What on Earth Am I Here For

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What on Earth Am I Here For?

• 40 Days of Purpose Week 1

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What on Earth Am I Here For?40 Days of Purpose
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• A question concerning the purpose of life,

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What on Earth Am I Here For?40 Days of Purpose
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• A question concerning the purpose of life,
• can only be answered by the creator of life.

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What on Earth Am I Here For?40 Days of Purpose
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• Finding your purpose
• begins with God.

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• Unless you assume a God,
• the question of lifes purpose
• is meaningless.
• Bertrand Russell, Atheist

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What on Earth Am I Here For?40 Days of Purpose
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• God made you
• for a purpose.

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• Proverbs 164
• The LORD has made everything for his own
  purposes
• New Living Translation

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• You were carefully created by God to fulfill
  the purposes
• He intends for you.

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• Psalm 13916-17
• You saw me before I was born. Every day of my
  life was recorded in your book. Every moment was
  laid out before a single day had passed. How
  precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They
  are innumerable!
• New Living Translation

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• So how significant is your life?

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What on Earth Am I Here For?40 Days of Purpose
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• So how significant is your life?
• So significant that God, the almighty,
  all-powerful, all-knowing, creator and
  sustainer of our world, created you in great and
  precise detail. He thought about your creation
  so much His thoughts could not be numbered.

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• A universal purpose is one that applies to each
  and every person God has created.

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• Ephesians 14
• Long ago, even before He made the
• world, God loved us.
• New Living Translation

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• You were made
• to be loved by God

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• Psalm 1172
• For he loves us with unfailing love the
  faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise
  the LORD!
• New Living Translation

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Human love vs. Gods love

• Mans love comes with limitations

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Human love vs. Gods love

• Mans love comes with limitations
• Gods love knows no limits

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Human love vs. Gods love

• Mans love is conditional

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Human love vs. Gods love

• Mans love is conditional
• God loves is unconditional

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Human love vs. Gods love

• Mans love is conditional
• God loves is unconditional
• He loves us in spite of what we do

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Individual or a persons specific purpose
involves their talents, abilities, resources and
spiritual gifts.
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Individual purposes must always be consistent
with Gods universal purposes for all people.
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As a result universal purposes serve to mold and
shape our individual purposes and they also
should mold and shape our interaction with God
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CLOSING FOCUS You were made to be loved by God.