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GOD’S PURPOSE FOR GUIDANCE
 
Last time spoke on “God’s Promise of Guidance.”
Now above.
Appropriate as begin a new year.
New Year’s resolution vs. asking the question: What am I here for?
God allowed us to be born or live in America, in Salem, attend Bethany.
For what purpose?
Not like those who believe in REINCARNATION – I’m here because of what did in previous existence.
Prov.
16:4 (LB): /“The Lord has made everything for his own purpose…”/
 
 
In fact, you will live your life on one of three levels:
 
The lowest level is what I call the survival level.
Many people live their lives in the survival mode.
They *just exist*.
They put in their time and *hope for the week end* and *for retirement*.
They are in the survival mode.
If I were to ask you "What's your number one goal in your life?"
What would you respond?
The next level is a little bit higher level.
It's what I call the success level.
That's where *most *of you are today.
By the world's standards you've made it.
You have a *comfortable life style*.
You have possessions, you have prestige, you have pleasure.
*Life is pretty good*.
Most of the world would love to have your problems.
You've hit the success level.
What most are say is that ultimately success does not satisfy.
You must go beyond success to significance.
What you really need is not success, but significance to feel like "*My life matters*.
*There's a meaning a purpose to my* *life*."
Joe Dillow, founder BEE, p. 551
 
People who've discovered significance are those who've discovered God's purpose for their life.
*Gondalf *(Lord of the Rings): “The only thing I have to decide is what to do with the time that has been given!”
The tragedy is that even *many successful people feel very insignificant*, because they've never reached that level.
When you look at the people that have made the greatest impact on this world, they were not the brightest, they were not the wealthiest, they were not the best educated.
But the people that have made the biggest difference in life, for good or bad, were those who had the deepest
 
I want to suggest that to be all that you were meant to have a significant life.
David.
Acts 13:36:  "David served God's purpose in his generation.
Then he died."
How would you like to have this written on your tombstone.Why was David a man after God's own heart?
Because *he did with his life what God intended.*
He fulfilled the purpose of God for his life.
Another man is Paul.
Paul was a man of *tremendous purpose*.
He had a life mission that he would not waver from.
"I reckon my own life to be worth nothing to me, in order that I may complete my mission and finish the work the Lord Jesus gave me to do."
THE ADVANTAGES OF HAVING AN PURPOSE IN LIFE
 
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It is the key to lowering DISSATISFACTION.
We live in a world of incredible options.
And that makes decision making more difficult, more frustrating.
James 1:6-7 (NEB): "A doubtful mind is unsettled as a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind."
Indecision is frustrating.
[The great theologian Alice in Wonderland:  If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.]
If you have already discovered God's purpose for your life, then you know where you are going.
Sure, you're going to have detours and bumps in the road, road blocks.
But you can get there a whole lot quicker when you know where you're going.
It reduces the frustration level in your life.
The question need to ask: "*Will this decision help me fulfill God's purpose for my life?**"
If yes, I do it.
If it's not, I don't do it.
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Trying to live your life without knowing what God made you for is like driving in a fog.
Many of you may have felt like Isaiah 49:4:  "I've labored to no purpose.
I've spent my strength in vain and for nothing."
In Isaiah 26:3 "You Lord give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm."
Satisfaction comes from knowing my purpose in life.
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It is the key to MOTIVATION.
Once I know what I'm here for, I have *a reason to live*.
You have a reason to get out of bed and you get up in the morning and say "Good morning, Lord" instead of "Good Lord, it's morning!"
“This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it!”
Some people feel like Job 7:6, 17 "My life drags by, day by day, day after hopeless day.
I'm tired of living.
My life makes no sense."
He says I don't have any purpose, any sense in my  life, therefore it's hopeless.
When you have no purpose, you have no motivation.
*What is the secret to energy and enthusiasm and hope in life?
The secret is to live a purpose-driven life.*
Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord.
They're plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."
I'm not just talking about being a Christian.
I'm talking about being what God made you to be.
Many of you are in the wrong job, because you are driven by somebody else's approval or whatever to get into it.
God doesn't want you to waste your life.
*Full-time RVers vs. RVicks.
*Average missionary candidate age: 34-36.
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It is the key to FOCUS IN LIFE.
The fact is you don't have time for everything in life.
But the good news is this:  God doesn't expect you to do everything in life, but to  concentrate your energy on what God wants you to do, not what everybody else in the world wants you to do.
When you know your purpose in life and when you discover why God made you as an individual, your purpose in life not only defines what you're going to do but it defines what you don't do.
It defines your priorities but also your anti priorities.
Prov.
4:25-27 (NLT) : /“Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you.
Mark out a straight path for your feet;  /* **(NEXT SLIDE)*/  then stick to the path… Don’t get sidetracked.”/
!!! Every individual *needs to ask* that "What did God put me here for?
Philippians 3:13 "I’m bringing all my energies to bear on this one thing.
Forgetting what is behind *(NEXT SLIDE)*/  / and looking forward to what lies ahead.”
Paul says *knowing your life purpose*, *gives your life focus*.
It's like *light* diffused has no power at all.
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