{"id":31349,"date":"2021-08-30T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T15:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=31349"},"modified":"2021-08-30T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T15:23:03","slug":"your-god-given-identity-and-your-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/08\/30\/your-god-given-identity-and-your-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Your God-given identity and your purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31350\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/identity-and-purpose-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/identity-and-purpose-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/identity-and-purpose-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/identity-and-purpose-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/identity-and-purpose-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/identity-and-purpose-360x203.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Your identity- who you are- is God-given. Therefore, you should see yourself how God sees you &#8211; His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works (Ephesians 2:10). His view of you should impact how you see yourself, what you believe about yourself and influence the way you live. There is power in knowing and understanding what your real identity is and, also, in recognizing whose you are. You are God\u2019s child, created in His image and His breath gives you life. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Your God-given identity is directly linked to your God-given purpose (why you were created) and understanding the link between both is crucial.\u00a0 Your identity includes your gifts, talents, abilities, passions, education etc. all of which will help you successfully fulfil your purpose. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Regardless of the doubts you may experience, no matter what you see, hear or\u00a0 think, what people say, where you are, your current\u00a0 circumstances or what happened in the past, you were created by a mighty and powerful God for a specific and unique purpose and you must remain in Him to live your purpose. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Are you a branch abiding in the Vine? Are you being pruned by the Vinedresser? Are you living a life of purpose?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Your identity- who you are- is God-given. Therefore, you should see yourself how God sees you &#8211; His workmanship created in Christ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-60-second-motivator"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/identity-and-purpose.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31353,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31349\/revisions\/31353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}