How to Find Your Purpose with God | Study the Bible with Me
today's video was on finding purpose and I feel like that's such a common thing
that people try to search for especially Christians finding your purpose in life
what does God want me to do you know what is the ultimate purpose of me being
here basically we're gonna talk about that today um so first we're going to
look at the story of Hannah and that's in 1st Samuel chapter 1 it's the entire
chapter
so because it's obviously really long it's the entire chapter of the book of
1st Samuel 1 and I can just give you a brief overview so basically there was
someone named L Kenna and he had two wives hannah and peninnah so out of
those two wives peninnah had children she was able to bear kids and hannah was
not which was a huge deal back in those days the Bible actually says that hannah
had a closed womb so she was unable to have children when Elkanah went to
sacrifice to the Lord he gave a double portion when it was time to sacrifice
for Hannah's behalf because she was barren so unfortunately peninnah wasn't
the nicest person she would provoke Anna and make fun of her because hannah was
unable to have children and it got so bad that hannah actually wept and she
didn't feel like eating so Hannah prayed to God and she asked for her son
and she promised the Lord that she would dedicate her son to him but Bible even
says that she prayed so hard that her husband Elkanah thought that she was
drunk soon after hannah actually became
pregnant and she named her son Samuel Hannah came through on her promise and
she did give him back to the Lord when he was weaned at a young age and Samuel
went on to be one of the greatest prophet and judges in the Bible I mean
he worked under Eli who was another great man of faith in the Bible and he
eventually anointed King Day who obviously went on to be a king and
it was an ill in eh of Jesus the Savior so the reason why I wanted to talk about
Hannah today is because I feel like a lot of times when Christians are
searching for what they think that God wants them to do
I think people automatically think that it's usually something like leaving a
large amount of people in a church or you know preaching in front of a lot of
people leading a worship team or I don't know anything like that where it's kind
of in the public eye or think a thought of as like a something that's big to us
humans what we have to realize is that there are no jobs that God thinks are
super big and there's no jobs that God thinks are little you know the person
who is cleaning the toilets of the church is just as important and valuable
to God as the person who's preaching at the pulpit so that's first and foremost
second we are not all called to be you know that that thing that I think
everyone has the idea that that God has planned for them I think a lot of people
feel like you know they have to have this great huge purpose of standing in
front of an audience and preaching or like I said before leading a worship
team or something like that and again I want to choose my words carefully
because I don't want to make it sound like those things are not important or
that some people are not called to that and and you know some people are called
to preach in to lead but but what are we all called to do what is our purpose in
life and I wanted to talk about Hannah today because she's not someone that's
typically spoken about when I listen to different types of sermons Hannah was
someone who was kind of a second thought she was the second wife to Elkanah pnina
she was able to have children Hannah was not peninnah provoked Hannah
and Hannah you know cried and she was vulnerable and she was sad because she
couldn't have kids and she was faithful and she prayed to God and she prayed so
fervently that her husband even thought that she was drunk
imagine how someone would have to look to be praying for someone else to think
that they're drunk that's pretty intense and eventually because of her persistent
faith she became pregnant and she kept her promise to God
cuz of Hannah's faithfulness one of the greatest rulers that you know was ever
in the Bible was born and that was Samuel and he did so many great things
and I would definitely encourage you to go to the book of Samuel 1st Samuel and
read the entire thing yourself and you could even go on to read what Samuel but
I just want everyone to think what is your purpose in life is to be a Hannah
what if your purpose in life is to raise a Samuel or what if your purpose in life
is to tell that one person at your job about Jesus and they go on to change so
many lives I feel like in today's society we tend to rank calling and
purpose by how many people are watching if that makes any we are all called to
do the same thing and that is to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ mark 16:15
says go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creations 1st
Corinthians 1:17 it says for Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the
gospel not with wisdom and eloquence lest the cross of Christ be emptied of
its power Luke chapter 5 verse 1 through 11 I love this story and I'm gonna read
it out loud for you one day as Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret the
people were crowding around him and listening to the Word of God he saw at
the water's edge two boats left there by fishermen who were washing their nuts he
got into one of the boats the one belonging to Simon and asked him to put
out a little from the shore then he sat down and taught the people from the boat
when he had finished speaking he said to Simon put out into deep water and let
down the nets for a cat Simon answered master we worked hard all night and
haven't caught anything but because you say so I will let down the nets when
they had done so they caught such a large number of fish that their nets
began to break so they signal their partners in the other boat to come and
help them and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink
when Simon Peter saw this he fell at Jesus's knees and
go away from me Lord I am a sinful man for he and all his companions were
astonished at the catch of fish they had taken and so were James and John and the
sons of Zebedee Simon's partners then jesus said to Simon don't be afraid
from now on you will fish for people so they pulled their boats up on shore left
everything and followed him this is definitely one of my favorite stories of
the Bible basically Jesus needed a miracle they
were trying to fish all night and because they were open to letting Jesus
into their life they let Jesus into their boat he performed a miracle so
great that Peter even said get away from me I'm sinful you know I don't deserve
this and he's right we don't deserve it but we are not blessed because we
deserve it we're blessed because Jesus died for us and so because he is perfect
we then inherit all of the blessings that God has for us so why am I saying
all this basically verse 10 it says jesus said to Simon don't be afraid from
now on you will fish for people and that's all a part of this great purpose
we are put here to live our lives as an example for other people to want to get
to know Christ and how are we going to live as an example so others can get to
know him if we're living lives that contradict the word if we're being
hateful towards other people if we're rude and just acting in a way that looks
like the world then why would anyone want to get to know Jesus if we are just
the same as the world God wants us to be different from the world he wants us to
act in love and first Corinthians 13:13 now these three remained Faith Hope in
love but the greatest of these in love so I think one of the biggest things
that Jesus I think one of the big one of the biggest things that God wants us to
do is walk in love and how do we walk in love how do we learn to be patient and
kind and the only way we can do this because I don't know about you but I am
a hot mess and I need Jesus every single day otherwise I'm just a total disaster
the way that we walk in love to draw others to him
is by studying the word reading your Bible listening to sermons getting more
of God not only will this help you to change and you know God will find you
and the little things that he wants to fine-tune and he will guide you you know
I think a lot of times people when they want to hear from God I think they
expect something perfectly clear and audible when I hear from God honestly
sometimes I question you know did I really hear that or you know I think
well I wonder if that was for me but the more that I study the word the more you
will just get a sense for when you know God is showing you something either
something that you want to change that he wants you to change or something that
he wants you to do and I really can't explain it more than that but if you are
trying to find out you know what it is that God wants to do in your life study
your word study the Bible and I promise you he will talk to you and another
thing is our purpose in life is just going back to love walking in love and
telling others about Jesus and we can't walk in love and show others you know
this beautiful life of having a relationship with Jesus without studying
the word and constantly being in the word because at the end of the day some
of us are meant to you know just preach to our neighbor
you know sometimes our purpose in life is to tell everyone around us how good
god is and help you know bring others to the kingdom that's ultimately what we're
put here for if Hannah wasn't faithful and if she didn't dedicate her life to
God through prayer and you know faith she would have never had Samuel he would
have never went on to be such a great prophet and judge and do so many great
things in the Bible a lot of us are meant to be a Hannah and you have to ask
yourself am i okay with that spreading the word of God to other people by
living a life that looks like Jesus you can start today you know we can all
start today living the purpose that God wants us to do in our lives and that's
telling others about him I really hope that this made sense and I feel like it
can easily be misinterpreted what I was trying to say and taking the wrong way
but just know I prayed walking hard about this and I
really pray that each and every one of you that watched this video really
understands where I'm coming from what I'm trying to say and again I just want
to encourage you to study the word for yourself it's good to follow along with
me and to study the Bible but also follow it you're studying your self take
these scriptures and read it for yourself and you know see how you feel
and and what God is telling you through them and also lastly never forget to
walk in love and walking in love is our ultimate purpose in life so that we can
be fishers of men and just draw more people into the kingdom so for
application so I thank you so much for watching this video as always I am
always praying for each and every person that watches any video and I will see
you next time bye