Discovering your Purpose and Passion

Discovering our Purpose and Passion

Some material used during “New Members” class at Eastbrook Church. 2002-2005 by Richard Dassow

Still relevant today, June 2, 2015

Some Basic Foundations!

1.                 You are not an accident!

Isaiah 44:2 (I am your creator. You were in my care even before you were born)

2.                 Before you were conceived, God thought of you. Not fate, chance, luck or coincidence you are breathing here at this very moment.

3.                 Bible says, “The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me” Psalm 138:8

4.                 God chose every detail of your body. Race, color of skin, hair, every feature. Also your natural talents…your personality. Psalm 1 39:15-16 (Have someone read).

5.                 Sometimes emphasis on spiritual gifts…not the other things!

6        That creative process did not stop at childbirth.

7.                 God has been molding and shaping you over the years with a care that exceeds that of the most meticulous craftsman.

8.                 He put you in a unique family.

9.                 He gave you a unique personality.

10.                 He has given you unique abilities, and He has woven a unique assortment of motivators into the very fabric of your life

11.            God made you absolutely unique for a purpose.

12.            Eph. 1:4 God’s motive for creating you? Love.

13.            God designed world’s environment so we could live in it. James 1:18

14.            Most important of all the things He made! YOU.

15.            God made you for a reason!

16.            Part of His plan.

17.            Precious and perfect unique design.

18.            God’s special woman or man.

19.            He made you like He wanted you to be.

20.            Parents you had were the ones He chose. (no matter how bad a childhood we may have had).

21.            May have to struggle with this…and forgive parents.   If we had a less than ideal childhood.

22.            Guess what? WE ALL had a less than ideal childhood.

Dreams

Many of us give up on our dreams.

We simply don’t believe they could happen.

Or we learned that they were unrealistic, or others didn’t support us in them.

We need to have dreams and visions. God wants us to think BIG!!

God wants to give you dreams, visions and gifts.  They are important and the body of Christ will not be complete if you don’t have them!

Dreams and visions can include:

          Ministry vision

          Helping people

          Relationally-marriage, family

          Relating to God in certain ways-intimacy

          Friendships

Purpose motivates your life! Purpose driven Life book.

Purpose produces “Passion” (What excites you…what drives you…what makes you get up in the morning raring to go? Do you get up raring to go? (wait for a response…

When you fully comprehend that there is more to life than just here and now, and you realize that life is just preparation for eternity…you will begin to live differently. Living in Light of Eternity. Will make a difference how you handle every relationship, task and circumstance.

What makes you tick?

What is your passion, the spark that needs only a little breeze to ignite into a raging fire?

What do you enjoy so much that you’d do it without pay?

What gives you a deep sense of satisfaction and purpose?

What do you feel you are missing in your life?

EXERCISE:

Turn to your neighbor and share “If you could do anything you wanted when you grow up…what would it be…or “If I knew I couldn’t fail, this is what I would attempt to do for God with my life. If education, finances, age, circumstances, location were not a limiting factor, what do you feel the Lord would want you to do?

What do you sense the Lord leading you to do?

That will reveal something about who you really are!

Spiritual Gifts

1.                 A spiritual gift is given to each of us as a means of helping the entire church.

2.                 Local church is a place God designed for you to discover, develop, and use your gifts.

3.       Ministry outside Eastbrook, but here is the main place to use your gifts.

11/28/2012
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 What is Passion?

Everyone has a passion!

God given ability to attach to something or someone to meet a need over a period of time.

Romans 15:20.   “Deeply desired”

Passion is a fire.

Tried not to do it, I couldn’t.

Passion wakes you up at nite or keeps you awake.

Think about the subject when subject not on the table.

Fuel of calling.

Passion keeps you going when you want to be uncalled.

Do it even if you weren’t paid to do it. Compelled to take action.

Everything else is 2^nd best.

Not able to express yourself. Locked up. Fire wants to be let out!

 

""We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

Ephesians 2-4

God gifted us...to prepare God's people for works of service. 
 
 He can do more than we ask or imagine!

Let's make the most of every opportunity!

Yes, You Can Change the World!

A class on making a difference in your world!

Starting Sunday, July 15th.

If you are in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area:

Will also be made available in other formats.

The Lord created each of us individually with different Spiritual Gifts, Passions, Abilities, Strengths and a unique Personality with different Experiences. This class will help people put the pieces of the puzzle together, so we each can be most effective in our families, church, community and the world.  When we serve according to our SHAPE, we leave a legacy that gives glory to the LORD so when we stand before Him one day, we will hear, "Well done, my good and faithful servant." 

We will also be discussing "Strengths"  
A good "free" assessment is:
http://freestrengthstest.workuno.com/free-strengths-test.html

For Boomers and Beyond!

Some of us…are in Half Time or 3^rd or 4^th quarter of our lives!

Great!

Just like a football game…a lot can happen in the last quarter and even in the last minute of the game!

This can be the most exciting time of our lives!

God has the script written!

Join us on Sunday July 12^th with other Boomers for the first session…If this time of life is alittle puzzling to you, we can all be an encouragement as we work together to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

If you would like to learn alittle more about "Strengths" before the class, you could go to my other blog on "Strengths" 
http://strengthsforyou.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-steps-to-finding-your-strengths.html 

Can also "follow" me on Twitter 

Latest newsletter from Foundation For His Ministry in Mexico

A good Christian ministry making disciples in Mexico

Praise Reports:    .Stephanie Ricke, FFHM board member, was recognized this week by Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal as one of the top 50 women in business. We are so proud of Stephanie and so grateful to have talented people like this investing in His Ministry.  Stephanie .Today is Baja Mission Administrator Mario Cordoba's birthday. We are so grateful for this man who serves selflessly and models servant leadership.  Mario  .We are happy to report that we now have a full-time person to work with groups at the Oaxaca Mission. Marlo Andaluz has committed to staying at least a year to serve in this position. Now we just need more groups to go and work with Marlo and help with the school construction being done there. To visit Oaxaca, contact Nancy in the US office at visitors@ffhm.org.  Marlo in Oaxaca .For those in the Southern California area, Richard and Jan Larson will be speaking at the next prayer group dinner on June 5th at 6:00 at the Lutheran Church of the Cross in Laguna Woods. Richard and Jan were missionaries in Panama, Spain and have visited almost every Spanish speaking country. All are welcome to come hear their testimony. For reservations, call Linda at .    The Larsons .A big thank you to everyone who prayed for Charla and Janelle during their time in Oregon. They had a blessed time connecting with friends and supporters of FFHM. They drove 2,500 miles without any incident or breakdown. They know they were sustained by your prayers.  Charla and Janelle with the Wenzel family Prayer Requests: .We continue to pray for urgently needed staff positions in Baja and Oaxaca. We would like to ask you to pray specifically this week for teachers for the Oasis elementary schools at both Missions.   Oaxaca school on a fieldtrip  . Keith and Maya Durkin, Baja Mission staff, have been in Sinaloa helping out with the outreach in the migrant camps there. Please pray for them and for Hugo and Lizette, Sinaloa staff, as they minister to the women and children.  Keith  . Gabino arrived at the Baja Mission when he was 13 years old. At the time he had never been to school and couldn't read, write or speak Spanish. He has since studied and worked hard and was able to graduate from high school. Today he is taking an exam to try to enter the university. Please continue praying for God's grace in Gabino's life and for favor with this exam.  Gabino . We are running short on funds for two major construction projects in Baja - the renovation of the students home in Tijuana and the new staff housing construction at the Mission. Please join us in praying that God will supply all of our needs.  TJ House staff housing construction Note:To receive this Praise and Prayer Letter send your e-mail address to info@ffhm.org.  Contribute to Foundation For His Ministry Sign Up to Sponsor a Child  Canadian Donors: All contributions, including sponsorships and resources, made by Canadian donors must be made through our Canadian affiliate The Maranatha Evangelistic Association. You can donate on their website www.meaworld.org. This way you will receive a tax receipt and comply with Canadian regulations for giving to a non-profit.     __________________________________________________________________    www.ffhm.org US office: Fax: (949) 492-0900  PO Box 74000 San Clemente, CA 92673

Boomers and Beyond

Using Your SHAPE to Change the World!

This class is for everyone...not just Boomers & Beyond.
Invite your friends. 

July 12,19,26   Eastbrook Church 9:30 Fellowship Hall

The Lord created each of us individually with different Spiritual Gifts, Passions, Abilities, Strengths and a unique Personality with different Experiences. This class will help people put the pieces of the puzzle together, so we each can be most effective in our families, church, community and the world.  When we serve according to our SHAPE, we leave a legacy that gives glory to the LORD so when we stand before Him one day, we will hear, "Well done, my good and faithful servant." 

We will also be discussing "Strengths"  
A good "free" assessment is:

http://freestrengthstest.workuno.com/free-strengths-test.html

For Boomers and Beyond!

Some of us…are in Half Time or 3^rd or 4^th quarter of our lives!

Great!

Just like a football game…a lot can happen in the last quarter and even in the last minute of the game!

This can be the most exciting time of our lives!

God has the script written!

Join us on Sunday July 12^th with other Boomers for the first session…If this time of life is alittle puzzling to you, we can all be an encouragement as we work together to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

If you would like to learn alittle more about "Strengths" before the class, you could go to my other blog on "Strengths" 
http://strengthsforyou.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-steps-to-finding-your-strengths.html 

Can also "follow" me on Twitter 

S.H.A.P.E and Calling

Our S.H.A.P.E and Strengths

A few thoughts on "Calling" from the book: 

THE GRAND WEAVER   

How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

 By Ravi Zacharias

 

To allow God to be God we must follow him for who he is and what he intends, and not for what we want or what we prefer. Seeing the designing hand of God and His intervention in our lives in such a way that we know He has a specific purpose for each of us and that He will carry us through until we meet Him face-to-face and know ourselves completely. 

Once we begin to see God’s hand in our life, we will know that his workmanship within us and through us was tailor-made, just for me. His design for my life pulls together every thread of my existence into a magnificent work of art. Every thread matters and has a specific purpose. 

By his sovereign will, we have come into being with an expressed and designed purpose. 

When you finally meet the One who made you and examine the lifelines he has sent you along the way, you will at last understand how every detail made sense in the swirling reality of life’s blessings and threats. 
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●The Lord created each of us individually with different Spiritual Gifts, Passions, Abilities, Strengths and a unique Personality with different Experiences. Discovering our S.H.A.P.E  helps people put the pieces of the puzzle together, so we each can be most effective in our families, church, community and the world.  When we serve according to our SHAPE, we leave a legacy that gives glory to the LORD so when we stand before Him one day, we will hear, "Well done, my good and faithful servant." 

S=Spiritual Gifts

H= Heart or Passion

A=Abilities

P=Personality

E=Experiences