Scott continues the study about How to Finish Strong, focusing on the theme of discovering and living out one's purpose. Using biblical passages, he talks about how each person is intentionally designed by God with a unique set of strengths, gifts, and experiences intended for meaningful impact and service. Through examples like buttering toast with a spoon and using the wrong tools for jobs, Scott illustrates that people, like objects, are created with specific purposes in mind. He encourages listeners to reflect on their personality traits, spiritual gifts, core values, passions, and life stories in order to clarify their calling and alignment with God's plan.

Scott also addresses the common tendency to feel aimless or make excuses for not living out one's purpose. He draws from biblical figures like Jeremiah, highlighting how God’s appointment and provision override personal limitations. Practical advice is given on using tools such as personality assessments and spiritual gifts inventories. Scott emphasizes that fulfillment comes from employing one’s gifts for the common good, aiming for tangible results, and trusting God’s providence and power. Listeners are guided through a framework for mapping their purpose and encouraged to continually revisit and refine their understanding of their destiny.

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Key Topics Discussed:

• Purpose and design in spiritual life
• Biblical framework for understanding destiny
• Discovering and employing spiritual and natural gifts
• Overcoming excuses and self-doubt
• Personal reflection tools (personality, promises, core values, passions)
• God’s providence in victories and defeats
• Stewardship of gifts for the common good
• Practical guidance for mapping life purpose
• Navigating technology and staying focused on faith
• The importance of continual growth and versioning in self-awareness

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If you're looking for greater hope, assurance and confidence through the shifting sands of life, then join me on today's episode as we dig deep into the Bible to discover rock solid truth for life and living from the God of the Bible. I'm your host, Scott Keffer. Hi, and welcome to today's episode. As always, for a deeper experience, you can go to the show notes and download the blank insight sheet. Fill in the blanks along with the group. Depending on how you're listening to this, there will be a link to the episode website@beholdingbibletruth.com and a sheet with the answers is included as well. Enjoy today's episode.

How many of you have buttered a piece of toast with a spoon? Doris, that works okay, doesn't it? Now, when it comes to. Then if you want to cut the toast in half, or if you buttered a bagel with a spoon, not so. Not so easy to cut in half. Right. You really need a knife. Right. How many use the knife to screw a screw? Yes. Assuming it's not, you know, if it's a straight screw, which most of them aren't anymore, you can use a knife.

So it's a great reminder that all things are designed with purpose in mind, aren't they? And you can use them for not purpose, but it never works like it's supposed to do. And so as we go through this study on how to finish strong, all of this comes to the point to remind us and to inform us that we've been designed with purpose. And we can be spoons buttering bagels and trying to cut their way through, or we can understand what's the knife been created for, what's the spoon been created for, what's the straight screwdriver created for all with purpose in mind. And we have a God who has purpose in mind. And so he designs backwards. He has clarity at the end of what's the design for? And he wants us to understand that so that we can more be more useful to him and through him. Does that make sense? Y so we're on part three. We're talking about fulfillment.

So we're talking about God's destiny for you. God's destiny for you. And what that is is your big impact, your big impact impact. Right. When one object hits another object and changes that object, moves that object, sends it in another direction. Right. We are designed to have impact on the world around us, people in the world around us. So God's destiny for you is big impact and a big impact.

Purpose and so let's remind oursel of what do we know about God's design? First of all, you are God's custom creation. How do we know that you were formed where in your inward parts you were designed? Inside out. You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to you, for I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought the depths of the earth. So you're God's custom creation. No one else like you.

They're shocked at the amount of information in your DNA. In your DNA. Your DNA is code. A custom code for every human being. He also said, just as he did, what chose us in him. When before the foundation of the world, you were chosen, before the creation of the world, who chose you? The one who also custom created you. And he reminds us, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And before you were born, I consecrated you.

I have appointed you. So you've been consecrated and appointed. You have an appointment. Appointment with your destiny, if you will. Right. Appointment with your destiny. God has appointed you with a very clear purpose. He says in Isaiah, everyone who is called by My name and whom I have created for what? For my glory.

For my glory whom I have formed, even whom I have made right. You're called by God for His glory. And he reminds us in Ephesians to the end. What's the end mean? The purpose. The purpose to the end. To the end. Well, what's the end, Lord? To the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of his glory. So if you stop for a minute and think about this God's glory, what do we know about God's glory? Glory means weightiness.

Means weightiness. What do we know about the glory of God? What do we know about the glory of God? It's amazing. It's amazing. It's awesome. It is awesome, right? It is awesome. It's beyond comprehension. It's beyond understanding. It's all.

All that he is and all that he deserves. All the response of who he deserves. It's the full fullness of who he is and the the rightness, if you will, of how the response to his glory. Right? It's his righteousness, it's His. It's his justice, it's his loving kindness. It's his truth. It's all that he is. It's his glory.

It's all that is worthy and all that is weighty in terms of what it responds. Okay, now I can kind of get that, but not really other words. It's. It's what is most valuable of all that there is. It's glory. That's what it means. The most valuable thing in all. Well, Lord, that.

Just like you, you're incomparable and you're incomprehensible. So all I know is it's worth. Worth the most. That's all I can compare it to. Then it's other worthiness. Right? Because he is other in that sense. He's the Creator, the Eternal One. He's the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

He alone possesses immortality. No beginning, no the end. He just always was. Well, that's hard to comprehend, but there's a. There's a weight to that and there's a value to his worthiness that is incomparable. Right? He's wor. He's worthy of all things. So now he says, oh, by the way, for those who are in Christ, you.

You are going to be to what? To the praise of his glory. So rarely do we stop and say, that's not right. Because I know me. How many know you? So how do I get to be to the praise of his glory? Infinite, eternal, the eternal immortal, the immortal only God. How am I going to be to the praise of his glory? Nobody says, well, that's not fair. We always say it's not fair. When the Lord does this, or this, or this. Nobody wakes up and says, I'm going to be the praise of his glory.

Well, that's not right. That's just not right. Lord, what is up with that? Like, that is unfair. It's, it's. It's unjust. It's just not right. I'm. I know me.

I see me. I know the depth of my heart and my sin. I'm going to be the praise of your glory. Wouldn't the angel say, like, lord, that's not right. That is, they got to be saying up there like that, that that's not right. And he's saying, that's grace. That's grace. And that's my purpose, my design.

So if you think about, we are to be to the praise of his glory. We're called by God for his glory. That is just stunning. Take our breath away. And then he reminds us, right, your custom, creation, chosen before the creation of the world, consecrated and appointed by God, called for his glory. And you're created for good works. There's an output there's an output that comes out of our life. We are his workmanship.

Created in Messiah, Jesus, in Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared those good works. When? Beforehand. Beforehand what? Before. When? Before creation. Beforehand. He's got good works that he prepared for you. The spoon, the knife, the screwdriver.

Right. All with purpose in mind. Unique purpose. And what should we do? We sew that. So that always points. Pay attention to. So that it's the purpose. So that we would walk in it.

What does walk mean? Be moving. Not that we sit in them. We don't sit in them, we walk in them. Huh. They're active. They're more. Right. These are good works.

And here's another one to blow our mind for. For we are God's what? As God's co workers. What? It's God co. God's co workers. The best. You work on a team someday say, like, what's that person doing on there? What's that person doing on my team? Right? Who are they? Who's saying? Like the angels probably say, like, you should just do this on your own. Like, what's up? You know, you want to bring somebody on your team that adds on your team. Like, what are you doing? These people, right? We are God's co workers.

Isn't that mind blowing? It's mind blowing. We are God's co workers. Work. Work is active and activity workers is. We're workers. Right? Which means God is a worker. He's doing work. People ask me, why do you still work? Because I can.

Because I can. So I can't. Right? So we can. We're God's co workers. And if you're laid up, God's still working in you and through you. Right? But to your God's custom, creation, chosen before the creation of the world. Consecrated and appointed by God, called by God for His glory. Created for good works as God's co worker.

So what's that mean about my life? So sometimes you feel aimless. Sometimes you feel like, what's the point? Sometimes you feel like, do I matter? Sometimes you feel like what's going on? Right? But this reminds us, you were created for purpose, with purpose in mind by the God of the universe, who has created all things, who spoke into being, all that exists. And so you or you may feel purposeless at some point in time, but you never are, you never are. Because his purpose is always there. He has called you for purpose. He's called you for purpose. So you may feel purposeless, but you never are, never are. So you remind yourself this is who you are, and this is whose you are.

You probably heard that before. This is whose you are. So God's destiny, not your but, Lord, I can't. Not your but, Lord, I can't. So Jeremiah said this, right? I said to the Lord, alas, Lord God behold. So alas, Lord God means, hold up. Like, hold on a second, Lord, hold on a second. Behold means like, pay attention.

That's what the word means in Hebrew. Like, pay attention here, Lord, like, I'm going to form you. I'm going to inform you of something so last. Like, wake up and behold, you need to know. I'm going to. I'm now explaining to you, behold, I do not know how to speak, and I'm too young. There you go. I got two excuses.

I don't know how to speak and I'm too young. And the Lord, it says, but. But the Lord says, what you said is not what I say. What you said is not what I say. Which has more weight, which is reality. So we say things. The Lord says, but here's what I say. You think that you feel that you imagine that.

Here's what I say. But though Yahweh said to me, what did he say? Do not say. Which of course means, do not think it, do not believe it. Do not say it. Because we say what we think and believe. We say what we think and believe. So when he says, do not say, do not think, do not believe. Do not say, do not think, do not believe in your heart, do not say because I said to you, do not say y.

Because so he answers, everywhere I send you, you shall go. So I. I will tell you where to go and all that. I command you, you shall speed. And then he says, and I'm going to fix your weakness. The Lord stretched out his hand and touched his mouth. In other words, he made supernatural provision for his what he would believe is his weakness. Oh, I can't speak.

I can't speak. Lord said, that's fine. Don't say that because I've called you, I've appointed you, I made you for this. So we need to get really clear. What are your but, lords, what are your reasons God can't use you? What's your favorite one? Put it in there. What's your favorite one? I'm too young. I'm too old. I'm too good.

I'm too bad. I'm too broken. Whatever. I don't know what it is. I don't know how to. I can't. What are yours? What are your favorite. Know Thyself.

What are your favorite. I'm too busy, too afraid, too worried about what they will say. Used to be when you first come to crisis, because I'm afraid you're gonna send me to Africa. Right. Because I'm afraid what you're gonna do. Right. What that. What that purpose is.

So what are your reasons? Know thyself. Know thyself. So what do we start with? God's destiny. And then we get really clear with, okay, what are all my excuses? All my. All great. And some of them are good reasons. Too young, can't speak. I mean, all good reasons.

I'm afraid, whatever that is. Right. So I have a discovery map. So we'll go through the components of it, then we'll look at it. So what I want to do is give you a biblical framework for discerning how God's designed gifts and life story to line with his calling. That makes sense. Align with his calling. So the handout piece is a tool for you to go and put the map.

Let's go through the components of it. Does that make sense? Very first is personality. Personality. So you are unique in the way that God has designed you. He says that you are wonderfully made. The Hebrew word means distinct and amazingly constructed. Amazingly constructed and also skillfully wrought. Which literally speaks about being embroidered.

God has embroidered you. So how do we do that? One is personality. Me taking the Myers Briggs at all. Myers Briggs. So that's one that tells you about personality. If you want to understand how you're energized, Colby.com K O L B E.com is a great. It's one we use when we hire folks. It's how you are energized.

Follow the way God has energized you. So in life you don't manage time. First of all, you can't manage time. You can't save time. All you can do is invest time. But you can. What you want to do is really invest your energy. And you follow the way God has energized you because he's designed you a certain way.

So that's Colby. And then strengths Finder is about your strengths. So there are three good ones. There are three good ones. There are a number of them, but those are three good ones. Make sense. So personality. See how God has wired you.

Next. We talked about before about promises. His promises to you. His promises. How many words of God will fail? Not one word. Very important. Those first three. Not one word he says, which the Lord your God, Yahweh, God spoke concerning you, spoke concerning you, right? So we've got his scriptures which are filled with admonition and promises for all folks.

And then he speaks particular, if you notice, right. Sometimes as if he's talking right out of scripture, notice that you're like, oh, it's like he's talking to me. Oh. Because the Bible is living and active and sharper than any two edged sword. God speaks through his word. God speaks through his Word. So personality, then promises. What are his promises? So the idea is sit down and think about what are the promises? Life promises.

We would, we would have, we've done that for a number of years. We would ask God going into a year, give me a, give me a promise for the year, give me a word for the year, give me a word for people in my life, right? So promises, sit down, think about the scriptures that God has laid deep upon your heart. All right, look over. Next is provision. His provision in you. Every believer. Every believer. Yes, you as spiritual gifts for the common good.

For the common good. Outline of Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12, Ephesians 4, 1st Peter 4. But to each one, each one, what's what, what has been given? The manifestation of the spirit. It's been given to you. Who's given it to you. So if God has given you a gift for the common good, what does he want you to do? So we would tell the kids growing up, look, I don't care if you're a 90,000 bolt or a 9 volt, if both of them sit on the shelf, they're neither of them is good. And the 9 volt can, you know, can, can power up, you know, a monitor or a, you know, an alarm in the home or whatever. Neither of them on the shelf is good.

It's not the, your potential, it's how much you're being used. What is it used for? Right? Because you can always have gift ending. I mean if I had their gifts, I'd be using them. You don't get to take the gift back. You don't get to exchange it. You don't send it back to Amazon because it didn't come from Amazon. This is a gift from God with purpose. That makes sense.

So he says, we have many members and all the members do not have the same function. Function. Since we have gifts that differ, our gifts differ. We have gifts that differ. And it's according to grace. Grace. Each of us is to exercise. What does that word mean? Put, Put to use regularly, accordingly, accordingly.

So there are a set of speaking gifts, prophecy, teaching, exhortation, word of wisdom, word of knowledge. You'll see different lists because they're. It's not always exactly clear, but you'll see different lists. There are serving gifts, gift of help, gift of giving, gift of leadership, gift of mercy. And there are sign gifts which you notice I have crossed out because we would believe they were for a time, but those gifts were for a time in order to validate and verify their sign gifts. They were approval and if you will, to show that Gentiles were of the same nature as Jews. They were sign gifts, just like God's. Miracles throughout Scripture are generally, particularly New Testament miracles.

Jesus didn't do an unlimited number of miracles. He did very specific, very purposeful miracles. What were they designed to do to prove? That's what a sign does, to prove that he is the Messiah. They're proof gifts. These were proof gifts to show that the. All believers from all nations, if you were. If you're Jewish and you came right before you came to Christ, you thought God is for the, for the Jewish people, for the Jewish nation, because Gentiles are unclean. They're anathema.

Even though God gave the promise to Abraham that he would bless all the nations, what did he mean by all the nations? All different kinds of people through him. Right. The Jews were a separate and, and segregated nation for a time. Christ came to, to show it was. It was to the Jew first and then to the Gentile. But as the Gentiles were brought into the church, right? The birthing of the church, God had to show that they are the same. And so the sign gifts were affirmation, right? Speaking in tongues, which was essentially speaking in a language that you don't know. Naturally, it was when.

And it was when they were preaching in, in Acts and everybody heard it in their own language. That's a miracle. That is a miracle. So the sign gets miracle. Does that mean God doesn't do miracles now? No, it just means the miraculous, the, the gift of miracles has ceased. God is still doing miracles. People who claim to have miracle sign gifts. I always wonder, why aren't you sitting right outside of the emergency room? I mean, why are you holding these big rods? Just go to the hospital.

Everybody walks in, you heal them, right? I mean, but the hospital's out of business, right? So again, there is differing beliefs about that. But we would believe that the sign gifts were for a time to affirm. Jews and Gentiles were united now in Christ. So provision. Every believer has spiritual gifts for the common good. Therefore you should employ them. Employ your gifts. Put them to work.

Employ your gifts for the glory of God. So he said to Timothy, do not neglect. So when you see that in scripture, what does that mean? We will most likely neglect the gifts. So these, these are, these are kind of warning lights for us, right? Timothy was right. Could be go. Sometimes it's for a time, sometimes it's just whatever it is. But that we would have a tendency to neglect the gift. Now again, we might go through a season in life where we're unemployable, if you will, right off to the side for a time.

Just make sure the season doesn't turn into a. A pattern, that's all. So he says, do not neglect. Just pay attention. We will be likely to neglect it. Why? I would rather we still have the old man and the new man. I would rather do what I want to do rather than do what God has created me to be done. Even though I'm fulfilled there and God is glorified and those are really good things, I still would rather do what I want to do.

So I pay attention to that. Do not neglect it, he says, as each one has received a special gift really just for me, a custom gift. What should we do? Employ it. In other words, put it to work. We read our grandson's birthday yesterday and Josh was putting together a slide they got for him. And there were six guys standing around and Josh was putting it together. I said, this looks like government work, right? One guy working and the other six standing around drinking beers and watching them, right? So he says, employ it. We need to work serving one another as good stewards.

What's a steward do? Works the resources of the master for the purpose of the master. To bear fruit, to bring back to the master. Right. As a good steward, what are we a good steward of? The manifold grace, the many fold grace of God. How do we do it, Lord? I can't do it. He says, do it by the strength. Where am I going to get it? Oh, you supply it because I don't have it. He says, I supply it.

What's the purpose, Lord? Where's the so that. What's the purpose in all that? So that in all things God may be glorified through his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ. So employ your. Your gifts, and these are your spiritual gifts. But no, that space down there are natural. That's for natural gifts.

Sorry, so above, that's spiritual gifts. But you also have natural gifts, don't you? They're natural gifts. You're you. You're you're good at something. You're good with your hands. You're good with. Right. You're.

You're more thinking, right? You're more project person. You're more people person. Those are just natural wirings, right? How many are people people? How many are project people? How many wouldn't raise your hand no matter what I ask. How many? Don't know. You don't know. Okay, that's fine. But those are just. You have natural inclinations.

This goes back to your personality. Understand, there are natural gifts, but there are, there are spiritual gifts. They are empowered by the power which God has. Right or supernatural truth through your life. So provision. Next, you need to have a set of principles. Principles. These are guiding life principles, often called core values.

These are core values. This is essentially the way I do things. This is how I do things. Certainly integrity would be one of them. Right? So you said you have a set of core values that are the guiding principles of your life. The next we take a look at your fire. Its passions. Your passions.

Passions. What fires? Your gut. What fires you got? What fires you got? Think about, put down one or two things. It just f this fires me up. Fires me up. I'm passionate about it. Would your friends say people next to you. Oh, they're really passionate about.

They're really passionate about the other side of the coin. If you're not sure about passions, watch your frustrations. Because they're the other side of the coin. It's the two sided coin. Your frustrations are the other side of your passions. When you say, why does the church do more of this? Why isn't the world taking care of this, helping with this, doing this right. That's an indicator of your passions. You sit and think about things.

Think about the church. Think about the world around. What is it that you say? Why are they so. Why isn't somebody doing more about this? We're not helping with this. You've set up passions that are unique to you. The next would be Providence, God's Providence. That's certainly exhibited through victories. Think about major victories in your life.

What comes to mind. Put one or two down major victories in your life. Can you give us a definition of Providence? Yes, it is similar to sovereignty, but it's God's supernatural attending all things for his glory and for your good. So it's similar to sovereignty is providence and it's sovereignty, but it's the. It's just not that God is sovereign over all things for the. What it. But King David said, for thou dost rule over all. For thou dost rule over all.

But in thy hand is power and might. And it lies in thy hand to make great and to strengthen everyone. So providence is God's not only his sovereignty over all things, but his use of all things. Right? For. For good. He not only sits over all things, but he's working all things. We would say it's Romans 8, 28. We're working all things for good.

Right? All things for good. Yeah. Caution these days. I'm glad you did that. Caution these days. Guess what they want you to start doing all the time? Googling. It was the precursor to AI in it. Understand? So where do they want you to go for answers? First, easy answers.

And then answers to life. Pay attention. There are people out there now who are now loading all their personal information into AI to create a way for AI to give them. Understand AI is not artificial intelligence. It's programmed. And it ain't intelligence. It's just a lot of. It's just a lot of facts and information, but it's programmed.

But understand there's a design to get people more dependent because you get faster answers, you get quicker answers. And we love convenience, don't we? I don't have time to wait for God to answer. He's always so slow too. Do you ever notice that? Doesn't answer me instantaneously. So. So I'm glad you did that. That's. I'm not.

I'm pointing that out. But just be cautious about that because we start doing with little things, you know, is he still. Are they still alive? When did Doris Day die? Not factual information. But then you start to ask it for guidance. Hey, what should I do with this? What should I do with that? There's. There. There are tools out there. But just be.

I just want to tell you, just be cautious. Yeah, depends on you. Depends on whether your. Your phone controls you or you. You control your phone, right? No, just like you know, whether the app controls you or you control the app. So I would say your own proclivity to be right, to have a problem with the phone. I mean, I push that thing aside every. Every chance I get.

Every chance I get. Because I just don't want. I just know me, I can get really dependent on. So I would say it would be dependent upon you. Nothing wrong with having it in there, you know. Nothing wrong with having it. Just understand it's programmed for stuff, so I use it for factual information. Do they make.

And I'll use Perplexity rather than Google. Perplexity is an AI Search engine. And so do. Does Vitamix make a glass. A 64 ounce glass container. Find it. What are the. What are the top five, you know, flaxseed things? Right.

So for factual information, that. That's why I use AI and search for. But you want to get cautious with lord, what should I do? Or lord, what should I do? When you start asking it, you know, should I do this or this? Give me a recommendation. That's when you got to be cautious. That's what I'm just saying. Be cautious. Does that make sense? And some of that is how. Where.

Where's my weakness for that? Where's my weakness? Let's make sure. This thing is designed to get you to be addicted to dopamine. Russia. I mean it. Every app on there, the entire phone, every. The whole culture is to get you addicted. Here's some crack. Here, sniff this.

You want some more? Well, now you gotta pay. No, that's how it works. You gotta understand, you get some for free, but then you got to pay. How do we pay? We're addicted now I need it. I need it. I need it like that. Just understand, the prince of the power of the air is the one who sits over all the architecture. So major victories in life and then depths, discouragement, defeats.

What are the big ones for you? It's one or two of the big ones took discouragement a second because those are the ones that usually come to mind really quickly. Right? Yeah. We forget the victories, remember the disappointments of the scre. Yes, yes, absolutely. That's absolutely true. And one of the reasons we have to remind people is because we're always focused on the answer we don't have. We're always focused on the provision we don't have with the thing we don't have. And even along the way, if God's not giving you that thing, he.

He's providing and reminding and providential in his care and support of you all the way. We just miss it because it's our nature. It's our nature to be negative. It's our nature, right? Distant ships. I love this quote. Carry every man's dreams. That's a visual of envy. Envy is.

I want that. I need that. I don't have it. And so we live our life like that, right? Lord, where is that thing? Distant ships hold every man's dreams. Oh, if only I had that. So his provision and his providence along the way. It's happening all the time. We just miss it.

So he reminds us to keep our eye on it. So pull out Your map, your visual map and lay it down next to your sheet. So the idea here is to. To start to put on. On one piece of paper, right? Okay. What's the personality that he's. How. What are the things that he is wired into me? How am I wired? What are my strengths? What's my personality? Like, what does it.

And then I put some promises, core promises that he's given me. Then I look at the provision, the gifts, gifts calling that he has my principles, kind of my core values. God's providence, right? God's providence. Look at his passions over here. And from that I see on one page. And the idea is it's driving toward the center. And the center is to get clarity about his purpose. His purpose, your purpose, but his purpose.

So if you look down their purpose. So he said, Paul says to me, the very least of all saints, what was given? Grace. Grace. What was it given to do? Paul to preach to the Gentiles, the unfathomable riches of Christ to preach to the Gentiles. So grace to what? New grace to what and who? So grace to what and who? So there's a what and a who. The what is a verb, the Paul who's preach. So it goes back to your gifts to preach. You have a speaking gift, right? So if you look up at top and you say, okay, are my gifts in the area of speaking or in the area of serving? So it could be to help, to give, to lead, to, to.

To. To bring mercy. It would could be to teach, to exhort, right? Does that make sense? So there's a verb in your purpose and there's a who in your purpose to whom. Some are wired more for unbelievers. Gifts of that would go forth some. But mo. These are all applied to the common good of his people. That make sense.

So at the center, these are all pointing to the center, right? So you see in the middle is to come up with your phrase to marry to me, the very least of all saints. This was grace was given to verb. And to who? And so Paul would say to. To me is to present every man complete in Christ. To present every man complete in Christ. So he had. He had a result. So results to accomplish.

So in other words, as the gifting that God has is carried out in you, how would you know what are the results that you would want to see? Because if it's. If your gifts are working, they're working with purpose in mind, with an outcome in mind. So if you were looking at the end result, right, you make you look, you look at a problem, right? You look at a problem, I need to stir something. So I'm going to make utensil to be able to stir that thing. I need to cut. Therefore I'm making like something that I could hold that would have teeth that would allow me to cut. So what are the results? What are the results that God would want you to accomplish with the way that he's wired you, there should be some results. And he said, you did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and go and bear fruit.

This isn't go and and exhibit fruit. This isn't go and exhibit the fruit of the spirit. Love, joy, peace, patience, right? It's go and bear fruit. So that's different than the fruit of the spirit. Does that make sense? This is bearing fruit. Go, go and make fruit happen. Now he does it. Of course, but.

So what are the results to accomplish? What are the results? What's the outcome? What's the fruit, if you will? The other way to look at that is backwards and say, what are the regrets in your life if not accomplished? What are the regrets in your life if not accomplished? So all of these are components of his purpose, right? All of these are components of his purpose. So down at the bottom, put your name in today's date. That's the version. And if, if this is the first time you've done it, it's version 1.0. Which means what? Yeah, so you can do a bad version. Don't freak out and say, this doesn't have to be the final version. This doesn't have to be the final version. So one of the times I did it, it looked like that.

And then one of the times I did, maybe the first time, it looked like that, kind of similar, right? Laying all those pieces out, right? With God's promises on the back. One of the times I did it again, it looked like that. So sometimes it's good to have a bigger piece of paper them, right? And I've got a folder full of them. And the folder is called Know thyself. Know thyself. Why? Because he's designed you, custom designed you. Why would I? And, and we, we spend our life worried about what we're not focusing on people who have what we don't have, rather than saying, okay, Lord, you design me, custom design for a purpose. I don't need to be somebody else.

I don't need to be somebody else. I need to be who you've made me to be. To me, the very least of all saints, that's the phrase. To me. Your purpose is with this to me and what the very least of all saints. Because I can say, Paul, I'm. I'm leaster than you. This grace was given.

What was it given to do? That's what we're asking, Lord. What was the grace was given to do? So we have his per. Your personality, your promises, provision principles in your life, your passions, and the providence of God over time in order to understand my purpose. But Lord, I can't do that. I can't do it. He said, that's fine. Do not say, I can't do it. But how's it going to happen? Faithful is he who calls you.

He will also bring it to pass. So the last blank is power. The last blank is power. Where will the power come from? From him. Yahweh, the Lord of all lords, will accomplish what. What concerns me. Thy loving kindness, O Lord, is everlasting. All right, who has an insight or a question or a comment? Where's the answer? Fee.

That's exactly right. That's what it feels like. Right. So it's easier to go, hey, AI, give me an answer, rather than, hey, Lord, give me an answer. Yeah, this. This takes some time and effort, but what I would tell you is fill out the whole thing. Version 1.0. Recognizing version 1.0 is not good.

How many can do a bad version? Right? And we would always tell the kids, you want to have a great, you want to be great, you got to be bad and be great. You got to be willing to be gab. Because you can never. The version 1.0 is not going to be version 10. Just didn't. So we want anybody else. Common question. Yeah.

Which means when you feel purposeless, remember it's not so. You've been designed by God of purpose, and he has purpose for you. So would you close this and prayer. May the God who custom designed you with purpose. May he bless you. May he keep you. May he cause his face to shine upon you. May he lift up his countenance and grant you shalom deep in your soul so you can walk in the love of God and the grace of the Almighty one.

May he bless you and keep you. Amen.

Thanks for listening. I hope you have greater hope, assurance and confidence in your life and a deeper trust in the God of the Bible and His Son, Jesus Christ. Until next time. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. And may the Lord lift up his countenance on you and give you his peace, his shalom in your soul and in your life. Until next time. May God bless you and keep you.