Positioned for Purpose

Ezekiel 22:30 NIV

I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but found no one.

Philippians 2:13 NIV

For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose.

Ephesians 2:10 NIV 

For we are God’s handiwork (workmanship) created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God has prepared in advance for us to do.

Romans 8:28 NIV And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.

Ephesians 2:6 NIV

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:3-4 NIV

We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character, hope.

James 1: 2-4 NIV (Portions)

… the testing of your faith produces perseverance.  …that you might be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 

Galatians 4:22-23 NIV

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise. 

Esther 4:14b NIV

…and who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?

Esther 4:14a NIV  

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish.

•  Purpose

• Perspective

• Perseverance 

• Philippians 1:6 NIV…confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.