Full Potential of Life

Introduction

What has happened to me?

Why am I so apathetic about my life?

What happened to me inner drive?

Life and the world

Life and Work

Life and Marriage, Activities, and Hobbies

What is it all about? What is my life worth? What happened to my joy?

There are reasons we feel stuck, discouraged or adrift

There are reasons people lose their enthusiasm for life

There are reasons God’s people lose their hope, their sense of purpose and their Joy

There are reasons life becomes just one long bore.

Reasons:

People have lost sight of who God made them to be and what He designed them to do;

As a result, people are not actively, intentionally and purposefully pursuing what the father has planned and desired for them.

Two Truths

God has placed more within you than you realize

You likely have settled for the life you have now.

Are you Living a Settled for Life?

Elementary School – Outstanding, Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory

Become content with S’s

How God Sees You

Through love and forgiveness

He sees the person he made you to be.

Turn with me to Psalms 139:13-16

The description of God’s knowledge in this passage is nothing other than exhaustive. God knows us. He knows when we sit and when we rise. He is acquainted with all of our ways. God knows everything we will say before it comes out of our mouth. This truth means that God’s knowledge of us is one of intimacy and familiarity.

In fact, God knows far more about us than we will ever know of ourselves. Even as the passage exalts the knowledge of God, it points out our own very limited knowledge: “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it” (v. 6). We do not know these things because we are not God and not as wonderful as he is. God’s omniscience underlines his glory as creator and our neediness as creatures.

These verses are in the same passage of Scripture we looked at when examining God’s omnipresence. This is significant. This passage, which exalts God’s omnipresence, is the same passage that exalts God’s omniscience. For David, the two go together. God is always with him and knows everything about him.

It is not enough to have the presence of God but have him lack intimate and exhaustive knowledge of you. Think of a husband who is present but emotionally distant. A wife in such a situation is with her husband, but his presence is cold comfort because he does not know her. He does not understand her. In some cases, such a presence can actually become a burden.

You Are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made Vs. 13-14

Awesomely wonderful /You are fearfully wonderful

Psalm 119:73 NASB95

Your hands made me and fashioned me; Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.

Isaiah 44:24 NASB95

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, “I, the Lord, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself And spreading out the earth all alone,

God desires to mold you into the most God-beloved, Christ-honoring,

Jeremiah 18:5–6 NASB95

Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, “Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

2 Timothy 2:21 NASB95

Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

Spirit-yielded, person you can be.

2 Timothy 2:22 NASB95

Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

God created you to accomplish his great plan in your life

Job 10:11 NASB95

Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?

Ephesians 2:10 NASB95

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

God Knows Everything About You Vs. 15

Jeremiah 1:5 NASB95

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Sum of all your natural gifts, talents, dreams, personality, and abilities.

Before you were conceived God saw you as a whole and unique person.

God knows what you can be and do because he created you!

Ecclesiastes 11:5 NASB95

Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

God is the Author and Finisher of Your Days Vs. 16

You were born at a particular time to a particular family in a particular location.

Malachi 3:16 NASB95

Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who esteem His name.

Each of us will

Be born into good and bad circumstances

Will encounter a degree of evil and righteousness

Will face the realities of life and death

Job 14:5 NASB95

“Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.

Hebrews 9:27 NASB95

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

Questions You Must Ask God

What do You want to do in my life?

What do You want to do through my life?

What do You still desire for me to experience?

What possibilities lie within me?

What could I become?

What did you have in mind when you created me?

What do you desire for me?

Five Key Principles About Your Potential

Every person has potential

Every person has been created by God to bring Him glory

No one can reach his or her potential without the Father’s help

No one can reach his or her potential without factoring in the spiritual dimension associated with potential.

Only God knows the limits of your potential.