There is a divine design over your life. The divine designer behind it is God. He wanted you, so he designed you. He used generations before you to perfectly align to bring the world YOU. Now, here you are in your lifetime. My friend, what are you doing with this one opportunity at life?

It’s so wild to think about how incredibly short our lifetime really is in relation to creation. We are truly here but a moment, then our life is over and the world continues on without our existence here. But while we are here, our existence is for a purpose. We’re not here by chance, we’re here by CHOICE, and that choice was God’s. You continue to be here by choice. Every day of your life is a choice for God to continue to sustain you with his breath.

His desire is that you not waste what you have been given. Live this one life you have been given in a way that it matters.

Think about this – someone’s future flows from you. Someone’s life depends on your life. You’re being used to impact eternity. It’s easy to dismiss ourselves as too ordinary for that kind of impact, but I assure you, God uses ordinary people for extraordinary purposes.

Isn’t it true for you? You’re here today because of someone else. God used someone in the past for your today. Someone grew you in their womb. Someone fed you when you couldn’t feed yourself. Someone may have spoken a word that forever changed you. Someone may have shown you Jesus for the first time and changed your eternity. Weren’t they ordinary people? Your mom was quite ordinary, maybe even quite flawed. That teacher was quite ordinary. Maybe it was even an ordinary stranger, but what they did made a difference in your life.

Now, you get to do that for someone else. You get to be that mom, or that teacher, or that friend, or that stranger. Do something that matters!

Noah and his wife had 3 sons and their wives on the ark. After the flood, they were the only humans alive. And from them, God would repopulate the Earth. Noah’s sons were Shem, Ham and Japheth. And from one of them came … YOU.

Without one of them, we don’t have you. Your exact DNA required either Shem, Ham or Japheth – the sons of Noah. And remember this, Noah was just an ordinary man but he lived DIFFERENT. He wasn’t said to be the best looking, the strongest or the smartest, he was just said to be different and God liked what he saw in Noah. And THAT is who you come from! You come from someone who was willing to be different. Someone who was radically obedient to God. Someone God used to change everything. That is your lineage! That’s where you come from.

One life led to your life, by design.

When Noah and his family left the ark, God did something very specific. Genesis 9:1, “Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.'” Guess what – that involved YOU. God knew you would come from 1 of Noah’s 3 sons. Your life would depend on them. And their life was blessed by God personally.

My sister, you flow from blessings. You were designed by fruitfulness. Countless miraculous things have had to happen over all these generations just to ensure your life is here today. And here you are, not understanding the full impact of your lifetime. You’re failing to understand that someone’s future flows from you. Someone’s life now depends on your life. God wants to use YOU to impact eternity.

I remember the very first person I ever heard pray for me. He was an ordinary man named Bill. He was the father of my middle school best friend Sarah. While at Sarah’s house, she and I got into one of those 13 year old girl arguments. Who knows what we were upset about – but looking back I’m sure I was at fault – I was far wilder and brattier than she was. Sarah’s dad sat us both down in the family room and talked to us. I don’t remember what he said, but I remember he said it out of love. He didn’t condemn either of us. He didn’t shame us. He lovingly talked to us. Then, he prayed for us.

Right there, in that living room, I heard the very first person pray out loud for me. He spoke my name to God. And quite honestly, it planted a seed in me that never stopped growing. I’ve never told him thank you. He’s probably never thought of me again since then and doesn’t even remember that day. But that man, Bill Henry, made a forever difference in my life. He was different and he did something different for me.

One life that impacted my life. Now it’s my turn – who’s life will I impact?

This is how God works. He uses one life to create the next life. One life to impact the next life. One life to save the next life. And my friend, if you don’t show up in the fullness of who you were created to be and walk out the life you have been given, there will be more than one life that suffers because of it. Your life will suffer if you don’t live it fully – yes – but others will too. Someone else needs your life.

Noah and his 3 sons were blessed by God and told to be fruitful and multiply – YOU ARE THAT FRUIT! Now, that blessing is on you. Be fruitful.

To be fruitful means to produce good results. It means to be productive. It means to grow fruit abundantly. That means make a difference, feed someone, love someone, pray for someone, build something good, continue something good, invest in something good. Use this one life you have been given to live in a way that matters.

Fruitfulness looks like Bill, a simple man who worked in a factory in the small town of Ava, MO, who prayed for a 13 year old girl who was in an argument with his daughter and it forever impacted her life. That life was me.

Fruitfulness looks like YOU – you doing something, anything, for someone else with the love of Jesus. Your one life can lead to another life, all by the design of God. Lean into that. Lord, make me fruitful! I want to do good things. I want to be productive. I want to grow fruit in abundance. I really want to be different for you.

Someone’s future flows from you. Someone’s life depends on your life. You’re being used to impact eternity. You’re not too ordinary for that kind of impact. God uses ordinary people for extraordinary purposes. Extraordinary fruit grows on very ordinary looking trees.

And one death lead to your salvation, by design. Jesus gave his life so that beyond this life you’re currently living, you could have so much more. You could have an eternity in paradise in the presence of God. You can sit at that table. Do you know the table is set and there’s a seat just for you?

I’ll be at that table. Bill will be at that table. Jesus will be at that table. And we all want YOU at that table. Jesus made a seat at that table possible for you.

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