Living Life On Purpose Part 3

Posted by Paula White - Thu, October 29, 2009 at 09:06 PM

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Job 22: 26-29 Message 26 You’ll take delight in God, the Mighty One and look to Him joyfully, boldly. 27 You’ll pray to Him and He’ll listen, He’ll help you do what you’ve promised. 28 You’ll decide what you want and it will happen – your life will be bathed in light. 29 To those who feel low, you’ll say, “Chin up! Be brave” and God will save them. 30 Yes, even the guilty will escape, escape through God’s grace in your life.

KJV V28 “Thou shalt also decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee and thy light shall shine upon thy ways -

(We learned) => To decree (Heb), to decide, to determine; an enactment, hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or wage).

= It speaks of something prescribed such as a task or portion

= The verb denotes => something cut in or engraved

= (the primary root) => for decree – to cut down or off
(Decision => etymology: to cut)

It’s what you cut out or let go of in your mind (soul) that changes the quality of your life.

You can give yourself the “Best of Life” – i.e., what you want most in life (“the sweetest fruit”) or an abundant life in Christ (John 10:10)…by agreeing with the decrees of God!

For what we want most, turns out to be the touchstone of our development.

For getting what we most want brings us what we most need.

Reminds me of a little “Psalm for your psyche” => I read….

• I asked for Strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong
• I asked for Wisdom and God gave me problems to solve
• I asked for Prosperity and God gave me a brain and brawn to work
• I asked for Courage and God gave me danger to overcome
• I asked for Love and God gave me troubled people to help
• I asked for Favors and God gave me opportunities
• I received nothing I wanted…but I received everything I needed!

I have discovered:
• The yearning on the inside of you for that “abundant life” you were created to live…
• The “inner-pull” that says “there is more to life than what I have been living”…
• Calls us and carries us to discover, define, and develop the powerful inner skills,
• Enabling us to reach the “Abundant Life” i.e. or => “A Life on Purpose.”

As we discovered in Jeremiah 1:5, God had already made a decision about you.

Paul confirms the same thing:

Galatians 1:5 But when it pleased God Who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace…
Separated = (Hebrew) => set off by boundary
Appoint – to decree, declare, determine and specify

“You were specified” i.e. => clearly intended, designed, destined, defined, determined, and decided upon.

A sovereign God KNEW:
➢ who your parents would be,
➢ all the struggles you would have,
➢ the mistakes you would make

He fashioned your package – Example => DNA: your personality, your when, your “who.”

A “pre-arranged moment: He released you into purpose –

His decree = is our personal destiny, our fore-ordained ministry and lifelong assignment.

It is the Divine Prescription for our earthly existence

On the day you were born, you had all the inherent strength, goodness and wisdom you would ever need – All that you required was the knowledge or tools to access it!

In our text (and focus tonight) = Job 22:29 says:
To those who feel low, you’ll say….”Chin up! Be brave! And God will save them.

Tonight, going to learn: “low places” often become the spring board of life to high places…receive some tools to getting there.

Have you ever hit low places in life?

Maybe you have a low day in the week…or “low week” in the month…or a “low year”….

However, that does not determine or define you to live a “low life”

Often the greatest joys in life come from going thru a crisis

Who and where (in terms of inner growth) you truly are as a person is best revealed by who you are during times of conflict and crisis.

It’s easy to be your highest-self when things are smooth…

But when they get “rocky”…

HOW you handle life’s setbacks and traumas reveals your authentic character

There’s an old saying that says:
A man can’t cover up all the infinite – stone-covered, jagged paths of this world with a layer of soft, cushy leather…
But a man CAN wear soft, cushy leather sandals on the soles of his feet to protect himself on the journey.

Jesus said it like this:

Matthew 7:24-27 24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall because it had its foundation the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; and it fell with a great crash.

Life has ebbs and flows, it is rarely linear.
It has jagged edges, and zig zags on your journey

Being in spirit is a direction we take, rather than a destination we reach.

Galatians 5:16 “Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill (GR = to end or execute) the lust of the flesh –
Walk (Greek) = follow, tread around

The significance is NOT in the size of the storm…
but the substance of the foundation.

Jesus said – there are 2 categories to put people in:
#1) Those who hear His words and put them into practice (participators) - wise, rock foundation
#2) Those who hear His words and do not put them into practice (spectators) = foolish, sand foundation.

Which brings us to:
TOOL #1 for getting out of “low life living” or how to get out of “low places.”
TOOL #2: Adopt the mind-set of God instead of the opinion of man.
• God lives in the realms of => all things are possible
• Revelation / Not Limitations.
• Revelation = removes the veil from something…and is based on how God wants me to “see things” = His perspective.
• That’s why I must develop a certain thinking that will put God in the circumstances.

I Corinthians 2:16 But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart

You can choose to build (strength or weakness) – (Choose strength)

Life is all about choice (not chance)

Putting into practice the Words of Jesus is a choice you make

It will take conscious effort and discipline.

Remember to live an empowered and inspired (in-Spirit) life

You must cut out every thought that moved you in the wrong direction or away from God – “Spirit”

Make a “course correction” where your thoughts move away from His.

The mind is the seat of all spiritual and carnal conflict.

In, essence, what controls our mind, controls our life.

Carnal Mind = having the nature of flesh (sensual controlled by animal appetite)

Spiritual or Spirit Minded = (Greek) pneuma / (Hebrew) Ruuh = wind or breath that is spacious. “Air in motion” or the Holy Spirit = current of air, breath
A “spirit mind” = is connection and controlled by the spirit of Christ
Revelation comes as He (God) communicates to your mind through faith in the word

2 Keys Things to Remember:
a. Faith is based on knowledge
1. God’s word
2. His character

“We” cannot produce faith; it’s what God’s word produces in us.

Faith is the persuasion of a mind that a statement or idea is true and worthy of trust, therefore, is God said it, that settles it.

You must REFRAME your life…
To BE a student and not a victim

Victor Frankl = a psychologist who survived 3 years in a concentration camp…wrote book Man’s Search for Meaning. Said:
“It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future and how we undermine it today.”

He purports that those who find meaning in the “bad” and learn lessons in l ife = don’t just survive but thrive.

Romans 8:28 All things work together for the good to those who are the called of God.

TOOL #3: Accept and Receive God’s Forgiveness for You

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now NO condemnation to them, which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but the Spirit.
Condemnation => (GR = katakrima) => means to speak against your experiences - makes you feel negative about self in the midst of what God is doing during your struggle

I John 3:20-21 For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things.
Condemn = to note against, to find fault with, to judge against, to sentence

An event does NOT define you (whether something happened to you OR because of you).

God gives us an exercise in excellence and theology when religious people, drug or woman out of the very act of adultery (in John 8) and threw her before the crowd He was teaching and said “What are you going to do?”

Living Life On Purpose Part 3

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