“But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I Have Appeared Unto Thee For This Purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;” [Acts 26:16]
“This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?” [Isaiah 14:26-27]
“In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” [Ephesians 1:11]
“When God speaks to a man, he has faith, and he has ambition, and he has a purpose. When God speaks to a man, He gives him a purpose. When God speaks to a man, He gives him ambition. When God speaks to a man, He gives him faith to do it, to accomplish, or achieve what his purpose in life is, what God called him to do. He's called us to be in the church of God. Amen.” [60-0729 What It Takes To Overcome All Unbelief Our Faith, Yakima WA]
“Whether we are young or old, we do not know when God's purpose will be fulfilled and finished. God takes little babies sometimes to show that He can guide their little soul. Everything He does is for a purpose. He said, not even a sparrow can fall from the heaven without Him knowing it. Everything goes for His purpose just at the hour and at the time. It's all in His Divine plan. Nothing can destroy.” [58-0406S I Know My Redeemer Liveth, Jeffersonville IN]
“All powers of hell might wager against it, but it will prevail. We have God's eternal promise. There may be teachers; there may be isms rise; there may be great programs rise; there may be things that look like that it would be destroyed; but it can never be destroyed. It is the purpose of God to see that it will prevail. Then it's not up to me, and it's not up to you whether it will be destroyed or not. It's up to God. And we can rest assured on it, that God will never let our heritage be destroyed; for it's His purpose to give it to us.” [58-0406S I Know My Redeemer Liveth, Jeffersonville IN]
“Now, then, all could rest, because all of God's good Word seeds, that He had spoke, had brought forth of its kind. The earth come over, there was light. There was sunshine when He let the sun shine. Now why did He make the sun shine? He had in His mind, see, that, if the sun don't shine, the flower won't grow, that He speak into existence. He makes everything to meet its purpose, whatever it is. Like a tree, it bears a certain acorn, or it bears an apple. He makes the fruit of the garden, and so forth. It's all for His purpose. And everything had come to pass, and He had spoke it. Now the only thing He had to do, after spoken it, He... speaking it, rather. He could go to rest, because He had spoke it, and it was all has to come to pass because He had spoke it. I don't know how much it had to go through before it come to pass, how many rejects and whatever more. But it had to come to pass, because He said it would come to pass. He had spoke it. The same thing it is about having a Church here in the last days. He is going to have a Bride. "He is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham." If we don't follow Him, He'll get somebody else that will follow Him. See? He is going to have It, because He has already spoke it. Whatever He says, it has to be that way. It cannot change. It must come forth that way, because He said it would.” [65-1031M Power Of Transformation, Prescott AZ
“If you got Eternal Life, there is only one form, that's God, and you are an expressed attribute. See? If you... If you're not, you're not going to be there, anyhow. "No man can come to Me except My Father has drawed him." See? Which, "passes away," all these old things; but these Things don't, so it speaks of Eternity. The Holy Ghost is Eternal. Then, you are in Eternity, where you was all the time, but you've just recognized what happened. See, you were made for an Eternal purpose, because you was the--the manifestation of an attribute that was in God, that thought of you and expressed you; and He made a earth to take you out of, and to make you a human being. And sin come along and perverted His way. You come, anyhow, but you was lost with the world. So He come and redeemed you, the expressed attribute, and also redeems this earth by the same way. Then, His purpose rolls on. See? Oh! Hallelujah! Oh, that does me so much good, think of just what lays ahead!” [64-080 The Future Home Of The Heavenly Bridegroom And The Earthly Bride, Jeffersonville IN]
“The Holy Ghost will always point to the Word. If It points to a creed or denomination, it is not the Holy Ghost. He couldn't do that, Point Away From His Word, When He Died To Confirm That Word And Make That Word A Positive. Amen. He Died So He Could Come, Himself, into that Word. He is the quickening Life that makes that Word live again. That was His purpose of dying, that He could still project Himself through His Church, and make every Word, through every age, act just exactly the way It's supposed to act.” [63-1201M An Absolute, Shreveport LA]
“Then we find that in the day that all of the world was going to be destroyed by a flood that God made a preparation. A preparation for what cause? To preserve His purpose. He did it in the days of Noah, and He's doing it today. He has made a preparation to conserve to His own purpose. He will conserve a church. He will conserve a people. He will conserve subjects for His great domain that death cannot destroy. And we realize that it is by faith that we believe this. But the resurrection produces a solid foundation on which our faith rests. Nothing can destroy it. As a poet once wrote, Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine, Heir of salvation purchase of God, Borned of His spirit, washed in His blood. What an assurance upon this solid rock, the resurrection of our blessed Lover, the Lord Jesus. Nothing can destroy it. It has been planted. It is the seed of God. It is a purpose of God to give us the blessed Holy Spirit. It is a purpose of God to show us signs, and wonders, and miracles. It's a purpose of God and nothing can destroy it.” [58-0406S I Know My Redeemer Liveth, Jeffersonville IN
“Here's what it teaches us: that God can use every faculty of our being if it's committ-... surrendered to Him. He can use our mind, our dreams, our subconscience, our first conscience, our tongue, our songs, our eyes, our... Everything that we have can be used of God if it's committed to God. See? Everything that you are, commit it to God. He'll use every outlet and every part of you, He'll use it. No matter what it is, He'll use it if it's sanctified to His purpose and calling.” [63-1222 God's Gifts Always Find Their Places, Jeffersonville IN]
“We commit ourselves to You. We are Yours. Do with us, Lord, as You see fit. We commit ourselves this morning in this synagogue into Your hands, Lord. And may your great purpose be achieved in our lives as we give ourselves wholly to You, not as Samson. Samson gave his strength, but he never give his heart. God, may our heart, our strength, our all, our all be given to You. Make it mighty, Lord. Multiply it for the Kingdom of God's sake. We ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.” [62-0621B The Path Of Life, South Gate CA]
Our Bible Study Subject for March 2016: I Have Appeared Unto Thee For This Purpose
Bro. Robert Wilson