Rick Warren - Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose

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FromGod longs for you to discover the life
he created you to live here on earth,
and forever in eternity! RICK WARREN ZONDERVAN Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life Copyright 2004, 2013 by Zondervan Requests for information should be addressed to: Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530 ISBN 978-0-310-33709-6 Epub Edition October 2020 9780310865964 The Scripture versions cited in this book are identified on , which hereby becomes a part of this copyright page. Any Internet addresses (websites, blogs, etc.) and telephone numbers in this book are offered as a resource. They are not intended in any way to be or imply an endorsement by Zondervan, nor does Zondervan vouch for the content of these sites and numbers for the life of this book. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover illustration: iStockphotoInterior illustration: iStockphotoInterior design: Beth ShagenePrinted in the United States of America

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1. PURPOSE #1, WORSHIP:
   You Were Planned for Gods Pleasure
2. PURPOSE #2, FELLOWSHIP:
   You Were Formed for Gods Family
3. PURPOSE #3, DISCIPLESHIP:
   You Were Created to Become Like Christ
4. PURPOSE #4, MINISTRY:
   You Were Shaped for Serving God
5. PURPOSE #5, EVANGELISM:
   You Were Made for a Mission

You were made to live a purpose-driven life! The five purposes of your life are: 1.WORSHIP: You were planned for Gods pleasure!After all this, there is only one thing to say: Have reverence for God, and obey his commands, because this is all that we were created for. ECCLESIASTES 12:13 (TEV) 2.FELLOWSHIP: You were formed for a family!It was a happy day for him when he gave us our new lives, through the truth of his Word, and we became, as it were, the first children in his new family. JAMES 1:18 (LB) 3.DISCIPLESHIP: You were created to become like Christ!God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity restored.

We see the original and intended shape of our lives in him. ROMANS 8:29 (MSG) 4.MINISTRY: You were shaped for serving God!We are Gods handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. EPHESIANS 2:10 (NIV) 5.EVANGELISM: You were made for a mission!Jesus said, Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. MATTHEW 28:19 20 (NIV) A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. PROVERBS 11:28 (MSG) Blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they go right on producing delicious fruit. JEREMIAH 17:7 8 (NLT) DAY 1For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. COLOSSIANS 1:16 (MSG) It is God who directs the lives of his creatures;everyones life is in his power. JOB 12:10 (TEV) Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. ROMANS 8:6 (MSG) Jesus said, Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. MATTHEW 16:25 (MSG) Gods wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes.

You dont find it lying around on the surface. Its not the latest message, but more like the oldest what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us, long before we ever arrived on the scene. 1 CORINTHIANS 2:7 (MSG) Its in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone. EPHESIANS 1:11 (MSG) Reflections [Your Notes] DAY 2I am your Creator.You were in my care even before you were born. ISAIAH 44:2 (CEV) The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me. PSALM 138:8 (NRSV) You know me inside and out,you know every bone in my body;You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,how I was sculpted from nothing intosomething. PSALM 139:15 (MSG) You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your Book! PSALM 139:16 (LB) From one man he made all nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. ACTS 17:26 (NIV) Long before he laid down earths foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. EPHESIANS 1:4 (MSG) God decided to give us life through the word of truth so we might be the most important of all the things he made. JAMES 1:18 (NCV) God formed the earth and made it.He set it up.He did not create it to be emptybut formed it to be inhabited. ISAIAH 45:18 (GWT) God is love. 1 JOHN 4:8 (NIV) I have carried you since you were born;I have taken care of you from your birth.Even when you are old, I will be the same.Even when your hair has turned gray,I will take care of you.I made you and will take care of you,says the Lord. ISAIAH 46:3 4 (NCV) The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us. ROMANS 12:3 (MSG) Reflections [Your Notes] DAY 3Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. JOHN 14:6 (NIV) Everyones life is driven by something; many are driven by things like guilt, resentment, anger, fear, materialism, and the need for approval.To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do. JOB 5:2 (TEV) I observed that the basic motive for success is the driving force of envy and jealousy! ECCLESIASTES 4:4 (LB) A pretentious, showy life is an empty life;a plain and simple life is a full life. PROVERBS 13:7 (MSG) There are other forces that can drive your life but all lead to the same dead end: unused potential, unnecessary stress, and an unfulfilled life.

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