Like you, at one time, I struggled to find my purpose. I struggled with the "why" of life. Why am I here? Is there more to this life than what I am living? How can I make a difference in this world? For me, it took sickness, plan and tragedy to help me learn what I am about to share with you in this course. + Learn how to discover your purpose + How to make a plan to develop your purpose + Suggestions on how you might profit from it

2. WHAT IS PURPOSE?
• WHAT IS THE REASON YOU EXIST?
• WHAT IS THE REASON YOU WERE PUT ON THIS EARTH AT THIS MOMENT INTIME?
• WHAT IS THE REASON YOU WERE BORN IN THIS CENTURY AND NOT 2000 YEARS AGO?
PURPOSE!

3. YOU ARE ON ASSIGNMENT
• FOR I KNOW THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU," DECLARES THE LORD, "PLANS TO PROSPER YOU AND NOT TO HARM YOU, PLANS TO GIVE
YOU HOPE AND A FUTURE. – JEREMIAH 29:11
• "BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE WOMB I KNEW YOU, BEFORE YOU WERE BORN I SET YOU APART; I APPOINTED YOU AS A PROPHET TO
THE NATIONS.“ - JEREMIAH 1:8
• FOR WE ARE GOD'S HANDIWORK, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS TO DO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD PREPARED IN ADVANCE FOR US TO
DO. – EPHESIANS 2:10
• HOWEVER, AS IT IS WRITTEN: “WHAT NO EYE HAS SEEN, WHAT NO EAR HAS HEARD, AND WHAT NO HUMAN MIND HAS CONCEIVED”—
THE THINGS GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM— I CORINTHIANS 2:9

4. YOU ARE QUALIFIED
YOU HAVE THE EXACT:
• TALENTS
• ABILITIES
• SKILL
• PERSONALITY
TO ACCOMPLISH THE PURPOSE OF GOD FOR YOUR LIFE

5. WHAT’S THE PLAN?
• WHAT ARE YOUR TALENTS?
• WHAT ARE YOUR NATURAL GIFTINGS?
• WHAT DO YOU LOVE TO DO?
• WHAT DID YOU PLAY AS A CHILD?
• WHAT DO OTHERS SAY YOU ARE GOOD AT?

6. WHAT IS THE DREAM IN YOUR HEART?
• HAS THE DREAM STAYED WITH YOU FOR A LONG TIME?
• IS IT A DREAM THAT WILL BENEFIT OTHERS?
• IS IT BIGGER THAN YOURSELF AND YOUR RESOURCES?
• IS IT KINGDOM-OF-GOD-ORIENTED?

7. ISN’T PASSION WRONG?
• FOR WHEN WE WERE IN THE REALM OF THE FLESH, THE SINFUL PASSIONS AROUSED BY THE LAW WERE AT
WORK IN US, SO THAT WE BORE FRUIT FOR DEATH. – ROMANS 7:5
• IT TEACHES US TO SAY “NO” TO UNGODLINESS AND WORLDLYPASSIONS, AND TO LIVE SELF-CONTROLLED,
UPRIGHT AND GODLY LIVES IN THIS PRESENT AGE, - TITUS 2:12
• AT ONE TIME WE TOO WERE FOOLISH, DISOBEDIENT, DECEIVED AND ENSLAVED BY ALL KINDS OF PASSIONS
AND PLEASURES. WE LIVED IN MALICE AND ENVY, BEING HATED AND HATING ONE ANOTHER. – TITUS 3:3

8. DO YOU HAVE PASSION?
• PASSION - ANY POWERFUL OR COMPELLING EMOTION OR FEELING, AS LOVE OR HATE (DICTIONARY.COM)
• WHAT KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT?
• WHAT MAKES YOU ANGRY WHEN YOU SEE IT ON THE NEWS?
• WHAT STORIES MAKE YOU SAD?
• IF MONEY WERE NO OBJECT, WHAT THINGS IN THIS WORLD WHAT YOU LIKETO CHANGE?
• WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP?

9. WANT TO PRAY ABOUT IT?
• TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING; - PROVERBS
3:5
• ‘CALL TO ME AND I WILL ANSWER YOU AND TELL YOU GREAT AND UNSEARCHABLE THINGS YOU DO NOT
KNOW.’ – JEREMIAH 33:3
• “ASK AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU; SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND; KNOCK AND THE DOOR WILL BE OPENED TO
YOU. – MATTHEW 7:7
• IF ANY OF YOU LACKS WISDOM, YOU SHOULDASK GOD, WHO GIVES GENEROUSLY TO ALL WITHOUT
FINDING FAULT, AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU. – JAMES 1:5

10. NEED POWER BEHIND THOSE PRAYERS?
• IN THE SAME WAY, THE SPIRIT HELPS US IN OUR WEAKNESS. WE DO NOTKNOW WHAT WE OUGHT TO
PRAY FOR, BUT THE SPIRIT HIMSELF INTERCEDES FOR US THROUGH WORDLESS GROANS. AND HE WHO
SEARCHES OUR HEARTS KNOWS THE MIND OF THE SPIRIT, BECAUSE THE SPIRIT INTERCEDES FOR GOD’S
PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WILL OF GOD. AND WE KNOW THAT IN ALL THINGS GOD WORKS FOR
THE GOOD OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM, WHOHAVE BEEN CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. - ROMANS
8:26-28

11. GOD’S PEACE OR YOURS?
• PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU; MY PEACE I GIVE YOU. I DO NOT GIVE TO YOU AS THE WORLD GIVES. DO NOT LET
YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED AND DO NOT BE AFRAID. – JOHN 14:27
• DO NOT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING, BUT IN EVERY SITUATION, BY PRAYER AND PETITION, WITH
THANKSGIVING, PRESENT YOUR REQUESTS TO GOD. AND THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH TRANSCENDS ALL
UNDERSTANDING, WILL GUARD YOUR HEARTS AND YOUR MINDS IN CHRIST JESUS. – PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7
• YOU WILL KEEP IN PERFECT PEACE THOSE WHOSE MINDS ARE STEADFAST, BECAUSE THEY TRUST IN YOU.
– ISAIAH 26:3

12. DO YOU HAVE PEACE?
• AND LET THE PEACE (SOUL HARMONY WHICH COMES) FROM CHRIST RULE (ACT AS UMPIRE
CONTINUALLY) IN YOUR HEARTS [DECIDING AND SETTLING WITH FINALITYALL QUESTIONS THAT ARISE IN
YOUR MINDS, IN THAT PEACEFUL STATE] TO WHICH AS [MEMBERS OF CHRIST’S] ONE BODY YOU WERE
ALSO CALLED [TO LIVE]. AND BE THANKFUL (APPRECIATIVE), [GIVING PRAISE TO GOD ALWAYS]. –
COLOSSIANS 3:15 (AMP)

13. DO YOU HAVE THE PICTURE?
• PRAY UNTIL YOU GET A PICTURE, SOMETHING YOU CAN VISUALIZE ABOUTYOUR FUTURE
• PAY ATTENTION TO THE THINGS YOU DREAM OF WHEN YOU ARE ASLEEP
• WATCH FOR OPPORTUNITIES AND PEOPLE THAT COME YOUR WAY
• FIND A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT AND DREAM

14. CAN YOU SEE IT?
• SEE, I AM DOING A NEW THING! NOW IT SPRINGS UP; DO YOU NOT PERCEIVE IT? I AM MAKING A WAY IN
THE WILDERNESS AND STREAMS IN THE WASTELAND. - ISAIAH 43:19
• JACOB, HOWEVER, TOOK FRESH-CUT BRANCHES FROM POPLAR, ALMOND AND PLANE TREES AND MADE
WHITE STRIPES ON THEM BY PEELING THE BARK AND EXPOSING THE WHITEINNER WOOD OF THE
BRANCHES. 38 THEN HE PLACED THE PEELED BRANCHES IN ALL THE WATERING TROUGHS, SO THAT THEY
WOULD BE DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE FLOCKS WHEN THEY CAME TO DRINK. WHEN THE FLOCKS WERE IN
HEAT AND CAME TO DRINK, 39 THEY MATED IN FRONT OF THE BRANCHES. AND THEY BORE YOUNG THAT
WERE STREAKED OR SPECKLED OR SPOTTED. – GENESIS 30:37-39

15. ARE YOU PREPARED?
• MOSES – SPENT 4O YEARS ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE DESERT BEFORE LEADING THE ISRAELITES
• DAVID – SPENT TIME TENDING SHEEP AND BEING THEIR PROTECTOR BEFORE LEADING ISRAEL
• ESTHER – SPENT A YEAR BEING PREPARED BEFORE BECOMING QUEEN AND SAVING HER PEOPLE
• JOSEPH – SPENT YEARS SERVING POTIPHAR AND IN PRISON BEFORE WORKING FOR PHARAOH
• NOAH – SPENT TIME BUILDING THE ARK BEFORE SAVING HIS FAMILY FROM THE FLOOD

16. WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHILE YOU WAIT?
• DO NOT CONFORM TO THE PATTERN OF THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMEDBY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND.
– ROMANS 12:1
• THEREFORE GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF
THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, 20 AND TEACHING THEM TO OBEY EVERYTHING I HAVE COMMANDED YOU.
AND SURELY I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, TO THE VERY END OF THE AGE.” – MATTHEW 28:19
• FOR I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME SOMETHING TO EAT, I WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE ME SOMETHING TO
DRINK, I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU INVITED ME IN, I NEEDED CLOTHES AND YOU CLOTHED ME, I WAS SICK
AND YOU LOOKED AFTER ME, I WAS IN PRISON AND YOU CAME TO VISIT ME.’ – MATTHEW 25:35-36

17. WILL THERE BE PROBLEMS?
• IN THE WORLD YOU SHALL HAVE TRIBULATION: BUT BE OF GOOD CHEER; I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD. –
JOHN 16:33
• PAUL – PRISON, SHIPWRECKS, THORN IN THE SIDE
• ESTHER – PLOT TO KILL THE HEBREWS
• DAVID – KING SAUL WANTED TO KILL HIM
• JESUS – PHARISEES ACCUSED HIM, PLOTTED TO KILL HIM
• RUTH – HUNGER, LACK OF RESOURCES

18. HOW DO YOU REACT TO THE PROBLEMS?
• DO NOT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING, BUT IN EVERY SITUATION, BY PRAYER AND PETITION, WITH
THANKSGIVING, PRESENT YOUR REQUESTS TO GOD. AND THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH TRANSCENDS ALL
UNDERSTANDING, WILL GUARD YOUR HEARTS AND YOUR MINDS IN CHRIST JESUS. – PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7
• PRAY ABOUT IT
• BE THANKFUL
• GUARD YOUR HEART AND MIND

19. DO YOU HAVE PEOPLE PROBLEMS?
• DAVID – SAUL AND CHILDREN OF ISRAEL PLOTTING TO KILL HIM
• JESUS – PHARISEES PLOTTING TO KILL HIM
• ESTHER – HAMAN PLOTTING TO KILL THE HEBREWS
• JOSEPH – POTIPHER’S WIFE AND THE BUTLER PREVENTING HIM FROM MOVING AHEAD
• NOAH – NAYSAYERS THAT RAIN WOULD NEVER COME, AND THERE WOULD BE NO FLOOD

20. ARE YOU SURROUNDED BY A TEAM?
• DAVID – JONATHAN
• ESTHER – MORDECAI
• JESUS – JOHN THE BAPTIST AND HIS DISCIPLES
• MOSES – AARON, MIRIAM, JETHRO
• MARY - JOSEPH

21. WHAT IS PERSEVERANCE?
• STEADFASTNESS IN DOING SOMETHING DESPITE DIFFICULTY OR DELAY INACHIEVING SUCCESS.
• DAVID – CONTINUED HIS DREAM OF BEING KING EVEN WITH SAUL TRYING TO KILL HIM
• PAUL – CONTINUED TO BRING THE GOSPEL TO THE GENTILES EVEN WITH SHIPWRECKS, THORNS IN THE
FLESH, PRISON TIME
• ESTHER – CONTINUED TO BE TRUE TO GOD EVEN WHEN FACED WITH ANNIHILATION OF HER PEOPLE
• NOAH – CONTINUED TO BUILD THE ARK EVEN THOUGH HE HAD NEVER SEEN RAIN
• ABRAHAM – CONTINUED TO BELIEVE GOD TO GIVE HIM A SON EVEN WHEN HE MESSED UP

22. HOW DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE MIDST OF
PROBLEMS?
• RENEW THE MIND WITH THE SCRIPTURES THROUGH MEDITATION
• HAVE A PICTURE OF YOUR DREAM. KEEP VISUALIZING IT UNTIL IT ISREAL TO YOU
• MEET REGULARLY WITH THOSE WHO HAVE OVERCOME
• REHEARSE YOUR VICTORIES OUT LOUD
• SURRENDER IT ALL TO GOD

23. ARE YOU IN POSITION?
• NO ONE FROM THE EAST OR THE WEST OR FROM THE DESERT CAN EXALT THEMSELVES. – PSALM 75:6
• JOSEPH – EXALTED TO PHARAOH’S RIGHT-HAND PERSON TO SAVE HIS FAMILY AND THE SURROUNDING NATIONS
• ESTHER – EXALTED TO QUEEN TO SAVE THE HEBREWS
• RUTH – EXALTED TO BOAZ’S WIFE TO CONTINUE THE LINEAGE OF JESUS
• DAVID – EXALTED TO BE KING OF ISRAEL
• MOSES – EXALTED TO BE LEADER OF THE ISRAELITES TO LEAD THEM TOWARD THE PROMISE LAND

24. WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THAT POWER?
• DAVID – USED HIS POSITION TO BE WITH BATHSHEBA AND PLOT TO KILL HER HUSBAND
• SOLOMON – DESPITE HIS WISDOM, TURNED TO THE IDOLS OF HIS WIVES
• MOSES – BECAME ANGRY AND DIDN’T ENTER THE PROMISED LAND UNTIL THE TRANSFIGURATION
• PETER – CUT OFF A GUARD’S EAR WHO TRIED TO ARREST JESUS
• JUDAS – STOLE MONEY FROM THE TREASURY OF JESUS’ MINISTRY ON EARTH

25. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING ON?
• MOST BELIEVERS THINK WE ARE WAITING ON GOD
• THEN THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL MAKE YOU MOST PROSPEROUS IN ALL THEWORK OF YOUR HANDS AND
IN THE FRUIT OF YOUR WOMB, THE YOUNG OF YOUR LIVESTOCK AND THE CROPS OF YOUR LAND. THE LORD
WILL AGAIN DELIGHT IN YOU AND MAKE YOU PROSPEROUS, JUST AS HE DELIGHTED IN YOUR ANCESTORS,
- DEUTERONOMY 30:9 (NIV)
• WE HAVE TO PUT OUR HANDS TO SOMETHING IN ORDER FOR IT TO PROSPER

26. THE TIME IS NOW
• NOW FAITH IS CONFIDENCE IN WHAT WE HOPE FOR AND ASSURANCE ABOUTWHAT WE DO NOT SEE. –
HEBREWS 11:1
• CHOOSE TO COMMIT YOURSELF TO FULFILLING YOUR PURPOSE NO MATTER WHAT COMES AGAINST YOU
• ASSEMBLE A TEAM OF SUPPORTIVE PEOPLE TO HELP YOU GO FURTHER THANYOU COME ON YOUR OWN
• TRUST GOD KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING

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