Session 1 Change Agent - Know Your Purpose - Os Hillman
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This document provides an overview of a session on understanding one's purpose. It discusses how God uniquely creates each person and sets them apart for a specific purpose before they were born. Several biblical passages are presented that affirm God determines our purpose and has planned good works for us to fulfill. Steps for discovering one's purpose are outlined, including seeking God, understanding gifts and talents, character development, and divine revelation. Examples are given of people in the Bible who discovered their purpose or assignment from God. The document stresses that finding purpose begins with knowing God and doing the works he prepared in advance.
Session 1 Change Agent - Know Your Purpose - Os Hillman
- 1. Welcome!
- 3. Coming Soon! Not actual cover
- 4. Justin and Charis (daughter)
- 5. Sessions 1. God has a unique purpose for your life 2. Your Work Matters to God 3. Hearing God at Work 4. Overcoming Hindrances to Fulfill Your Destiny A word about your syllabus
- 8. Do You Know Why God Made You?
- 13. My Story
- 15. My Story
- 16. Equip Leaders in 26 Countries
- 18. God turns our Valley of Achor (into new callings) Hosea 2:15
- 19. 26 years of work life ministry
- 20. May 7, 2016
- 21. Ways we seek to find purpose outside God • Achievements – performance based acceptance • Relationships • Children • Acquiring money/things • Recognition from others • Work/careers • Play hard
- 22. Without purpose, life has no meaning. “I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my labor and strength in vain and for nothing.” Isaiah 49:4 Pain-avoidance
- 23. Many lack purpose. A father tells kids about life.
- 24. When you involve yourself in activities contrary to your purpose
- 25. Most people lack purpose and meaning because they have no relationship with God May He grant you according to your heart’s desire and fulfill all your purpose. Psalm 20:4
- 26. Finding your purpose begins with God …everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him.” – Colossians 1:16 (Msg)
- 27. You were created and set apart by God “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” -- Jer 1:5
- 28. God created you and set you apart for a purpose “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” – Jer 29:11
- 29. Our ultimate purpose is to know God This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,“ declares the LORD. Jer. 9:23
- 30. God has determined our purpose “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” – Ephesians 2:10
- 31. Your purpose in life is chosen by God. “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me” (Ps. 138:8). Not everyone fulfills their purpose but everyone has one.
- 32. We were planned before time began “…who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,” (2 Tim. 1:9).
- 33. Pre-appointed Time and Place And He has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings ... Acts 17:26-29
- 34. I have an assigned portion (purpose and destiny). LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. Ps 16:5-6
- 35. The steps to discover why God made you Part 2
- 36. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain
- 37. 1. Seek God first...yet God chose us. He is the initiator. We respond to his invitation. “But seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well.” – Matt 6:33
- 38. Steps to Discovery 2. Self-discovery of gifts and aptitudes 3. Progressive, building block process 4. Character Development – Joseph Process
- 39. 5. Divine revelation & circumstances – Paul – Damascus Road – Moses – burning bush – Gunnar Olson 1996 – Cyprus 1998
- 40. What God calls us to cannot be definitely stated, because His call is simply to be His friend to accomplish His own purposes. Our real test is in truly believing that God knows what He desires. The things that happen do not happen by chance— they happen entirely by the decree of God. God is sovereignly working out His own purposes. –Oswald Chambers
- 41. God’s ultimate assignment for our lives often comes with “great horror and darkness” Satan wants to thwart the purposes of God in you. i.e. Abraham Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years………." Gen 15:12-16
- 42. When God calls you to walk down a certain path, He gives you, and only you, the grace for that assignment. Do not let others sway you out of sympathy or reasoning.
- 43. Rev 2:17 “And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” Each of us has a name in Heaven that uniquely fits us.
- 44. Each person has a book in heaven. “Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” - Ps 139:16
- 45. Our individual book is a written record of all that God planned for us and the Kingdom impact He has destined for our lives. Every person ever born has a book written about them. The battle is to get what is in the book to manifest on the earth.
- 46. What’s in your book? “Your law is within my heart.” Ps 40:8 What are your interests, desires, aspirations, longings and passions? Clues to what is in your book in heaven.
- 48. Os Hillman’s Purpose Natural Gifts • Networker • Teacher • Athlete • Shepherd • Marketer • Planner • Promoter • Leader • Communicator • Organizer • Articulator • Golf instructor • Sales/Marketing positions • Ad Agency owner • Vocational ministry Your Natural Gifts ? (list yours) Why God Made Os Hillman “Articulator and shepherd of foundational ideas that lead to transformation” Gather truth, make it concise and understandable
- 49. Pamela’s Purpose Natural Gifts • Activist • Advocate • Defender • Passionate • Trainer • Equipper • Empowerer • Leading • Comforter • Helper • Giver • Entrepreneurial • Innovator • Overcomer • Driver • Worshipper • Warrior • A voice • Networker Why God Made Pamela Hillman “God made Pamela to be a passionate advocate, equipper and networker to help the marginalized fulfill their God-designed legacy. ”
- 50. Isaiah’s Purpose The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens my ear to hear as the learned. - Isaiah 50:4
- 51. Step 1: Now begin to create your own list. 1.____________________ 2.____________________ 3.____________________ 4.____________________ 5. ____________________ 6. ____________________ 7._____________________ 8._____________________ 9._____________________
- 52. Step 2: Narrow your list Choose 4 key words 1.____________________ 2.____________________ 3.____________________ 4.____________________
- 53. Step 3: Create your purpose statement Wordsmith into a phrase. • ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ _______
- 54. “Omar” Arabic, first son and disciple, Hebrew, gifted speaker; German, famous; great grandson of Esau Gen 36:15 These were the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn son of Esau, were Chief Teman, Chief Omar
- 55. Calling and Path to Destiny Know God Education Work Experience Aptitude Assessments Circumstances - Discovery of Assignment Abraham Joseph-pit Moses-bush Paul-blinded David-Samuel/Goliath Destiny! Character (testing) Joseph Moses David Paul Mentors Moses-Joshua Elijah-Elisha Paul-Timothy Jesus-Disciples
- 56. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10
- 57. The Value of a Mentor
- 58. Oswald Chambers “Jesus never measured His life by how or where He was of the greatest use. God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.”
- 59. Calling Change Agent Influence “We are given to an incredible overestimation of the extraordinary at the expense of the ordinary.” – Our Calling, Einar Billing
- 60. Oswald Chambers “It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God—but we do not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people— and this is not learned in five minutes.”
- 61. Convergence Where God’s circumstances, your heart, your talent, your influence, and your social capital converge to maturity.
- 62. 30 25Age of Maturity Maturity of the Brain Jewish Culture Age of Maturity • Jesus public ministry began • Joseph elevated to rule • David became king Convergence
- 63. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. -Romans 11:29
- 64. Summary God created you uniquely “you.” Created you for a specific purpose and work Called you to Someone, then something
- 65. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. Jn 17:4
- 66. Paul Potts, mobile phone salesman
- 67. Faithful is He Who calls you, and He will do it. 2 Thess 5:24
- 68. 77
- 69. Your Epitaph? His adversities helped many _____________________
- 71. 210 Project Includes online self-assessment www.TGIFBookstore.com
- 73. After all these years…. www.BecomeGodsChangeAgent.com Free Download JOIN OUR WAITING LIST
- 75. Your matters to God Seeing work through God’s eyes Os Hillman NEXT SESSION