(1) Knowing Gods plan for your life as a believer is not automatic. A believer has to seek God’s face and God’s plan for his life (Jeremiah 29:13, Matthew 7:7-9). You will know God’s plan for your life inside of you. It will be part of your thoughts and your emotions. It will be something that you want to do. Even if it is revealed through visions and dreams or prophecy, but it will be inside a believer. And s/he will be delighted to do it as long as s/he walks with God in spirit. S/He might find difficulty in fulfilling it when he walks by the flesh for the flesh can’t humble itself before the Lord.
(2) God’s plan for a believer is not revealed all at once. But it is revealed in parts. God reveals just a portion of it and then reveals other portions as a believer grows spiritually and stays faithful to the little that s/he knows.
(3) Finding God’s plan for a believer is easier then fulfilling it. God can reveal to a person what He wants with his/her life but doing it is not easy. It takes hearing God daily and doing as He directs. In other words, it takes following God’s spoken word (rhema) on a regular basis.
It takes doing things in Gods time and way, and for a believer to know God’s time and way, s/he has to hear Him, and hearing Him takes spending time with Him regularly. In other words, it takes a life of devotion (read the teaching of the life of devotion).
HOW DO YOU FULFILL GOD’S PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE? Jesus Christ is our perfect example of a person who fulfilled His calling fully.
(1) You must have a constant life of devotion (which is a prayer life, the word and fasting).
(2) You have to have knowledge of the word and God’s ways, and do things by His leading, which is the movement of God’s kingdom regardless of whether you are a king or a priest example: live by sowing and reaping in all things.
(3) You must live by faith. Fulfilling God’s plan takes faith and doing all that God reveals to you to do by faith.
(4) You must be bold. It takes boldness to walk successfully with God and to fulfill all His commands (Joshua 1:8-9).
(5) You must walk with the knowledge of the Holy Spirit, not by sight or situations or be driven by comparing yourself to others (John 5:19).
(6) You must live by love and other fruit of the spirit (Galatians 5:22). All that Jesus Christ did, He did because He was driven by His love for God and people. God always prospers a believer who walks in love (John 13:34-36).
(7) You must walk in God’s wisdom. God’s wisdom includes doing things in His time and His way, fearing and humbling yourself to God (Proverbs 1:7)
(8) Always be humble to God and everyone (James 4:6).
(9) Always take huge actions of faith, which are greater than those you took before. Challenge your faith by doing things you have never done before.
(10) Focus on the ministry (responsibility) that God gave you, and don’t compare yourself in any way.
(11) Be stable and faithful to the ministry that God called you to regardless of how small you think it is. Be faithful with little. You will not be trusted with much if you are not faithful with the little entrusted to you.
(12) Always seek the best for others. Everything you do for others God will do for you. If you always raise others, God will raise you as well.
(13) Live a life of thanksgiving and acknowledge who God is in your life and what He has done for you.
(14) You must understand the prophecy you got or the dreams and visions you had of the plan of God for your life, understand Gods time of fulfilling His promises with your life. It is your responsibility to understand. Seek to understand before fulfilling.
(15) Once God has revealed what He wants with your life, train yourself in regard to your call. Example: if He wants you to be a doctor, go to school and learn, if He wants you to be a pastor, seek proper training and don’t be lazy.
(16) Walk in faith and rest knowing that, God fulfils His promises in His own time; don’t try to push things with your own strength.
(17) Always increase your knowledge of the word and the things of God (2Peter 1:3-12).
(18) Do not speak or stand against the anointed of God. Nothing brings judgment to a person’s life quicker than that or fighting against the anointed of God, whether it’s verbal or action-wise. You have to keep your focus on what God has called you to do. If you do not understand what another is doing, you have to consult God before saying or doing anything. Don’t make a decision on hearsay. You just focus on your call. Speak positively about ministers of God. And if there is something that does not sit well with you about that minister, it is better to keep it to yourself because it is God alone who will judge His leaders (Numbers 12).
(19) Find a living church, and attend it. It is very important where you attend church for you to fulfill Gods plan successfully. A church that is left behind or that is deceived will deceive or keep you behind.
(20) Do not have idols. An idol could be anything that takes up Gods time. It could be a spouse, family, games, work, money and etc. God comes first in everything. And don’t form your own picture of God. In other words, do not take certain verses and use them to make your own god. Read the whole bible to get a clear picture of God. And walk with Him and serve Him in the correct way.