Are you pro-choice or pro-life?

Life has a purpose. There is a purpose for why you were born.

Your business also has a purpose, but it is engulfed in God’s greater, bigger, grander purpose for why this world exists and where it is going.

Join us today as we take a trip through the lives of three individuals to see how the Lord brought them into this world for a specific purpose.

Find out that you too have a God given purpose that goes beyond your personal pleasure and

why that is so important to your life and by extension to your business.

See if you can spot the common thread between Pharoah, Jeremiah, David, and yourself.

Spoiler: God created man in His own image.

Therefore, man is unique and set apart from the rocks, trees, and animals.

We are different, and we are to respect the sanctity of life and not throw it away mindlessly. It

is not ours to take.

God is pro-life or none of us would exist today. The choice of life is not ours to make, it belongs to our Creator.

Redeem Your Business Today by the Following:

Ephesians 2:1 …you were dead in trespasses and sins

Ephesians 2:5 …you were made alive in Jesus

Ephesians 2:10 …you are God’s workmanship, created for good works, which God has prepared…that we should walk in them.

(the above are not exact quotes but pulling out key points for clarity)

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[0:51] There was a hesitancy with Cora And then the doctor said it. He said, a live mother with six children is better than a dead mother with seven children. Trying to convince her. Wow, this is situation ethics at its finest. What was Cora going to do? Keep the baby and save her life? Have the baby and risk her own life? What is she going to do? Well, being Christians, her and her husband, and not knowing what we do today, the parents did not know what to do. Ending the pregnancy did not seem the right thing to do, but that is what the doctor was ordering. So they got an arrangement to have a second opinion.

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[1:33] Now, Cora was an avid follower of Jesus Christ, and she read her Bible and had devotions every single day. But on this particular morning of her appointment to get the second opinion, she had been a little bit rushed in her morning routine with the other six children that she had, and had missed her morning devotions. So she decided to read her Bible while she was waiting in the waiting room.

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[1:55] And she happened to be reading John chapter 1, and came to verses 12 and 13, which said, As many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. God used these verses to speak to Cora, and he said, this child was being born. This child is not being born of blood. The parents did not want another child, and yet here's another child. The child is not being born by the will of the flesh. The parents did not want another child. This child is not being born by the will of man. The doctor did not want another child. This child is here because of God, because of the will of God. And this was God speaking to Korah, and he basically said, this child is from me. We want to keep this child. This was God's will that this child be born. And she did not know why this child was so important to be born, but she's like, this was her answer. This made up her mind, and she chose right then and there. She's not going to abort this baby. And she did not even need to go follow up on the second opinion. Because her mind had already been made up. She went ahead and kept the appointment, but we're keeping this baby, and that's the end of it. God had spoken to her.

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[4:54] This stubborn, obstinate opposition and opponent of God and God's people, God said, I raised you up. I put you here in this world to oppose me so I can show my great power upon you. In life, there is a purpose. There is a purpose to why you were born, to why I was born. Around 800 years later, there lived a prophet named Jeremiah. And Jeremiah lived during the time of the last few kings in Judah. He was around during the time when King Nebuchadnezzar came and besieged Jerusalem, took Jerusalem. And God had chosen Jeremiah to be a prophet during that time. But what's very interesting is in chapter 1, verse 4 and 5, it says this, Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee. Before thou came forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee and ordained thee to be a prophet to the nations.

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[6:01] God basically told Jeremiah, Before you were even born, I have my eye on you, and I chose you, and I'm going to raise you up, and you're going to be my prophet to me before all these nations. It wasn't Jeremiah's idea to be a prophet. It was God's idea for him to be a prophet. Life, there's purpose in life, and there's a purpose why you were born in this life. Fast forward to today. Do you know you have a purpose in life as well?

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[6:34] Ephesians 2, verse 1, 5 and 10. Verse 1, it says that you are dead in your trespasses and sins. Verse 5 says he's made you alive because you are dead in your trespasses and sins. But verse 10 is what I want to focus on, which says, You are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God prepared beforehand that you should walk in them. You are God's workmanship. You are his craftsmanship. He's made you a special chosen vessel to do His work, to do good works. He says, I prepare good works for you to do. You just need to walk in them. See, there is a purpose for us. There's a purpose for you in this world. There's a purpose for me in this world. And God has created us to fulfill those. And so your job, one of your major purposes and jobs and goals in this world should be to pursue God and say, what did you make me for? What purpose, what good work is it that you have made me for? And it may not be just one work. It may be a lot of different things, but God has made us for good works.

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[7:52] There is a purpose in life, and there's a purpose why you were born. But the thing I want you to remember is that your purpose is bigger than you. Your purpose is bigger than you. As you look at your business, there are many entrepreneurs and investors today who talk about wealth, and their goal is to have the wealth of time, have the wealth of health, have the wealth of money, relationships of impact. They want to be able to do whatever they want to do and have the money to do it. They want to have great relationships who are fulfilling that need there. They want to have a healthy body so that they can go and vacation and work or

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[8:35] do whatever they want to do. And they want to have an impact and be able to help other people and do that on a grand scale, that wealth. But there again the world's way not that all those are bad necessarily but when that is your focus, think about how selfish that is that's selfish because it's thinking only of yourself your time your health wealth money relationships god has other plans in in mind for you when it talks about time in the bible it says we are to redeem our time that we may apply our hearts to wisdom, Redeem the time because the days are evil. It says, redeem the time and get all this time so you can do whatever you want. It's for a purpose. Health, it's kind of interesting. God told Adam and Eve, by the sweat of your brow, you are going to have to make a living. He says, you're going to work for a living. And that's how you're going to live. And you and I know that when we go to the gym, we sweat, don't we? We work. And it used to be that we used to work physically with our bodies to make a living. That was our exercise. But because we've come so far away from that, well, we have to do extra things in our life to make up for that manual labor that we no longer have. Money. Paul says...

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