Chapter 9: What Are You Doing, Lord?

David Kalamen

In the right place.
At the right time.
With the right people.

Life Purpose

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“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 9

What Are You Doing, Lord?

1. Our generation is desperate to find a sense of “personal purpose.” Why is the concept of “finding my purpose in life” contrary to biblical principles? What are some of the dangers of pursuing “personal purpose?”

2. What was the purpose template Christ left us to follow? Discover that template in Christ’s life by studying John 5:17-20.

3. Dissect Romans 8:28 and comment as to what part of that verse is the most critical phrase, from your perspective.

4. The Church world has been divided historically between two theologies as regards knowing the will and purposes of God: identify your belief system pertaining to the sovereignty of God and the free will of man.

5. How does Saul’s life demonstrate these two belief systems working in tandem?

6. How do the three theological building blocks help you grasp the eternal purpose of God and where you fit? Please explain.

Foreordination
Decree
Foreknowledge