Blueprint: Designing a life of Purpose and Meaning
2025-08-31
Charles Billingsley
1. Create Margin for Interruptions
God often does His most magnificent work in and through interruptions
A. Satan interrupts
Ephesians 6:13 Therefore, put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle you will still be standing firm.
B. Jesus Interrupted Others
C. Others Interrupted Jesus
When Satan interrupts: resist
When Jesus interrupts : surrender
When people interrupt : embrace
Jesus used every interruption to make an impact
2. Shape moments for Influence
Mark 4:35 On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” 36 Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. 37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. 38 But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”
39 Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. 40 But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” 41 And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”
You can change the world right from where you are!
3. Focus Resources for Investment
Mark 6:39 Then He commanded them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 So they sat down in ranks, in hundreds and in fifties. 41 And when He had taken the five loaves and the two fish, He looked up to heaven, blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and the two fish He divided among them all. 42 So they all ate and were filled. 43 And they took up twelve baskets full of fragments and of the fish. 44 Now those who had eaten the loaves were about five thousand men.
Ephesians 5: 15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Dave Ramsey time quadrant – Entreleadership book
Square with 4 squares inside:
Urgent and Important!! – Heart attack
Not Urgent, but Important – test coming next month
Not Important, but Urgent – hair appt, tickets for a concert
Not important, not Urgent – social media, hanging out, killing time
4. Plan time for Intimacy
A. Intimacy with Others
B. Intimacy with God
Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NLT)That’s the whole story. Here now is my final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone’s duty.
WE do this through:
- Time in His word
- Time in prayer
- Time in fasting
- Time in worship
These four things are the footers to building your life of purpose and meaning.
James 4:8a – Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.
Oh how He wants us – to know Him
You want a life of purpose and meaning?
There’s part of the blueprint – but it starts here.
Every builder will tell you before you can raise a building, it must start with a proper foundation. The foundation for our lives must be built on this one thing: Knowing God.
Do You truly Know Him?
To Know Him
There’s a temple of God’s presence
That’s always been
A sacred place for those who choose to enter in
There is a light of grace that reaches far
beyond what we can see
Welcoming the weary
Calling out to you and me
To know Him
it is the life He calls us to
Just to know Him
To only hunger for His truth
Until we see with unveiled faces
all that life can be
And follow in His presence where the journey leads
oh I want to know Him
My heart knows how it feels to search
for peace outside His will.
to reach the end of who I am
yet hunger still
But when I put aside my doubts and fears
and step inside the door
Standing in His presence
I’m determined even more
Just to know Him
It is the life He calls us to
Just to know Him
to only hunger for His truth
Until we see with unveiled faces
all that life can be
And follow in His presence where the journey leads
Oh I want to know Him
We’ve walked different roads
to get where we are standing
We have different needs
and yet we are the same
There’s a longing here
that binds our hearts together
To live where He is leading
the cost has never changed
To know Him
it is the life He calls us to
Just to know Him
To only hunger for His truth
Until we see with unveiled faces
all that life can be
And follow in His presence where the journey leads
oh I want to know Him