God knows your purpose

Intro:

We’ve been talking about a lot of stuff through this series.

We’ve talked about who God is

He’s omniscient

He loves us

He created us perfectly

We’ve talked about our false identities

Our PAWS

We’ve talked about how to put on our true identities

And now we’re going to see where our true identity leads us…to our purpose.

Do you ever feel lost? like you don’t know how you ended up here

There are days i feel like that sometimes. How did I get to this terrible situation?

Illustration of having to talk to dorm supervisor for letting squirrel get loose in girls room

God never has that thought!

English Standard Version Psalm 139

Your eyes saw my unformed substance;

in your book were written, every one of them,

the days that were formed for me,

when as yet there was none of them.

17  How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

18  If I would count them, they are more than the sand.

I awake, and I am still with you.

19  Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!

O men of blood, depart from me!

20  They speak against you with malicious intent;

your enemies take your name in vain.

21  Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD?

And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

22  I hate them with complete hatred;

I count them my enemies.

23  Search me, O God, and know my heart!

Try me and know my thoughts!

24  And see if there be any grievous way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting!

God Created us for a Purpose

It is a good purpose (v.17)

How precious are your thoughts

God didn’t create you to be wasting your time, talents, or temperment

God created you to something amazing and something you love

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

We are God’s masterpiece He has created us anew in Christ, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

God has good things planned for us and something planned for us we will love!

We know we will lvoe it because He created us to love it!

It is a right purpose (v.17)

IF God has a good purpose for us, it must also be the right purpose…or it wouldn’t be good for us!

God knew an eternity ago I was going to be born april 29, 1994

God knew he had a right purpose for me

Sometimes, i thought i wanted something else, but i knew i could never be happier than what I’m doing right now!

It is a comforting purpose (v.18)

Do you ever feel like God is ever away from you?

Do you ever feel hopeless?

Do you ever feel like God is hiding from you or hiding his will from you?

Read vs. 17 and 18 again

English Standard Version Psalm 139

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

18  If I would count them, they are more than the sand.

I awake, and I am still with you.

These verses are SOOO comforting

Even when we think we’re away from God He is still with us

God cares about you!

There will be some days you wonder if you made the right choice.

This is a lie from satan

You can take comfort in the fact GOD LOVES YOU

God created you

God sustains you

God cares for you

and God will help you

It is so freeing when we realize God created us for a purpose and we don’t have to create the purpose for ourselves.

God protects me for my purpose (19-24)

English Standard Version Psalm 139

19  Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!

O men of blood, depart from me!

20  They speak against you with malicious intent;

your enemies take your name in vain.

21  Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD?

And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

22  I hate them with complete hatred;

I count them my enemies.

23  Search me, O God, and know my heart!

Try me and know my thoughts!

24  And see if there be any grievous way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting!

We spend so much time fearing what people will think, buts

God protects me....

From the world

We spend so much time trying to look and be like the world, but we don’t realize the world hates us

yet we forget these people hate God

We spend so much time fearing what people will think, but that’s not the important thing

What’s more important is, what is our identity in Christ?

From myself

Allowing God to search our hearts and know our thoughts protects us from ourselves

It’s not a very happy or fun thing, though.

But it leads us to the way everlasting