The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

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  1. Gary Thomas, Sacred
    Pathways(Grand Rapids:
    Zondervan, 2000).

  2. John 4:23 (Msg).

  3. Matthew 6:7 (KJV).

  4. See 11-week tape series
    on the names of God,
    “How God Meets Your
    Deepest Needs,”by
    Saddleback Pastors
    (1999), http://www.
    pastors.com.

  5. 1 Corinthians 14:40
    (NIV).

  6. 1 Corinthians 14:16–17
    (CEV).

  7. Romans 12:1 (NIV).

  8. Psalm 50:14(TEV);
    Hebrews 13:15 (CEV);
    Psalms 51:17; 54:6
    (NIV); Philippians 4:18
    (NIV); Psalm 141:2
    (GWT); Hebrews 13:16;
    Mark 12:33 (Msg);
    Romans 12:1 (NIV).

  9. 2 Samuel 24:24 (TEV).

  10. Matt Redman, “Heart
    of Worship”
    (Kingsway’s Thankyou
    Music, 1997).


Day 14: When God Seems
Distant



  1. Philip Yancey, Reaching
    for the Invisible God
    (Grand Rapids: Zon-
    dervan, 2000), 242.

  2. 1 Samuel 13:14; Acts
    13:22.

  3. Psalm 10:1 (LB).

  4. Psalm 22:1 (NLT).
    5. Psalm 43:2 (TEV); see
    also Psalms 44:23 (TEV);
    74:11 (TEV); 88:14
    (Msg); 89:49 (LB).

  5. Deuteronomy 31:8;
    Psalm 37:28; John
    14:16–18; Hebrews
    13:5.

  6. Isaiah 45:15.

  7. Floyd McClung,
    Finding Friendship with
    God(Ann Arbor, MI:
    Vine Books, 1992), 186.

  8. Job 23:8–10 (NLT).

  9. Psalm 51; Ephesians
    4:29–30; 1 Thessalo-
    nians 5:19; Jeremiah
    2:32; 1 Corinthians
    8:12; James 4:4 (NLT).

  10. Job 1:20–21 (NIV).

  11. Job 7:11 (TEV).

  12. Job 29:4 (NIV).

  13. Psalm 116:10 (NCV).

  14. Job 10:12.

  15. Job 42:2; 37:5, 23.

  16. Job 23:10; 31:4.

  17. Job 34:13.

  18. Job 23:14.

  19. Job 19:25.

  20. Job 23:12 (NIV).

  21. Job 13:15 (CEV).

  22. 2 Corinthians 5:21
    (TEV).
    Day 15: Formed for God’s
    Family

  23. Ephesians 1:5 (NLT).

  24. James 1:18 (LB).

  25. 1 Peter 1:3b (LB); see
    also Romans 8:15–16
    (TEV).

  26. Mark 8:34; Acts 2:21;
    Romans 10:13; 2 Peter
    3:9.

  27. Galatians 3:26 (NLT).

  28. Ephesians 3:14–15 (LB).

  29. 1 John 3:1; Romans
    8:29; Galatians 4:6–7;
    Romans 5:2; 1 Corin-
    thians 3:23; Ephesians
    3:12; 1 Peter 1:3–5;
    Romans 8:17.

  30. Galatians 4:7b (NLT).

  31. Philippians 4:19 (NIV).

  32. Ephesians 1:7; Romans
    2:4; 9:23; 11:33;
    Ephesians 3:16; 2:4.

  33. Ephesians 1:18b (NLT).

  34. 1 Thessalonians 5:10;
    4:17.

  35. 1 John 3:2; 2 Corinthi-
    ans 3:18.

  36. Revelation 21:4.

  37. Mark 9:41; 10:30;
    1 Corinthians 3:8;
    Hebrews 10:35;
    Matthew 25:21, 23.

  38. Romans 8:17;
    Colossians 3:4; 2 Thes-
    salonians 2:14; 2 Tim-
    othy 2:12; 1 Peter 5:1.

  39. 1 Peter 1:4 (NLT).

  40. Colossians 3:23–24a
    (NIV).

  41. Matthew 28:19 (NLT).

  42. 1 Corinthians 12:13
    (NLT).

  43. Acts 2:41; 8:12–13,
    35–38.

  44. Hebrews 2:11 (CEV).

  45. Matthew 12:49–50
    (NLT).
    Day 16: What Matters
    Most

  46. Galatians 5:14 (LB).

  47. 1 Peter 2:17b (CEV).

  48. Galatians 6:10 (NCV).

  49. John 13:35 (LB).

  50. 1 Corinthians 14:1a
    (LB).

  51. 1 Corinthians 13:3
    (Msg).

  52. Matthew 22:37–40
    (NLT).

  53. 1 Corinthians 13:13
    (NCV).

  54. Matthew 25:34–46.

  55. Matthew 25:40 (NRSV).

  56. Galatians 5:6 (NIV).

  57. 1 John 3:18 (TEV).

  58. Ephesians 5:2 (LB).

  59. John 3:16a.

  60. Galatians 6:10 (NLT).

  61. Ephesians 5:16 (NCV).

  62. Proverbs 3:27 (TEV).
    Day 17: A Place to Belong

  63. Genesis 2:18.

  64. 1 Corinthians 12:12;
    Ephesians 2:21, 22; 3:6;
    4:16; Colossians 2:19;
    1 Thessalonians 4:17.

  65. Romans 12:5 (NIV).

  66. Romans 12:4–5; 1 Co-
    rinthians 6:15; 12:12–



  67. Romans 12:4–5 (Msg).

  68. Ephesians 4:16.

  69. Matthew 16:18 (NLT).

  70. Ephesians 5:25 (GWT).

  71. 2 Corinthians 11:2;
    Ephesians 5:27;
    Revelation 19:7.

  72. 1 Peter 2:17b (Msg).

  73. 1 Corinthians 5:1–13;
    Galatians 6:1–5.

  74. Ephesians 2:19b (LB).

  75. John 13:35 (NLT).

  76. Galatians 3:28 (Msg);
    see also John 17:21.

  77. 1 Corinthians 12:27
    (NCV).

  78. 1 Corinthians 12:26
    (NCV).

  79. Ephesians 4:16; Romans
    12:4–5; Colossians
    2:19, 1 Corinthians
    12:25.


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