A prayer to know your life purpose, written by Noel Kirchner, read by A Lissa Forsberg.

Now may the read by Alyssa Foursburg.

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great

shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the Eternal Covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will,

working in us which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever.

Amen.

Hebrews 13, 20 through 21.

The first step to discovering our purpose is surrender. This is a counterintuitive step given the nature of most self-help literature today.

We want to do something, to make something happen.

But the spiritual path differs from this perspective.

Vocation and life coaching experts, Robert and Kim Boyle, write,

your life is not something you own. You did not create it and it's not for you to tell it or God what it should be.

You may, however, gratefully and humbly awaken to your life, discover its purpose, and manifest it in the world.

To do so, we have to tune ourselves to the voice within and to our Creator.

The Bible says that our Creator formed us with purpose and intention.

If you're a parent, you've probably seen hard proof of this.

Children can express tendencies and personalities

that are unique to them instead of cultivated by you. We can raise each of our

children the same way and yet they can turn out so differently.

Psalm 139 confirms this by testifying that our Creator God

is at work forming us with the plan before birth.

Christian author Parker Palmer realized this not as a parent but as a grandfather. He marveled at the unique tendencies of his granddaughter from birth and decided to start recording

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