Divine Purpose

Telos: Discipleship- the continual surrender to God’s good design for identity, purpose and community.

Information

What do you believe? You and others only know what you truly believe by what you do!

Your identity determines your destiny!!!!

Romans 12:2 TPT

Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.

Formation or Conformation?

Five Lies:

I am what I have.

I am what I do.

I am what other people say or think about me.

I am nothing more than my worst moment.

I am what I feel.

Based primarily on our possessions, performance, popularity, penitence, or perception.

Halftime by Bob Buford

Two climbers that made it to peak of Everest. Fear sets in. More climbers die coming down than going up.

Question: “After success, What?

Finding our identity in Christ is not about striving and straining to be all we can be , it is about resting in Him, abiding in Him, and allowing those roots to produce the life He has planned for us.

Inspiration

Acts 17:28–29 NKJV

for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.

Revelation

How do we find our purpose?

We have a Foundational Identity a Unique Identity and a Gifted Identity

Application

Foundational Identity

Remember:

Matthew 10- You are valuable.

1 Peter 2- You are chosen.

John 3- You are deeply loved

Ephesians 2- You are a Masterpiece

Ephesians 3:14–17 (NKJV)

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory,

to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Unique Identity

Psalm 139:13–14 TPT

You formed my innermost being, shaping my delicate inside and my intricate outside, and wove them all together in my mother’s womb. I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex! Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking. It simply amazes me to think about it! How thoroughly you know me, Lord!

Gifted Identity

Romans 12:6 NKJV

Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;

Transformation

$100 Bill illustration

Glory Your Purpose is found in Christ First, it is the key to unlocking your uniqueness and giftedness.

3 Questions:

What is God saying to you?

What are you going to do about it?

How can I pray for you?

Souls, Souls, Souls!!!!!!!!!