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

Notes

A Journey with Purpose

1. Romans 12:2 (NLT).


2. 2 Timothy 2:7 (NIV).

Day 1: It All Starts
with God

1. Job 12:10 (TEV).


2. Romans 8:6 (Msg).


3. Matthew 16:25 (Msg).


4. Hugh S. Moorhead,
   comp., The Meaning of
   Life According to Our
   Century’s Greatest
   Writers and Thinkers
   (Chicago: Chicago
   Review Press, 1988).


5. 1 Corinthians 2:7
   (Msg).


6. Ephesians 1:11 (Msg).


7. David Friend, ed., The
   Meaning of Life
   (Boston: Little, Brown,
   1991), 194.

Day 2: You Are Not an
Accident

1. Psalm 138:8a (NIV).


2. Psalm 139:15 (Msg).


3. Psalm 139:16 (LB).


4. Acts 17:26 (NIV).


5. Ephesians 1:4a (Msg).


6. James 1:18 (NCV).


7. Michael Denton,
   Nature’s Destiny: How
   the Laws of Biology
   Reveal Purpose in the
   Universe (New York:
   Free Press, 1998), 389.


8. Isaiah 45:18 (GWT).


9. 1 John 4:8


10. Isaiah 46:3–4 (NCV).


11. Russell Kelfer. Used by
    permission.

Day 3: What Drives Your
Life?

1. Genesis 4:12 (NIV).


2. Psalm 32:1 (LB).


3. Job 5:2 (TEV).


4. 1 John 4:18 (Msg).


5. Matthew 6:24 (NLT).


6. Isaiah 49:4 (NIV).


7. Job 7:6 (LB).


8. Job 7:16 (TEV).
   9. Jeremiah 29:11 (NCV).


9. Ephesians 3:20 (LB).


10. Proverbs 13:7 (Msg).


11. Isaiah 26:3 (TEV).


12. Ephesians 5:17 (Msg).


13. Philippians 3:13 (NLT).


14. Philippians 3:15 (Msg).


15. Romans 14:10b, 12
    (NLT).


16. John 14:6 (NIV).
    Day 4: Made to Last
    Forever
    
    
    1. Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NLT).
    
    
    2. 2 Corinthians 5:1 (TEV).
    
    
    3. Philippians 3:7 (NLT).
    
    
    4. 1 Corinthians 2:9 (LB).
    
    
    5. Matthew 25:34 (NIV).
    
    
    6. C. S. Lewis, The Last
       Battle(New York:
       Collier Books, 1970),
       184.
    
    
    7. Psalm 33:11 (TEV).
    
    
    8. Ecclesiastes 7:2 (CEV).
    
    
    9. Hebrews 13:14 (LB).
    
    
    
    


17. 2 Corinthians 5:6 (LB).
    Day 5: Seeing Life from
    God’s View
    
    
    1. Romans 12:2 (TEV).
    
    
    2. 2 Chronicles 32:31
       (NLT).
    
    
    3. 1 Corinthians 10:13
       (TEV).
    
    
    4. James 1:12 (GWT).
    
    
    5. Psalm 24:1 (TEV).
    
    
    6. Genesis 1:28 (TEV).
    
    
    7. 1 Corinthians 4:7b
       (NLT).
    
    
    8. 1 Corinthians 4:2
       (NCV).
    
    
    9. Matthew 25:14–29.
    
    
    
    


18. Matthew 25:21 (NIV).


19. Luke 16:11 (NLT).


20. Luke 12:48b (NIV).
    Day 6: Life Is a Temporary
    Assignment
    
    
    1. Job 8:9 (NLT).
    
    
    2. Psalm 39:4 (LB).
    
    
    3. Psalm 119:19 (NLT).
    
    
    4. 1 Peter 1:17 (GWT).
    
    
    5. Philippians. 3:19–20
       (NLT).
       6. James 4:4 (Msg).
       7. 2 Corinthians 5:20
       (NLT).
       8. 1 Peter 2:11 (Msg).
       9. 1 Corinthians 7:31
       (NLT).
    
    
    
    


21. 2 Corinthians 4:18b
    (Msg).


22. John 16:33; 16:20;
    15:18–19.


23. 2 Corinthians 4:18
    (NIV).


24. 1 Peter 2:11 (GWT).


25. Hebrews 11:13, 16
    (NCV).
    Day 7: The Reason for
    Everything
    
    
    1. Psalm 19:1 (NIV).
    
    
    2. Genesis 3:8; Exodus
       33:18–23; 40:33–38;
       1 Kings 7:51; 8:10–13;
       John 1:14; Ephesians
       2:21–22; 2 Corinthians
       4:6–7.
    
    
    3. Exodus 24:17; 40:34;
       Psalm 29:1; Isaiah 6:3–4;
       60:1; Luke 2:9.
    
    
    4. Revelation 21:23 (NIV).
    
    
    5. Hebrews 1:3 (NIV); also
       2 Corinthians 4:6b (LB).
    
    
    6. John 1:14 (GWT).
    
    
    7. 1 Chronicles 16:24;
       Psalm 29:1; 66:2; 96:7;
       2 Corinthians 3:18.
    
    
    8. Revelation 4:11a (NLT).
    
    
    9. Romans 3:23 (NIV).
    
    
    
    


26. Isaiah 43:7 (TEV).


27. John 17:4 (NLT).


28. Romans 6:13b (NLT).


29. 1 John 3:14 (CEV).


30. Romans 15:7 (NLT).


31. John 13:34–35 (NIV).


32. 2 Corinthians 3:18
    (NLT).


33. Philippians 1:11 (NLT);
    see also John 15:8
    (GWT).


34. 1 Peter 4:10–11 (NLT);
    see also 2 Corinthians
    8:19b (NCV).


35. 2 Corinthians 4:15
    (NLT).


36. John 12:27–28 (NASB).

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