Find Fulfillment The Essential Guide to Finding the Dream God Put in Your Heart

By Andy Zeeman

This book is the essential guide for Christians looking to find a fulfilled life. The book provides a step by step guide, from finding the dream to making it a reality. It is an easy to read and to the point guide for Christians looking for fulfillment in their lives. There are 7 steps, each one outlined and explained and supported through scripture. The book also suggests action to be taken where necessary in an easy to understand format.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andy Zeeman
• Release date: Mar 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370287000

Andy Zeeman

Writer, blogger, HR Expert

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Find Fulfillment

The Essential Guide to Finding the Dream God Put in Your Heart

© Copyright 2012 Andy Zeeman

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ISBN: 9781370287000

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the author.

Table of Contents

1. Why should a Christian want fulfillment?

1.1 The need

1.2 The case for fulfillment

2. Step 1: Take stock of what you have

2.1 You are where you are

2.2 Gratitude

2.3 Gratitude cultivates humility

2.4 Gratitude adds to the perceived value of what you already have

2.5 Actions to take

3. Step 2: Create your life’s vision

3.1 What do you really want

3.2 Be honest about what you really want

3.3 Actions to take

4. Step 3: Ask God to make your dream come true

4.1 Asking is essential

4.2 Asking will deliver results

4.3 Ask simply

4.4 Asking goes with fasting

4.5 Actions to take

5. Step 4: Focus

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The principle of sowing

5.3 Controlling your thoughts

5.4 Actions to take

6. Step 5: Believe

6.1 Faith is important

6.2 You don’t need mountains of faith to start with

6.3 Faith must be firm

6.4 God’s creation process as a blueprint for faith

6.5 Trust God with all your heart

7. Step 6: Daily practice

7.1 Why daily?

7.2 Keep your joy alive

7.3 Obey and act

8. Step 7: Fight for your dream

8.1 What do dreams have to do with fighting?

8.2 How do we fight discouragement?

Epilogue

Chapter 1: Why would a Christian want fulfillment?

1.1 The need

May I make a suggestion? Take some time, go out, and watch people go about their business – perhaps choose a busy mall near you. While you watch the people, think about what they are doing: running this way and that, scurrying to get this or that done. Think about how important those tasks really are in the bigger scheme of things. You will realize that, in 99.9% of the cases you observe, whatever they are doing is not really as important as it seems to them. It has been my observation that most people run around doing futile task after futile task all their lives.

Bring religion into the equation, and you will see that it makes very little difference. Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, or whatever religion you can think of has done little to alleviate this futility problem. Most religions have overcome the futility problem with having peace.

This peace thinking has even made it into the Christian faith. I have, as I am sure you have as well, heard a great many Christians confess that God has a plan for their lives. Yet I have found very few that have actually found this plan, their calling, and are living it. A great, great many Christians spend years in careers (or out of it), going from company to company, job to job, searching for that place where they will be truly happy. Many do not even realize they are doing this. I have often wondered about this. I believe that, at some point, we all realize that no job is perfect and that every company has a bad side no matter how great the good side is. But many people continue to struggle and keep looking for that perfect place of fulfillment that continues to elude them.

It has been said that We are what we do. I would like to amend that saying to We would like to do what we are. The sad truth of this broken world is that so few of us do what we are and too many of us try to become what we do.

There are many reasons for this: the love of money, negative influences, overly sheltered upbringings, or any number of other reasons. The common thread is that so very few of us live and do what we are in order to be fulfilled. I don't think there is anything wrong with holding a job in a company, big or small, or even entering a specific career or profession – these are natural in the world we live in. What I am saying is that, by far, the majority of people are working at dead-end jobs and living dead-end lives because they have not actively sought and found God's plan for their future. Some people go through horrific experiences, dealing with them by saying, God has a plan for my life, and while it is true that God has a plan for