PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE “Don’t Waste Your Life”. “Be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity for.

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PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE “Don’t Waste Your Life”

“Be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do.” (Ephesians 5:15-17)

I. What Does God Want? “Give yourselves completely to God since you have been given new life. And use your whole body as a tool to do what is right for the glory of God.” (Romans 6:13)

I. What Does God Want? “This is what the Lord your God wants you to do: respect the Lord and do what He has told you to do. Love Him. Serve the Lord your God with your whole being.” (Deuteronomy 10:12)

I. What Does God Want? “In everything you do, put God first, and He will direct you and crown your efforts with success.” (Proverbs 3:6)

I. What Does God Want? II. What Does it Take? “Whoever practices discipline is on the way to life.” (Proverbs 10:17)

I. What Does God Want? II. What Does it Take? “Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness.” (1 Timothy 4:7)

I. What Does God Want? II. What Does it Take? “Spend your time and energy in the exercise of keeping spiritually fit.” (1 Timothy 4:7)

I. What Does God Want? II. What Does it Take? “Let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily hinders our progress.” (Hebrews 12:1)

I. What Does God Want? II. What Does it Take? “Martha was distracted by her many tasks: so she come to Him & asked. ‘Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her to help me.’ But the Lord answered her, ‘Martha, Martha, you are worried & distracted by many things: but there is need of only one thing & Mary has chosen the better part…” (Luke 10:40-42)

I. What Does God Want? II. What Does it Take? “God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey His own purposes.” (Philippians 2:13)

I. What Does God Want? II. What Does it Take? III. Why should I do it? “(Christ) died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him who died for them & was raised again.” (2 Corinthians 8:15)

I. What Does God Want? II. What Does it Take? III. Why should I do it? Brothers & sisters, in view of all we have just shared about God’s compassion, I encourage you to offer your bodies a living sacrifices, dedicated to God & pleasing to Him.” (Romans 12:1)

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