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Robert Jeffress - If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You're Going To End Up Somewhere Else (Part 2)

July 14, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You're Going To End Up Somewhere Else (Part 2)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You're Going To End Up Somewhere Else (Part 2) | July 14, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist
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  • Church of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • When you set out on a trip or vacation, you
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  • Leave your home with a destination in mind.
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  • You carefully plan out your route and breathe a sigh of
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  • Relief when you finally get there.
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  • Well today, we're going to see that the same planning required
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  • For a vacation is required for every area of life.
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  • We can't get to where god wants us to be
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  • Without following a biblical roadmap.
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  • My message is titled, "if you don't know where you're going,
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  • You're going to end up somewhere else" as we continue our
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  • Series, "the solomon secrets," on "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ hear the heart of heaven beating ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves jesus saves ♪
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  • ♪ and the hush of mercy breathing, ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves, jesus saves ♪
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  • ♪ hear the host of angels sing ♪
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  • ♪ "glory to the newborn king." ♪
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  • ♪ and astounding joy repeating, ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves. ♪
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  • ♪ he will live, our sorrow sharing ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves, jesus saves. ♪
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  • ♪ he will die our burden bearing, ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves, jesus saves. ♪
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  • ♪ it is done, will shout the cross ♪
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  • ♪ christ has paid redemption's cost. ♪
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  • ♪ while the empty tomb's declaring, ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves. ♪
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  • ♪ freedom's calling, chains are falling. ♪
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  • ♪ hope is dawning, bright and true. ♪
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  • ♪ day is breaking, night is waning. ♪
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  • ♪ god is making all things new. ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves. ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves. ♪
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  • ♪ oh to grace, how great a debtor, ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves, jesus saves. ♪
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  • ♪ all the saints who shout together, ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves, jesus saves. ♪
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  • ♪ rising up, so vast and strong, lifting up ♪
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  • ♪ salvation's song. ♪
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  • ♪ the redeemed will sing forever, ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves, ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves. ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves. ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves. ♪
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  • ♪ jesus saves. ♪♪
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  • Announcer: god wants you to experience his best in every
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  • Area of life, and the wisdom to get there is found in his word.
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  • In "the solomon's secrets," dr. robert jeffress draws on the
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  • Life of the wisest and most successful man who ever lived to
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  • Bring you ten life-changing principles from proverbs.
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  • You'll discover practical biblical wisdom for your
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  • Marriage, finances, your career, your purpose, and so much more.
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  • Request "the solomon secrets" when you give a generous
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  • Ministry gift to "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: a purpose statement answers the question,
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  • "why do i exist?"
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  • Now, stay with me on this.
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  • There's a general purpose for which all christians exist.
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  • The westminster shorter catechism says, "man's chief end
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  • Is to glorify god and enjoy him forever."
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  • We were all created to have fellowship with god, that's a
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  • Purpose that applies to all of us.
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  • As christians, jesus commissioned us in matthew 28
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  • To be a part of his commission, to go into all the world and
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  • Make disciples, all of us were to be involved in that.
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  • We took that purpose statement and fashioned it
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  • Into our church's mission statement.
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  • The reason first baptist church dallas exists is to transform
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  • The world with god's word, one life at a time.
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  • That's something that applies to all of us.
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  • But in addition to this general purpose statement
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  • That applies to all christians everywhere,
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  • God has a unique purpose for your life.
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  • He has a reason that he left you here, instead
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  • Of taking you to heaven to be with him.
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  • And if we're gonna have a life that matters, we need to
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  • Discover what god's unique purpose for our life is.
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  • Margaret thatcher passed away recently.
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  • You know what her life purpose was?
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  • As a little girl, she believed she was called to be a leader in
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  • Her nation who would help impoverished people.
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  • That was the dream that she had.
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  • I think about candace lightner.
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  • When candace lightner's daughter was killed by a drunk driver,
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  • She was so infuriated by it that she decided to turn her fury
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  • Into something meaningful and she founded
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  • Mothers against drunk drivers to eliminate the
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  • Menace of drunk driving from society.
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  • I have a friend, bobby albert.
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  • He founded a moving company and he said his life purpose was to
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  • Build a christian company, utilizing christian principles,
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  • To show how god would bless anyone who follows his word.
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  • That's his life purpose, to be a
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  • Model of a christian businessman.
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  • I think about the apostle paul.
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  • The apostle paul had a dream.
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  • The dream in his heart was to take
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  • The gospel to the gentile nations.
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  • All of us need a unique purpose that explains
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  • Who we are and why god left us here.
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  • I remember it was almost 30 years ago.
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  • It was an afternoon i was sitting in the coffee shop at
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  • The houston intercontinental airport and i had a few hours
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  • Before my flight and even though i had known since i was 15 that
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  • God was calling me to be a pastor, i still didn't have a
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  • Clear direction about how that was to work itself out
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  • And my unique contribution to the ministry.
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  • And i remember i took out my yellow legal pad, and i prayed
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  • And asked god for direction and started going through some
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  • Exercises in my own life, and as i sat there trying to write out
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  • In a sentence my life purpose, i wrote at the
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  • Top of that yellow legal tablet, "my purpose is
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  • To be an effective communicator of god's word."
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  • I believe that god's word is filled with life-changing
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  • Principles, and i want people to be excited
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  • About those principles and to use those
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  • Principles to change their lives.
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  • That was what my real passion in life was.
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  • I still keep that piece of paper in my file, i keep looking at it
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  • And remembering when god revealed that to me, my purpose
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  • In life is to be an effective communicator of god's word.
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  • And whether i'm preaching here on sunday morning, or writing,
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  • Or speaking on television or radio, that's the guiding beacon
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  • That gives me direction in my life.
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  • My life purpose is to be an effective
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  • Communicator of god's word.
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  • You say, "well pastor, how do i find out what my purpose is?
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  • How do i discover my dream?"
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  • If you wanna discover your dream, remember
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  • These two words, passion and giftedness.
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  • Passion and giftedness.
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  • God's dream for your life is the intersection between your
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  • Passion in life, and your unique giftedness.
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  • Let me show you what i mean.
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  • Get your pens out, you're gonna wanna write these
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  • Down, they're gonna flash by real quickly.
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  • First of all, talk about passion.
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  • God is not gonna call you to do something that he doesn't give
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  • You a passion to do, okay, he's just not gonna do it.
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  • He's not gonna call me to discover the
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  • Cure for cancer, because frankly i couldn't care less
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  • About science, i have no passion in that.
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  • So that is not gonna be my life's calling.
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  • If he calls you to do something, he's gonna give you a passion.
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  • Here are four questions to help you
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  • Determine what your passion in life is.
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  • See if you can answer these about
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  • Yourself or even for your children.
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  • Question number one, what needs do you
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  • See in the world that concern you?
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  • As you look around what needs do you
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  • See in the world that concern you?
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  • Number two, if i could meet any need
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  • In the world, what need would i meet?
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  • You see, god's gonna call you to a dream, not to fill your greed,
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  • But to meet somebody else's need.
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  • That's a true purpose in life.
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  • True purpose is not greed based, it's need based.
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  • So if you can meet any need in the world, what would it be?
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  • Number three, what are the most urgent needs in my country, my
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  • Community, my work, my school, my church?
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  • As you look around these different venues,
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  • What do you see as the most pressing need?
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  • Number four, what age group or type
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  • Of people naturally interest me?
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  • For some of you it might be children, other
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  • Might be young adults, others that might be
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  • Teenagers, others that might be senior citizens.
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  • What group do you enjoy working with the most?
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  • That will help you determine what your passion is.
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  • Now, secondly, your life purpose will involve your giftedness.
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  • God, if he's calling you to do something,
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  • Will not only give you a passion, he will give
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  • You the gift to accomplish that purpose.
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  • How do you know what your giftedness is?
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  • Again, here are four questions to ask yourself.
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  • What abilities do i have that other
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  • People tend to notice and affirm?
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  • What abilities do you have that other people come up saying,
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  • "man, you're really good at that," or, "you were born to do
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  • That," or, "you make it look so easy."
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  • Number two, as i review my life, what five
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  • Accomplishments have given me the most satisfaction?
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  • You look back over your life, what five things have you done
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  • That have given you the most satisfaction?
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  • Number three, what is it that when i do it, people affirm you
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  • And say, "you were born to do that," or,
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  • "you seem to do it without any effort?"
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  • And number four, this is key, what single word best describes
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  • The area in which i am most passionate about and gifted?
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  • Is there one word that summarizes
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  • Both your passion and your giftedness?
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  • For me that one word was communication.
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  • For you that word might be science or missions or children.
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  • But wherever your giftedness and your passion meet, that is gonna
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  • Be a clue to what your life purpose is.
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  • And once you know what that single word is, ask yourself
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  • This question, see if you can answer this statement, "the way
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  • I want to make a difference in the world is by what?"
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  • How are you gonna make a difference in the world that's
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  • Gonna be a combination of your passion and your giftedness?
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  • "the way i wanna make a
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  • Difference in the world is by this."
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  • Now, where do i get all of this?
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  • Am i just coming up with this out of the windmills of my mind"
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  • No, i'm getting it straight from god's word.
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  • Listen to philippians 2 verse 13, philippians 2:13 says,
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  • "for it is god who is at work within you, giving you the will
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  • And the power to achieve his purpose."
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  • "god is at work within you, giving you the will," that's
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  • Another word for passion, "and the power," that's another
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  • Word for giftedness, "to achieve his purpose."
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  • God is going to call you to do something for
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  • Which he gives you a passion and a power.
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  • So first of all, you get your clear purpose, the way i wanna
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  • Make a difference in the world is by what?
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  • Secondly, in addition to a clear purpose,
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  • You need clarifying objectives.
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  • An objective answers the question,
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  • "what do i want to be or do?
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  • What do i wanna be or do in my life?"
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  • And specifically, your objectives in life will
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  • Somehow be connected to your purpose.
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  • Now, to develop your objectives in life,
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  • There are two words to remember.
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  • First of all, evaluation.
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  • You need to do an inventory of your life if you wanna discover
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  • What it is you want to do or to do better in your life, and on
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  • Your outline look at it, i've given you a life grid that marks
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  • The seven basic areas of your life.
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  • Spiritual, physical, family, vocational,
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  • Personal growth, social, financial.
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  • And i've given you a scale of one to ten.
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  • Now, you're not coming back to church tonight so here's what
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  • Your homework assignment for tonight.
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  • I wanna encourage you, take 15 minutes,
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  • Really won't probably take you 10 minutes, and just score
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  • Yourself on a 1 to 10 in each of these life areas.
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  • You don't have to show it to anybody, just for yourself, how
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  • Would you rate your level of satisfaction,
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  • One being the lowest, ten being the highest,
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  • With each of these areas in your life?
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  • How are you doing in your spiritual life?
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  • How are you doing with your health?
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  • How about your finances?
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  • How about your relationship with god?
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  • Where would you grade yourself on a scale of one to ten?
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  • Now, if you end up with a seven or more in some of these areas,
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  • Your objective might be to say, "in this area,
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  • I want to continue what i'm doing."
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  • If for example, in your spiritual life things are going
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  • Well, you're having your regular time with the lord, you might
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  • Just say, "i want to continue being consistent
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  • In my daily time with the lord."
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  • However, if you scored yourself a two on that area, you might
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  • Say, "well, i wanna begin spending more time with god."
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  • Same thing for each of these areas.
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  • Evaluation and then secondly, formulation is the second word,
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  • Come up with an objective in each of these areas.
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  • For example, i gave you some up on the screen here for each of
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  • These life areas, a spiritual objective might be, "i wanna
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  • Grow in my relationship with god."
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  • Physical objective, "i might wanna live a long healthy life."
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  • Family life, you might say, "in my family, my real need is, i
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  • Wanna build intimacy with my mate."
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  • Vocational, you might say, "you know what?
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  • I'm tired of the rat race and working for this
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  • Bozo who doesn't know what he's doing, i
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  • Wanna start my own company," okay?
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  • So you put that down.
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  • "i wanna own my own business." these are objectives.
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  • A purpose statement answers the question, "why do i exist?"
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  • Objectives answer the question, "what do i wanna be?"
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  • Or "what do i want to do?"
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  • Now, whatever objectives we come up with
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  • Ought to support our overall life purpose.
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  • Let me show you what i mean.
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  • For example, when i went through this exercise, i knew i wanted
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  • To be an effective communicator of god's word, so i started to
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  • Ask myself, "well, how does that affect each of these life areas?
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  • What do i need to do better, in order
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  • To achieve my overall life purpose?"
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  • So example, under spiritual, i said "i wanted
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  • To spend more time reading the bible."
  • 00:16:12.127 --> 00:16:15.297
  • I mean, after all for me, how can i communicate
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  • Truth if i don't know what the truth is?
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  • By reading god's word.
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  • So i wrote that down.
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  • I wanna spend more time reading the bible.
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  • My physical life, i put down,
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  • "i wanna live a long, healthy life."
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  • I mean, after all, i'm not gonna be
  • 00:16:26.875 --> 00:16:28.444
  • Able to communicate from the grave.
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  • No matter how passionate as i am about god's word, i can't
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  • Communicate from the grave unless it's "pathway to victory"
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  • Reruns or something but i'm not gonna be doing it.
  • 00:16:35.717 --> 00:16:38.520
  • I'm gonna be gone, so i wanna live as long
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  • As i can to communicate god's word.
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  • In my family life, i put "i wanna be a model christian to my
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  • Children," after all, they're my most important congregation.
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  • So i developed things i wanted to do
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  • In each of these areas of my life.
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  • The same is true for you.
  • 00:16:54.203 --> 00:16:55.537
  • Now, in order to have a roadmap for where you wanna go in life,
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  • You've gotta have a clear purpose,
  • 00:16:58.373 --> 00:16:59.708
  • You've gotta have a clarified objectives,
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  • But thirdly, you have to have concrete goals.
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  • Now, this is where the rubber meets the road, it's what
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  • Separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.
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  • So listen to this, this is where most people fall
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  • Down, they're never able to translate their
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  • Purpose and objectives into goals.
  • 00:17:18.861 --> 00:17:21.463
  • What is a goal?
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  • It's a desired accomplishment that can
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  • Be measured by time and performance.
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  • It's a desired accomplishment that is easily
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  • Measurable by time and performance.
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  • For example, let's just say under family.
  • 00:17:34.109 --> 00:17:37.779
  • Men, let's say you say, "well, you know,
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  • I wanna have a better relationship with my wife."
  • 00:17:39.148 --> 00:17:42.518
  • Well, now that's an objective, but it's not a goal.
  • 00:17:42.518 --> 00:17:46.555
  • I mean, after all, when do you know if you've had
  • 00:17:46.555 --> 00:17:49.224
  • A good enough relationship with your mate?
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  • There's no way to measure that.
  • 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:53.128
  • So a goal might be in order to have a better relationship with
  • 00:17:53.128 --> 00:17:57.032
  • Your mate, i want to take my wife on a date
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  • Once a week beginning this friday.
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  • Now that's a goal that is measurable.
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  • I wanna take my wife on a date, that's
  • 00:18:07.609 --> 00:18:09.111
  • Something, a desired accomplishment.
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  • I wanna do it how often?
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  • Once a week, and i have a beginning
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  • Time beginning this friday.
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  • Somebody might say, "well, i wanna pray more."
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  • That's not a goal, that's not a goal.
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  • I mean, how do you know when you prayed enough?
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  • No, a goal would be, i wanna begin spending ten minutes a day
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  • Praying every morning, beginning tomorrow.
  • 00:18:30.666 --> 00:18:34.636
  • I mean, that's a specific goal.
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  • You know whether you've met it or not, it's a specific
  • 00:18:36.538 --> 00:18:40.409
  • Accomplishment that's measured by time and performance.
  • 00:18:40.409 --> 00:18:44.313
  • You might say in your financial life, "i wanna get outta debt.
  • 00:18:44.313 --> 00:18:48.383
  • That's my goal, i wanna get--" no, that may
  • 00:18:48.383 --> 00:18:50.419
  • Be an objective, but it's not a goal.
  • 00:18:50.419 --> 00:18:52.988
  • A goal would be, i want to eliminate all of my credit card
  • 00:18:52.988 --> 00:18:57.426
  • Debt by december 31st, you see what i mean?
  • 00:18:57.426 --> 00:19:00.128
  • That is a specific accomplishment
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  • That's measurable by time and performance.
  • 00:19:02.431 --> 00:19:06.034
  • Now, here's the key, as you have these specific metrics, these
  • 00:19:06.034 --> 00:19:11.006
  • Goals, they are helping you meet your objectives in life that
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  • Ultimately help you reach your purpose in life.
  • 00:19:14.943 --> 00:19:18.880
  • In order to reach that dream destination where god wants to
  • 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:22.017
  • Tell you, you've gotta have clear objectives how that dream
  • 00:19:22.017 --> 00:19:25.454
  • Applies to every area of your life.
  • 00:19:25.454 --> 00:19:27.656
  • And once you know that, then you have to break it down further
  • 00:19:27.656 --> 00:19:30.325
  • Into specific goals that you wanna accomplish,
  • 00:19:30.325 --> 00:19:32.894
  • That begins to be your daily to-do list.
  • 00:19:32.894 --> 00:19:36.298
  • Instead of just ambling around your life, just waiting for
  • 00:19:36.298 --> 00:19:40.002
  • People to take control of your life and fulfill their agenda
  • 00:19:40.002 --> 00:19:43.171
  • Through you, we've gotta know what god wants from us.
  • 00:19:43.171 --> 00:19:47.376
  • We've got to understand what his dream is for us
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  • And develop those plans and those goals that
  • 00:19:50.679 --> 00:19:53.282
  • Will help us reach his desired plan for our life.
  • 00:19:53.282 --> 00:19:56.818
  • Robert ringer writes, "remember, life is nothing more than the
  • 00:19:56.818 --> 00:20:01.857
  • Sum total of many successful years.
  • 00:20:01.857 --> 00:20:05.460
  • And a successful year is nothing more than
  • 00:20:05.460 --> 00:20:07.929
  • The sum total of many successful months.
  • 00:20:07.929 --> 00:20:11.433
  • And a successful month is nothing more than
  • 00:20:11.433 --> 00:20:13.669
  • The sum total of many successful weeks.
  • 00:20:13.669 --> 00:20:17.105
  • And a successful week is nothing more
  • 00:20:17.105 --> 00:20:20.275
  • Than the sum total of many successful days."
  • 00:20:20.275 --> 00:20:27.316
  • Many of you have perhaps been to rome and seen the sistine
  • 00:20:27.316 --> 00:20:31.953
  • Chapel, that magnificent piece of work on the ceiling painted
  • 00:20:31.953 --> 00:20:35.757
  • With michel--painted by michelangelo.
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  • If you read the book or saw the movie "the agony and the
  • 00:20:39.061 --> 00:20:41.363
  • Ecstasy," you know that michelangelo spent four years on
  • 00:20:41.363 --> 00:20:45.000
  • His back painting that artistic masterpiece.
  • 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:50.405
  • He could have walked in and been overwhelmed by the assignment.
  • 00:20:50.405 --> 00:20:53.775
  • "there's no way i can do that."
  • 00:20:53.775 --> 00:20:56.345
  • But he didn't do it. you know how he accomplished it?
  • 00:20:56.345 --> 00:20:59.281
  • He broke down that great dream into manageable parts.
  • 00:20:59.281 --> 00:21:03.652
  • He would be on his back and he would take one
  • 00:21:03.652 --> 00:21:06.254
  • Section, only a few inches in diameter, and he
  • 00:21:06.254 --> 00:21:08.857
  • Would work and work and work on that section.
  • 00:21:08.857 --> 00:21:11.927
  • And when he had finished it, he'd move over a little bit and
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  • Work on that piece, work and work and work on it, day after
  • 00:21:14.262 --> 00:21:18.166
  • Day, week after week, month after month.
  • 00:21:18.166 --> 00:21:21.436
  • As tedious as the project was for him, he never lost sight of
  • 00:21:21.436 --> 00:21:26.074
  • The big picture and the ultimate goal.
  • 00:21:26.074 --> 00:21:28.910
  • And because of that, 400 years later,
  • 00:21:28.910 --> 00:21:30.946
  • We still enjoy that masterpiece.
  • 00:21:30.946 --> 00:21:36.785
  • How do you feel right now about the life that you're painting?
  • 00:21:36.785 --> 00:21:42.491
  • What's your life looking at right now?
  • 00:21:42.491 --> 00:21:45.894
  • And how are you gonna feel if you reach the end of your life--
  • 00:21:45.894 --> 00:21:49.164
  • And we're all gonna reach it sooner than we think.
  • 00:21:49.164 --> 00:21:51.767
  • How are you gonna feel if you reach the end of your life not
  • 00:21:51.767 --> 00:21:54.002
  • Having reached your dream or even having attempted to do so?
  • 00:21:54.002 --> 00:22:00.409
  • Having a clear purpose, formulating clear objectives,
  • 00:22:00.409 --> 00:22:08.283
  • Making concrete goals is one of the most often overlooked but
  • 00:22:08.283 --> 00:22:12.821
  • Essential secrets for extraordinary success.
  • 00:22:12.821 --> 00:22:16.892
  • And it's a secret that is grounded in god's word.
  • 00:22:16.892 --> 00:22:20.262
  • Listen to what paul says in ephesians 5 from the phillips
  • 00:22:20.262 --> 00:22:23.899
  • Paraphrase, "live life, then, with a due sense of
  • 00:22:23.899 --> 00:22:28.303
  • Responsibility, not as men who do not know the meaning and
  • 00:22:28.303 --> 00:22:32.307
  • Purpose of life, but as those who do.
  • 00:22:32.307 --> 00:22:35.677
  • Make the best use of your time, despite
  • 00:22:35.677 --> 00:22:39.147
  • All the difficulties of these days.
  • 00:22:39.147 --> 00:22:41.616
  • Don't be vague, but firmly grasp what
  • 00:22:41.616 --> 00:22:45.454
  • You know to be the will of god."
  • 00:22:45.454 --> 00:22:49.458
  • Jeffress: achieving success, realizing your dreams, living
  • 00:22:53.662 --> 00:22:56.965
  • With passion, all begin by drawing up
  • 00:22:56.965 --> 00:22:59.801
  • A plan and setting some goals.
  • 00:22:59.801 --> 00:23:02.471
  • Well, people all across our country are desperately
  • 00:23:02.471 --> 00:23:05.106
  • Searching for the good life, yet most are
  • 00:23:05.106 --> 00:23:08.276
  • Frustrated by their inability to experience it.
  • 00:23:08.276 --> 00:23:11.813
  • Today, you can become the conduit of god's blessing for
  • 00:23:11.813 --> 00:23:15.183
  • Others, because the secret to genuine success is revealed in
  • 00:23:15.183 --> 00:23:19.588
  • The book we teach from every day on this program, the bible.
  • 00:23:19.588 --> 00:23:24.059
  • And when you join with us by becoming a regular generous
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  • Giver, you're allowing people to connect with and employ the
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  • Secrets of living well and for god's glory.
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  • Recently, a woman called us and said, "dr.
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  • Jeffress, since i began listening to "pathway to
  • 00:23:38.273 --> 00:23:41.042
  • Victory," god has opened my spiritual eyes and opened the
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  • Doors in my heart so i can receive the truth."
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  • And as one who generously supports
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  • Now, stay right there, i'll be back with more in just a moment.
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  • Announcer: all around us, people are struggling in their
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  • In this practical biblical guide, you'll discover
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  • Jeffress: solomon had more wealth and opportunity than
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  • Anyone of his era.
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  • And he discovered that real success only comes when you
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  • Build your life on the wisdom god provides.
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  • In my book, "the solomon secrets," i'll show you how to
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  • Jeffress: god wants you and me to be prosperous, successful.
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  • The key is defining what god means when he uses the word
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  • Prosperous and success.
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  • Announcer: thank you for partnering
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  • With "pathway to victory."
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  • The gospel to a world that's searching for truth.
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  • Together, we're piercing the darkness
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  • With the light of god's word.
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  • Jeffress: mapping out a blueprint for your life is as
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  • Simple as having a clear purpose, formulating clear
  • 00:25:41.896 --> 00:25:45.767
  • Objectives, and making concrete goals.
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  • You may take a few days to think these matters over maybe even
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  • Weeks or months, but the time you spend right now
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  • Will be invaluable down the road.
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  • Well, tragically, most americans live far beyond
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  • Their means, and as a result, the financial pressure
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  • In many households has become unbearable.
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  • So how do we break the cycle of debt?
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of the next message
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  • In our series, "the solomon secrets."
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  • Jeffress: god, what i'm asking is that you give me just enough.
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  • That ought to be our goal in money, to have not too much, not
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  • Too little, but have just enough.
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  • The question is, do you have enough?
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  • Do you have enough money, enough financial resources to meet both
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  • Your current and your future needs?
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the message
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  • "spend your way to wealth" here on "pathway to victory."
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  • Announcer: the apostle paul sailed these waters, walked
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  • These streets, and the church was never the same.
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  • Jeffress: i'm inviting you to follow in paul's footsteps on
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  • The pathway to victory journeys of paul cruise, through the
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  • Stunning greek islands into ancient ephesus and many other
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  • Destinations as well.
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  • This is purposeful travel at its finest.
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  • Announcer: the early bird discount ends july 31,
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  • So act now.
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