Chapter 8: Getting To Know You

David Kalamen

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At the right time.
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Life Purpose

STUDY GUIDE

“Until your desire to become you matches God’s desire for you to become you, you will never become who God intended you to be”

How passionate are you to see God’s purposes come to fruition in your life?

How aggressively are you pursuing the knowledge of God and His will for your life?

How desperate are you to locate that for which your life
has been called upward in Christ (Phil 3:12)?

Are you “pressing towards the goal to win the prize to which Christ Jesus is calling you upward?”

You will never see your potential maximized until there is a grabbing hold of destiny in your heart. You will never become the you God intended until you get serious about knowing Him and knowing His will. Jesus said that “the violent take the kingdom by force”

(Matt 11:12).

This violence is similar to the aggressiveness of a baby in the birth canal that is ready to start living life. You have got to mean business about serving the purposes of God in this generation, and get your priorities in line if you want to find that life that gives significance.

Chapter 8

Getting To Know You

1. Why does the writer believe that the starting point concerning knowing identity and purpose in life starts with knowing who God is?

2. Our sense of identity and purpose flows out of our mental picture of God. Brainstorm on the ideas people have of God and its influence upon their sense of value and purpose: eg. if we see God as a policeman, then how does that cause us to respond to Him?

3. Knowing the True God truly is critical. How does a knowledge of the following affect our relationship to God? How does it build our confidence in reference to personal worth and identity as well as our sense of direction and purpose?

His nature
His attributes
His character
His ways and works
His names
His voice and will