30 Ways to Find God's will/Calling/Purpose for Your Life

1. Quit making lists. Just go out there and live life with God outside the box
2. You often find God’s will for your life through elimination: go do something, and you might find it is NOT your calling, but at least you are a step closer
3. Understand what a calling/purpose is. Study it and ask others how they found theirs
4. Whatever your calling, the ultimate goal is to bring glory to God. So if it doesn’t do that, it isn’t for you
5. It involves your deepest, truest desires—figure out what those are
6. It will bring you fulfillment and peace, but not an easy life: know that it will cost you everything
7. It fills some kind of need/void in the world that only you can fill: what are the needs/problems out there that make you the maddest, saddest, happiest when you can help?
8. It evolves and takes shape, becoming clearer in steps—you must take a step before you see the next one, so do what you know you need to do now, even if you don’t know the next step yet
9. Just because you are called one place or to a specific people for a time doesn’t mean it won’t change: but your life calling/purpose will always have the same basic motivation
10. Ask these questions: Who am I? What do I do (or want to do) with my life? For whom? What need/problem does that solve? What is the result of that?
11. Romans 12:1-2. Study, learn, do it
12. The goal of your life purpose/calling is to become like Christ (1 Thess. 4:3, Romans 8:29), so start working on that now
13. Your life purpose/calling is the specific area/people group that God has called you to minister to. It is about others, not you, so get out there and start serving
14. Ask yourself these questions: Have I died to myself and am living to God? Am I doing everything I know I am to be doing now? Am I looking to pray for others and meet their needs? Am I bringing God glory in my life?
15. Desire to know God’s will more than anything else. Learn how to pray and fast
16. Decide to do whatever God shows you, no matter the cost
17. Search your heart to see if there is any sin/thing you are holding back from God
18. Remember that God wants you to hear Him even more than you want to hear Him
19. Know that God answers “yes, no, and wait” but always says “Trust me”
20. Learn how to listen/hear God speak
21. God speaks through your conscience, circumstances, authorities, and time
22. Be saturated with the Word of God since that is His main way of speaking to us
23. Why did God create you? To serve? To help? To assist? To influence? To impact? To encourage? To give? To train? To comfort? Find some good verbs that describe your desire to make a difference
24. Who do you feel called to work with/serve (whatever verbs above you chose)? Families? Fathers? Mothers? Children? Teens? Babies? Parents? Adults? Singles? Couples? Elderly? Specific country or people group? Poor people? Rich people? Middle class? Foreigners? Sick people? Handicapped people? Homeless? Runaways? Unsaved people? Lukewarm Christians? Urban? Rural? Anything else you can think of
25. Doing what with those people (that you chose above)? Sports? Music? Art? Entertainment? Designing? Photography? Writing? Teaching? Tutoring? Counseling? Preaching? Technology skills? Law? Business? Medicine? Cosmetology?
26. What do you want to see as the result of your life being lived?
27. What is your definition of success?
28. This template may show you something: “My life purpose/calling is to (fill in with verbs from #23) to (fill in with people groups from #24) through (fill in with #25 answers) for the reason of (fill in with answers from #26 and 27).” But templates aren’t miracle workers.
29. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”