Finding Your Calling

“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but life without reason. It is
dangerous to be alive and not know why you were given life.” –
Myles Munroe
Romans 8:28-30 NKJ
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love
God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom
He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of
His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He
called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also
glorified.
Purpose: the reason you were given life
Predestined: God’s predetermined plan for your life
Five Levels of Life:

5. Doing what you and God love!

4. Doing what God loves

3. Doing what you love

2. Doing what you do

1. Doing what you hate

Trinity of Fulfillment:

1. Doing what brings pleasure
2. Doing what you’re gifted in
3. Doing what you’re called to do
   Know the source of your calling.
   Philippians 3:8 NLT
   Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite
   value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded
   everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ.
   Philippians 3:12-14 NKJ
   Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press
   on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid
   hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but
   ONE THING I DO, forgetting those things which are behind and
   reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the
   goal for the prize of the UPWARD CALL of God in Christ Jesus.

Three Things Happen as You Get to Know God:

1. New identity
   Galatians 4:7 NIV
   So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his
   child, God has made you also an heir.
   1 Corinthians 1:26-29 NLT
   Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in
   the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you.
   Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to
   shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are
   powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things
   despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used
   them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. As a
   result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.
2. New possibilities
   Mark 9:23 NKJ
   …”If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
   “The more connected you are to God, the more impossible you live
   your life!”
3. New focus

Three Major Shifts Take Place:

1. Shift from a temporal mindset to an eternal mindset.
   2 Corinthians 4:18 HSCB
   So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what
   is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2. Shift from living for self to living for others.
   Philippians 2:2-4 HCSB
   …fulfill my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love,
   sharing the same feelings, FOCUSING ON ONE GOAL. Do nothing
   out of rivalry or conceit, but in humility consider others as more
   important than yourselves.
3. Shift from building your kingdom to building God’s Kingdom.
   1 Corinthians 3:12-15 NLT
   Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of
   materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. But on the
   judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has
   done. The fire will show if a person’s work has any value. If the work
   survives, that builder will receive a reward. But if the work is burned
   up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like
   someone barely escaping through a wall of flames.