Found: Week 3
Looking for Purpose

(Romans 12:2 NLT) Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Enemies of Purpose:

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(Jeremiah 29:11) For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  

(Jeremiah 1:5) “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart…

(Ephesians 1:4 NLT) Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ …

You were created on purpose, with a purpose, for a purpose. 

Finding Your Purpose

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(Psalm 1:139:13-14 NLT) You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

Design reveals destiny 

(Romans 12:6-8) We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

Starting points for discovery:

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✓ Spiritual

✓ Life

2. Look .

(Ephesians 1:18) I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you …

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(Acts 13:36) “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed.

(Hebrews 12:1-2) Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.

✓ Resist what holds you back.

✓ Start where you are.