7 Must-Know Truths About God’s Purpose for You
Grab your latte & let's chat purpose. Listen In On Spotify | Stitcher | Apple Podcasts Episode 145 7 Must Know's About God's Purpose for YouWhat is purpose? What is living purposefully? The word purpose is thrown around a TON. It has different...
Victory in Obedience
let me tell you, God knows best. And I’m placing all I have in that three word sentence. I’ve seen Him come through before, and I know He’ll do it again and again. Trust, claim, cling and live on the voice of the Lord and obey all He has to say. Because victory is already here. We just need to step out in faithful obedience.
Stepping Into Freedom
Friend, freedom and purpose go hand-in-hand.
In 2014, Jesus revealed to me in such a new, fresh way that there was FREEDOM in Christ. At the end of 2016, He did it all over again.
I slowly began to realize that not claiming freedom, whatever it be from, was holding me back from moving forward, moving forward and STEPPING INTO things had for me.
Being so stuck in a repetitive, condemning, people-pleasing thought process was pulling me back from stepping into anything else. Not embracing FREEDOM was chaining me down. And when you’re chained down, it’s hard to notice, well, anything else but those chains.
Easter: Rest & Rejoice
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” 1 Peter 1:3
His death takes the penalty for our sin and His resurrection raises us up with Him.
Jesus died to take the punishment for all the things we’ve done and will do that hurt God (sin).
He took the wrath of God on Himself FOR US, so that when we accept Jesus, God the Father sees our debt of wrongs against Him as PAID.
Friends, the Bible says that those who confess Jesus as Lord and believe in their hearts God raised Him from the dead are SAVED.
And His resurrection – the very thing we celebrate on Easter – causes you to be born again into a living hope.
Let No One Despise You For Your Youth
As young people, I think we tend to dwell on pressure rather than purpose. We’re overwhelmed by the pressure to prove – to prove that we have potential, that we’re good at what we do, that we don’t need to have had a lot of experience to have valuable input. Sometimes our youth can feel like such a burden and obstacle that we forget what an invaluable, purposeful gift it is. I’d like you to take a step back with me and evaluate your life for a second. Years from now, we might look into a mirror and wonder where the time went and what in the world we did with it. I think, in the grand span of our life, we may think about these years that we’re in right now more than we realize. How are you redeeming the time? I hope it’s not in frustration, pressure, discouragement, and unholy hustle. Paul famously charged Timothy to set an example in our youth – in speech, life, love, faith, purity. The world has a gigantic spotlight on us, young people, whether we realize it or not. Everyone wants to know how we’ll act and react. Everyone sets an example for someone, but as young people – and especially young leaders, young pastors (like Timothy), young couples, young Christians – we have a little bit of a novel appeal.
How to Be A Light Where You Are
A big problem with where we’re at right now is that we choose not to take the opportunities – opportunities to be a light for Jesus. We refuse to see the chances to share the Gospel because we’re so familiar with the setting and so busy with our own lives.
It’s your choice to live an ordinary life and wait to be sent somewhere to do God’s will, or you can be a light exactly where you are.
Jesus will give you the strength, but our hearts need to be ready and eager to be a missionary for Him wherever that may be.
Where God has you right now is EXACTLY where He wants you to be ministering. Be open to be used.
What Is Purpose? Part 4
There are good works that God specifically calls us to do, bringing purpose and value to the way we live in our every day. But it is important – like so important – to note that our good works don’t rest in works alone. We can’t please God with those good works without having faith. So, faith is, therefore, included in our purpose. Hebrews 11:6 says, “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” The greatest of those good works we’re all called to? The greatest commandments. Love the Lord your God. The next? Love your neighbor as yourself. Loving God and enjoying God is part of purpose.