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Why am I? What is my purpose?

Why am I here? What is life all about? What is the meaning of life? How we answer these big-picture questions is important so we can live with hope and a sense of purpose in times of uncertainty, pain, and frustration.

What is the meaning of life according to the Bible? According to the Bible, knowing God is the meaning of life because He is the “author of life” (John 17:3). The meaning of life is not based on things we see in the world “for life is more than food, and the body more than clothing” (Luke 12:23).

What does it mean to know God? Why can’t we base the meaning of life on relationships, career, or personal happiness? Understanding the answer to these questions in the Bible gives a sense of purpose and fulfillment in our lives.

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What is the meaning to life? Why am I? What is my reason/purpose? A routine question that strikes us at moments of reflection/trial. What is “Life”?

God, as The Author of life, brings meaning to life. Everything God created was meant to show what God is like. God created a world with a purpose, by His design. The world we live in and the life of every person has a purpose and is not just the product of chance, random events, and biological selection.

What Is the Meaning of Life According to the Bible?

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Prayer helps you develop a relationship with God

Just like your parents here on earth, your Heavenly Father wants to hear from you and talk to you. When you pray, He listens. Then He answers your prayers in the form of thoughts, spiritual feelings, scripture, or even the actions of other people.

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Prayer helps you gain an understanding of God’s loving nature

The scriptures teach, “God is love” (1 John 4:8). You can feel that love as you speak daily with Him through prayer, seeking His guidance in your life.

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Prayer provides answers

Praying and listening to the answers God gives you can help you better understand your purpose in life. God will help you understand why you are here and what you can do to return to live with Him after this life.

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Prayer helps you find direction in your life

When you privately pray to God, you can work through serious decisions in your life. God always listens and often provides the specific answers and guidance we seek. Even when He chooses not to answer immediately or in the way we might have hoped, prayer itself is a way to find peace.

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Prayer gives you strength to avoid temptation

Jesus counseled His disciples, “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation” (Matthew 26:41). Through prayer, we can overcome temptations to sin. Pray for God’s help to keep you from making wrong choices. This will give you the strength to do what is right.

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Prayer aligns your will with God’s will

The purpose of prayer is not necessarily to tell God how you want Him to do things. Rather, it’s to better understand Him and His ways, bringing yourself into alignment with His will. As C.S. Lewis is often attributed as saying, prayer “doesn’t change God. It changes me.”

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Prayer and regular fasting can help you accept God’s will

Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights before He began His ministry on the earth. As He did this, He communed with His Father in Heaven in prayer. Likewise, if you pray and fast, you can feel closer to God and better understand the things He wants you to do.

 

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Prayer can work miracles

Throughout the scriptures, we see many examples of the Lord working miracles as an answer to prayer. In Old Testament times, the prophet Daniel was thrown into a lions’ den because he refused to stop praying. When he prayed to God in the lions’ den, angels appeared and closed the mouths of the lions. Through daily prayer, you can also experience personal miracles such as healing, peace, and forgiveness for sins.

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Prayer invites the Holy Spirit into your life

As you pray daily, you invite the Holy Spirit to be with you and to comfort and direct you. The Holy Spirit can give you answers, help you feel God’s love, and bring feelings of peace and joy into your heart.

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Prayer helps you become more like Jesus

Jesus set the perfect example of prayer. If you try to follow His example through prayer, you will become more like Him and develop a better relationship with Him and Heavenly Father.

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Be blessed. Because we ARE! Amen

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.
Philippians 4:13-15

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.
Philippians 4:13-15

You are NOT weak! Just devoted to living God’s will for your life!

‭‭ J.C. Ryle explains, “To abide in Christ means to keep up a habit of constant close communion with Him–to be always leaning on Him, resting on Him, pouring out our hearts to Him, and using Him as our Fountain of life and strength, as our chief Companion and best Friend. To have His words abiding in us, is to keep His sayings and precepts continually before our memories and minds, and to make them the guide of our actions and the rule of our daily conduct and behavior.”

You can listen to John 15:4-10 online using the Bible Gateway Audio player, or watch a dramatized reading of the chapter on YouTube. In this passage, Jesus uses the metaphor of the vine and the branches to explain that believers must remain connected to Him to bear spiritual fruit and experience His Love.

John‬ ‭15‬:‭4‬-‭10
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My Love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.”

God’s grace is sufficient!!!

What’s a song lyric that has stuck with you forever?

A lyric that has stuck with me forever comes from the classic hymn “It Is Well With My Soul“:

“My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part but the whole, is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no praise, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!”

These words offer a profound reminder of the complete freedom and forgiveness found in Christ. They remind us that no matter what we face, the heavy weight of our past is removed entirely.

Another song lyric that has always stuck with me is: “To this I hold, my hope is only Jesus / For my life is wholly bound to His / Oh how strange and divine, I can sing: all is mine! / Yet not I, but through Christ in me.”

These profound words come from the modern hymn “Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me” by CityAlight.

Why This Lyric Resonates

These lines capture the core of the Christian life—the beautiful exchange of relying on His strength rather than our own. It serves as a daily reminder that:

  • Our hope is secure: It removes the pressure of having to be “perfect” or relying on our own strength to get through difficult seasons.
  • His grace is sufficient: It echoes the Apostle Paul in Galatians 2:20, reminding us that Christ lives and works through us in our weakness.
  • It grounds our identity: Whatever we face, we can have peace knowing our lives are bound to His.

In secret places you are developed…

It echoes the message found in Psalm 139:15, which speaks of being curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. In times of hidden preparation, God often does His deepest work within us.

And we pray Psalm 23…

God has placed KEY (🔑) pointers in His Word!

Yet, another reason we need to focus on absorbing God’s Word!

James 1:5-7 and 12 provide practical Biblical guidance on seeking divine wisdom and enduring trials. The text highlights that God generously provides wisdom to those who ask in unwavering faith, and promises eternal life to those who faithfully endure hardships.

Key Themes

  • Asking in Faith: Verse 5 instructs those who lack wisdom to ask God, Who gives generously and without finding fault. Verse 6 and 7 emphasize that the petitioner must ask with unwavering faith, as a doubting person is unstable and should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
  • The “Crown of Life”: Verse 12 shifts focus to endurance, pronouncing a blessing upon the person who remains steadfast under trial. Upon passing the test, they are promised the “crown of life,” which God has prepared for those who Love Him.

James 1:12 is a Bible verse about staying strong during hard times, endurance, and eternal life.

The Verse Text

  • NIV: “Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who Love Him.”
  • KJV: “Blessed is the Man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that Love Him.”

Key Meanings

  • Blessed: Finding true, God-given joy or happiness.
  • Trial/Temptation: Hard tests or difficult life situations.
  • Persevere: Patiently holding on and not giving up.
  • Crown of Life: The promise of eternal life and victory.

And we pray 🙏🏾/🤲

Power of prayer…

And we take responsibility and pray…

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