Poverty and justice are two areas that are drawing so many to action today: seeing poverty in many forms, in every nation, and every city and moving with actions that will bring justice and freedom.
Poverty of purpose is perhaps not as easy to see and define, but it is a very real poverty of the soul.
There are some weekends at Linwood House that are just for dreaming…dreaming beyond what we can ask or imagine!
“God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.” (Ephesians 3:20)MSG
Finding our “real” purpose calls us to dream and ask. Dreams are the currency of the future, it says in The Dream Manager by Kelly Matthew.
So it was exciting to spend an afternoon with a group of young leaders and dream with them as they began to discover and articulate the purpose for which they were created.
What would it look like if your purpose was to:
- Encourage and motivate youth by communicating beauty
- Ignite the masses to become passionate followers of Jesus
- Lead a movement of change that builds a world of joy
- Safeguard freedom by surrounding this world with love
- Inspire family unity in the church, our city and the world.
What if your purpose could not only transform you but could change poverty of soul and heart into a wealth that connected you to your own heart, to the Almighty, and to others? Jesus words back then are the same to us now:
I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
John 10:10 Amplified Bible
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