Discernment Tool for

The Purpose Driven Life*

Day 1
It All Starts With God

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Purpose Driven Life* NASB

P.17
For everything, absolutely everything, above For by Him all things were created,
and below, visible and invisible,… both in the heavens and on earth,
Everything got started in him and finds its visible and invisible, whether thrones
purpose in him. or dominions or rulers or authorities--
all things have been created through
Colossians 1:16 (MSG) Him and for Him.

Colossians 1:16

P.18
The Bible says, “It is God who directs the In whose hand is the life of every living
lives of His creatures; everyone’s life is in thing, And the breath of all mankind?
his power.”
Job 12:10
Job 12:10 (TEV)

The Bible says, “Obsession with self in For the mind set on the flesh is death,
these matters is a dead end; attention to but the mind set on the Spirit is life
God leads us out into the open, into a and peace,
spacious, free life.”
Romans 8:6
Romans 8:6

P.19
The Bible says, “Self-help is no help at all. For whoever wishes to save his life will
Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding lose it; but whoever loses his life for
yourself, your true self.” My sake will find it.

Matthew 16:25 (MSG) Matthew 16:25

*The Purpose Driven Life, copyright © Rick Warren (Grand Page 1 of 2 Scripture taken from the New American Standard
Rapids: Zondervan, 2002) all citations are as cited by Bible, © Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971,
Warren from indicated versions. 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1995, The Lockman
Foundation. Used by permission.

Purpose Driven Life*
P.20
The Bible says, “God’s wisdom… goes deep
into the interior of his purposes.... It’s not
the latest message, but more like the
oldest-what God determined as the way to
bring out his best in us.”
1 Corinthians 2:7 (MSG)
The Bible says, “It’s in Christ that we find
out who we are and what we are living for.
Long before we first heard of Christ and got
our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had
designs on us for glorious living, part of the
overall purpose he is working out in
everything and everyone.”
Ephesians 1:11 (MSG)
P.21
Verse to Remember:
“Everything got started in him and finds its
purpose in him.”
Colossians 1:16b (MSG)
*The Purpose Driven Life, copyright © Rick Warren (Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 2002) all citations are as cited by
Warren from indicated versions.
Discernment Tool for The Purpose Driven Life*
Day 1
It All Starts With God
NASB
but we speak God's wisdom in a
mystery, the hidden wisdom which
God predestined before the ages to our
glory;
1 Corinthians 2:7
also we have obtained an inheritance,
having been predestined according to
His purpose who works all things after
the counsel of His will
Ephesians 1:11
For by Him all things were created,
both in the heavens and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones
or dominions or rulers or authorities--
all things have been created through
Him and for Him.
Colossians 1:16
Page 2 of 2 Scripture taken from the New American Standard
Bible, © Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971,
1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1995, The Lockman
Foundation. Used by permission.