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Time to bring it on with your email questions.

And Pat, this first one comes from a viewer

who says, how does one know what purpose God has for his life?

Oh, I think it's a progressive revelation.

It's not something you're going to learn all at one time.

But I believe God is not going to put you

into something that you have not been formed to do.

There won't be some radical shift.

He said, what is your purpose?

Well, what do you like to do?

What makes you comfortable?

What is the dream in your heart?

What is there?

And it's the fulfillment of that which

is ultimately the purpose God will have for you.

And I've found in my life that God has given me

certain skills and abilities.

And it's just-- with me, certain things, it's just easy to do.

Because that's just the way God made me.

And so I can do certain things, and I do more,

and more, and more of them.

But other-- but that becomes what your purpose is.

Then you can do fasting, and you can do prayer,

and you can get well through the Bible.

And spend time asking him for direction,

and he'll give it to you.

But He'll say-- He said, you'll hear a voice in your ear

when you turn to the right or the left saying,

this is the way.

Walk in it.

Another thing is-- the Apostle Paul said, let the peace of God

be an umpire in your heart.

And so, as long as the peace is there,

you'll kind of know you're going down the right way.

And when the peace lifts, you can say, whoops.

I better have a course correction.

But it's trial and error.

You're walking down the road, you're looking at the Lord,

and you're asking him to lead you.

That's what it amounts to.

You know, I always enjoy in your book Shout

it from the Housetops how you share.

I mean, you didn't have vision for the whole,

as you look back to our life, of what God was calling you to.

It happened one project at a time.

One at a time.

And each thing led to another.

And then it gets you in a position

so you can go to another, and then another, and another.

And before long, what seemed to be absolutely impossible

becomes easy.

I mean, it's just the way it is.

OK, this is Tristan, who says, the Bible

says heaven and earth will pass away,

and there will be a new heaven and earth.

Are we going to relive in this new earth

after the second coming of Jesus--

or after all Bible prophecy is fulfilled?

Will we be in heaven for some time,

and then go to a new earth again to live?

There was a thief on the cross with Jesus.

And he said-- the thief said, Lord, remember me when

you come into your kingdom.

And Jesus said, this day, you'll be with me in paradise.

So there is some sort of an intermediate place

called paradise where the righteous dead go and wait.

And then, at the final culmination of things,

we're going to be given new bodies to go along

with the spirit that is there.

And we will be clothed with a new body.

Then the Bible says, God is going

to make a new heaven and a new earth.

And so, I guess the creation is going to be changed

so there won't be any more decay,

there won't be any more death, there

won't be any more suffering.

And that'll happen at the end, at the Great White Throne

when God makes everything new.

But that's the way it'll work, OK?

This is Mandy who says, Dear Pat, if you belong to a church,

you're usually confirmed or baptized.

Is it necessary to do that in order to get into heaven one

day?

No, I don't think so.

I think you get into heaven on account of faith.

You're saved by faith and not by works,

lest any man should boast.

So one of the acts of obedience, once you've come to the Lord,

is to be baptized.

But you don't have to go through some ritual of a church

in order to get to heaven.

Heaven is there for those who believe.

Well, I guess that's all.

That's it for today.

Thank you.

Thank you for those questions.

We leave you with today's Power Minute from Proverbs, quote,

"The blessing of the Lord makes one rich,

and he adds no sorrow with it."