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    Discover Your Purpose & Calling
    Discover Your Purpose & Calling
    Discover Your Purpose & Calling
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    Discover Your Purpose & Calling

    By Scott Wessell

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    Now you can Discover your calling in three easy steps and learn how to remove the roadblocks the prevent you from walking in your calling.

    For the last 10 years, Pastor Scott has helped thousands of people find their unique purpose and calling in their life. 

    Filled with personal assessments and practical applications you will discover your calling. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScott Wessell
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781536556957
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      Discover Your Purpose & Calling - Scott Wessell

      PART ONE

      This book is divided into two parts. The first part addresses the mental, emotional, and spiritual roadblocks that hold you back from fulfilling your calling. The second part focuses on discovering your calling by examining how God has created you. It’s filled with self examination exercises that will bring clarity and insight about how God created you and what he’s equipped you to do in the world. You might be tempted to skip ahead to the good part. But I want to encourage you not to do that. Here’s the reason:  knowing what you’re called to do is useless unless you first address some of the internal roadblocks that are holding you back from fulfilling it.  In the next few chapters we’re going to examine how busyness holds you hostage and doesn’t let you achieve your purpose in life. We’ll also look at some of the common misconceptions about hearing from God that prevent you from confidently stepping into what God has for  you. Finally, we’ll look at the two big calling killers — uncertainty and fear — and you’ll discover how to overcome them so you can start fulfilling your God-given purpose in life.

      What you’ll need for this journey: Pen and a journal. I’ll be asking you to do several exercises to help you overcome any roadblocks in your life and to help you discover your purpose and calling in life. You might be tempted to skip the exercises, please don’t. They are what will help the truths of this book move from your head to your heart.

      Chapter One

      TOO BUSY

      A busy schedule is the single biggest obstacle to discovering your purpose and calling.  Over and over, I hear people tell me they feel like they’re being run ragged in life. They run from work, to home, to school, to serving in church, and they rarely have any time to themselves to rest, let alone evaluate God’s purpose and calling for the life. Can you relate? Do you feel like you’re constantly behind, always trying to catch up on the things that need to get done?

      The problem is our approach to life. We have expectations that have been placed on us and we’ve been given so many things to do. We all have musts and oughts that have been handed to us—it’s been drilled into us that in order to be a good person and live a good life there are certain things we must and ought to do.  We have accepted these musts and oughts to such an extent that we evaluate the success of our lives to the degree that we achieve them.

      For example, college is a common must. Why did our parents tell us we have to go to college? Because that’s what you do after you graduate high school. You must go to college so that you can get a good job, so that you can pay off your college loans, so that you can raise a family, so that you can buy a house, so that you can start a family, so that you can be happy in life.

      I don’t have anything against college (I have a master’s degree and my wife has a PhD), but most people, once they graduate from high school, have no clue what they want to do with their life and college becomes a very expensive way to find yourself. What’s even crazier is that after all those years figuring out what you want to do with your life and all that debt that you accrued, most people can’t even find a job where they can use their degree. Here’s my question, Is getting tens of thousands of dollars into debt the wisest choice if you have no clue what you want to do with your life? But we all do it, or feel bad if we don’t, because it’s what we ought to do.

      It’s not just college. We’ve been given musts and oughts for just about every area of our life: what kind of car we’re supposed to drive, the clothes we’re supposed to wear, how we’re supposed to interact with others, the kind of employment we’re supposed to pursue, the kind of spouse we need to marry, the activities we need to like, the list goes on and on. In fact, we get so busy thinking, saying, and doing what we ought to do that we rarely have any time to consider if anything that we are thinking, saying, or doing is actually worth thinking, saying, or doing.

      This is especially true when it comes to your purpose in life. How can we let ourselves become so busy with the unimportant musts and oughts of life, that we never take time to discover our purpose?  That mentality is like getting into a car and worrying about speed before thinking about direction. Think about it, how many times do you jump in your car, turn on the ignition, put it in drive, and then just floor your gas pedal without ever considering where you’re headed? If you don’t do it when you do something as simple as driving then why do you do it with something as complicated as your life?  That focusing on movement before you focus on direction is a recipe for disaster—in your car and in your life.

      So, if you’re too busy to discover your purpose, then to what are you hoping your life will amount to? If you continue to worry about speed before direction, if you

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