LIving on Purpose

Did you wake up today thankful only that it was Friday?  Or did you wake up thankful that you were alive and ready for whatever God had planned for you?  If we are honest, most of us would say the first.  Try this tomorrow.  Immediately upon waking up and before getting out of bed, take your pulse.  If you have one, thank God.   Then ask him to prepare you for the purpose He has for you today.  If you have a pulse, you have a purpose....that simple.   Don't waste the day. 

Heres a share from Turning Point Ministries about this.  Have a most blessed and purpose filled day!!!!


 
Living on Purpose
 
But [Jesus] said to them, "I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent."
Luke 4:43
 
     

Recommended Reading John 4:31-34

 
 
In 2005, when the Barna Research Group surveyed pastors and Christian leaders about the books that influenced them most during the previous three years, Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life was the most cited book (apart from the Bible). Warren's The Purpose Driven Church was the second most-often cited.

What does it mean that two Bible-based books on "purpose" sold tens of millions of copies around the world? At the very least, it suggests that Christians (and others) are very interested in discovering how to live life "on purpose." When we say we did something "on purpose," it means we did it intentionally; it means our actions were no accident. And if we model our life after that of Jesus Christ, we will live our life as purposefully as He did. Jesus came into the world with a purpose, a mission, from God and refused to let anything distract Him from that purpose (John 5:19, 30; 6:38; 8:28, 42; 10:37-38; 12:49).

As God sent Jesus into the world "on purpose," so Jesus has sent us "on purpose" as well (John 20:21). Live purposefully, not accidentally, for Christ today.

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.
Spiros Zodhiates

Dear Heavenly Father, please be with all of us today as we search for the purpose you have for our lives.  Please equip us with everything we will need to fulfill that purpose.  We thank you for being chosen and for loving us.  In your name we pray, Amen.