Many of your videos have had a positive effect on me, changed my mindset, and spoke strongly to me. But one video in particular helped me called, Understanding Purpose. You spoke about having a gift, talent, and purpose, and how people over complicate it. I think that’s what I was doing. I was under the impression that my purpose had to be a spectacular, over the top thing, when in actuality it’s relatively simple. I just had to work it out kind of backwards, like I do a lot of things.

I worked as a functional systems analyst for the government. My job was to take the end result that the customer wanted and figure out how to get the system to arrive at that result. Our purpose is to glorify God and bring people into His kingdom. I kind of got stuck on the gift and talent part and trying to differentiate between the two. Apparently, I am the kind of person complete strangers will come up to and tell their entire life story to. Sometimes it’s uncomfortable because it’s more than I want to know, but I feel like they need to get it out. So, I patiently listen and usually there is something in their story that I’ve had a similar experience to and can offer some understanding.

Then this gives me the opportunity to talk to them about Jesus and how He has saved my life in so many ways and how He can do the same for them. As I write this, I realize that all the time I was looking for my purpose thinking it had to be a big production but was already doing it. Had I not discovered your videos, I may have never figured it out. So, thank you. You are an amazing teacher, and you have helped lead a multitude of people to God’s kingdom and helped those of us already there to understand it better. God bless you!