1. What’s My Purpose? Pastor Dave Jansen April 28, 2019
Series: Living By Design

3. What’s your
purpose in life?

5. You’ve got to go to God for the answer

7. made by God, your life has a purpose
Because you are
made by God, your life has a purpose

9. The Lord has made everything for his own purposes.
--Proverbs 16:4 (NLT)

10. The Lord has made everything for his own purposes.
--Proverbs 16:4 (NLT)
Everything was created through him and for him.
--Colossians 1:16 (NLT)

12. will reign over the fish in the sea, the
Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They
will reign over the fish in the sea, the
birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
--Genesis 1:26-27 (NLT)

14. He made you out
of love to be
loved by him forever

16. I have loved you with an
everlasting love.
--Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV)

18. For God so loved the word that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him may not perish but have everlasting life.
--John 3:16 (NIV)

20. Worship is loving God back

21. Worship is loving God back Worship is the primary purpose of your life

23. --Isaiah 43:7 (NLT) Bring all who claim me as their
God, for I have made them for my glory. It was I who created them.
--Isaiah 43:7 (NLT)

24. --Romans 11:36 (NLT) For everything comes from him
and exists by his power
and is intended for his glory. All
glory to him forever! Amen.
--Romans 11:36 (NLT)

26. “The chief end of mankind is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.”
--Westminster Confession--

28. Whatever you do, do it all
for the glory of God.
--1 Corinthians 10:31 (NIV)

30. Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’
--Mark 12:29-30 (NLT)

32. You worship him by…

33. You worship him by…

34. 1. Expressing your affection to God
You worship him by…
1. Expressing your affection to God

35. I want you to show love, not offer sacrifices
I want you to show love, not offer sacrifices. I want you to know me more than I want burnt offerings.
--Hosea 6:6 (NLT)

36. 1. Expressing your affection to God
You worship him by…
1. Expressing your affection to God

37. You worship him by…

38. 2. Focusing your attention on God
You worship him by…
2. Focusing your attention on God

39. love God by better focusing your
So how can you
love God by better focusing your
attention on him?

40. So how can you love God by better focusing your attention on him?
A. Establish a daily
time with God

41. But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to
your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.
--Matthew 6:6 (NLT)

42. So how can you love God by better focusing your attention on him?
A. Establish a daily
time with God

43. B. Develop a constant conversation with God
So how can you love God by better focusing your attention on him?
A. Establish a daily
time with God
B. Develop a constant conversation with God

44. Never stop praying.
--1 Thessalonians 5:17 (NLT)

45. B. Develop a constant conversation with God
So how can you love God by better focusing your attention on him?
A. Establish a daily
time with God
B. Develop a constant conversation with God

46. --Isaiah 26:3 (NLT) You will keep in perfect peace
all who trust in you, all whose
thoughts are fixed on you!
--Isaiah 26:3 (NLT)

47. B. Develop a constant conversation with God
So how can you love God by better focusing your attention on him?
A. Establish a daily
time with God
B. Develop a constant conversation with God

48. 2. Focusing your attention on God
You worship him by…
2. Focusing your attention on God

49. You worship him by…

50. 3. Using your abilities for God
You worship him by…
3. Using your abilities for God

51. --Romans 12:1 (NLT) And so, dear brothers and sisters,
I plead with you to give your bodies to
God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—
the kind he will find acceptable.
This is truly the way to worship him..
--Romans 12:1 (NLT)

52. 3. Using your abilities for God
You worship him by…
3. Using your abilities for God

53. 2. Focusing your attention on God 3. Using your abilities for God
You worship him by…
1. Expressing your
affection to God
2. Focusing your attention on God
3. Using your abilities for God

54. “If worship is just one thing we do, everything becomes mundane.
If worship is the one thing we do, everything takes on eternal significance.”
--Timothy Christiansen--

56. What’s My Purpose? Pastor Dave Jansen April 28, 2019
Series: Living By Design