celebrate the Feast of the Passover. When the Feast was over, His parents started for home, thinking that Yahusha was among the large group of relatives and friends traveling with them. When they didn‘t find Him, they went back to Jerusalem and finally found Him in the temple courts. They said, Why did you leave us, Son? Why did you do this to us? (See Luke 2:48.) His answer was very powerful. At twelve years of age, He was able to say to His parents, “I must be about My Father‟s business” (v. 49 NKJV).




How old are you?




Are you still questioning what you are about?




Are you still wondering what kind of business your Father is in and which part you are to play in the company?




Are you still ―changing your major in life every three years?




Do you find you can‘t graduate from Yah‘s preparatory school into Yah‘s work world?




Are you fifty years old and still looking for a job transfer?




I know it‘s not easy to take a hard look at yourself, but it‘s necessary if you‘re going to discover your true purpose in life.




You will be busy doing meaningful work when you learn why you are here. At twelve years of age, Yahusha was busy with His purpose. Isn‘t that an exciting way to live? Don‘t give up on having a purposeful life, no matter what your age is. Get busy with the right thing.




Principles for Finding Your Purpose




How do you discover what‘s right? Yah has given us seven principles of purpose so that we can live successful, fulfilled lives. Write them on a sheet of paper and put them on your mirror so you can look at them every morning when you‘re getting ready for work. Use them as a bookmark in your Bible to remind yourself of them when you‘re praying and reading the Word. When you understand these principles, you‘ll be able to learn and live in your purpose:




1. Yah is a Yah of purpose.




2. Yah created everything with a purpose.




3. Not every purpose is known to us because we have lost our understanding of Yah‘s original intent for us.




4. Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.




5. To discover the purpose of something, never ask the creation; ask the creator.




6. We find our purpose only in the mind of our Maker.




7. Yah‘s purpose is the key to our fulfillment.