You by Design, Part 7

Thriving is what happens when the person God created us to be is reflected in the way we spend our time, energy, and resources. In other words, thriving is the result of clarifying and living our unique calling in life.

The Joy
The Belonging Co

No One
Elevation Worship

Everything That Has Breath (Praise)
Jesus Culture

No Longer Slaves
Bethel Music

Calling
God’s purpose for your life that brings Him glory.

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Ephesians 4:1
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.

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Ephesians 1:4
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

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Ephesians 2:1
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins…

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Ephesians 2:4-5
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

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Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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Our Calling – Part One
To be in Relationship with Jesus

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1 Peter 2:4-6
As you come to him, the living Stone – rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him – you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”

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1 Peter 2:9-10
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.

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Our Calling – Part Two
To Be Holy

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1 Peter 1:15-16
But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

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2 Timothy 1:9
He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace.

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Our Calling – Part Three
To Represent Jesus

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Our Calling – Part Four
To Offer Our Life as a Living Sacrifice

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1 Corinthians 12:4-7
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone, it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.

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1 Peter 4:10-11
“As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another. If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.”

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