The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

their calling according to His divine appointments. In the most concrete and yet easily overlooked context, purpose relates to that which God needs from a creature He made. It involves the limitations, or deficits, the Lord saw in His handiwork that a being was made to supply. That purpose the Lord felt would keep his creation together and united with Himself. To God, purpose answered a need He personally and directly experienced during His creative process for which He made a living being to fulfill. Those wants translated to the causes He put on lives. The Creator, in His personal expectations, compels the vessels prepared for His purposes to answer His need by triggering their inner impulses. He sees to it that the drive to fulfill their inner urges moves people to commit to carrying out unwittingly what He wanted all along. The only way humans can enjoy their creature inheritance is by His design. For Christians, voluntary commitment is required for their appropriation of their Redeemer’s portion of the New Creation covenant due them. It is by these actions that their human purpose is fulfilled, and their destiny is not aborted. Purpose in God’s mind entails the earthly life’s work that benefits people by yielding for them their individual economies from the invisible spheres of creation. Also, according to Creator God, purpose demands people properly use their natural and supernatural resources, unique talents, and abilities to His end. See Ephesians 3:11. Purpose, for these reasons, is living and conducting one’s life consistent with divine intents, calling, and design. See Acts 1:11 and 27:13; Romans 8:28; Ephesians 3:11. See also 2 Timothy 1:9 and 3:10. In the Old Testament, the Lord required the priests to keep fresh baked, unleavened bread on the table before Him always. The bread signified His presence and provision of themselves to His use and His work. Requiring them to set that bread of life before Him was God’s way of seeing that they were always cognizant of, and in, their service which was to be exclusively to Him. As God provided the pure bread of heaven to those who served in His temple, they were to see themselves symbolically as beings created to provide for those who came to Him through their ministries. The constant presence of the bread on the altar was to help them remember that they were to remain fresh, relevant, and undefiled in their service. When the bread’s service was over, a seven-day period, it was laid before the Lord on His table, and the priests ate it accompanied with prayer, a type of incense to demonstrate its usefulness to God and its supply of nourishment to His ministers. The incense over the bread