What they don’t tell you about GOD’s purpose for YOU on earth

Many Christians struggle to connect the idea of being a Kingdom Ambassador with their daily work, whether as employees or entrepreneurs. Although most want to serve and please God in their workplaces, the practical connection between faith and work is often unclear.

Their challenge is that most of us do our work only in the way that we were taught or seen others do it. Could it be that we hardly consider the possibility that there could be more to the work than the service or product?

Truth is, God has a reason for gifting us a particular skill and position. It is just that we don’t always understand God’s way.

We must always remember that His way is higher than our. We must therefore make every effort to seek Him so that we can create the necessary alignment between our professional performance and His intentions with our lives and existence.

What is a Kingdom Ambassador?

An ambassador is a messenger, a special envoy, or the sent one who is appointed by his or her government to go and be the official representation of their nation or organisation on foreign soil.

This role requires special authorization; one cannot appoint themselves as an Ambassador—only a higher authority can. In the world, official appointments come from above, and in God’s Kingdom, we have also already been appointed to serve as His Ambassadors, regardless of authority, status, or education. God is prepared to use us wherever we are.

It is a privilege to know that in the Kingdom, each one of us has been chosen to be Ambassadors of Christ. As in the world of diplomacy, governments demonstrate their friendly relations by engaging in bilateral relations.

The evidence of their relationship is demonstrated through their diplomatic missions in each other’s countries. Each one of them will elect a trusted person and appoint them to become their official representation and mouthpiece in a specific territory. The dwelling place of this appointee then also becomes the physical manifestation of the sending nation’s country.

Upon arrival in the country where the Ambassador is appointed, they must go and present themselves to the Head of State with a letter that relays the vote of confidence their country bestowed upon them. Their position and voice carry the same level of authority as that of their own President. When they speak, it is as if their President himself has spoken. This authorisation is written down in the letter to the host country’s Head of State.

What is our responsibility when the Bible calls us Ambassadors of Christ?

It means we have become the messengers, special envoys, and the special representation of Christ on the earth. We know this is true because Philippians 3:20-21 tells us that “our citizenship is in heaven”, which means that the earth is not where we’re from.

There is a well-known Christian phrase based on John 17: we are in the world but not of the world. Our presence here is so that we become the physical representation of our Heavenly Kingdom.

As is the case with earthly Ambassadors, we, too, are appointed ambassadors by our Kingdom, where Jesus is the King. He appoints us to become the mouthpiece and exercise the authority and position of the Kingdom here on earth. God needs physical representatives who are not afraid to stand before kings and high officials to state the position of the Kingdom of Heaven.

The first Ambassadors

Moses was afraid. He was not an eloquent speaker, but he understood the protocol of Pharaoh’s courts. This made him qualified for the assignment. He was the chosen messenger for the task.

In Moses’ case, God did not specifically use his level of social finishing or intellectual capacity, even though he was educated in the elite Egyptian educational system, but God used his staff in his hand, his works, to perform signs and miracles that would become a form of warfare against Pharaoh which ultimately led to the Israelites exiting Egypt.

Secondly, Nehemiah was a cupbearer to the king of Persia—a highly esteemed position that placed him daily in the king’s presence. When it was time for the wall of Jerusalem to be rebuilt, Nehemiah was positioned for the rebuilding of the wall that would protect them from their non-Jewish neighbours and subsequently restore their Faith.

God activated the Ambassadorship of Nehemiah to state the case of the Jewish people before the king. The king granted him time off, an escort to accompany him to Jerusalem with the assistance of the Persian troops, to restore the ruins of Jerusalem and put systems for economic reform in place.

The Kingdom’s representation is not intimidated by the eloquent speech of worldly leaders or the authority of a specific office because they understand their appointment and the authority bestowed upon them by God.

In Exodus 8, God gave Moses an instruction to take the Kingdom’s demand for the release of God’s people straight to King Pharaoh. This request was irrespective of Moses not feeling ready for the assignment. God prepared him for the task long before Moses even realised that God was positioning him for His purpose.

Moses had to go see the king on behalf of his government and became the special envoy, appointed to fulfill the Heavenly purpose for the Israelites during that time.

Do you see how Nehemiah was positioned in a foreign country and became the mouthpiece for his own nation even though he was not from Persia? He was chosen and positioned for the assignment on behalf of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Thirdly in the book of Esther, we see how Queen Esther enters the palace through a contest to become the next queen. As a Jewish girl, she was successfully elected as the queen and well positioned with access at the highest level in a foreign kingdom, to become the mouthpiece of the Kingdom of Heaven. God used Queen Esther’s physical beauty to gain favour with the King so that her positioning would eventually be used to create a conducive environment for negotiating justice for the Jews. Queen Esther’s intervention saved the Jews from the demise of an entire generation.

These three Bible characters are the perfect example of how our earthly positioning can be used by God to fulfill His Heavenly purposes on earth.

Of course, their positioning would have been ineffective if they didn’t choose to partner with God on these assignments. It is clear for all three of them that they were required to make a Spiritual and physical commitment to get involved and become the vehicle of God’s Kingdom purpose and rulership in the earth.

Their agreement opened up the perfect channel through which God brought Heaven to the earth.

Understanding their citizenship responsibilities and making a commitment enabled them to act as Kingdom Ambassadors where they were stationed. They influenced the respective situations as needed.

As is the case for earthly Ambassadors who act as messengers on behalf of their natural governments, these men and women were also special envoys to present the special case of the Heavenly Kingdom to the world kings.

This is not applicable only to Biblical times, but also to today. Wherever we are planted, we are Kingdom Ambassadors. We are required to submit ourselves and our work to His Authority, to give God permission to use us and our work for the advancement of His Kingdom. We ought to become special agents of change and let His Kingdom come into high-level offices, small business, government offices, and creative industries, and let His purposes be fulfilled through us.

As God used the work of Moses, Nehemiah, and Queen Esther, He wants to use our work as entrepreneurs, artists, motivational speakers, and politicians for His Kingdom to come to earth.