Released From Self-centeredness to Do God's Will and Walk into Your Destiny

March 8th, 2026
by Terence Smith

How to Connect with Your Creator and Discover His Will for Your Life

God told the prophet Jeremiah:
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you. I have appointed you…

This applies to you. God planned you and knew you ages before he formed you in your mother’s womb. He made you unique from all others, and He longed to have you as his own intimate, obedient child. While you were yet in the womb he consecrated you and appointed you to a specific destiny.

The apostle Paul said this:
He who had set me apart, even from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me…

Then, at the end of his life, Paul wrote:
The time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course…

God broke into Paul’s life when he was a young man. Christ was intimately revealed to him, and by faith he began to radically follow him. At the end of his life he could say, I have finished the course!

Until Christ became real to him, Paul had no idea of the destiny he was called to while yet in his mother’s womb.

Up to that point, he was missing, really missing, the purpose for which he was born. But he encountered and followed Christ – he plugged in and walked into his destiny. It can happen to you.

Examine Yourself

If you are simply living a natural life and doing things that you are able to do through your own power without God, you are not plugged into Christ and his will for you. God longs for you to consistently experience and give away to others his supernatural love and power. Listen to what he says in his word:

Know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God…He is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or imagine, according to the power that works within us. (Ephesians 3:19,20)

If you are daily living a lifestyle that is according to your own plans, and you are not experiencing a life that is stretched out beyond your own ability and imagination, you are missing the purpose for which you were created.

How can you plug in and walk into your destiny?

1. Make a total, irrevocable decision to follow Christ. You must choose whether you want his will or yours. Even though he loves you and died for you, he will not force his will upon you.

If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it. But whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s shall save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his own soul? For what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Jesus, Mark 8:34-37)

The eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that he may strongly support those whose heart is completely his.

(2 Chronicles 16:9)

2. Seek him. You cannot follow Jesus by accident. You must make time to get alone with God. Get into the Bible and he will speak through it to you. Learn to obey him instantly. Learn to quickly repent, confess sin and receive his forgiveness.

When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, O Lord, I shall seek.” (Psalm 27:8)

Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. (Jesus, Matthew 7:7)

3. Find others who follow Jesus and live in supernatural love and power. Whoever you associate with is what you choose. What you choose is what you become. Find those who already have what you want, develop relationships with them and learn all that you can from them. No one can follow Jesus as a lone ranger.

He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. (Proverbs 13:20)

4. Do something now. Ask God to help you change the course of your life. Turn your face towards him now. He will answer your sincere cry. The Father loves you - he will pour out his love on you and heal your mind, your emotions and your body. Right now, you can pray:

Father, You knew me before You created me. You longed for me and called me from my mother’s womb to follow You. Divine destiny awaits me. I choose to find and do Your will for my life. Change me. You know my weaknesses and my sins – forgive me and fill me with Your Spirit. I do not want compromise; I do not want to be cold or lukewarm towards You. Put me on fire! Jesus, I will follow you.