What Will You Live For?

“For everything comes from God alone.  Everything lives by his power and for His glory.”  Romans 11:36

Living your purpose is not always that easy.  It is easier to do something different many times.  However, your purpose we have to live a bigger life.  Do we shrink back into a comfortable, self-centered life or do we get out of our comfort zone and go all out for the rest of our lives.   What will you live for, the glory of God or for your own glory.  God will give you what you need to live for Him if you make the choice to do so.

How can you live your purpose?  Here are a few things that we can do.

1.    Love each other.  It seems like we live in such a divided world today.  We are divided by politics, race, and even occupation.  We seem to use it to everything to divide and hate.  We are called to love one another.  Where there is hate bring love.  Where there is discourse bring peace.  Paul said, “Accept each other just as Christ has accepted you; then God will be glorified.” (John 13:35)

2.    Serve others.  God designed each one of us with a unique gift, talent, and skills.   He did not give those to us to us for selfish reasons.  He gave them to us to serve others.  They are given to benefit others, not for our benefit.  For example, some people are just gifted in making money.  We aren’t to use this gift for our own greed but to help others.

3.    Self sacrifice.  This means we sacrifice for the cause.  Jesus sacrificed His life for us.  I know that I can be very selfish many times.  I would rather sleep than get out of bed for any reason, believe me.  I would rather spend money on new clothes than give my money to help. But our purpose means we sacrifice our time, money, and ourselves for others.

When it comes to living your life with purpose the majority of it has to do with loving each other, serving others and self-sacrifice.  It isn’t always the easy way out, but it is the most rewarding for you and the people in your life.  So what will you live for, yourself or others?

If you have a dream for your life and would like to discuss it with me, please go to www.incredibletransformation.com.  Give me your information and I would love to talk with you about what you want to achieve before your life on this planet is over.

The Benefits of Living a Life of Purpose

“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”  Isaiah 26:3

There are many benefits to live a life of purpose.  So many people do not live a life of purpose and they suffer for it.  So does society.  We need your God given talents and abilities because society is better for it.  Here are five reasons why living a life of purpose is beneficial.

1.    If you know your purpose your life has meaning.  Have you ever known anyone that had a job for many years?  They couldn’t wait to retire so they could do what they wanted only to die in a couple of months.  That happened to a cousin of mine.  He retired early at the age of 60 to do the things he wanted to do with his long time girlfriend.  They had great plans to hike and ATV all of the U.S.  But he was dead in two weeks.  When he retired from his job he lost his purpose.  Purpose in God is even better.  Without God life has no purpose.  And without purpose, life has no meaning, significance or hope.

2.    If you know your purpose it simplifies your life.  If you know your purpose it defines what you do.  Without a clear purpose you have no foundation on which you base decisions, allocate your time, and use your resources.  You will tend to allow the world to make choices for you depending on circumstances, pressures, and your mood at the moment.  This leads to stress, fatigue, and conflict.

3.    If you know your purpose your life is in focus.  You concentrate your life on what is important.  You become effective and selective.  One of the things we have trouble doing is saying no to people.  If we have a clear since of purpose we don’t have as much trouble saying no and focusing on what is important.

4.    If you know your purpose you are motivated.  Purpose always produces passion.  There is nothing in the world that energizes you like a clear purpose.  No matter how many hours you work and how much you have to do it seems like nothing if you know and live your purpose.

5.    If you know your purpose you are prepared of eternity.  Many people put up great edifices for themselves so that they can be remembered here on earth when they die.  But what does God say about you?  Most people will fall from memory soon after they die.  No one will remember them.  But if you build an eternal legacy you will be remembers in heaven and on earth.

Living your life with purpose if essential if you wish to influence this planet in any way.  When Michael Landon was told he was going to die he said he wished someone had told him that when he was born.  He would have lived each day with a special sense of purpose.  We are all going to die someday. How do you live your life?

If you have a dream for your life and would like to discuss it with me, please go to www.incredibletransformation.com.  Give me your information and I would love to talk with you about what you want to achieve before your life on this planet is over.

Is Leaving a Legacy Important – Five Good Reasons to Leave a Legacy

Are you leaving a legacy?  Solomon said in Proverbs 13:22 “A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.  Is that you or are you just going about trying to get by from day to day not thinking about your tomorrow let alone the tomorrows or you children or grandchildren.

Leaving a legacy is one of the things that drive me.  I am about to be 60 years old and I know that I’m not going to be here forever.  I’m not ready to check out just yet but I am on the downhill side of life.  I want to make sure my kids and grandkids have something significant to remember me by when I’m gone.  Why is leaving a legacy so important.  Here are five reasons.

1.    It’s an ongoing part of the foundation of life.  Those who came before us have left us with the world we live in.  Good or bad, they have left their legacy for us.  We are stewards of the world, we have a calling one our lives to leave it at least the same or even better than when we found it.  It is our gift to future generations.

2.    It has power for good or bad.  Some people have changed the world for good while others have caused mass destruction and left people a wake of pain behind them wherever they went.  Think of Martin Luther King Jr. vs. Hitler.  Both left a legacy, but one was good and the other evil.  We as parents have an affect on our children.  We can leave our kids with greatness or leave them in ruin.

3.    It is an act of responsibility.  When we strive to leave a legacy, it is a great responsibility to choose to leave a positive legacy.  What makes us good and honorable people is having a part of our lives based on the goal of leaving a legacy.

4.    It breaks the downward pull of selfishness that can be inherent in all of us.  When we strive to leave a legacy it is about helping others.  We go beyond our own selfish egos and work selflessly to go beyond ourselves. 

5.    It keeps us focused on the big picture.  A legacy is a part of the “big picture.”  When you are only focused on the “small picture” like working for a living and just paying the bills you are just working for yourself.  When you are working to leave a legacy it is not based on selfishness and personal expediency.  Ask yourself, what is your calling and overall goals?  How will this affect people in the years to come?

Everyone should have a dream and vision for their lives.  This vision should be something that will transcend the generations.  Does your vision transcend generations or is it something selfish?  That is a determination of whether it is from God or not. 

If you have a dream for your life and would like to discuss it with me, please go to www.incredibletransformation.com.  Give me your information and I would love to talk with you about what you want to achieve before your life on this planet is over.

What Keeps You From Your Destiny?

“A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder – a waif, and nothing, a no man.” Thomas Carlyle

What is it that drives you?  Everyone is driven by something either good or bad.  You may be driven in the moment by a problem, a pressure, or a deadline.  These things are only temporary.  However many of us are driven by some unconscious belief, fear, or painful memory.  The Bible in Ecclesiastes 1:2, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”  Without a clear and concise purpose all is vanity and the wrong things drive us.  Here are some of the things that keep you from your destiny and calling in Christ.

1.    People are driven by guilt.  Guilt will make you sabotage your own success.  There is some action in your past that made you feel guilty or someone made you feel guilty for something.  We are all products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of our past. 

2.    People are driven by resentment and anger.  Some people hold on to hurts and never get over them.  It’s like failing to forgive someone for something they did in the past to you.  It hurts you more than it hurts them.  Your offender has probably forgotten all about it but if you hold this pain inside you it can keep you from doing God’s will for your life.

3.    People are driven by fear.  That’s me.  I was driven by fear for many years.  Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from doing the will of God for your life.  Fears can result from a lot of things like a traumatic experience, growing up in a very controlling home, unrealistic expectations, and even genetic predisposition.  Fear driven people miss a lot of great opportunities.

4.    People are driven by materialism.  Many people, especially those of us in the Western World base our happiness on material things.  We get our security from the material.  The thing is possessions only provide temporary happiness.  Once the happiness runs out we need more stuff to make us feel secure and happy again.

5.    People are driven by the need for approval.  Many adults are trying to gai the approval of other people because they could never get the approval of their parents.  That’s me also.  I always tried to be a people pleaser because I couldn’t get the approval of my dad.  He died and I never go his approval.  We can’t be controlled by the opinions of others or we will miss Gods purpose for out lives.

All of these things that can drive us will lead to the some thing, unused potential, unnecessary stress, and an unfulfilled life.  They keep you from your destiny.  If you want to have the life that will fulfill your destiny you must go to the giver of life and ask Him to heal you and fill you with the proper emotions for the task ahead.

If you would like to talk about your destiny and get help achieving it please contact me at www.incredibletransformation.com.  It’s my destiny to help you with yours.

The World Needs Your Special Talents?

My husband was adopted.  So many people that are adopted have real abandonment issues.  They believe that no one wanted them, that they were an accident.  They live with this belief all of their lives.  It often stunts them and keeps them from doing the things that God has for them.

But is this true?  Are your and accident with no purpose for living?  I don’t think you are an accident.  God planned you before the foundation of the Earth.  The Bible says, “He chose us before the foundation of the world.” (Eph. 1:4)  So you were no accident and you do have a purpose for living.

God never does anything by accident.  There could be illegitimate parents, unwanted children, children who were accidents according to their parents, but there are never any accidents in God’s eyes.  He made you when he made you for a special purpose.  What that purpose is, so few people know because they are never taught that they have a special reason for existing.  I never heard about it until I was confronted with my personal calling sent by the Lord.

My calling is to help others understand their calling.  It’s a gift.  It’s my gift to the world.  It’s what He has been training me to do for years.  It’s strange how perfect strangers will come up to me on the street and just start talking to me about their gifts.

What’s your special gift from God?  Everyone has a gift.  We have unique personalities and qualities that only God gave us. Your race, your nationality, your looks are not accident God left nothing to chance and included every detail.  We have special DNA given to us by God to do His will.  We possess exactly the right genetic makeup to do what he has in mind for us.

The problem is that the world distracts many people.  We are taught to just fit in and do what everyone else does.  Go to school, get a good education, so you can get a good job.  Churches major in on jobs as the best way to survive in this world.  We are not taught that we are special with unique gifts and that we were put here to serve the Lord and others.  The world needs your special talents because we live in a hurting world.  If you don’t exercise your gifts even more people will hurt.

If you want more information about how to serve God and become equipped to serve him spiritually, financially, and physically please go to www.incredibletransformation.com, put in your information and we will have a strategy session so I can help you discover your calling.   

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How you define your life determines your destiny.  This is a quote from Rick Warren from his book “The Purpose Driven Life.”   Another way of putting the quote is, the way we see ourselves is the way we will live our lives.  Every one of us has a different way of seeing things.  Have you ever been to a seminar or event and you came out of the event believing that you got so much out of it and it was the most wonderful thing on the earth.  The person setting right next to you could have gone to the exact same event and they hated it.  They got nothing at all out of the experience.  That is because of the way the two of you processed the experience. 

The sad thing is that you could have come out of the event and changed your life.  You could have gone on to do great things, but the person setting next to you didn’t do anything at all.  He went back to the cubical in his office and complained about everything for the rest of his life.  We all see things differently.  We all process through a different set of programming in our brains.

Many of us go to all of these self-help gurus to try and figure out what’s wrong with us, get the help we need, and finally do the thing in life that we were destined to do.  That may work; I’m not trying to put them down.  I believe that many of these people are sincere about the work they do and they really want to help others.  But there is a better way.

God sees us from a totally different perspective.  He does not see us from the programming that we have in our subconscious, He sees us from the way He created us.  His word says, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” (1 Cor. 2:9)  He sees us as limitless possibilities. 

There is an old children’s song that says, “You are a promise, you are a possibility, you are a promise with a capital P, you are a great big bundle of potentiality.”  We don’t sing that song much anymore, but I sing it to my granddaughter every time I get a chance.  She is only one year old and she needs to know that she is a great possibility in God.

Why is it that we never see ourselves as a great possibility?  We have been stained by the world, by the things that people have told us, and by what we feel are our own limitations.  If you see yourself in the light of the person that created you, you can remove the limitations and go for your highest destiny.

If you have a dream for your life and would like to discuss it with me, please go to www.incredibletransformation.com.  Give me your information and I would love to talk with you about what you want to achieve before your life on this planet is over.