What's Wrong With This Picture? - Your Purpose Is Out Of Alignment

You’re Out Of Alignment. Your life is out of alignment…

My Alignment Effects My Assignment

Proverbs 3:5-7 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord  and shun evil.

You Were Created On Purpose And For A Purpose.

Jeremiah 29:11 says For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD…

Jeremiah 1:5 “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.” 

You’re not a mistake

Glorify God

Isaiah 43:7 Bring to me all the people who are mine, whom I made for my glory, whom I formed and made. 

1 Corinthians 10:31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 

The goal is not success, the goal is faithfulness.

faithful - dependable, loyal trustworthy, steadfast, unswerving. One who shows unchanging affection & support even in the face of difficulty.

faithfulness is greater than successfulness.

Faithful is successful.

Matthew 25:21 Well done, my good and faithful servant. 

Matthew 5:13-16 Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You’ve lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage. 14-16 “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world.

You are the salt of the earth. 
You are the light of the world.

01. Salt Adds Flavor 

If we are salt of the earth, we are called to intensify the God-flavors in this world!

Psalm 34:8 Taste and see that the LORD is good;

1. Stay Connected.

• Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge

• 1 Samuel 2:2 There is no rock like our God.

• Matthew 7:24-27 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

2. Get To Work.

02. Light Brings Illumination
Darkness is a problem.

Matthew 5:14-16 God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.

1. We Can’t Be Light If We’re Imitating Darkness. 

2. We Can’t Be Light If We’re Afraid Of Darkness. 

Matthew 5:16 Shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.

Luke 15:8-10 “Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Won’t she light a lamp and sweep the entire house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she will call in her friends and neighbors and say, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents.”