Purpose Driven Life Flashcards
Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life.
Rom. 8:6
25 Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.
Mt. 16:25
7 God’s wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes. You don’t find it lying around on the surface. It’s 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 Cor. 2:7
10 No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
Eph 2:10
11 But don’t take any of this for granted. It was only yesterday that you outsiders to God’s ways
Eph. 2:11
16 For 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.
Col. 1:16
Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless
Bertrand Russell, atheist
You are no accident
_ The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me;_
your love, O LORD , endures forever-
do not abandon the works of your hands.
Psa 138:8
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
Psa 139:15 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 into something.
Psa 139:15 NIV & Message
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.
Psa 139:16 Msg
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
Act 17:26
Long before he laid down earth’s 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.
Eph 1:4
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
Jas 1:18
For this is what the LORD says-
he who created the heavens,
he is God;
he who fashioned and made the earth,
he founded it;
** he did not create it to be empty,
but formed it to be inhabited-**
he says:
“I am the LORD ,
and there is no other.
Isa 45:18
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1Jn 4:8
