Life Lessons with Chip - Pursuing Your Purpose
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We live in a day where people are obsessed with knowing their purpose. There are tons of tests and assessments out there to help you discover who you are and what you are supposed to do. But in this program, Chip asks: what do you do after that? Through this talk from his series, Life Lessons with Chip, Chip will help you pursue God's purpose for you and confidently live it out every day.
Main Points 7 Facts to pursue your purpose:- God has a specific purpose for your life. -Ephesians 2:8-10
- God wants you to discover and lilve out your purpose. -Psalm 32:8; Acts 13:36; John 17
- God’s purpose is good. -Jeremiah 29:11; James 1:22; Psalm 84:11
- God’s purpose for your life will flow from a variety of things: Natural abilities -Psalm 139 | Life experiences -Romans 8:28 | Spiritual gifts | Wounds from your past
- You are responsible and will be held accountable for the discovery and the fulfillment of your purpose. -Matthew 25; 1 Corinthians 3
- You will never discover your purpose alone. -Romans 12:4-5
- God has two big agendas for your life and they are inseparable: His work in you to make you more like Jesus. | His work through you, fulfilling the purpose of your gifts and calling.
Principle: God must work deeply in you before He’ll work significantly through you.
Broadcast Resource Additional Resource Mentions About Chip IngramChip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | We live in a day when people are obsessed with knowing their purpose and there's tons of |
| 0:06.5 | tests and assessments to help you discover what they are. But what do you do after that? |
| 0:12.0 | Today I want to help you discover how to pursue your purpose and actually live it out. |
| 0:18.0 | Stay with me. |
| 0:20.0 | Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:26.2 | Living on the Edge is an international teaching and discipleship ministry focused |
| 0:31.0 | on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:33.0 | And today we're doing something a little different with our broadcast. |
| 0:36.0 | It's been said that the people with the best advice are usually the ones who have been through the most. |
| 0:41.0 | And after decades of following Jesus, along with leading |
| 0:44.9 | churches and ministries, Chip has a lot of wise biblical guidance to share. So in just a minute, |
| 0:50.6 | he'll do a bit of that through our newest series Life Lessons with Chip. |
| 0:55.0 | And on this program, as you heard Chip mentioned, he'll focus on pursuing one's God-given |
| 0:59.5 | purpose. |
| 1:00.5 | So if you're ready, let's dive right in and listen to this insightful talk from Chip. |
| 1:05.0 | One of the things I love to do, I obviously love to teach God's word. I love our staff. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm in a discipleship group with some men and now and then I get to travel around and someone will say hey |
| 1:17.4 | You know I got like eight or ten of my buddies and you know some of them are really strong believers and some aren't and we're all kind of figuring out what is |
| 1:26.0 | what's God want us to do with our life? |
| 1:28.3 | Would you come and just kind of share some things? |
| 1:31.4 | And I just love that kind of environment where it's not |
| 1:35.7 | official teaching, it's more I call it coaching, I guess maybe someone would call |
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