The

Purpose
Driven

A Personal Development Workbook

Clarence W. Fell

Day Five

Seeing Life from Gods View

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways
says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are
My ways than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8, 9

How do you see life? Complete the following thought: Life is like______
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What is your concept of life based on?________________________________
What should your concept of life be based on?__________________________
Read Deuteronomy 8:2. What does God use life to do?____________________
Name a Bible character who God tested and tell how he or she was tested.______
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How was Joseph tested? (Gen. 37-50)_________________________________
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How was Daniel tested? (see book of Daniel) ___________________________
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True or false, life, your life, is a test?___________

Which things in your life are not part of the test (see Matt. 12:36)_____________
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What do your actions and words, even in the most trivial situations, reveal about...
Your character? _______________________________________________
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Your faith?____________________________________________________
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Your integrity?_________________________________________________
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Your loyalty?__________________________________________________
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Your love?____________________________________________________
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Your obedience?_______________________________________________
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Major changes in life test us. What are some major changes that test us?_______
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How do major changes test us?_____________________________________
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Delays in life test us. What are some delays that test us?___________________
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How do delays test us?___________________________________________
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Seemingly impossible problems test us. What are some such problems?________
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How do these problems test us?_____________________________________

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Unanswered prayers test us. How?__________________________________
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Criticism test us. What is some criticism we might receive?_________________
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How does this criticism test us?_____________________________________
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Tragedies test us. What are some tragedies that test us?___________________
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In what ways do those tragedies test us?_______________________________
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Those times when we feel all alone can test us. What are some times when we feel
all alone in the world? (2 Chron. 32:31)_____________________________________
In what ways do these times test us?__________________________________
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Read I Corinthians 10:13. What does God promise us about the things we face?__
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If you are going through some experience, then what does that tell you about your
ability to handle it?__________________________________________________
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Read James 1:12. What do you get from this verse?_______________________
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God views life as a trust, an assignment. We are His stewards. Name some things
that we have been entrusted with.________________________________________
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What things do you actually own and get to keep even after death? ( I Tim. 6:7)
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True or false, everything you have is just on loan from God?_____________
Read 1 Corinthians 4:7. What do you get from this verse?__________________
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Read Matthew 25:14-30. What does this passage teach you about your
stewardship?_______________________________________________________
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Is stewardship a trivial thing that God gives little attentions to? (Eccl. 12:14,
2 Cor. 5:10)________________________________________________________
Money is part of our stewardship and it also tests us? In what ways does money test
us? (1 John 3:17). ____________________________________________________
How does money reveal our priorities?_______________________________
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Read Luke 16:10, 11. What do you get from this verse?____________________
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A point to ponder: God is testing you in this life to determine what to do with you
in the next life. What do your test results, up to this present date, indicate God will be doing with you in the here-after?
Another point to ponder: Who decides whether you will fail or pass the testing
of God?

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