Discover Your Calling

Discover Your Calling

I. Introduction

A. We are called to !

1. We bless other people when we them!

B. God has shaped me to and !

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6. Ephesians 2:10 (NAS) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

C. My calling is to be a of !

1. Colossians 3:17 (NLT) And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.

2. Everything in your life can become a “” if you do it to help and honor .

II. What Happens When I Begin to Serve Others?

A. It creates in my life.

1. Joy comes by giving my .

2. Two secrets of joy:

a. Get the off of

i. Philippians 2:17 (NLT) But I will rejoice even if I lose my life, pouring it out like a liquid offering to God, just like your faithful service is an offering to God. And I want all of you to share that joy.

b. I have to use my to others.

B. It my .

1. Proverbs 13:10a (NAS) Through insolence comes nothing but strife.

2. Life is the lifelong of learning how to be !

3. Matthew 20:28 (NLT) “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

4. Romans 14:18 (NLT) If you serve Christ with this attitude, you will please God, and others will approve of you, too.

5. Proverbs 11:25 (NAS) The generous man will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered.

6. Proverbs 22:9a (NAS) He who is generous will be blessed.

C. It gives my life .

1. Mark 8:35 (NAS) “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.”

2. I Corinthians 15:58 (NAS) Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

3. Everything that you do for Jesus has a !

D. You will leave a .

1. Proverbs 10:7 (NAS) The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

2. Matthew 20:26b (NAS) “Whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant.”

3. Hebrews 6:10a (NAS) For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name.

4. John 12:26b (NAS) “If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.”

5. The greatest use of your life is to it in something that will it.

6. You have 3 choices with your life:

a. You can your life.

b. You can your life.

c. Or, you can your life.

7. There are only two things in this world that are going to last forever: the Word of and .

III. Conclusion