Taking Destiny: Battle of the Kenizzites

Franklin Vineyard Church Podcasts

Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them...

We are looking at the Kenizzites this weekend at the Vineyard!

This tribe means something like covetousness or jealousy, especially when it comes to success. This may have happened to you before, but it usually happens whenever we step into something new. We feel called and excited to step into something, and then we notice that there are others that seem more equipped or more qualified to do the thing that we're called to do.

This is a common tactic of the enemy: to cause you to doubt both the God that called you into something and the talents and resources that He has given you! We easily become jealous of other peoples' success thinking that there's no possible way that we can do what they're doing...

This can cause us to look at others in the room with a covetous glare, thinking we need to become like them, all the while losing sight of the very thing that got us in the room in the first place. What can happen is that we begin to work hard to transform ourselves into others that we see around us. Changing our methods, speech patterns, look and lifestyle to try to “fit in”.

But each of us, created in the image of God, have a unique calling, and the sooner we realize that, the easier it'll be for us to celebrate the way that God has made us rather than looking at each person as competition.