Stepping Into Your Destiny | Pieter Keyter

Good morning.

Listen, before I start,

um, we are really privileged with the

worship in this church. Amen.

>> And I know sometimes we forget how lucky

we are with people singing, but I think

the next Sunday maybe they should invite

me, you know, just to do to lead the

chorus. And then you will re remember

that we have an awesome worship team. I

I I remember at one uh men's retreat

back in Africa uh I was singing a sword

phrase and then the leadership of the

men's retreat came up to me and they

said, "Peter, God called you to preach,

not to sing." So that settled it. So I'm

grateful for this church and the

worship. It's always, you know, they're

they're leading us into the presence of

God. Amen. Amen.

>> Before we start this morning, let's

pray.

Father God, I thank you for this day.

I thank you that you're a good father.

Father, I thank you for the privilege to

stand on this platform. Holy Spirit, I

pray that you will lead my words, that

you will guide me, and that I will say

what you want me to say. In Jesus name,

I pray this. Amen.

>> Amen.

>> The title of my message is stepping into

your destiny. Now before I want to get

into that, a few weeks back we were

blessed by a friend to go for a week to

Edto Beach.

[laughter] That sounds good. And I mean

that was awesome. But I had a little bit

of a South African experience there.

While we were at Edto Beach, the main

power supply that went into the beach,

there was a transformer that caught fire

and the electricity was off for like 7

hours. So that reminded me in South

Africa a lot of times we had load

shedding that's what they call it eight

hours or nine hours without any

electricity. So, I got a little bit of

homesick. But, but during this uh

experience,

I was looking because it was turning

dark and I said to Blanch, "We we need a

light." And I mean, my flashlight or my

phone because there was no power to

charge it was running down. And so,

there was no light. And I said, "Listen,

let's start seeking for a candle or

maybe there's something in this house."

So, eventually I got a hold of a candle.

It was up on a shelf and Blonde got the

lighter and she handed me the lighter

and I was trying to, you know, get that

uh candle going and Blanch told me, she

said, "Peter, just bring it down so you

can see." [laughter]

And I said, "No, I got this." And so I

got the light up there and I lit the

candle and I got the candle going and I

looked at the candle, but you know, when

I got it started up, it was burning, but

it was not like a real bright uh light.

And I took it off and I put it on the

coffee table and I started walking

towards the kitchen. And it was about 30

seconds after that candle was lit. It

suddenly went out and I walked back. I

got the lighter and I wanted to start

the the candle again. And I looked

inside and there was no wig. It's gone.

And I'm like, "What's wrong with this

candle?" And as I lift the candle up, I

realized that that was the electrical

candle.

Kudus for me getting an electrical

candle started with a lighter. I mean

that was awesome. But you know what? I

should have listened to Blanch in the

first place because he had that when I

felt in you know when I stuck my hand

into the candle I could feel that furry

little thing or like the wig and I

thought it was the wig but they had that

bulb that was covered in stuff. So I got

that bulb going but just with the wrong

light.

You know how many times

when we have to step into our destiny,

we use the wrong fire.

God's got a plan for you and then the

enemy comes and he deceives people

and he uses the wrong fire to lit you up

and you're for 30 seconds you're like,

"Wow, it's going." But it's not really

going because that was not the design

for the candle. Amen. Sometimes you need

a wife to tell you, "Hey, Peter, just

bring the candle down and lit it up here

so you can see." Because a lot of times

we do stuff and we're not really paying

attention and we're not watching what

we're doing. Amen. I want to start with

this

destiny. What is the meaning of destiny?

If I can define destiny. So many faith

systems defines destiny as this as a

divine purpose by a higher intelligence

to fulfill a worldly role.

So you have a role. There's a destiny

for you that you have to fulfill. And I

want to read the scripture for you. We

have become his poetry. It's in

Ephesians 2:10. We have become his

Ephesians 2:10

poetry. a recreated people that will

fulfill the destiny he has given each of

us.

For we are joined to Jesus, the anointed

one. Even before we were born, God

planned in advance our destiny. Say with

me, before I was born,

>> Before I was born,

>> God planned

>> God

>> in advance our destiny.

>> And the good work we would do to fulfill

it.

You see that when I when I go into the

definition of that, it says purpose. So

one part of destiny is purpose. You know

how many people I've met and if I ask

them why are you here? They look at me I

always say like a cow looking at a new

gate. They have this stare in their

eyes. They cannot they cannot tell me

what's their purpose.

If I ask you today what's your purpose?

Why are you here?

I know it's not all about donuts and

cookies and cream and all that stuff. We

are here for a purpose. Amen. And if the

devil can deceive you for out of your

purpose, you will not fulfill your

destiny.

Listen, he deceived a third of heaven.

They were in the presence of God. The

angels were created to worship God. They

were created as beings to fulfill

assignments. And then the devil came and

he deceived a third of heaven

and their purpose stopped. They were

cast out of heaven.

So the devil can deceive you too. Amen.

That's why we need to be banning

together as brothers, as a church. We

need to be together as a community

because you will not be so easily

deceived. Amen.

so that you can fulfill your role. You

have a role on this planet. Each and

every person, it says before you were

born, he had a destiny for you.

It's like this one farmer in Africa, I

think I've shared a long time ago, but

he had this Land Cruiser 4x4

and he lived up in South South um West

Africa and they were going over sand

dunes

and my friend Hendrick was with him in

the truck and as they were cruising

across the dunes, this guy had five guys

on the back of the the Land Cruiser. And

so every time they got to a sand dune,

when they got to the edge, he will

whistle and the five guys will jump off

of the land roand land cruiser because

he could not go over that that sand

dune. And when he whistles, they will

jump off and they'll push the Land

Cruiser over the the the last bit of the

dune. And so Hendrick was sitting with

this older gentleman and he looked at

what he was doing. And then he said to

him by the third dune, he said, "Stop.

Stop." And Andrew got to out of the Land

Cruiser and he switched the the 4x4 into

action. It was an older Land Cruiser and

he changed the gear there. And then they

went over the next dune and he didn't

had to whistle. The Land Cru cruiser

went over the dune and went over the

next dune. And so this guy looked at

Hendrickk and he said to Hendrick, he

said, "I don't know what you just did,

but never change that again."

Because this this cruiser was designed

to transport people through severe

circumstances, severe roads, but it was

never engaged.

So, it never fulfill its purpose.

You know how many people is never

engaged in their 4x4 and they're not

fulfilling their purpose?

the the assignment for that land cruiser

is to bring people from one place to

another place through bad circumstances.

You have a purpose and a role to

fulfill. And if you're not engaged,

you're never going to do it. If you're

deceived, you're never going to get to

it. Amen.

>> Purpose adds value.

If I call you or if I call a farmer and

I tell him, "Listen, I have in the back

of my yard, I have this big John Deere

8,300.

Will you buy it?" He will like, "Yeah,

yeah. If he's a if he's a guy that's

farming and planting, he will definitely

be interested if he's in, you know,

looking out for a tractor to to expand

his business." And that tractor, by

knowing the purpose of that tractor, it

will add value to that tractor. But if I

phone a guy and tell them that, listen,

there's a big chunk of green metal

standing in my backyard and and they ask

me what is it for? I said, I don't know.

It's just a big chunk of green metal.

It will have no value. But if I tell you

what that piece of metal is and what the

purpose is of that metal, it will

suddenly bring value forth.

If you're a child of God, that adds

value to you.

If the enemy can get you

not to know your value,

>> he's going to devalue you and you're

going to be worthless.

If I look at how many people are dep

depressed,

the enemy has devalued you. You feel

worthless.

You don't know you're a child of God.

Amen.

You need to be engaged and have a

purpose. The the next scripture that I

want to read is

in Ephesians 2 19-22.

That's plain enough, isn't it? You're no

longer wandering exile. The kingdom of

faith is now your home country. You're

no longer a stranger or an outsider. You

belong here with as much right to the

name Christian as anyone. God is

building a home.

He's using us all. Everyone sitting in

this room. He's using us all.

Irrespective of how we got here. I don't

care if you if you got here from Africa

or if you were a druggie or whatever.

He's using each and every one of us.

Amen.

>> And what he is building, he uses the

apostles and prophets for the

foundation. Now he's using you, fitting

you in brick by brick, stone by stone

with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone

that holds all the parts together.

Listen, if you've ever been around brick

layers in South Africa, we build a lot

of houses using bricks, but they will

chop that brick and cut it and then

they'll fit it and they'll they'll have

the cement keeping all the bricks

together. It's the same with us when

you're part of a church. Sometimes, you

know, when they hit you with that

trough, I don't know what you call it,

the truffle. Is that the thing that you

that one if you use that and you and you

cut the brick, then it you you size it

up. But when you're sitting in church,

sometimes, you know, we chop off a

little bit and it's not it's not that

pleasant. You can smile now. It's a good

time to smile.

But Jesus is the cement keeping us all

together and he's building a house and

we're all part of that. So first to

fulfill your destiny you need to know

your purpose.

The second part is you need to have

vision.

It doesn't help you if you have this

tractor but you have no vision for the

tractor.

So you need vision and you need to ask

God vision. If you know your purpose,

then you're going to need vision to

build on this. Amen. I want to read this

scripture in Jeremiah. It says

Jeremiah 1 11-12. It says, "Then the

Lord said to me, look, Jeremiah, what do

you see?" And I replied, "I I see a

branch from a almond tree."

And the Lord said, "That's right. And it

means that I am watching and I will

certainly carry out all my plans."

So God is saying to Jeremiah, he says,

"What do you see?" And then God knew

exactly what he showed Jeremiah,

but he wanted to hear what Jeremiah

experienced while he was looking at this

so he could know. Did Jeremiah

understand the vision?

Why would he ask him, "What do you see?"

You need to write your vision down and

maybe share it and ask God, "What's the

vision? What do you see?" Cuz I've I

remember this one guy in South Africa,

Ron Kushmo. He was preaching in a in a

church and the one guy came up to him

and he said to him, he said, "You know

what? I need uh to marry that woman. I'm

going God told me to divorce my wife and

I need to marry that woman."

So So Ron Kush was standing in front of

him and the next moment Ron Kushmal gave

him a slap through the face. I mean the

preacher hitting the the guy and he

looked at him and he said, "What did you

just do now?" He said, "Why did you do

that for?" And Ron Kushmal said to him,

he said, "Well, God told me to smack

you."

[laughter]

And the guy said to me, he said, "God

will never tell you to smack me." And he

and Ron looked at him, he said, "Yeah,

God will never tell you to divorce your

wife and marry that woman." You see,

sometimes you need to to share your

vision. Because I've seen people

[laughter]

that will leave their wife because

they're so so in their mind they're

thinking God is telling them that and

it's a lie. So you need somebody to

smack your cut the brick a little bit

smaller

>> to tell you listen you need to wake up.

>> So that's so important. Habac Habach you

guys say it different than me. I say

Habac. But two verse two says write the

vision down.

So you need to find your purpose and

then you need to get vision from God.

And how are you going to get that vision

from God? You're going to spend time

with God. You're going to ask God and

then you're going to start writing it

down

because you have a role to fulfill.

We're in a time where people need to

step up. It's not just a Sunday thing.

Amen. Amen.

>> I remember in South Africa at a stage I

was I wanted to buy corn

and uh the prophets. So I'm always

listening to what the prophetic word is

in South Africa were sharing that there

was going to be a drought in the United

States. So in my mind I was thinking

okay if there's going to be a drought

that was in 2017 16 somewhere there if

there's going to be a drought that means

the corn prices is going to go up in the

United States. And because I like

listening to the prophets, because I act

on what the prophet says, but I asked

God if I need to act. So this this word

came out. And so I asked God, I said,

"God, I want to buy some corn on Chicago

Board of Trade."

And uh I asked God, I said, "God, if if

I need to how how am I going to buy a

million bushels or a thousand bushels on

the board of Chicago Board of Trade? I

feel like a million bushels, but how

will you tell me about a million

bushels?

And as I was thinking it, it was in the

church during worship. As I was

thinking, asking God, how will I do a

million bushels? How will you tell me?

The next moment they changed the song.

And in African's language, it said, "And

the angels are standing in millions

around his throne." So the moment I

asked and they changed the song and it

says millions. I knew I had to do this.

So God gave me a date. He said a million

bushels. I was hedging corn on on

Chicago Board of Trade and uh so I

bought it. He gave me the date and the

date that I bought the corn was the

lowest price in two years on the market.

So I bought the corn and then in the

first week on the million bushels I made

a lot of money and I mean a lot of money

and I got so excited I said to Blan

we're going to be so rich. I mean this

is something personal that I do on the

side. It was not part of the farming

fund. It was my own personal funding and

I said, "Listen, I'm going to get into

this." So, I bought another We ended up

with 3 and a2 million bushels of corn on

on Chicago Board of Trade and I was

like, "Man, the money is just coming.

Look at this." But God told me two weeks

and I need to be out of the market. And

I was like, "Man, if I can go another

two weeks, I'm going to retire. I'm

never going to work again with the way

this is going." And I remember that one

night I was sitting and and the markets

it works in in the US. you can get out

of Chicago Board of Trade during the

night, but if you're from a different

country and you're investing into the

Chicago Board of Trade, when that uh

5:00 when it closes in South Africa, I

cannot get on that board of trade till

the next morning. And that night of the

third week,

the corn turned against me and I was

watching it the whole night till 9:00

that next morning. I lost all the money

that I made and I lost a lot of money

that I invested into that. And man was I

crying and I was weeping. I was like,

"Man, God, I listen to you and you told

me and and I was just so upset." And I

mean it it it you know when somebody

touches your money it's hard. [laughter]

Yeah. Some of you know you felt that. So

I'm sitting there and I I found this one

prophetic friend of mine. I said,

"Andre, I said listen, can you believe

this happened?" You [laughter] know that

old story myself face on. And he said to

me, "Peter, tell me what happened." I

said, "Well, God told me to buy. He told

me to sell two weeks." Uh, and he told

me to buy a million bushels. And he

said, "Okay, okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

You're on 3.6 million bushels. You're

four weeks in the market. What did you

do?" I was like, "Man, it was so it was

so making money. It was so good."

[laughter]

And he said, "Peter, the Bible says

don't add anything and don't take

anything away that God gave you." You

see in vision you need to start writing

your vision down because the moment

money will dist distract you. If you

don't have that vision written down and

you suddenly have the boat and the plane

and the house and all that stuff, it's

going to draw your attention away from

God. I did not write it down and I did

not stick to my vision and it burned my

fingers.

If you want to fulfill your destiny and

God gives you a vision, you need to

write it down and say, "God, you told me

this because I don't want to get

distracted." Amen.

The next one.

So, first you need purpose and then you

need vision, but then you need to step

into action. Jeremiah 1:17 says, "Get up

Jeremiah 1:17

and prepare for action. Go out and tell

them everything I tell you to say. Do

not be afraid of them or I will make you

look foolish in front of them. You know

how many people I've I've seen that will

tell me, listen, God told me this and

they never did anything with that word.

I've seen it so many times. People will

share, oh man, God told me this and if I

only responded to that, I would have

seen the fruit, but I there was a

reason. Maybe I was too scared or I had

no action.

Are you in action when God speaks or are

you rethinking it?

When he gives you a word

that that word pass and then you wait

for another word, flying to another

prophet to give you that same word and

then another prophet and by the fifth

time you're you're still not engaging

into that prophetic word.

What is God speaking to you?

What is he speaking to you about your

business?

Are you in action or is it just about

you?

Because he says in that scripture, he

says, "Do not be afraid."

So action

sometimes challenge you because he will

not add there don't be afraid if it's

not going to challenge you.

I remember when I got saved, there was

this I was in the grocery store buying

some groceries one day and the kids were

all in boarding school and I'm walking

in this grocery store and there's

there's an old lady that came past me

and my my grocery trolley shopping cart

was filled to the full because I have

four kids and and when they get back

from boarding school they're hungry

especially if they're there for a week.

And so I bought all this groceries and

this old lady walked past me. She looked

at me and she said, "I'm glad I don't

have to pay for that shopping cart." I'm

like, "Ma'am, kids boarding school. I

have to buy a lot of food." So, I'm

busy. And as I was finishing up in the

in the shopping, you know, in this um

grocery store, the lady was standing

right in front of me at the counter

where we have to pay. And God started

speaking to me. He said, "Peter, you

need to to pay for that lady's shopping

cart." [laughter] I looked I was for a

minute there. I was looking at it and I

looked at her shopping cart and it was

full of magazines.

And I was like, "Man, I'm not doing

that. I'm God. If she's hungry, I can

understand. I mean, if you need food, I

I will pay for the food." But there's

like 20 magazines and you guys, you know

what the magazine cost in this? You

know, it's they're expensive. I'm like,

"God, I'm not paying for magazines." So,

I'm standing there and and I and I I'm

not going to do this. And then the lady

I mean, now I'm I'm I'm trying to get

myself out of this deal.

You know, you've [laughter] you've been

there, too. You know that action that

you need to take. So, I'm standing there

and I'm thinking, "Okay." And she pulled

out her wallet and then she she took out

a card. Now, if you have a private

banking card, I know you have money cuz

you have a private banking card. that

means there's money in the bank. So, she

pulls out that card and I'm like, "Yeah,

you see God, I don't have to pay for

this. She's got a private banker. She

doesn't need my money and not for

magazines."

So, as I'm standing and negotiating with

God why I should or should not go into

action, I realized I'm going to be

disobedient to the Lord. And so, she had

the card at the cashier, the guy in

South Africa. It's not like you swipe it

and and then you take it, you give it,

you hand it to the cashier and he'll

swipe it for you. So, she handed her

card to the cashier and I walked over

and I grabbed the card from the cashier.

Now, in South Africa, you should think

twice about that because you it might be

somebody that wants to take advantage of

your card. So, I took the card and I

hand it back to the lady and I said,

"Ma'am, God spoke to me. He said, "I

need to pay for this." And that old

lady, she started weeping right there in

the supermarket or in the grocery store.

And she grabbed a hold of me. She said,

"You know what? I have no children. I

lost my husband 10 years ago. I'm the

only one of my whole family left on this

earth." And this morning, I was

thinking, "God, did you forget about me?

You don't even know that I exist."

And she was just weeping. She said, "I

know God did not forget about me." I

mean, the the cashier came out behind

and she was weeping. It was just snot

and tears all over us.

But you know what? When I walked out of

that store, I was so grateful that I

stepped into action

out of my comfort zone and touched that

lady. I could have missed out on that

whole thing where God wanted to say to

that old lady and then it made sense.

The books was not it was to she's alone.

She's got no nothing else. So she was

reading. But you see, in my mind, it

was, "Oh, you're wasting. You should buy

food and not books." You see, God knows

it all. But we have to walk out our

destiny. And we have to step into action

because we are a church of action. Amen.

>> We're not here for the pancakes and the

donuts. We enjoy that, too. It's good. I

mean, the the store out here is good.

But we know we are purpose-driven

people. We are people that's motivated

by God. and we're stepping into action

and we're going to fulfill our destiny.

Amen.

[applause]

>> Praise God for that.

The the the fourth one I want to speak

about is partnerships. And I'm not going

to go through this scripture. It's too

long, but you can go and read it at

home. 1 Kings 13, it talks about the old

prophet and the young prophet.

So in this season it's very important

who are you aligning with and who is

your partnerships that you are forming.

So this young prophet was sent from

Judah to Bethl to go and give a

prophetic word to the king. And as the

king was standing at the altar, he gave

a prophetic word. And it seems like the

king wasn't happy with this word because

he tried to grab the prophet. And then

the c when he stuck his hand out towards

the prophet, he suddenly his hand became

crooked. But the altar cracked in two

and the ashes fell to the ground exactly

as the prophet the young prophet told

the king what's going to happen. And

after the king's hand went crooked, he

asked the young prophet to pray for him.

And so this mean king that wanted to

grab him suddenly, you know, he had an

attitude change.

Sometimes we get an attitude change when

we we trying to get to somebody and then

God touches us. Amen. Then we change our

attitude. But anyway, so this king asked

for prayer and then after his hand got

healed again, he said to the young

prophet, he said, "Listen, come to my

house. I have some gifts for you." and

and and and and the young prophet said

to me, he said, "I don't want your

gifts. I don't I don't care even if you

give me half of what you own. I don't

want that because God told me, I need to

give the word and then I need to leave

the country."

And so the young prophet left. I'm so

grateful he wasn't moved by money. He

wasn't moved by things. He was moved by

the word of God.

But then later on as he was leaving

Bethl, another prophet came up to him

and said to him, "Listen, I have a new

word for you.

God told me you need to stay and you

need to eat with me." And because he

said he was a prophet, but the Bible

says he lied to the young prophet, this

old prophet. Because he lied and the

young prophet stayed and he ate with

him, a lion got a hold of the young

prophet and his destiny stopped there.

Listen, I want to tell you today,

I was thinking, young prophet, why did

you do that and listen to that old

prophet? You don't know him. You don't

know him from nowhere because he had to

introduce you him to you and tell you

that he was a prophet.

Why did you go in partnership with this

prophet?

It it stopped his destiny.

I'm looking for fruit in people.

I'm not going to allow anybody to speak

into my life, especially if I don't know

you. We're in a season where so many

people are getting distracted by people

giving them words that's not from God.

>> And they will give it and they will say,

"I'm a I'm a spiritual leader or I'm a

prophet." But it will end your destiny.

Who is speaking into your life? Do you

know them?

I've seen people, they will tell me

today, "Oh, God told me this and then

tomorrow, oh, God told me this and then

God told me this." And I'm thinking,

"God, are you confused? cuz this guy's

flip-flopping

and this this one said I'm going to do

this and then they run after that.

Where are you standing with this? Who is

speaking into your life? Listen, a while

back I received a few messages and uh

God shared with me this thing. He said

in Psalm 101:6 he says, "My innermost

Psalms 101:6

circle will only be those who I know are

pure and godly. They will be the only

ones I allow to minister to me.

I don't allow anybody to speak into my

life.

You cannot allow people speak into your

life that doesn't have a pure heart and

a and and a and a sense of use to

succeed and to win." That old prophet

had no,

he didn't want that young prophet to

win. Why would he share that nonsense

with the young prophet?

Who's speaking into your life? Who are

you allowing

to share with you?

Are you looking at the fruit?

Because I'm not looking at the gift.

The gift will move you the wrong way if

it's not lined up with the fruit. Amen.

Because jealousy might crawl in here. I

was thinking that old prophet, he was

from Bethl. Why didn't God use him to

speak to the king? Why did he have to

call another prophet from Judah to come

and speak to the king? And then when

this young prophet had action and signs

and miracles and wonders happened,

suddenly that old prophet was capable of

getting his horse or his donkey and

getting, you know, to to meet with that

young prophet. So suddenly he left his

house.

Listen, be careful who speaks into your

life

because it will ruin your purpose if

it's the wrong people, the wrong people

aligning, the wrong people speaking on

this journey with you. Ask God to remove

them.

Amen.