The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
Still, we want more. We long for Him to show us what to order off of the menu of His blessings. Our hearts want specifics. We want to know where to live and to work and who to love and so on. People look under every rock for a hint from God. God is standing back saying, "I trust you not to waste this life. Go live it in any godly way you wish.
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assurance that what we hope for is going to happen (see Hebrews 11:1). The more time we spend with God, the more we learn of his goodness and faithfulness—and the stronger our faith in him becomes. We learn from God’s Word that it is impossible to please God without faith (see Hebrews 11:6). That very chapter of Scripture—Hebrews 11—lists many ordi
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Now, what exactly does our suffering produce? First, Paul says our suffering produces perseverance (Rom. 5:3). The Greek word for perseverance literally means “the ability to handle pressure.” That is what perseverance is — the ability to hang in there when under pressure, to never give up, to keep on keeping on. When we make it through a difficult
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There is a reason God has not specified every action of your life. The reason is God trusts you. He has equipped us with the principles of godly living and told us to go live in this world and we have. We have spread across the globe and taken up every different occupation imaginable to man. Among the lowliest of day-workers and leaders of state, G
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