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Live life as an adventure. Doug Britton, Bible-based Marriage and Family Therapist, has helped hundreds of thousands of people as a therapist, clinical director of a treatment center, seminar speaker, radio cohost, and author of over twenty books that show how to apply God's truths in your daily life.

How to Help Your Teen Find Purpose in Life

Permission granted to print for personal use. Sign up to get newsletters a month announcing new Bible studies and more. What does "being born again" mean? Are you sure God loves you? Bored with your life?

Read these Bible verses: You are not an accident. God has a plan for you. You have a purpose in life. You are created to know God One purpose in life is to get close to God.

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As these Bible verses say: Do not downplay the value of what you do. What counts is that you are faithful. God gave you talents and abilities. He expects you to develop them. We are assailed by doubts and fears that many times keep us from living out the purposes that He has established for us. However, we can overcome this by consistently reading and studying His word so that our faith will be made stronger day by day.

As we learn of God and pray to Him regularly, we become more embolden to accomplish great purposes in His name. Take a look at this great article: All rights reserved worldwide. Would you like to get the daily question in your FB messenger? Just click the button below to get started. Crystal McDowell and her husband of 22 years raise their five children in the Midwest.

She writes, speaks, and teaches with a passion to encourage women with Biblical truths. As a freelance writer for over 12 years, Crystal has written numerous Christian curricula for Sunday School and VBS as well as many articles dealing with marriage, motherhood, and relationships. She gives weekly words of encouragement on her blog: Read them in the archive below.

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If you like what you're reading, you can get free daily updates through the RSS feed here. Thanks for stopping by! I was in need of assurance of my purpose for life due to so many confusing happenings around us. I thank God for directing me to this web page.

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I thank for people like you guys its so important to find the purpose of lives but the part of is always not in reach this helped me and hope it will to a lot out there. Talk with your pastor or your youth minister. Also, does your school have a guidance counselor? Seek the counsel of others is all I can tell you. What a great article. This really helped me. It can see like forever, but through the process He is equipping us for His purpose, but we must not give up, we must finish the race. Thank you for writing this article!

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I am so blessed from this post, I was preparing a message to be delivered on my office bus as we ride to work, on the subject: The Benefits of a Purpose Driven Living, and I was looking for appropriate scriptures when I came across your post that satisfied my ideal search, I am so blessed. Go against your conscience and you will do things which God has consented for you. In the end, God will get you to where He wants you to be — on your knees. The Bible does teach that whosoever may come and whosoever believes will be saved. What a great post. Most of the executives I have coached on how to regain their life used one of your examples.

It is so easy to get lost in what culture says it means to be successful, but the most important thing is what does your heart say is successful.

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That is truly a fantastic article. However, I am blessed to have an amazing wife who has helped me see that family is much more important than any career or any salary. We have two young children and since I made the conscience decision about two years ago to focus more time on my family, my career and salary have improved greatly. I recently changed jobs and have found a company that supports my priorities of family first. I cannot tell you what a difference that has made in my life. I am now working to solidify the notions you suggest above and passing along what I know to the people around me.

Dear Frank,I always find your writing sincere, valuable and wise beyond words. Thank you for always sharing. I hope all is well with you and your family. I cannot read, learn, reflect and apply the wisdom in these articles fast enough. Thank you so much for writing them AND keeping them online. Blessed Thanksgiving to you and yours, KathyB. Thank YOU for sharing the posts and for offering your comments. Your email address will not be published. Here are a few scenarios that describe this emptiness: If any of these scenarios sound familiar to you, it may be time for a course correction.

Living Life with a Purpose Although everyone is different, there are common threads that bind a life with purpose. Comments Insightful post Frank that can inspire through your analytic assessment of what demoralizes. Many obstacles that actually stop growth are unidentified. Once we see them, we can solve them. Nice treatment of this subject and I will share with many.


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Reminding us of our good values — and priorities — is important and powerful. Your writing has a purpose for all of us! And yet I still must remind myself this important lesson. Have a great day! Great post, as always. Thanks for always reminding me about this lesson. Stacy, Terry, Rossana Thanks so much for your thoughts.


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Stacy, Thanks for your kind words. This post is stunning- in its delivery, in it sentiments and in its passion. I am so grateful that you have taken the time to share from your heart and brilliant mind. Grateful to you Lolly. Thank you for living your life with such passionate purpose. Awesome article is a insight of real achievement in life. Thank you for your candor, openness, and honesty.