How To Overcome Feelings of Futility, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Chip continues this series with a message he calls, “How to Overcome Feelings of Futility.” If you need a God-sized shot in the arm, today's message is for you.
Introduction: “Empty Buckets”
- Futility – Webster’s – lit. “that which easily pours out,” hence untrustworthy; that which fails completely of the desired end, or incapable of producing any result; trifling, unimportant. Syn: vain, fruitless, ineffective, useless
- Fruitful – Webster’s – Latin “fructus” – enjoyment, means of enjoyment, profitable, productive, producing results and/or desired ends.
How can we avoid futility in our lives?
- Refuse to Confuse Success With SIGNIFICANCE! -Luke 9:25-26
How can we move from success to significance?
1. Clarify your MISSION! Why are you here?
- Two things last forever: God’s Word & people’s souls
- Matthew 28:19-20
- To know CHRIST and make Him KNOWN!
2. Embrace your MISSION FIELD! Where are your greatest spheres of influence?
- Your home -Deut 6:4-9
- Your work -Col 3:22-25
- Your network -Col 4:5-6
3. Engage in the Harvesting Process
- Network
- Befriend
- Identify
- Share
- Invite
- Harvest
4. Sharpen your tools for impact!”
- Learn spiritual “door openers”
- Learn your evangelistic style
- Not Beyond Reach by Aaron Pierce
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Additional Resource Mentions
- I Choose Love Book
- Daily Discipleship - Psalms of Hope
- BOOK: "Halftime" by Bob Buford
- BOOK: "The Paradox of Success" by John R. O'Neil
- CHART: "The High Impact Church" by Linus Morris
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| 0:00.0 | Ever feel like your life is going nowhere, fast? |
| 0:15.5 | Have you ever asked the question? |
| 0:16.7 | I mean recently, why am I here? |
| 0:18.6 | What's my purpose? |
| 0:19.9 | If you'd like to learn to move from success |
| 0:22.7 | to significance, stick around. Have you ever stopped to ask yourself, why am I here? Not just |
| 0:31.2 | existing, but truly living with purpose? Today on living on the edge, Chip Ingram helps us answer |
| 0:37.0 | life's most fundamental question. |
| 0:39.3 | He reveals that your mission in life isn't about owning a home, being comfortable, or making sure your kids turn out right. |
| 0:46.3 | God placed you on earth for one specific reason, to know Christ and make Him known. |
| 0:51.3 | But here's the question, where does that happen? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, the answer might surprise you. |
| 0:57.0 | It's not somewhere far away. |
| 0:58.0 | It's right where you are. |
| 1:00.0 | Here's Chip Engram continuing our series called Experience Breakthrough. |
| 1:04.0 | Never forget the illustration a guy shared with me. |
| 1:08.0 | I was a young Christian, just a couple years. |
| 1:10.0 | I can't remember |
| 1:11.1 | where I was, but I still have the picture in my mind of the napkin. And he pulled out a napkin, |
| 1:16.7 | and he drew about six different buckets with the picture from a source, my life, rainbows, rainbows going |
| 1:27.0 | into these six different buckets. |
| 1:29.3 | He said, you know, Chip, everyone has a dream in their life, whether they verbalize it or not, |
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