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Robert Jeffress - Finding The Perfect Job

September 23, 2025 | 27:31

Robert Jeffress - Finding The Perfect Job
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Finding The Perfect Job | September 23, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with
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  • Dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi.
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  • I'm robert jeffress, and welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Do you think god cares about your job?
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  • Do you think he has a plan for your career?
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  • Well, before today's program is over, i hope you can answer
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  • Those questions with a resounding yes.
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  • Using the words of scripture, i intend to persuade you that god
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  • Cares about your employment and he wants nothing but the very
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  • Best for you.
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  • My message is titled "finding the perfect job" on today's
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  • Edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Whether you're facing career changes, relationship questions,
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  • Jeffress: in john 10:10 jesus said, "i have come that you
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  • Might have life and that you might have it more abundantly."
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  • Contrary to what most people think, the eternal life that
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  • Jesus promised us doesn't have to wait to begin until after
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  • We die.
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  • You don't have to die to experience eternal life because,
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  • You see, the eternal life that jesus promises not only deals
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  • With the quantity of life we have, eternity, but the quality
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  • Of life we experience, and jesus wants us to begin experiencing
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  • That overflowing with joy, abundant, filled-with-purpose
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  • Life in the here and now and it can extend past the grave till
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  • The hereafter.
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  • One important facet of experiencing that abundant,
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  • Overflowing-with-joy life that jesus promised you, one key to
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  • Experiencing it is to find your calling in life; and that's what
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  • We're going to talk about today, how to know god's will when it
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  • Comes to your calling, your vocation, if you will, your job.
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  • I mean, doesn't it make sense that if 70% of your waking hours
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  • Are going to be spent on your job that jesus would care about
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  • What that job is?
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  • Somebody has said that nothing will drain the color from a
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  • Person's face any more than an unfulfilling job.
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  • And so today we're going to see what god's word says about how
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  • To find the perfect job, how to know what god's unique calling
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  • In your life is.
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  • Key number one, you've got to know the biblical principle.
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  • Know the biblical principle, and the biblical principle is your
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  • Work, your job is important to god.
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  • Your job is important to god.
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  • I've discovered, ladies and gentlemen, that many christians
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  • Have a perverted view of work, a perverted view that
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  • Unfortunately comes from the church itself.
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  • And so today i want to share with you three erroneous views
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  • Of work and then what i believe is the biblical view of work,
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  • How god looks at your job.
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  • First of all, there are some people who embrace the
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  • Work-as-our-god philosophy, work as our god.
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  • Now, this is the secular viewpoint that says we find our
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  • Meaning and purpose in life through our job.
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  • Our job defines who we are and so we pour all of our energy
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  • Into our job.
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  • From the time our children are small, we start helping them
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  • Discover what they're going to what?
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  • Be in life.
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  • "what are you going to be in life?"
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  • And by "be," we don't mean a dedicated christian or a
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  • Faithful husband or a loving wife, we mean, "what vocation
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  • Are you going to grow up to be?"
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  • And this is indicative of this work-as-our-god philosophy.
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  • By the way, is work a worthy idol or object of our worship?
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  • Listen to what solomon said in ecclesiastes chapter 2, verses
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  • 17 through 18.
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  • He spent his life building a successful career and he came to
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  • This conclusion.
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  • He said, "so i hated life, for the work which had been done
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  • Under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is
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  • Futility, everything is striving after wind.
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  • Thus i hated all the fruit of my labor for which i had labored
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  • Under the sun, for i must leave it to the man who will come
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  • After me."
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  • Solomon says it's futile to spend your whole life working at
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  • A career that you will ultimately leave behind, and you
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  • May leave it to somebody who's not nearly as successful as
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  • You are.
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  • Do you know, by the way, most small businesses that are
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  • Started and passed on to another generation just last about a
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  • Generation and a half and then they end up dissolving?
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  • Why spend your life building up something that you're going to
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  • Have to leave behind?
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  • That's the work-as-our-god philosophy, the idea that we
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  • Derive our identity through our job.
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  • Well, some christians reacting to that secular viewpoint have
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  • Gone to another extreme, an extreme which perhaps many of
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  • You embrace; and that is the idea that work is our curse,
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  • Work is our curse.
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  • That is, our job, our work is really a judgment that has been
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  • Passed down to us because of adam's sin.
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  • Turn over to genesis chapter 3 for a moment.
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  • Let me show you where people get this idea.
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  • Genesis chapter 3, remember after adam and eve sinned in the
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  • Garden god pronounced judgment on the serpent and then on the
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  • Woman and then he came to adam himself?
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  • And look at genesis 3, verse 17.
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  • "then to adam god said, 'because you have listened to the voice
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  • Of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which i
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  • Said, 'you shall not eat from it'; cursed is the ground
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  • Because of you; in toil ye shall eat of it all the days of
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  • Your life.
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  • Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and you
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  • Shall eat the plants of the field; by the sweat of your face
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  • You shall eat bread till you return to the ground, because
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  • From it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you
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  • Shall return.'"
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  • Now, we read this verse and here's what we think.
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  • We think, if adam and eve hadn't messed up in the garden, we
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  • Would be sitting around eating bonbons all day.
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  • Just taking it easy, never have even to set the alarm clock and
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  • Get up in the morning.
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  • But cursed be adam and eve because they're the ones that
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  • Made it hard for us to work.
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  • Work is a curse.
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  • It is a judgment from god.
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  • Now, through the years, clergymen got kind of smart
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  • About this.
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  • It suddenly dawned on them, "if we keep telling our people that
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  • Their jobs are absolutely meaningless and count for
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  • Nothing and if they all leave their secular jobs and go to the
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  • Seminary, who's gonna pay the bills?
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  • Who's gonna keep working and tithing?
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  • Who's gonna pay our salaries?"
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  • And so they came up with this third viewpoint that you've
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  • Heard many times, and that is work as our platform, work as
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  • Our platform.
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  • Doug sherman and william hendricks in their book "your
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  • Work matters to god" explain this viewpoint.
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  • It's the idea that your job, your secular job as a banker or
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  • As a real estate agent or as a grocery store clerk, your job is
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  • Meaningless except when it provides you an opportunity to
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  • Be a witness for christ; and that is, your job has meaning
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  • Only to the extent that it gives you an opportunity to be a
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  • Witness for christ.
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  • I think there's a more biblical viewpoint of work; and it's the
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  • One i want to share with you today, and that is work is
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  • Our calling.
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  • Work is our calling.
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  • If you don't hear another thing i say today, hear this.
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  • Your job, your work in and of itself has meaning to god.
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  • Work is not a curse, work is part of god's plan for your life
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  • And my life.
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  • "where do you get that in scripture, pastor?"
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  • Turn back to genesis chapter 1 for a moment.
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  • Now, this is all before the fall, okay?
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  • Before adam and eve's sin in the garden, and notice the purpose
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  • For which man was created.
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  • Genesis 1, verse 26, "then god said, 'let us make man in our
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  • Image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over
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  • The fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the
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  • Cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
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  • That creeps on the earth.'"
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  • Verse 28, "and god blessed them; and god said to them, 'be
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  • Fruitful and multiply.
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  • Fill the earth, subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea,
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  • Over the birds of the sky, and over everything that moves on
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  • The earth.'"
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  • God created man to rule over the earth.
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  • Now, turn over to chapter 2, verse 8: "and the lord god
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  • Planted a garden toward the east, in eden; and there he
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  • Placed the man whom he had formed."
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  • What was he to do in that garden, sit around and enjoy it?
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  • Well, that's part of it, but look at verse 15.
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  • "then the lord god took the man and put him into the garden of
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  • Eden to cultivate it and to keep it."
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  • Now, god could have created the garden of eden in such a way
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  • That it would have been self-sustaining.
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  • Things would have grown naturally.
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  • No weeds, no nothing.
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  • Everything just took care of itself.
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  • But god didn't do that.
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  • He created the garden in such a way that it needed man's hand,
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  • Man's work to cultivate it, to make it productive, to keep it.
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  • All of this before the fall.
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  • You see, adam was placed to be god's partner in his purpose.
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  • Adam's work was an extension of god's work.
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  • God created the garden, but he said to adam, "now you cultivate
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  • It and you keep it."
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  • What i want you to see is you and i have been created to
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  • Be workers.
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  • We have been created to be an extension of god's work here
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  • On earth.
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  • Your job, whatever it is, is a calling from god.
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  • All work is important.
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  • It's like a.w. tozer said.
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  • "it's not what a man does that determines whether his work is
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  • Sacred or secular; it's why he does it."
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  • If you want to know what your calling in life is; number one,
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  • First of all, know the principle.
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  • Your job is important to god.
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  • Secondly, discover your desires.
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  • If you want to know what god has called you to do, discover,
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  • Learn what your desires are.
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  • Why? again, philippians 2:13.
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  • God is working in you, giving you both the power and the
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  • Desire to accomplish his purpose.
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  • A few years ago, my friend bobb biehl of masterplanning
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  • International introduced me to a concept called lifework.
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  • Your lifework, and i want you to write this down, can be simply
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  • Defined as the work that is the best use of the rest of
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  • Your life.
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  • My lifework is that work which is the best use of the rest of
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  • My life.
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  • You see, people in their 20s, they basically are interested
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  • In survival.
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  • "now, how can i make enough money to pay the rent, pay
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  • The bills?"
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  • And that's okay.
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  • That's a normal stage.
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  • But when people tend to move to their 30s, they're more
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  • Interested in success.
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  • That is, they've got the basics covered now.
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  • Now they want more money or they want a more
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  • Prestigious position.
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  • Again, nothing wrong with that.
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  • That's part of the cycle.
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  • But when people entered into their 40s and early 50s, they
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  • Move from survival and success to significance.
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  • That is, they want to know, "how can i make a real and lasting
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  • Difference in the world?"
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  • Significance, and that's where lifework comes in.
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  • "what work, what job is really the best use of the rest of
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  • My life?"
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  • How can you discover what your lifework is, your
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  • God-given calling?
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  • I want you to look on your outline.
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  • I want to give you eight characteristics of your lifework
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  • That will help you determine what it is god has called you
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  • To do.
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  • First of all, your lifework will be something you feel
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  • Passionate about.
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  • When you look around the world, what needs do you see that need
  • 00:12:46.589 --> 00:12:49.925
  • To be met?
  • 00:12:49.925 --> 00:12:51.760
  • If god is calling you to do something, he's going to give
  • 00:12:51.760 --> 00:12:54.029
  • You a passion to do that.
  • 00:12:54.029 --> 00:12:56.866
  • Secondly, your lifework will utilize your single
  • 00:12:56.866 --> 00:12:59.010
  • Secondly, your lifework will utilize your single
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  • Greatest strength.
  • 00:12:59.980 --> 00:13:02.282
  • It will utilize your single greatest strength.
  • 00:13:02.282 --> 00:13:05.452
  • Again, god is working in you, not only giving you a desire to
  • 00:13:05.452 --> 00:13:09.222
  • Do something but the power to do it.
  • 00:13:09.222 --> 00:13:12.826
  • By the way, could you summarize your single greatest strength in
  • 00:13:12.826 --> 00:13:16.263
  • One word?
  • 00:13:16.263 --> 00:13:17.564
  • If you were to try to summarize your single greatest strength in
  • 00:13:17.564 --> 00:13:19.266
  • One word, what would it be?
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  • Maybe it's communication.
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  • Maybe it's organization.
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  • Maybe it's persuasion.
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  • Maybe it's compassion for others.
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  • If god gives you a calling in life, he's gonna give you the
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  • Strength, the gift to do that.
  • 00:13:37.284 --> 00:13:39.152
  • Know what your single greatest strength is.
  • 00:13:39.152 --> 00:13:40.921
  • Number three, if you found your lifework, you love it.
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  • It's something you love doing.
  • 00:13:45.058 --> 00:13:46.526
  • Now, that doesn't mean you don't get frustrated at times doing
  • 00:13:46.526 --> 00:13:49.462
  • Your lifework, but generally you're exhilarated by it.
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  • Number four, you never tire of it.
  • 00:13:53.400 --> 00:13:57.170
  • Now, again, that doesn't mean you don't get tired doing it,
  • 00:13:57.170 --> 00:13:59.906
  • But there's a difference between getting tired and tiring
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  • Of something.
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  • When you're doing your lifework, even when you're, you know, just
  • 00:14:04.144 --> 00:14:07.981
  • Scraping bottom physically and strength-wise, you're still
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  • Excited about it.
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  • Number five, and double-star this, other people affirm you
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  • In it.
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  • When you are doing your lifework, people will say to you
  • 00:14:18.558 --> 00:14:21.061
  • Things like, "you were born to do this," or, "this job was just
  • 00:14:21.061 --> 00:14:24.898
  • Tailor-made for you."
  • 00:14:24.898 --> 00:14:27.334
  • By the way, when you're not in your lifework, people will say
  • 00:14:27.334 --> 00:14:30.437
  • Things like, "how can you stand doing that?"
  • 00:14:30.437 --> 00:14:34.441
  • Others say, "you know, i don't think you're gonna be doing this
  • 00:14:34.441 --> 00:14:36.543
  • Much longer."
  • 00:14:36.543 --> 00:14:38.211
  • If you found your lifework, other people will affirm you
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  • In it.
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  • Number six, it is a good use of the rest of your life.
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  • It's a good use of the rest of your life.
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  • That is, it's a worthy cause that you can connect to the
  • 00:14:47.687 --> 00:14:51.224
  • Purpose of god in your life.
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  • Number seven, it maximizes your history.
  • 00:14:53.727 --> 00:14:58.198
  • It maximizes your history.
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  • When dick halverson was appointed chaplain of the united
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  • States senate at age 65, he said, "god has spent 65 years
  • 00:15:02.535 --> 00:15:08.775
  • Preparing me for this position."
  • 00:15:08.775 --> 00:15:11.578
  • See, he looked back, he could see how all of his experiences
  • 00:15:11.578 --> 00:15:14.481
  • Were working together to prepare him for that calling.
  • 00:15:14.481 --> 00:15:17.384
  • It'll be the same way with you.
  • 00:15:17.384 --> 00:15:18.651
  • When you discover your lifework, you'll be able to see how god
  • 00:15:18.651 --> 00:15:21.454
  • Has orchestrated things in your life to give you the gifts you
  • 00:15:21.454 --> 00:15:24.491
  • Need and the experiences for that calling.
  • 00:15:24.491 --> 00:15:27.127
  • And number eight, you will be at peace.
  • 00:15:27.127 --> 00:15:30.163
  • You will be at peace.
  • 00:15:30.163 --> 00:15:31.464
  • When you find your lifework, you will think, "this is me.
  • 00:15:31.464 --> 00:15:36.036
  • This is what god has created me to do."
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  • There'll be a subtleness in your heart.
  • 00:15:39.239 --> 00:15:42.876
  • How do you know what your vocation is?
  • 00:15:42.876 --> 00:15:44.878
  • First of all, know the biblical principle.
  • 00:15:44.878 --> 00:15:46.713
  • Your job really is important to god.
  • 00:15:46.713 --> 00:15:49.282
  • Secondly, discover your desires.
  • 00:15:49.282 --> 00:15:50.917
  • If god is calling you to a particular work, he'll give you
  • 00:15:50.917 --> 00:15:53.853
  • A passion and the giftedness to do it.
  • 00:15:53.853 --> 00:15:56.389
  • But there's a third consideration, and that is
  • 00:15:56.389 --> 00:15:59.592
  • Exercise practicality, practicality.
  • 00:15:59.592 --> 00:16:02.996
  • "does this make sense?"
  • 00:16:02.996 --> 00:16:06.733
  • You see, your job, your vocation is not only a way for you to
  • 00:16:06.733 --> 00:16:10.837
  • Connect to the purpose of god in the world, but your vocation is
  • 00:16:10.837 --> 00:16:15.175
  • Also a way for god to bring you the financial resources you need
  • 00:16:15.175 --> 00:16:19.712
  • To take care of yourself and your family.
  • 00:16:19.712 --> 00:16:22.849
  • And that's why a very practical question for you is, "can i make
  • 00:16:22.849 --> 00:16:26.519
  • A living at this lifework?
  • 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.621
  • Is it something i can make a living at that i can provide for
  • 00:16:28.621 --> 00:16:32.125
  • Myself and my family?"
  • 00:16:32.125 --> 00:16:33.393
  • By the way, it is god's will for you to take care of yourself and
  • 00:16:33.393 --> 00:16:36.162
  • Your family financially.
  • 00:16:36.162 --> 00:16:37.797
  • 1 timothy 5:8 says, "if any man does not provide for his own,
  • 00:16:37.797 --> 00:16:42.102
  • Especially those of his own household, he is worse than
  • 00:16:42.102 --> 00:16:44.904
  • An unbeliever.
  • 00:16:44.904 --> 00:16:46.172
  • He has denied the faith."
  • 00:16:46.172 --> 00:16:48.408
  • God wants you to take care of your family and the primary
  • 00:16:48.408 --> 00:16:51.277
  • Channel through which you will do that is the lifework to which
  • 00:16:51.277 --> 00:16:54.914
  • He has called you.
  • 00:16:54.914 --> 00:16:56.616
  • Now, seeing your calling, your lifework is a primary way
  • 00:16:56.616 --> 00:17:01.354
  • Through which god provides for you financially.
  • 00:17:01.354 --> 00:17:05.024
  • That has two implications.
  • 00:17:05.024 --> 00:17:06.993
  • First of all, when given a choice, choose employment
  • 00:17:06.993 --> 00:17:10.897
  • Over unemployment.
  • 00:17:10.897 --> 00:17:14.434
  • Choose employment over unemployment.
  • 00:17:14.434 --> 00:17:16.536
  • Occasionally somebody will come to me and say, "well, pastor, i
  • 00:17:16.536 --> 00:17:18.605
  • Think god's calling me to quit my job."
  • 00:17:18.605 --> 00:17:21.007
  • I say, "oh, really?
  • 00:17:21.007 --> 00:17:22.275
  • Why do you feel that way?"
  • 00:17:22.275 --> 00:17:23.576
  • "well, i'm just so unhappy.
  • 00:17:23.576 --> 00:17:24.844
  • I'm just so unfulfilled.
  • 00:17:24.844 --> 00:17:26.146
  • There has to be something better i can do."
  • 00:17:26.146 --> 00:17:27.647
  • I'll say, "well, fine.
  • 00:17:27.647 --> 00:17:28.915
  • Do you have another job lined up?"
  • 00:17:28.915 --> 00:17:30.517
  • "well, no."
  • 00:17:30.517 --> 00:17:31.784
  • The person will say, "i don't have anything lined up, but i'm
  • 00:17:31.784 --> 00:17:33.286
  • Just trusting god.
  • 00:17:33.286 --> 00:17:34.621
  • I just know he wouldn't want me to stay unfulfilled in the job
  • 00:17:34.621 --> 00:17:37.490
  • I'm in."
  • 00:17:37.490 --> 00:17:38.791
  • I say, "wrong.
  • 00:17:38.791 --> 00:17:40.293
  • Stay where you are until god opens another door."
  • 00:17:40.293 --> 00:17:44.063
  • Because it's always better to choose employment
  • 00:17:44.063 --> 00:17:46.466
  • Over unemployment.
  • 00:17:46.466 --> 00:17:47.901
  • If god wants to provide for you financially, don't quit the job.
  • 00:17:47.901 --> 00:17:51.471
  • Don't give up the blessing he has given you until you've found
  • 00:17:51.471 --> 00:17:55.008
  • Something else.
  • 00:17:55.008 --> 00:17:56.276
  • It's just--a very practical consideration, it is easier to
  • 00:17:56.276 --> 00:17:59.345
  • Move from something to something else than it is to move from
  • 00:17:59.345 --> 00:18:02.849
  • Nothing to something else.
  • 00:18:02.849 --> 00:18:04.951
  • So when you can, choose employment over unemployment.
  • 00:18:04.951 --> 00:18:08.521
  • Number two, learn to differentiate between a hobby
  • 00:18:08.521 --> 00:18:12.859
  • And a career.
  • 00:18:12.859 --> 00:18:14.594
  • Differentiate between a hobby and a career when it comes to
  • 00:18:14.594 --> 00:18:17.597
  • Finding your lifework.
  • 00:18:17.597 --> 00:18:21.301
  • I'll go ahead and confess it.
  • 00:18:21.301 --> 00:18:22.902
  • I watch "seinfeld" sometimes on television, okay?
  • 00:18:22.902 --> 00:18:26.306
  • It's a funny show.
  • 00:18:26.306 --> 00:18:27.674
  • But i know there's one episode in which the hapless george
  • 00:18:27.674 --> 00:18:30.410
  • Costanza finds himself unemployed once again.
  • 00:18:30.410 --> 00:18:33.646
  • He's always talking to his friend jerry about, "how am i
  • 00:18:33.646 --> 00:18:35.548
  • Going to find a job?
  • 00:18:35.548 --> 00:18:36.783
  • What job should i go into?"
  • 00:18:36.783 --> 00:18:38.084
  • And so jerry said, "well, george, what do you
  • 00:18:38.084 --> 00:18:39.352
  • Enjoy doing?"
  • 00:18:39.352 --> 00:18:40.753
  • And george says, "well, i like going to the movies.
  • 00:18:40.753 --> 00:18:45.158
  • I like watching football games and making insightful comments."
  • 00:18:45.158 --> 00:18:49.562
  • Jerry said, "well, that's good, but i'm not sure you can make a
  • 00:18:49.562 --> 00:18:52.165
  • Living doing that."
  • 00:18:52.165 --> 00:18:54.434
  • The great new testament scholar f.b. meyer
  • 00:18:54.434 --> 00:18:56.469
  • Was one time sailing from england to ireland.
  • 00:18:56.469 --> 00:19:00.573
  • As the ship was about to enter in to the port in ireland,
  • 00:19:00.573 --> 00:19:04.944
  • Dr. meyer went up on the bridge standing next to the captain and
  • 00:19:04.944 --> 00:19:07.680
  • He saw this confusing array of lights on the shore.
  • 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.451
  • He said to the captain, "how can you ever navigate the ship
  • 00:19:11.451 --> 00:19:14.954
  • Safely into the harbor with all of those lights?"
  • 00:19:14.954 --> 00:19:17.857
  • And the captain said, "you see that light over here on
  • 00:19:17.857 --> 00:19:20.493
  • The left?"
  • 00:19:20.493 --> 00:19:21.761
  • Meyer said, "yes."
  • 00:19:21.761 --> 00:19:23.029
  • He said, "see that other large light right in the middle?"
  • 00:19:23.029 --> 00:19:25.732
  • He said, "yes."
  • 00:19:25.732 --> 00:19:27.033
  • "and notice that other light over here on the right?"
  • 00:19:27.033 --> 00:19:29.335
  • "yes."
  • 00:19:29.335 --> 00:19:30.603
  • The captain said, "now notice what happens."
  • 00:19:30.603 --> 00:19:32.939
  • As the captain began to steer the ship, that light on the left
  • 00:19:32.939 --> 00:19:37.277
  • Suddenly and slowly moved until it became one with the light in
  • 00:19:37.277 --> 00:19:40.713
  • The middle.
  • 00:19:40.713 --> 00:19:41.981
  • And then as he continued to turn the ship, those two lights that
  • 00:19:41.981 --> 00:19:44.851
  • Had become one turned and merged with that third light.
  • 00:19:44.851 --> 00:19:49.022
  • And the captain said, "when those three lights become one
  • 00:19:49.022 --> 00:19:52.959
  • Light, then i know i can move safely ahead."
  • 00:19:52.959 --> 00:19:57.664
  • F.b. meyer said god has provided christians with three lights for
  • 00:19:57.664 --> 00:20:02.402
  • Determining his will: the word of god, prayer, and desires.
  • 00:20:02.402 --> 00:20:09.709
  • And when those three lights become one light, then we can
  • 00:20:09.709 --> 00:20:13.713
  • Move safely ahead.
  • 00:20:13.713 --> 00:20:15.948
  • I want to suggest to you today that when it comes to
  • 00:20:15.948 --> 00:20:18.651
  • Discovering your lifework god has actually given us four
  • 00:20:18.651 --> 00:20:21.721
  • Lights, and i have them there on your outline.
  • 00:20:21.721 --> 00:20:24.691
  • If you're trying to determine your calling in life, consider
  • 00:20:24.691 --> 00:20:28.861
  • Light number one.
  • 00:20:28.861 --> 00:20:30.129
  • That is, my passion.
  • 00:20:30.129 --> 00:20:32.265
  • "what is it god has called me to do?"
  • 00:20:32.265 --> 00:20:34.767
  • Write it down on your outline, my passion.
  • 00:20:34.767 --> 00:20:36.736
  • "what do i feel passionate about?"
  • 00:20:36.736 --> 00:20:39.505
  • Light number two, my single greatest strength.
  • 00:20:39.505 --> 00:20:44.243
  • "what is it that god has gifted me to do?"
  • 00:20:44.243 --> 00:20:48.147
  • Light number three, practical considerations.
  • 00:20:48.147 --> 00:20:52.719
  • Most prominently, can this calling, can this job pay
  • 00:20:52.719 --> 00:20:56.222
  • The bills?
  • 00:20:56.222 --> 00:20:57.690
  • And then light number four, god's purpose.
  • 00:20:57.690 --> 00:21:01.294
  • Does this calling, this vocation, does it line up with
  • 00:21:01.294 --> 00:21:04.964
  • What god is trying to do in the world?
  • 00:21:04.964 --> 00:21:08.034
  • And when those four lights come together and become one light,
  • 00:21:08.034 --> 00:21:12.905
  • Then you can know you have discovered your lifework.
  • 00:21:12.905 --> 00:21:17.343
  • In colossians 3 the apostle paul said whatever work you do, do
  • 00:21:17.343 --> 00:21:22.715
  • Your work enthusiastically as unto the lord for it is the lord
  • 00:21:22.715 --> 00:21:28.554
  • Christ whom you serve.
  • 00:21:28.554 --> 00:21:30.590
  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: my sincere prayer is that god will use today's
  • 00:21:35.762 --> 00:21:38.231
  • Message to validate your significant role in
  • 00:21:38.231 --> 00:21:41.367
  • The workplace.
  • 00:21:41.367 --> 00:21:42.635
  • Whatever your vocation or calling might be, you can be
  • 00:21:42.635 --> 00:21:45.838
  • Sure that god wants to use your talents, your skills to
  • 00:21:45.838 --> 00:21:49.709
  • Accomplish his purposes.
  • 00:21:49.709 --> 00:21:51.878
  • Now, in closing i'd like to remind you of the urgency of our
  • 00:21:51.878 --> 00:21:55.214
  • Mission here at pathway to victory.
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  • Our country has gone through incredible changes in recent
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  • Years and it's been unsettling, to say the least.
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  • For millions of people around the world, this ministry has
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  • Become a lifeline, a place of solace and truth.
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  • Gratefully, god's people have pulled together to ensure that
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  • Pathway to victory has a voice.
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  • Jeffress: whether you're content in your current situation or
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  • You've been looking to make a change, we could all use god's
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  • Direction when it comes to our job.
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  • And i hope today's message has brought peace and clarity
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  • Regarding your choice for making a living.
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  • Well, we know that god can hear our prayers.
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  • So why doesn't he always answer?
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  • Next time i'm going to share how to respond when it feels like
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  • You can't get through to god.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series "how to make wise decisions."
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  • Jeffress: have you ever wondered why it is that if there really
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  • Is a god in heaven who desires that the whole world know him,
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  • Why is it that god doesn't reveal himself through an
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  • Audible voice or why doesn't he reveal himself through
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  • Supernatural signs so that everybody in the world would
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  • Know he exists?
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the message
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  • "god's thundering silence" here on "pathway to victory."
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  • Announcer: experience the beauty of alaska with the pathway to
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  • Magnificent koningsdam.
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  • Be inspired by award-winning musician michael o'brien's
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  • Minister of encouragement; all while exploring frontier towns
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  • Like juneau, skagway, and ketchikan.
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  • Jeffress: there's something powerful about connecting with
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  • God and fellow believers in the majesty of his untamed
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  • Wilderness, from the majestic glaciers to soaring eagles.
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  • These moments in god's creation will deepen your faith in
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  • Powerful ways.
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  • Announcer: join us for a spiritual journey through some
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  • Of creation's most spectacular displays.
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