things tt i came about in my email

http://sesantos.com.ph/2005/04/20/lifes-purpose/
someone asked:

1. Why is it important to know your Life’s Purpose?
2. What value does that bring to a person’s every day life?
3. Can a person’s Life Purpose change?
4. How do you know if it has changed?
5. Can a person be full even if they don’t have a Life’s Purpose?

Sonnie’s response:

1. Life purpose is where we get the “drive” to pursue what we want to be, the “strength” that will keep us focused in the midst of life “storms”. It is also the “force” that will keep us motivated even though there is apparent failure.

Life purpose is also called calling or destiny. An element of “Spiritual Intelligence” is needed to understand a person’s purpose. An individual can determine his purpose in life thru: (1) his/her relationship with the divine. Jer. 29:11 said “for I know the plans I have for you….” (2) taking up an inventory of the “genetically encoded” abilities (unlike “learned” abilities that are acquired thru education/training, genetically encoded abilities are inborn though training can enhance these gifts). And (3) by recognizing the desires in his/her heart in the domain of “becoming” what.

2. “If the shoe does not fit, it hurts”.

Deep in us, we know whether we are in our “topos” — place, office, position, service, stature. Where we are suppose to be, doing what we are supposed to do, and becoming a person that we should be.

3 & 4. Hmmm….. it is predetermined before we are born. But a purpose in life is not necessarily a job, and job change is not a changed of purpose. A purpose in life revolves around “becoming the who/person” and the “do/job” emanates from the “who”.

additional reading

5. Everyone has a life purpose, and it is possible for a person not to be in sync with his calling. If fullness is defined on material and economic gain, yes it is possible to be full even a person is out of his destiny. If fulness includes peace, satisfaction and joy that emanates from within..but “if the shoe does not fit, it hurts”.

http://sesantos.com.ph/2005/06/14/what-is-your-purpose-in-life/
What is my purpose in life?

~ Well the truth is, God created you for five purposes. You see, you were made by God and you were made for God. And until you understand that, life isn't going to make sense. When you come to this question, what is my purpose, you only have three alternatives.First is what I call the mystical approach, and that is look within. You find this in a lot of talk shows, a lot of new age books a lot of seminars. They say, "look within to discover your purpose." The only problem is that doesn't work. We've all looked within and I didn't like what I saw. It's quite confusing. In fact, if you could know the purpose of your life by looking within, we'd all know it by now. It doesn't work.

The second way you can try to discover your purpose is called the intellectual or philosophical approach. And that's where you go to a seminary class or university class and you sit there with a pipe and your latte and your coffee and you ask questions like, "Why am I here? Where did I come from? Where am I going?" I once read a book by professor John Morehead, the Head of the Department of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Illinois. And he wrote to 250 well-known intellectuals and asked them, "What is the meaning and purpose of life?" These were novelists, scientists, well-known intellectuals, and I read the book, it's now out of print, it was quite depressing because most of the people said, "I have no idea what the purpose of life is." Some of them admitted they just made up a purpose. And some of the admitted they guessed. And some of them said, "If you know the purpose, please tell me."

You see, there's a better answer to speculation and that's revelation. If I were to hold up an invention that you have never seen before, you wouldn't know its purpose. The only way you'd know its purpose was either talk to the inventor, the creator who made it or read the owner's manual. The owner's manual of life is the bible and your Creator is God. And it is only as you get to know God you will discover his five purposes for your life. I hope you'll begin that journey today.

http://www.secretsofsuccess.com/article/secret1.html