{"id":3566,"date":"2021-08-05T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2021-07-30T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T20:11:11","slug":"purpose-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3566","title":{"rendered":"Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3560\">yesterday<\/a> writing about how my golf game has improved. I\u2019ve made progress by means of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Purpose<\/li><li>Practice<\/li><li>Perseverance<\/li><li>Performance<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, let\u2019s talk about <strong><em>purpose<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No one ever got better at anything accidentally. The first step in growth is the decision to pursue growth intentionally. I use \u201cpurpose\u201d for alliteration!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Daniel purposed in this heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king\u2019s food&#8230; (Daniel 1.8, NKJV) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the purpose, Daniel had to figure out how to make that happen, described in the rest of chapter 1, but purpose came first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I purposed to improve my golf game, and I followed through on that purpose by getting some lessons, investing in some new equipment (just shoes and two new clubs!), and committing to practice (more on that tomorrow).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you want to grow as a disciple? We\u2019ve said that <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3545\">Bible knowledge in and of itself is not sufficient<\/a>, but it\u2019s certainly a start. If you don\u2019t feel competent to <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1aZ7669yISjPerZoXtIyXbP_mspdQcsp7\/view?usp=sharing\">hear from God through the scriptures<\/a>, what are you doing to become competent? How about <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=782\">scripture memory<\/a>? If you\u2019ve never tried it or want to get back to it, the first step is the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prayer? A mission-focus? We can grow in any or all of these areas by first deciding to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether or not my golf game improves is trivial. But the act of pursuing it has been very instructive. And it began with purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the LORD, and a royal palace for himself. (2 Chronicles 2.1, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>May He grant you according to your heart&#8217;s desire, And fulfill all your purpose. (Psalm 20.4, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started yesterday writing about how my golf game has improved. I\u2019ve made progress by means of: Purpose Practice Perseverance Performance Today, let\u2019s talk about purpose. No one ever got better at anything accidentally. The first step in growth is the decision to pursue growth intentionally. I use \u201cpurpose\u201d for alliteration! Daniel purposed in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purpose<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-Vw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}