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Our Book Of Destiny
Robert
Henderson
For anyone who has followed the
teaching on the Courts of Heaven, you will recognize the importance of “Books
of Destiny” in the Courts.
There are actual books/scrolls
in heaven that declare our purpose for existence on the earth.
Psalms 139:16 reveals David’s
understanding of this.
“Your
eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were
written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of
them.”
David
is declaring that there is a book in heaven that speaks not only of his makeup
but also of his destiny and purpose in life.
This
is quite an interesting scripture. Before a book existed, God saw our substance.
Our
books had their beginning through God seeing something
before it existed that was yet unformed.
Our
destiny and purpose began through the prophetic nature of God as a seer.
God
saw us functioning in the earth realm before it was naturally there. He then
wrote in a book two things connected to our function.
He
first wrote my substance. I believe this has to do with our DNA — what makes us
unique and who we are as individuals.
It
has to do with our desires and what we gravitate to. It has to do with our
gifts and abilities. It has to do with what we are good at and what we are not
good at.
All
these things coincide with the destiny and purpose we were made for. So one of
the best ways to discern what is in your book is to look at your desires.
Also,
you should look at the gifts and abilities you have. They will be clues to what
you were made for. These things are different for each individual.
God
saw these gifts and put them down in a book that then predestined us.
Some
people get all crazy about predestination. It simply means God has a
thought-out plan for our life.
We
do not have to agree with that plan. Yet we are the most satisfied when our
might and efforts line up with His plan for us.
Ephesians
1:11 tells us we have an inheritance connected to our predestined state.
“In Him
also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the
purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will.”
What is written in our books is
according to His purpose. This means that God cannot get His purpose done on
earth without His people reaching their destinies.
This is the reason why the
devil fights against us, so he might apprehend our destinies.
We also see Ephesians 2:10
telling us about God’s thought-out plan.
“For we
are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk in them.”
Notice there are things we are
to walk in that were prepared beforehand. This refers to our book/scroll of
destiny in heaven.
When we are called His
workmanship, this is the Greek term “poiema,” and it means something that is
made. It also can refer to a work of art.
The Greek word itself is the
word from which we get poem in
our English language.
God works in us to fashion our
desires to reflect what is written in our books/scrolls.
A poem has to be read in rhythm
to get the full effect.
When we step into our destiny,
we will discover a rhythm of the Spirit we sync into.
Matthew 11:28–30 (from the
Message translation) makes some significant statements about discovering this
rhythm.
“Are
you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and
you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me
and work with me — watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I
won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll
learn to live freely and lightly.
Discovering the unforced
rhythms of grace awakens us to being His workmanship. We begin to realize how
we were made and what we were made for.
The strife and frustration of
life can cease. We begin to get into the rhythm of our destiny.
I remember several years ago of
prophesying that God wanted to “take us out of the grind of life and put us
into the groove.”
What I understood was that so
many live in a striving posture. They are just “grinding” it out.
God, however, wants us to live
in His “groove” or niche. He desires us to be in a place where life is easy and
our burden is light.
Even as I write this, I can
sense the longing of the Lord to bring us into this place we were made for and
He saw for us before time began.
The second thing written in our
book of destiny is the span of our life and what we are to accomplish.
We are told the days were fashioned for us before
there was any of them.
Again as I stated earlier, I
think it’s interesting that it doesn’t say weeks, months, or years. It
says days,
or the details and specifics of our lives.
God is not just in charge of
the big picture, but is also helping us in our daily lives to fulfill what is
written in our books.
Every day we should surrender
our lives to His purposes. There may be a day that shifts us into a part of our
destiny that if missed, can be catastrophic.
I believe this is why the
Psalmist in Psalms 118:22–24 spoke of the day the Lord had made.
“The
stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief
cornerstone. This was the Lord’s doing; It is marvelous in our
eyes. This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad
in it.”
The day when Jesus, the
rejected One, was declared and set as the chief cornerstone was the day the Lord had made.
In other words, it was an
appointed time for this to happen. That day changed the future of the earth and
all its inhabitants.
God also has days He has made
for you. These days are strategic times when you shift into all that was
written in your book.
These days cannot be missed.
They are the “kairos” moments of God.
Luke 19:43–44 shows Jesus
telling the nation of Israel what was going to happen because they missed this
“kairos” time.
“For
days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you,
surround you and close you in on every side, and level
you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in
you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
The word “time” is the
Greek word “kairos,” and it means an occasion, a set or proper time.
We normally think of a “kairos”
moment as a time that God has ordained. In this time, you experience
breakthrough or the future you were meant for.
The nation of Israel, by not
recognizing Jesus as Messiah, missed their time of visitation. The result was a
future God never intended for them.
Because they did not believe
the revelation of who Jesus is, they lost what God intended for them. Jesus
wept over them because of this.
We, too, can miss that for
which we were made and what is written in our books if we don’t embrace the day
that was fashioned for us before time began.
May we be sensitive to the Holy
Spirit so we never fall into this trap.
Also the days being fashioned for us speaks
of the length of our time on the earth. It also speaks of the purpose and
destiny connected to those days.
God has ordained the length of
our life so we can fulfill all that is written in our book. It is our job to
discover what is in our book and to fulfill it.
I believe we will be judged,
when we stand before the Lord, by how much of our book we fulfilled.
The Bible teaches that we will
each stand before the judgment seat of Christ and give an account of our lives (2
Corinthians 5:10).
This judgment will be based not
on whether we did good things but on whether we did the “God” thing for our
lives.
Did we fulfill what was
assigned to us in our book?
1 Corinthians 3:11–15 speaks of
the day of judgment.
“For no
other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus
Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with
gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each
one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be
revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it
is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he
will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he
will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.”
We must make sure that our
works are gold, silver, and precious stone so they are preserved in the fire of
His judgment.
Wood, hay, and straw are not
necessarily “evil” works. They can be good things but were not what is written
in our book.
The Lord will reward only what
was written in our book. May we discover all that is in our book and begin to
live it out with a passion.
I want my life to count for the
kingdom of God and to be a part of seeing His purpose fulfilled on the earth.
Daniel 7:10 shows us the
connection between the Books of Destiny in heaven and the Courts of Heaven.
“A
fiery stream issued And came forth from before Him. A thousand
thousands ministered to Him; Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before
Him. The court was seated, And the books were opened.”
Notice that the Court was
seated and the books were open. The reason for this is twofold.
First, the cases that are going
to be presented are going to come from the books.
Second, it will take the
courtroom’s operation to get what is in the books released fully on the earth.
This is because Satan uses legal things to stop us from getting all that is
meant for us.
We must know how to present our
case in the Courts from the Books of Destiny in heaven. We must learn how to
fight for what we were made for in the Courts!
This occurred with Peter in the
scriptures. In Luke 22:31–32, we see the devil’s strategies to stop Peter’s
influence.
“And
the Lord said, ‘Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift
you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith
should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.’
The word “asked” is the
Greek word “exaiteomai,” and it means to demand for trial.
Satan had an understanding of
the purpose of God written in Peter’s book. He knew if this weren’t disrupted,
Peter would impact the world with the powers of the kingdom of God.
His strategy to hinder this was
to take Peter to trial. Satan demanded a date in the Courts to accuse Peter and
bring the case he had against Peter.
He was seeking a legal right to
devour Peter and what was written in his book. We know that Jesus stood on
behalf of Peter and secured the destiny heaven had prescribed for Peter.
Lest we dismiss our
responsibility to do the same for others and ourselves, we should realize Jesus
did this as man and not as God.
When Jesus walked the earth, He
never did anything as God but only as a man filled with God.
Philippians 2:5–8 tells us that
Jesus did not touch His divine abilities while living on the earth even though
he was God. He lived totally as a man.
“Let
this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being
in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made
Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the
likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and
became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”
Jesus had to live fully as a
man to redeem us. A man, Adam, had lost creation, and a man, Jesus, had to win
it back.
If Jesus ever touched His
Godhood during His time on the earth, His right to be the Savior would have
been forfeited.
So again, He never did anything
as God, but relegated Himself to function as a human, as we must.
He lived totally as a man
filled with God through the Holy Spirit. So when He prayed for Peter in the
Courts of Heaven, He did this as a man.
This means we, too, as human
beings have access to the Courts to perceive what is in our books of destiny
and to secure that destiny as well.
Here is a prayer we can pray to
begin to apprehend that which was foreordained for us before time began.
Lord, as I come to stand before
Your Courts, I thank You that I have a book in heaven. Thank You so much that
You thought of me before time began and wrote my destiny and purpose in a book
in heaven. As I stand before You, I declare in Your Courts, “I want all that is
in my book. I want to fulfill my destiny that is connected to Your purposes on
the earth.” Lord, that which you saw concerning me before time began, I ask
that this might be “my life.” I choose that which you have chosen for me.
As I stand before Your Courts,
Lord, I lay down my life. As best I can, through the power of Your Spirit
according to Romans 12:1, I present myself as a living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable to you. I ask also that according to Ephesians 4:1, I might have a
walk worthy of the calling that was determined for me, written in the book in
heaven.”
I also ask, Lord, that any case
or accusation the devil would have against me before Your Courts would be
silenced by the blood of Jesus. Lord, I thank You that Your blood speaks for
me, and I agree with its testimony according to Hebrews 12:24. Lord, I thank
You that Your blood grants God the legal right to forgive me, remember me, and
redeem me to the purpose that is in my book. Just as Peter’s destiny and
purpose was secured from the Courts of Heaven, so, Lord, I thank You that my
destiny is secured as well. Lord, I declare before Your Courts that I am Your
servant, so please use me. I ask that my life might count for the kingdom of
God as it is recorded in the books of destiny in heaven.
Lord, I also ask that according
to Ephesians 2:10, I might walk and live as Your workmanship. I realize, Lord,
that Your grace makes me Your work of art and a display of Your splendor and
glory. I ask before Your Courts that I would live in the rhythms of Your grace.
I ask, Lord, that You would take me “out of the grind of life, and put me into
Your groove.” Lord, would You now bring about my empowerment through Your
Spirit that from Your strength, I could fulfill all that is written in the
books of destiny for me. Lord, I desire with great passion to fulfill Your
will. Please accept my request before You and let all that would resist my
petition be revoked. Thank You, Lord, so much for loving me. I look forward
with expectation to fulfilling all that is in my book in heaven. In Jesus’s
name, Amen!
Robert
Henderson is considered the Leading
Authority on the Courts of Heaven. With a passion to see the Lord's Kingdom
come to earth in a tangible way, Robert Henderson is a man of undistracted
devotion. Considered the authority on the Courts of Heaven teaching, Robert
Henderson has been given an apostolic teaching gift, demonstrations of signs
and wonders, and a governmental authority that flows from the Throne of God.
His teaching ministry through preaching and writing has gone around the world
and impacted many believers. He has been married to his high school sweetheart,
Mary for over 34 years. They have six children and four grandchildren. Together
they are enjoying life in beautiful Midlothian, TX.
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