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WHAT ON EARTH AM I HERE FOR?

4o Days of Purpose – Part 1

 

LIFE’S 3 GREATEST QUESTIONS

1.   QUESTION OF EXISTENCE: WHY AM I HERE ?

Jeremiah 20:18 Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

 

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

 

Isaiah 64:8 Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.

 

Proverbs 16:4a The LORD works out everything for his own ends…

 

Proverbs 16:4a (God’s Word Version) The Lord has made everything for His own purpose…

 

1 John 4:10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

 

Ephesians 5:1 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children…

 

Answer: You were CREATED to be loved by Him!

 

Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless. Bertrand Russell, Atheist

2.  QUESTION OF SIGNIFICANCE:  DOES MY LIFE MATTER?

Isaiah 49:4a But I said, “I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing.

 

Psalm 139:13-16 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. ¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. ¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, ¹⁶ your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

 

Answer: Your life matters because you MATTER TO GOD! You matter so much that He wants you TO LIVE forever with Him!

 

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

 

1 Thessalonians 5:10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.

3.   QUESTION OF INTENTION:  WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?       

Psalm 89:47-48 Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all men! ⁴⁸ What man can live and not see death, or save himself from the power of the grave?

     

Proverbs 9:10 “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

 

Colossians 1:16 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.

 

Answer: I discover my purpose by getting GETTING TO KNOW GOD and by reading His “OWNER'S MANUAL.”

     

John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God…

 

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Dear God, I want to know the purpose of my life. I do not want to waste another day going through life not knowing why I am here. God please forgive the sins that I have done against you.  Nothing is too big for you to forgive.  I ask You Jesus Christ to start changing me from the inside out beginning right now. I want to know you and the purposes for which I was created. I turn to you and ask you to be the leader of my life. I give you my heart, my soul, my life, my past, and my future. Thank you for dying for me.  Help me to live for you, now and forever. Amen.