LIVING THE DREAM

LIVING THE DREAM

Living the Abundant Life – Part 4

Vernon Zook May 18, 2025

I FEEL LIKE I’M LIVING THE DREAM…

1. …When I feel like .

For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible…everything got started in Him and finds its purpose in Him. It is in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for… part of the overall purpose He (that’s God) is working out in everything and everyone. -Colossians 1:16 (MESS)

The LORD gave me this message: “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.” -Jeremiah 1:4-5 (NLT)

• I was created to make a difference.

Do not let any part of your bodies become tools of wickedness, to be used for sinning; but give yourselves completely to God—every part of you—for you are back from death and you want to be tools in the hands of God, to be used for his good purposes. -Romans 6:13 (TLB)

2. …When I have in what I’m doing.

For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

-Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)

• I was made to serve God & serve people.

God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. -1 Peter 1:4 (NLT)

3. …When I realize that I was made for .

…He has also set eternity in the hearts of men… -Ecclesiastes 3:11b (NIV)

• I was designed for eternity.

For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. -2 Corinthians 4:17-18 (NLT)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. -John 3:16 (NIV)

Am I living the life God created me to live?