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Purpose Driven Life* NASB

P.22
I am your Creator. You were in my care Thus says the LORD who made you
even before you were born. And formed you from the womb, who
will help you, `Do not fear, O Jacob My
Isaiah 44:2a (CEV) servant; And you Jeshurun whom I
have chosen.

Isaiah 44:2

The Bible says, “The Lord will fulfill his The LORD will accomplish what
purpose for me.” concerns me; Your lovingkindness, O
LORD, is everlasting; Do not forsake
Psalm 138:8a (NIV) the works of Your hands.

Psalm 138:8

P. 23
The Bible says, “You know me inside and My frame was not hidden from You,
out, you know every bone in my body; You When I was made in secret, And
know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, skillfully wrought in the depths of the
how I was sculpted from nothing into earth;
something.”
Psalm 139:15
Psalm 139:15 (MSG)

The Bible says, “You saw me before I was Your eyes have seen my unformed
born and scheduled each day of my life substance; And in Your book were all
before I began to breathe. Every day was written The days that were ordained
recorded in your Book.” for me, When as yet there was not one
of them.
Psalm 139:16 (LB)
Psalm 139:16

*The Purpose Driven Life, copyright © Rick Warren (Grand Page 1 of 3 Scripture taken from the New American Standard
Rapids: Zondervan, 2002) all citations are as cited by Bible, © Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971,
Warren from indicated versions. 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1995, The Lockman
Foundation. Used by permission.
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Day 2
You Are Not an Accident

Purpose Driven Life* NASB

The Bible says, “From one man he made and He made from one man every
every nation,…and he determined the times nation of mankind to live on all the
set for them and the exact places where face of the earth, having determined
they should live.” their appointed times and the
boundaries of their habitation,
Acts 17:26 (NIV)
Acts 17:26

P. 24
The Bible says, “Long before he laid down just as He chose us in Him before the
the earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, foundation of the world, that we
had settled on us as the focus of his love.” should be holy and without blame
before Him in love,
Ephesians 1:4a (MSG)
Ephesians 1:4

The Bible says, “God decided to give us life In the exercise of His will He brought
through the word of truth so we might be us forth by the word of truth, so that
the most important of all the things he we would be a kind of first fruits
made.” among His creatures.

James 1:18 (NCV) James 1:18

“God formed the earth …. He did not create For thus says the LORD, who created
it to be empty but formed it to be the heavens (He is the God who
inhabited.” formed the earth and made it, He
established it and did not create it a
Isaiah 45:18 (GWT) waste place, but formed it to be
inhabited), "I am the LORD, and there
is none else.

Isaiah 45:18

The Bible tells us, “God is love.” The one who does not love does not
know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:8
1 John 4:8

*The Purpose Driven Life, copyright © Rick Warren (Grand Page 2 of 3 Scripture taken from the New American Standard
Rapids: Zondervan, 2002) all citations are as cited by Bible, © Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971,
Warren from indicated versions. 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1995, The Lockman
Foundation. Used by permission.

Purpose Driven Life*
P. 25
God says, “I have carried you since you
were born; I have taken care of you from
your birth. Even when you are old, I will be
the same. Even when your hair has turned
gray, I will take care of you. I made you
and will take care of you.”
Isaiah 46:3-4 (NCV)
The Message paraphrase of Romans 12:3
says, “The only accurate way to understand
ourselves is by what God is and by what he
does for us.”
Verse to Remember:
“I am your Creator. You were in my care
even before you were born.”
Isaiah 44:2 (CEV)
*The Purpose Driven Life, copyright © Rick Warren (Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 2002) all citations are as cited by
Warren from indicated versions.
Discernment Tool for The Purpose Driven Life*
Day 2
You Are Not an Accident
NASB
"Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
You who have been borne by Me from
birth And have been carried from the
womb; Even to your old age I will be
the same, And even to your graying
years I will bear you! I have done it,
and I will carry you; And I will bear
you and I will deliver you.
Isaiah 46:3-4
For through the grace given to me I
say to everyone among you not to
think more highly of himself than he
ought to think; but to think so as to
have sound judgment, as God has
allotted to each a measure of faith.
Romans 12:3
Thus says the LORD who made you
And formed you from the womb, who
will help you, `Do not fear, O Jacob My
servant; And you Jeshurun whom I
have chosen.
Isaiah 44:2
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Bible, © Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971,
1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1995, The Lockman
Foundation. Used by permission.