The purpose of this course

The purpose for a course in life management is:

1. To gain greater understanding of God’s will or expectations for mankind.
   1. To discover how we fit into God’s overall plan.
   1. To get a personal vision for our life.
   1. To learn how to manage the vision revealed to us by God.
   1. To become a better steward of the resources that God has placed in our hands.
   1. To be challenged in areas of Christian character that affect vision fulfillment.
   1. To assist the student in achieving destiny.

    Some key verses that speak to the area of “life management”

1. John 15:16

You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

Observations:

• God chose us with a purpose in mind that we would bear fruit.
• God has appointed us to accomplish a certain work.
• God’s intention is that our work will live on after us (significance).
• God is going to help us fulfill the work because it will be bigger than we are.

2. Acts 20:22-24

And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me. But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Observations:

• We have a personal race to run.
• There are obstacles and challenges to completing our race.
• We must maintain focus, avoid distractions and be willing to pay the price of success.

3.      Romans 12:1-8

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ²And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. ⁴ For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, ⁵ so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. ⁶ Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; ⁷ or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; ⁸ he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Observations:

• God does not override our will; we must present ourselves.
  • We must present ourselves back to Him as a living sacrifice.
  • This will require a certain denial of self and humility before God.
  • To fulfill God’s destiny we cannot think like the world thinks.
  • God will enable us beyond our own abilities with a divine impartation of grace, faith and spiritual gifts.
  • Whatever we do, we want to do it cheerfully, diligently, liberally and with excellence.