Find Your Mission and Focus your Influence

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Find Your Mission and Focus your Influence

• Kay Daigle

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Find Your Mission and Focus Your Influence

1. Defining Mission
2. Focusing Your Influence
3. Finding your God-given Mission
4. Writing a personal mission statement

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Find Your Mission and Focus Your Influence

1. Defining Mission

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Mission is Gods overarching unique purpose for
your life

• It is the big picture of what God has called you
  to uniquely contribute with the life He has given
  you.
• It is a broad umbrella that covers your entire
  life, both career and personal.
• Some use the term call and some use vision
  for the same concept. Read carefully to determine
  if it is the same.

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Mission is not

• A job
• A role, such as wife or mother
• Necessarily grand or highly visible
• Vision, but you need vision to accomplish it (I
  am defining vision here as a picture of the
  future in a particular sphere of life. Vision
  focuses on results while mission focuses on
  actions.)

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Richard Nelson Bolles How to Find Your Mission
in Life

• As the stone does not always know what ripples
  it has caused in the pond whose surface it
  impacts, so neither we nor those who watch our
  life will always know what we have achieved by
  our life and by our Mission. It may be that by
  the grace of God we helped bring about a profound
  change for the better in the lives of other souls
  around us, but it also may be that this takes
  place beyond our sight, or after we have gone on.
  And we may never know what we have accomplished,
  until we see him face-to-face after this life is
  past.

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Richard Nelson Bolles How to Find Your Mission
in Life

• Mission means to exercise that Talent which you
  particularly came to earth to useyour greatest
  gift, which you most delight to use, in the
  place(s) or setting(s) which God has caused to
  appeal to you the most, and for those purposes
  which God most needs to have done in the world.

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Find Your Mission and Focus Your Influence

1. Defining Mission
2. Focusing Your Influence

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Focusing Your Influence

• Jesus example

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Luke 442-44 (NASB)

• And when day came, He departed and went to a
  lonely place and the multitudes were searching
  for Him, and came to Him, and tried to keep Him
  from going away from them. But He said to them,
  I must preach the kingdom of God to the other
  cities also, for I was sent for this purpose.

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Luke 951 (NASB)

• Now when the days drew near for him to be taken
  up, Jesus set out resolutely to go to Jerusalem.

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John 174 (NASB)

• I glorified you on earth by completing the work
  you gave me to do.

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Focusing Your Influence

• Jesus example
• Pauls example

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2 Timothy 46-8 (NASB)

• For I am already being poured out as a drink
  offering, and the time of my departure has come.
  I have fought the good fight, I have finished the
  course, I have kept the faith in the future
  there is laid up for me the crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  Judge, will award to me on that day and not only
  to me, but also to all who have loved His
  appearing.

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Focusing Your Influence

• Jesus example
• Pauls example
• Hindrances to focus
• Pleasing people
• Desire for recognition/ advancement
• Guilt

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Katie Brazeltonin Pathway to Purpose for Women

• Gods purpose will cost you your life in the
  sense that you must choose to die to self and
  accept his plan. It will cost you your life, too,
  in that you will be spent and used up in service
  to God. It will stretch you to such an impossible
  degree that you will fail without Him.

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Assignment

• Pair up and introduce yourselves if you do not
  know one another.
• Talk about hindrances. Which one is most likely
  to keep you from maximizing your influence? Why?

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Find Your Mission and Focus Your Influence

1. Defining Mission
2. Focusing Your Influence
3. Finding your God-given Mission

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Finding Your Unique God-given Mission

• Prioritize
• The Mission-giver over the mission

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Richard Nelson Bolles How to Find Your Mission
in Life

• The first of three missions in life to seek
  to stand hour by hour in the conscious presence
  of God, the One from whom your Mission is
  derived.

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Os Guinness in The Call

• We are not primarily called to do something or
  go somewhere we are called to Someone. We are
  not called first to special work but to God. The
  key to answering the call is to be devoted to no
  one and to nothing above God Himself.

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Finding Your Unique God-given Mission

• Prioritize
• The Mission-giver over the mission
• Being over doing

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Os Guinness in The Call

• Our secondary calling, considering who God is as
  sovereign, is that everyone, everywhere, in
  everything should thin speak, live and act
  entirely for him.

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Finding Your Unique God-given Mission

• Prioritize
• The Mission-giver over the mission
• Being over doing
• Heal from the past and then move into the present

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Heb. 121-2a (NASB)

• Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of
  witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside
  every encumbrance and the sin which so easily
  entangles us, and let us run with endurance the
  race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on
  Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith.

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Finding Your Unique God-given Mission

• Prioritize
• The Mission-giver over the mission
• Being over doing
• Heal from the past and then move into the present
• Grow in character
• Grow in faithfulness excellence
• Grow in love and servanthood

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Finding Your Unique God-given Mission

• Prioritize
• Look for the intersection of your divine design,
  the desires of your heart, and the opportunity

Design
Desire
Opportunity
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Learn about your Divine Design
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Arthur F. Miller, Jr.in The Power of Uniqueness

• What lies at the heart of a seven-days-a-week
  faith It is using ones endowed giftedness to
  serve the world with excellence and, through that
  service, to love and honor God! The calling that
  fully engages what God has given you is a holy
  task!

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Os Guinness in The Call

• The truth is not that God is finding us a place
  for our gifts but that God has created us and our
  gifts for a place of his choosingand we will
  only be ourselves when we are finally there.

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Learn about your Divine Design

• Study your spiritual giftedness
• What attracts you?
• What gifts do others see in me?
• Where do I have success?
• What gives me joy and purpose?
• Try different ministries
• Consider what you learn from the past
• Map out your preferences, motivations

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Assignment

• Share for 2 minutes each with your partner what
  you know about your divine design.
• Do you know your spiritual gifts?
• What things do you like to do?
• What do others tell you that you do well?
• What motivates?
• Are you energized by people or solitude?
• Do you want to organize others or do it yourself?

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Consider the desires of your heart

• They may seem like passion for
• A particular group of people
• A cause
• A task
• A need
• They may surface because of a lack
• What is bothering you?
• What needs to be done?
• What is essential?

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Assignment

• Share with your partner
• What are the desires of your heart?
• What bothers you?
• What lack do you see?
• What draws you?
• What would you like to fix?
• What is essential in the church, job?

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Analyze your opportunity

• Is it in line with the way that God has been
  leading me and working through and with me?
• Do I see God already at work?
• Does it fit my season in life?
• My family situation
• My preparation and experience

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Look for the intersection of your divine design,
the desires of your heart, and the opportunity
Desire
Design
Opportunity
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Assignment

• Consider the intersection of your divine design,
  the desires of your heart, and your opportunity.
  Are you living in that spot now? If not, what is
  missing? Is it your design? Your desire? Or have
  you not been given the opportunity that you seek?

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Find Your Mission and Focus Your Influence

1. Defining Mission
2. Focusing Your Influence
3. Finding your God-given Mission
4. Writing a personal mission statement

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Writing a mission statement

• Is a process
• Try to keep it short

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Laurie Beth Jonesin The Path

• My mission is to _________, ________, and
  __________ (fill in with 3 verbs that fit you)
  __________ (a core value such as serving,
  justice, mercy, family, creativity, freedom,
  etc.) to, for, or with __________ (the group or
  cause that most excites you).

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Writing a mission statement

• Is a process
• Try to keep it short
• Consider Scriptures or biblical concepts that
  apply

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Find Your Mission and Focus your Influence

• Kay Daigle