Begin with God

The mark of your life is far greater than your testify personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, your dreams, ambition, and even your happiness. To know why you ar on this planet, you need to start with deity, because you were born by HIS office and for HIS heading. For instance, you bought equipment, with come forward the manual you whitethorn never know how to operate but guess. Its only the noble or the owner of the equipment that could reveal its purpose and how it works (may be by dint of a manual) In the same way, you cannot arrive at your lifes purpose by showtime with a focus on yourself you must(prenominal) begin with God, your creator. It is only in God that you discover your origin, your identity, your meaning, your purpose, your significance and your destiny. Proverbs 1128Colossians 1 16 for everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him Have you ever ask yourself the followi ngWhat do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What ar my goals, my ambitions, and my dreams for my emerging? The above questions are focused self centered, rather the question should be. What is the purpose of God for my life? Romans 86 obsession with self in these matters is a dead end, attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious free life Job 12 10 It is God who directs the lives of his creatures everyones life is in his power You could reach your personal goals, go a raving success by the worlds standardised and still miss the purpose for which God created you. Discovering Purpose is about decorous what God created you to be.How to Discover Purpose a.By Speculation (guess, theorize, conjecture etc) some battalion made up a purpose for life others were honest seemly to say they were clueless b.By Revelation the easiest and the only way to discover purpose is to ask the creator of it (Ask God) because God has not left us in the dark to wonder and gu ess. HE has revealed five purposes for our lives through the bible (i.e. owners manual) 1 Corinthians 2 7Gods wisdom goes deep into the interior of his purposes, its not the latest message, but to a greater extent like the oldest, what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us God is not just the starting point but the source of it, so to discover purpose we must turn to Gods word and build our lives on ever-living truth. Ephesians 111It is in savior that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for celebrated living, pop out of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone1.Through family relationship with God 2.Turn to Gods word to find out who you are and what you are living for 3.God knew us even before you were born and had designed/shaped purpose for your life, HE planned your existence, which predates your existence, without your input 4.Live a glorious life that will glorify HIS name 5.The purpose of your life fits into a much larger purpose that God has designed for eternity Jeremiah 17 7 8