Malphurs Maximizing Your Effectiveness

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I believe that it is extreme;y important to one to find his divine. I am passionate in believing the everyone in the world as a purpose and a role to fulfill. But many of us suffer because we never find our purposes, we never find our Divine Design and this causes us to live an unsatisfied life, I life of emptiness. Malphurs the author of Maximizing Your Effectiveness shares what he believes which is something that I also agree, "I am convinced that believers will not experience the joy and satisfaction of authentic ministry until they are serving Christ in ministries consistent with how God designed them— with their spiritual gifts, passions, temperaments, talents, abilities, and leadership styles.” We are not called to live a life of unfulfillment

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