Quotes about Purpose

Everything that happens in life—the difficulties, the delays, the things that are not fair—they're not random. God is giving you the opportunity to grow, to come up higher. He's getting you prepared to handle the weight of favor, the weight of influence.

You've got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but you've got to believe that God has a reason for it and he's going to make everything good.

Don't discount your gift. It may seem small to you. Compared to others, it feels insignificant, but there is nothing ordinary about you. You have the fingerprints of God all over you. God made you in His own image. He crowned you with favor. You have royal blood flowing through your veins.

When God created you, He put in you everything you need to fulfill your destiny. Now quit telling yourself what you can't do and how it's not going to work out. All that's doing is draining your strength.

He's given you gifts, creativity, and dreams. He created you to leave your mark on this generation. You're not supposed to live and die and nobody knew you were here. There is something significant about you, something that will cause you to stand out to the point where, years from now, people will look back and say, "You made the world a better place.

What God has put in you, He's still going to bring to pass. You are pregnant with destiny. You are pregnant with greatness. It's not going to come through others. You're going to shine. You're going to excel. You're going to be promoted. You're going to be celebrated. You are fully loaded. You're not at a deficit. You're not lacking. You're full of potential, full of favor.

You're not too old; you didn't miss your chance. God's already put that seed in your spirit. If you'll stir it up, start living passionately, you're going to see God show out in your life.

You're not going to be sure how it's all going to work out, but that is what will cause you to grow, that's when you'll learn to trust God in a greater way. God is not interested only in the destination. He's teaching you along the way; He's getting you prepared and growing you up. He will lead you purposefully into situations where you're in over your head, your friends can't help you, and you don't have the experience you think you need.

The delays, closed doors, people that walked away, were necessary. It was setting you up for this moment. The delay doesn't mean that God said no; it just wasn't the right time.

Stir up what God has put on the inside ... You have to have a reason to get out of bed each morning, something that motivates you, something that you are passionate about.

Your job is not to try and make people like you. Your job is not to try to change people's minds about you. Your job is to run your race, to be who God has called you to be, and not worry about the critics and the naysayers.

In Christ's first coming, He implemented a rescue plan conceived in the mind of God before the foundation of the world. He did not come to promote holiday cheer, boost end-of-year sales, or serve as the central figure in a Nativity scene. He came to save sinners. To save sinners, Christ had to put away what makes people sinners—namely, sin.