What does God want to give you this Christmas? In the message Pastor Jamie Nunnally shares how God doesn’t just want to give you what you THINK you want, but what you REALLY want.
One of the things God wants to give you this Christmas is purpose. The Christmas story is all about purpose.
1 John 3:8 NASB
Life seems pointless when you’re purposeless.
You were made for meaning and you were planned for purpose by a Creator who intentionally crafted you.
Psalm 57:2 NLT
You can’t determine your own purpose because you didn’t make yourself!
Your Salvation is not only about having a future home in heaven but having a present purpose on earth. Your ultimate destination is Heaven, but you have purpose here and now, not just there and then.
What is your purpose?
1. Get to know God.
God created you for connection with Him. John 17:3 And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.
Eternal life is not just a destination, it’s answering the invitation to know a person.
Its not just a place, it’s a process.
2 Peter 3:18 “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
2. Get to know your spiritual family.
God fashioned you for family.
Luke 10:27-29
You can love God by yourself, but you can’t love others by yourself.
Matthew 6:9-13 – it’s “us” and “we”, not “I” and “me”.
We’re saved as individuals but we grow in groups. Christian growth is a group project and only immature believers believe by themselves.
3. Get to work.
God created you to contribute.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Every Christian is a minister as is called to three things:
1) Be in Christ, 2) doing good things 3) according to God’s plan
We don’t work to get saved, but once we’re saved, we get to work.
1 Cor 15:58 “So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.”
Service is God’s pathway to your purpose. You won’t be happy until you’re helping.
We get to be a small part of God’s big plan.
Psalm 84:10 Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
Do you know your purpose? Are you excited or are you just existing?
Are you walking in the purpose God has given you?