Purpose Driven Sobriety

12/30/2024

12/30/2024

As you approach the end of this year and the beginning of the new, I say to you “look up, look up!” Look to Me for EVERYTHING! I will provide in the coming year, all that you need in every area to accomplish all that I have set before you. This requires you to spend time with Me to hear what I say. If you will follow the path I have for you, success will follow!

James 1:17-18 (NASB1995) “Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.”

Jonas Bohlin

12/30/2024

Did you know that simply changing your thinking can change your whole life? My Word says that you are what you think. With a simple flip of the switch, your whole life can change. Your circumstance may not change that quickly but how you FEEL about the circumstance can change in an instant. When you begin thinking and speaking faith, mountains move out of the way. Flip the faith switch to “ON”.

Proverbs 23:7a (AMPC) “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.”
Philippians 4:8 (ESV) “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”

Robin Bohlin

12/30/2024

Look for the Gifts

"In school you get the lesson and then take the test... In life you take the test and then get the lesson."
-- Unknown Source

How is a problem in your life really an opportunity?

Problems invite us to go inside to recognize a bigger picture of ourselves and of life. This bigger picture brings meaning to what is unfolding.

When you feel trapped in a problem, see if you can shift your perspective. Ask yourself, "What am I being invited to learn from this situation?" The answer will always revolve around a quality or value, like gratitude, freedom, compassion, love, will, humour or acceptance. The answer will also always promote union rather than separation.

As soon as we find the meaning in our challenge, our resistance to it melts away. Often, awareness of the lesson is all that is needed to resolve the problem. If not, the awareness brings us courage and ways to work through it.

"The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life."
-- Dalai Lama

12/30/2024

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12/30/2024

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12/29/2024

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12/29/2024

To live with hope no matter what happens in life, you first have to anchor your identity in what God says about you. Then you have to anchor your life mission in God’s Word.

God has never made anything without a purpose. You know I’ve said this plenty of times! Every rock has a purpose. Every plant has a purpose. Every animal has a purpose. If you’re breathing, then God has a purpose for your life.

There are five purposes for your life, and the fifth one is that you were made for mission. You were made to help other people go to heaven with you.

You’re going to go to heaven because somebody told you about what God has done for you. Who have you told? Whether you’re a scientist or a singer or a politician or a doctor or a student, the greatest accomplishment you can make with your life is to do something that will outlast your life. Your mission is to help people settle their eternal destiny.

There’s only one way you’re ever going to complete your life mission and the purpose God put you here on earth for. You’re going to have to pay more attention to God’s Word than you do to the world. You have to give more of your life and your time and your focus to studying and knowing God’s Word, the Bible, than you do to anything else in the world.

In other words, you’re going to have to spend a lot less time on Facebook and more time with your face in God’s book. God didn’t put you here to live for yourself. He put you here to get to know him, experience his love, and do the life mission he has planned for you.

Romans 15:4 says, “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope” (NIV).

If you’re serious about not wasting your life and fulfilling your purpose, then you need to ask yourself: What do you read the most—social media or God’s Word? What do you listen to the most? What do you talk about the most? What do you give most of your attention and focus to?

When the answer is God’s Word, you’ll have everything you need to do what God created you to do.

Rick Warren