Our Purpose - To Glorify God (Living in His Purpose)

Ghost, gives us what we need. So, it seems for February is our purpose? I get an opportunity to speak to a lot of students as I teach them. And one of the things I say that was you need a purpose. We all need a purpose in life, is nothing better than having a better purpose to get us out to pay too much attention to the time when we struggling to move us into Destiny and I had a couple of students come up to me afterwards to see, how do I find out my purpose? Okay, there's a good opportunity. If you believe in God and none of us saw the same old of us are unique and that's what unique God has different things for us to do. And so, I want to build Upon Our Fame for this for this month, on our purpose and focus on our purpose is to glorify God. so let me stop before I get into any scriptures by starting with the other side when we don't glorify God, Is might be an opportune moment for a few people but maybe we've overreacted this week we've overreacted in the car, we overreacted on the team's cool, ravago reacting to an email me at 2 to a reaction and somebody somebody somebody maybe he's just folded their arms and go.

It's only dumb because of Chris's. Why'd you grab something to eat? Why what's the matter?

You know, that's not very gory find to God. Maybe, as you were driving to church or as you driving somewhere in the week you're you're in a good place and then somebody pulls out in front of you without any notice or tool. I used to have a friend and many many years ago, who used to stick that a wave replace signaling. And that he would often pull out and he's beating up Old Colony, pull out the side road. You just wave to people as he pulled out and you could see them.

I wonder if we got a fish on the back of our car on whether we driving in a way that glorifies God,

Did you know we testify all the time?

We testify in the way we react. We testify in what we do we testify. And whether we sacrificial we testify and how we respond Please. Remember, I've said this a number of times before silence speaks

So 76, does everybody agree? And nobody says no Then the the full understanding is what everybody agree. So, just be aware that we testify even in silence. Is there also is a place to be silenced. I'm not to say anything to offer scripture then as we think about our purpose from Psalms, And I'll break them from the screen.

And we got some 115 bus one. No, not for us, but for your sake, Show, Your Glory do until the count of your merciful love. Do it to an account of your faithful ones that God wants to reveal himself to us. He wants to reveal himself to his creation.

Is anybody playing out in the gulf and recently, and just looked at the, how everything is coming into place? Do I live in the right code Spring Avenue? And I think it's because it's good in Spring. It's named because of the Ripley Springs along the side of the hill. But also because he's on the side of the Hill that are all lots of blossoms that come out this time of year. And each time when I drive to take too many stool or am I just looking at? And then I'm thankful that the dogs take you before work, you pictures. I was like I was through the woods If Teddy shows me because I'm going on a walk with him and let's see what God has done. You know because sometimes when we look into the small things we can see, there are even smaller things that go to

I walked past a tree that was just starting to come out into place. Soon as I was walking the dog this week and then I had ruin and I looked at the place of itself and the flowers inside the individual

Not only does. Creation speak but God's people speak. And you we can be drawn into situations and we can see the big picture.

I'm so we will move on to our next scripture, then as we explore as God, speaks to us and he's from Philippians 3:4 and he says, this guy also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he might have confidence in the flesh by the mall. So how much do we rely on our abilities? Our abilities to do things. And I believe that God gives us opportunity because he wants to be glorified.

I'm so pretty but he's thinking maybe you'll wait this week you. So why am I going to die?

I want to say to you, God can be glorified in these moments. If we just give him room. I am absolutely sure there are things that God puts away because he wants to be glorified.

A nice gold Jesus down and touches us.

I smoked meat home to look at Philippines. Now as we Explore More of God's world, Sorry, the next one, Philippines 3 verses 7 through. 11 from where I just read all of the accomplishments that I took credit for them. I never got it all. This is nothing compared to the Delights of experiencing Christ, Jesus Christ as my Lord. The Trudy know him letting go of everything from my past and throwing all my postings on the garbage. Di it's only like a pile of manure to me now so that I may be enriched in the reality of knowing Jesus Christ and embrace him as Lord in all of his greatness. My passion is to be consumed with him and not clinging to my own righteousness wasting keeping the written law. My righteousness will be his based upon the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. The very righteousness that comes from God and I continued along to know, the wonders of Jesus, more fully and to experience the overflowing his resurrection working in me. I will be one with him in his sufferings and I will be one with him and he said, only then will I be able to experience complete Oneness with him in his resurrection from the realm of death.

Is it the passion translation?

Every things that we do.

Look at what I've done now. Look at what he's done. Look at what I've done and now look at what he's done. Christ went to the cross for you and for me, why? Because his father sent him I need the father's. Will he paid the price for you and for me?

Eddie wants to continually work out. That's in our lives. Scripture talks about how we work out our Salvation into who we are relieved, who we are as repressing to God.

I continually long to know the wonders of Jesus.

Where do you find yourself with a dependent? And I'm using this illustration of a sweet boy. I don't know. What do you like swimming or not? But, but some people who are not sure about Deepwater. You see them into the pool and they sleep in gently. And then they filled about 7 once they felt the bottom, then they start to deeper and deeper until they come to the plate when they can no longer, they have to step off the edge of the have to step further step into the deep. For me, that's just a great illustration about being men and women to fight that we step off into the deep behind the focus off security on Jesus and on God,

Jesus is our buoyancy.

Jesus keeps us safe from drowning. We will not be overwhelmed. Unless Jesus Lift us up, God sent his holy spirit to encourage us to in Paris and to enable us. So, when we run out of ourselves, that's a great place because we run into him.

There's a place way we need to add that. Illustration of coming to the edge could be true in the swimming pool. That could be true, if you have a bean hang gliding, You got this thing called a hang glider. You put it into the wind. You can see that, he's just catching the winds but you need to get to a moment of fight the way you stepped off the edge and the hang glider text you and then the lift you as a place in our walk with God, where sometimes we need to step over the edge of our limitations and step into the fullness of who we are in him and allow the wind of the spirit to Lift Us. Are we going to get prostitutes will probably that's what happens when Wendy places, but we could also be uplifted because it's in the Wind.

The refined more and more of Christ in US.

I think last week I talked about how in moments of life, I've had what I might cold. Moments of touching each other in Italy. I had the privilege of seeing the cathedral choir many, many years ago when I was a student, and I remember one particular Winter's evening when it was a candlelit service. So there was no other lights in the cathedral, I would just kind of oils. And we were walking in singing, this amazing piece of music and that's like under the oven with the seething. Just about as high as it his hair, and then, as I stepped into the name of the church, it was just like cuz you couldn't see this evening anymore. The kind of like didn't reach that far and it was just like that was an eternity of spice about me and I had that experience. I'm just feeling like I was stepping into eternity.

Them. When when, when we sing the song from Heaven, you came helpless babe. As a verse in there were two hands that flung Stars into spiced to cruel. No surrender. That connection of Heaven, touching Earth, that connection of Eternity. So now I hope and I pray that you experience not just once in awhile, but even just once a year, but on a regular basis that for you having and Earth or touched and you part of the connection, I don't know. What do you remember back to your son, stays? There was a thing called a Van de Graaff generator. Anybody remember those? They were things as you turned them. Like, do you think they wrote, they moved the, the band, through the, through the system? And then on top of the bull and he was creating static, and if you touched it, and that would be a very little bit of lightning between your finger and the Van de Graaff generator. You truly felt it. You probably felt the same thing that or maybe you've walked into a place where you got plastic shoes on and you walking in the carpet. And then you go to touch a metal rail to walk up the stairs.

That's a connection that goes on that. There's a connection there isn't anything going on that and I believe himself and he wants to do it through you. And me there will be going to electrocute you will I'm saying is that times that flung Stars into space to cruel? No surrender.

And we touch up three times people. We are God's hands and feet. We are his eyes and ears. We see. And we know he knows too, but he wants us to Acton to move on. So when opportunity comes, it brings an opportunity for dogs to be glorified. And that's where I find it. So exciting movie in that moment we have to decide. Am I got to go to my fight there? Or am I going to go with what I have?

In Psalm 115 is wearied on. Then it says there's always right. I'll Trust in the Lord. He is healed. Aaron trust in the Lord. He is their help and their Shields. You who fear the Lord trust in the Lord. He is the help and he will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless those who fear the lord and Grace. May the Lord give you increase more and more you and your children. May you be blessed by the Lord who has made Heaven and Earth. The heaven, even, the heavens are the Lord's, but the Earth he has given to the children of men, that's you, and me. The dead do not. Praise the Lord nor any who go down into silence. But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the Lord.

God wants to be glorified. God wants to be glorified through his people. Is he what if we both do it? Double try somebody else. I remember going to listen to many many years ago, I had a guy could run out funky speak and went to a meeting in Roanoke monkey with speaking and he was a vision to put a leaf through every door in the UK. I need to have this dream and they put these words down on a piece of paper and he just wasn't a hundred percent sure. So I thought he'd check it with a couple of wise men and women of God. These sent these words that you had to the one or two white people. And most people came back saying yes.

Run up and get ready, kind of appreciated this man. So He was, it was troubled. He said, what should I do? Until you probably didn't. Go said, why did you ask the man that I asked to do it in the first place? Cuz he's not going to do it either. I'm at leaflet what you whip? I was part of stickyleaf it through those old around the country. I did a few streets in in in here in Eagan.

When God want something to happen, he wants to be glorified. We take that moment, we take the opportunity, I still whether we will step into the fullness of that opportunity.

Let's look at on a scripture that evenly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us to him, be the glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever, all men, not to him, who is able to do exceedingly abundantly. Now, there's a big words There's a big W, I don't know what I mean and you'll dictionary but exceedingly, abundantly doesn't fit. LePage for me. Doesn't fit in the Box, doesn't fit in the bank account.

Exceedingly abundantly it for me, immediately talks about overflow and took some more than enough. So exceedingly abundantly more even three-quarters full or even medieval it's full and overflowing as we read elsewhere pressed down and running over and so exceedingly abundantly is something we should find spice to try and walking.

I wonder how many times I got. Is wanted to give us more but we've got enough. So we said, thank you. I have what I need. I'm sure sometimes God is sitting there, trying to give us more because he wants us to give it away. Because we've got sufficient, we're kind of comfortable.

The him. And what's this? All about? What this is exceedingly, abundantly, you'll about to him be the glory to him.

I don't know whether yours Rima, what do you have dreams in the middle of the night with her? When what they're about? What if you do? And the helpful just go get the glory. Talk to none of these are days. You can use on nights to can use all dreaming time. He can speak to us 24/7, you can give us visions and dreams and we can give him the glory. I took it off vinyl scripture for today, then as we pull it all together and DC Matthew 5:16. Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father in Heaven. no, it's not that we don't get any recognition because he uses us where the connection

But let's make sure the glory goes back to God to this question.

Answer you find yourself in the moment when you come to the end of yourself patients, you run out of patience or time with something. I've run out of myself, I want to encourage you in that moment, just two pools, but just a couple of seconds and say, God is this a time? You want to use me? Do you want to stretch my time? Do you want to cancel my appointments? Show me to give a little more so that you can give more to me.

Has Nikki said, we live in a world where social media in the digital news is coming. To us means that we're sitting in, nearly real-time the Dreadful things that are going on around the world.

Yeah, we still got to keep on doing all normal stuff as well. So we have for some

Ian sometimes I just sent all the God says he's like just Pride now and then you can put it down again for the rest of the day.

Am I pray for that one image? I pray for that one, new story, and I pray for the whole lot. Just take that one thing that has somehow touched me. And I cried,

I allow those things to launch me into doing something else with passion and purpose, but I was going to do anyway.

Cuz I want dogs to have the glory so as you step into your wake, as you come to the end of yourself, let me just encourage you, where he's going to give you what you need to do and be part of that exceedingly. Abundantly more than we read the about it in Scripture. How do I meet Troy?

Call the Gulf Bank you that you are a God who is being glorified. Father help us to be part of your Eternal plan to do the little things that we can do to reach out to you and to ask. And then when you gave little to, to give you the glory, say that, that wasn't me. That was, that was my father.

When we see God creating God, releasing God empowering people in seconds, then she's the old way and above beyond beyond what we might think of, as natural. We can see that the supernatural his touchdown Angelic visitation.

Supernatural provision. Exceeding stamina assistance, the Breakthrough to bring God the glory.

I so want to leave a picture in your mind is like pry unless you come to the edge of yourself, whether it's stepping out into a cathedral or they're stepping up the side of a hill with a hang glider or whether it's literally just reaching out a helping hand. And saying, I'll do what I can.

Peter and John at the kinds of the gate called beautiful and they look to the man who was begging for alms I said look at us. I think I passed it many times before.

And he looked at them. And what did he say? He saw men of God, coming into the cathedral and I said take off your bed Newark. And he walks, he was helped.

I think people need to seek out at work and it might happen through you anime.