Finding Purpose: Embracing God's Call at Any Age

1. "Today is a great day, to have a purpose in your life. Today is a great moment to sit there and start applying what God wants you and desires in your life to go after it. He wants you to do that. So how do I find my purpose? That's the big question. So how do I find mine? If I've been lost, if I've gone so many directions, if I screwed up so many times, how do I go after that thing and find it?" [04:59] (22 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "When Jesus, when James spoke to us last week, we needed to hear, didn't we? We need this long enough to hear God's word speaking to our lives. So we need that. And when I sit there and think about Simon, he can relate to us. If you're a believer, he believes in God. He does. He believes in God. He knows a little bit of God's word, just like all the rest of us. We're trying. We're trying to read his word. We're trying to grow. We're trying to get a little bit more knowledge and wisdom. But we're on that journey." [05:39] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "What would you say? Would you say it's better for you to speak into your child than TikTok? We kind of smile and kind of got a little smirk because it's kind of funny because we know the power of TikTok. Here's the sad thing. TikTok's winning. TikTok is kicking our tail right now. That is why we have such a responsibility for us, for you, to speak into our kids, to speak into our students, to speak into that generation because they need it. They desire it." [12:53] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "If you had any doubt how important your words are, I hope they're gone. I hope Caleb gave you encouragement of that, as he and how we can speak into lives can definitely influence so much, can help so much, can challenge so much to move us further in life. Gosh. And I know Caleb's younger, but guys, even in that sense, if you're in your walk with the Lord you're just a little bit further down the road than somebody else is with their walk, I don't care what their age is, you can speak into their lives." [17:14] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "I want you to understand, you and I can have that same influence of speaking into others of what could be. They might not even see it in themselves yet, but you can see it in And you can start speaking that into them now, encouraging them and moving them along on their journey. That's our responsibility to do. Not to be quiet about it, but to share that and challenge that. Man, there's so much power when we do that." [19:42] (22 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "If you think you've blown it so many times, if you're sitting there 50 years old going, Do I even have a chance? Daggone, look at Peter. Jesus' greatest hour of need. And Peter denied him not once, not twice, but three times. And what did Jesus do? Beat him down? Ruin him? I'm done with him? He used him to build his church. What can he do with you? What can he do in your life? Where you're at today? How can he move you forward and challenge you to speak into that?" [24:25] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "Today, he's calling you to have a purpose. He's calling you to a direction to do, to apply this into your life. And guys, man, I don't know your past. I don't know all the directions you've been pulled in. They're out. You're out. You're out of your life. But daggone it, I know as a believer, you have a purpose. Who in the world are you speaking into? Who are you serving? If I sit there and I look at us and I look at my own life of following Jesus for years, and maybe you've been following Jesus for years, especially if you're close to my age." [35:46] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "Do you truly love me more than these? Yes, Lord, he said. You know that I love you. Jesus said, free, feed my lambs. What are lambs? They're young sheep. What do sheep represent to Jesus? His followers. Feed the young. Speak into those lives. Speak into the kids. Speak into our students. Speak to those young in their faith. Speak into the young. That is your purpose." [33:31] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "Jesus clearly laid that out for him to give him his purpose. And remember, Peter denied Jesus three times that day. I think there was a reason why Jesus asked him that question three times that day. See, it's because it's so easy for us to say, man, I love Jesus. I give you my life. Oh, I do. Jesus, I give you my life. Peter said the same thing, but he denied him. He did nothing with it. Jesus is trying to say that I'm giving you some action to do with your life. I want you to apply these things into your life. Don't give me shallow words. Give me your life." [35:01] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "Being a Christian doesn't mean you have it all figured out. It means you don't. That you're not perfect. You made mistakes. And Jesus comes to restore those mistakes when that veil tore. We get that direct connection with God. Today, I sit there and if you don't know him, just call out to him, Lord. I don't have a problem. I don't have all the answers. I don't have it all figured out. I've made mistakes. The Bible calls it sin. And today, I want to go change from the direction my life is going in. I want to go in your direction. I want to go with your purpose and your plan." [38:51] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)