School of Purpose and 4 Week Digital Download Course
By Jeremy Lopez
Price: $299.99
Transformation from the Heart
No matter how hard we try; we can't make ourselves be someone else. Incentives, discipline, and accountability won't cure your personality and calling. There's nothing wrong with your design! God likes you the way He created you. Conformity to the expectations of others is not His goal. You are unique.
John 12:43 NIV ...they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
Our hearts are transformed when we have a good reason – the purpose God wrote in our hearts. Change doesn't come from changing our mindset and redoubling our effort. Change happens when we align our hearts with its purpose. Momentum comes when we realize that its God's purpose too; that heaven is co-laboring with us.
Success and Significance aren't Purposes
Motivation originates in the heart. Personal success, significance, and prosperity are wonderful, but they can't be goals we worship. The purpose in your heart will still be there whether the outward trappings of fame and fortune come or go.
We're wired from heaven with a higher purpose. We have a deep longing to be part of something bigger than self. That's the real goal of our hearts – the purpose that transcends the smallness of self. Correction won't get you there; connection with your heart, your Father, and your tribe will help you align with your unique purpose and to feel the wind in your sails. Real purpose always feels bigger; life's trials are "not all about me."
Mindsets
Much of the motivational world is focused on changing your mindset to get a different result. "Just correct your mindset and follow my recipe, and you'll get the same result." Sound familiar? That's the backbone of marketing and MLM promises that has the 95% washout rate. Even in the religion mountain, the primary theme is, "You're broken, and we can fix you – change your mindset."
We are all somewhat broken (repentance is a gateway), but the priority isn't correcting mindsets or fixing problems. The key is connecting with your purpose and having a reason why. Purpose comes first. Your heart wants to know why! It already has some great reasons not to change. We need to give our hearts a good reason to change. Results are not a reason; purpose is.
The most amazing discovery is that when you help a person connect with their purpose, they are empowered to fix their own problems. Purpose defeats problems every time because we've tapped into our Father's purpose, and His power works through us.
As an engineer and pastor, I used to be big on fixing people. I just wore myself out. Now I'm focused on helping people prophetically touch their own book and follow that purpose wherever it leads. They usually fix themselves once their purpose is in sight. They feel loved and valued by God (instead of judged). The frosting is that they love me back.
God is the author who wrote the purpose in our hearts and books. As sons, we grasp the purpose of God's heart and feel it in our own hearts. It's His purpose and my purpose at the same time! Who owns the strategy and the work to implement that purpose on earth?
Sons Do
We are the stewards of a life process that will attain that purpose – we invent it, manage it, and change it. Purpose is enduring; the process or business approach to attain purpose changes with the market. The servant mentality is very prone to adopt someone else's process for the promise of success without understanding their own purpose. It's always a dead-end; a ticking time bomb for a spectacular motivational failure. Be yourself, find your purpose – it's a lot more fun, and it works better too.
John Garfield
