Day 4 Notes-

Drive- to guide,control,or direct

What drives your life? Many things can drive a person's life from problems, pressures, deadlines,relationships ect.

Here are 5 common ones

1-guilt
2-resentment
3-fear
4-materialism
5-need for approval

All these things will lead to dead ends. It is important to know God's purpose for your life because it is the only drive that will bring fulfillment to your being.

Knowing God's purpose for your life will give your life meaning. Hope is something all persons need to cope. If you have felt hopeless look at what God says about His plans for you.

Jeremiah 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

God's purpose for your life will bring about a true peace.

Isaiah 26:3  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Knowing your purpose will focus your life. It is human nature to get distracted and without knowing God's purpose it will keep you in a state of change. Change of direction, jobs, churches, relationships and all externals. The changes are made hoping they will fill an emptiness in your heart. These changes however will never fill or solve the problem.

The men and women through history that have made the most impact are those who maintain focus. One of the most focused leaders of the Bible is Paul.

Philippians 3:13  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

If you want your life to have impact then focus it.
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personal notes- This also reminds me of the Lord telling us to keep our eye single

Matthew 6:22  The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Luke 11:34  The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

However, I don't believe, this can not be accomplished on our own effort without melt down.