{"id":5822,"date":"2025-04-11T06:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2025-04-11T06:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:02:20","slug":"feeling-lost-due-to-the-lack-of-purpose-stanley-samuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/2025\/04\/11\/feeling-lost-due-to-the-lack-of-purpose-stanley-samuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling lost due to the lack of purpose (Stanley Samuel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Psalms 107: 4-9<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are times in our lives we may feel like Israelites\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wandering in wilderness not knowing if this is what was in store\u00a0 for us from God. But during these times we should focus on\u00a0 our individual relationship with God. Reflecting on the word of\u00a0 God just like how our ancestors did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I leave you with a few questions and thoughts:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s the purpose of our lives?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you have a goal or a vision?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter whatever deliberations we face, we need to focus on\u00a0 our vision strengthened by the examples set by our Lord and\u00a0 Savior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily we get challenged by the community we live in, the peers\u00a0 we spend time with at work, schools, colleges etc. Being\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bullied or intimidated, being mentally challenged, living in a\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">metric based society focused on accomplishments. Lacking\u00a0 empathy, lacking ability to listen, lacking a Godly vision, lacking\u00a0 wisdom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s understand our purpose by aligning ourselves with God\u2019s\u00a0 words and knowing that his mercies endures with us forever\u00a0 (Psalms 107:1) and reflecting that we are brought near to God\u00a0 through the blood of Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:13).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>CLOSING PRAYER\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lord God give me wisdom to understand your word, give me\u00a0 vision to understand my purpose as I journey through daily\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">challenges. Amen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalms 107: 4-9 There are times in our lives we may feel like Israelites\u00a0 wandering in wilderness not knowing if this is what was in store\u00a0 for us from God.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lent-reflections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/unnamed.png?fit=512%2C268&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5824,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions\/5824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}