Your Purpose

GPS Example

What do you do when you are looking for directions to get somewhere?

You use your phone, GPS, a map

What is the first thing you need to know?

Where you are

What is the second thing you need to know?

Where you are going

Then, you can create a path from where you are to where you need to be.

In your walk with God, the first step in knowing our purpose, is finding out where we are.

How do we find out where we are?

Where am I?

Psalm 139:1–2 NKJV

1 O Lord, You have searched me and known me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.

Psalm 139:23–24 NKJV

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; 24 And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.

To know where I am in my walk with God, I need the Lord to:

Search me (that takes surrender)

Know me (that takes time)

Try me (that means hardship)

Reveal my worries/thoughts (that takes humility)

Look for wicked ways (that requires obedience)

Lead me in the way everlasting (that takes trust)

Where do I need to go?

This must always have prayer in every part of what you are doing. The Holy Spirit will guide you.

Understanding where God wants us to be begins with:

Serving God where I am

Finding needs and filling them

Using what He already gave me

Being willing to be uncomfortable

Ephesians 4:11–16 NKJV

11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

What is your purpose?

Write down some things you enjoy, and consider how God can use them for His glory and for the good of others?

Encouragement

Service

Prayer

Organization

Driving

Working with your hands

Computers

Video/Social Media

Cooking

Sewing

Speaking/Sharing

Teaching

Preaching

Visitation

Generosity

Are you willing to let Jesus show you where you are with Him? Are you willing to align yourself with His best for you? I challenge you to step out in faith for what God will do in you and through you when you trust Him.