5 Daily Devotions to

Walk Confidently in
Your Purpose
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God created you on purpose and for a purpose. He's called you, positioned you, and
equipped you. There's a plan only you can complete and there are people only you
can inspire and lead. That's how valuable you are!

This life of faith we've been invited into extends far beyond Sunday morning church
services. God wants to be at the very core of who we are and who we're becoming.
Through His strength, we are no longer controlled by fear or self-doubt. We can tear
down stereotypes, step into the truth of all God has made us to be, and empower
others to do the same.

My friend, there's no telling the awesome things God has in store for you and for me.
That's why I created this 5-day devotional: to empower you to give life all you've got,
put it all on the line, and leave nothing behind as you walk confidently into your God-
given purpose!

p.s. - If you want to discover even more about living life with undaunted
faith, check out my new book Undaunted: Revised and Expanded.
www.christinecaine.com/undaunted
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YOU CAN SLAY GIANTS

We’re all called to fulfill a purpose, to reach a destiny, to be all that God created us to be and to do all that God
created us to do.

Part of my calling is to share the Gospel and to see people come to Christ. I’m called to teach the Word of God
so people can be transformed by the power of God. I’m called to lead and teach others to lead so they can learn
how to be full of the power of God, so they can fulfill what God has called them to do. I’m called to be a wife and
a mother. A friend. And I’m called to help abolish slavery everywhere, forever.

I answered those calls, though I felt unqualified.

But don’t we all feel that way when God calls us to do something? We disqualify ourselves before we even get
started. Whether God calls us to start a business, launch an outreach or walk across the street to meet a new
neighbor and spark a friendship, when God’s Spirit gently nudges us — or not so gently nudges us — to make
a bold step, take a risk, serve others, save a life or commit, why is it that we so often hold back? At least a little?

We think we lack the courage, the strength, the wisdom, the money, the influence, the experience, the education,
the organization, the backing. We feel like Moses when, from out of the burning bush, God called him to speak for
Him before Pharaoh — the highest leader in the land. And Moses answered, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have
never been eloquent. . . . I am slow of speech and tongue. . . . Please send someone else” (Exodus 4:10, 13).

We can sound just like that when God calls us. Not me, God. I’m afraid. Weak. Poor. Incapable. Unqualified. Daunted.
We pray for God to use us for His purpose, and then when He interrupts our lives to answer our prayer, we list all
our inadequacies. Our objections. Our fears.

The apostle Paul wrote this to the Corinthians — and to us: Not that we are sufficiently qualified in ourselves to
claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency and qualifications come from God. He has qualified us...
(2 Corinthians 3:5-6, AMP).
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The more we know God, the more we fulfill our calling and walk into our future with Him, the more undaunted we
will live, and the more prepared we will be for fulfilling even more assignments He's called us to do. That's what
a life of faith is — taking risks and trusting God. It's progressing through levels of trust, giving God more and
more of our hearts with each step forward.

What is God calling you to do? Who is God calling you to reach?

Remember: if God has called you to slay giants, then He will be sure to make you into a giant slayer. God doesn’t
call the qualified. He qualifies the called. He leads us in how to live undaunted so we can fulfill our calling. He
never asks us to cross the street because we have the capacity, in and of ourselves, to rescue hurting people. He
asks because He has it.

Through Him, you can live boldly and courageously in the face of difficulty and amaze the world by beating the
odds, all for His glory.
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RE F LE C T ION

What is God calling you to today? What risk is God asking you to take?

What do you feel unqualified for?

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What do you need to trust Him for?
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YOU ARE CHOSE N

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,

which God prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:10).

All too often, we allow the names we call ourselves to define us. We allow the labels that others place on us to
define us.

After all, from the time we're born, and then throughout life, we're defined in little boxes on forms by our family
of origin, address, education, experience, bank account, credit score, employer, friends, race and ethnicity. We're
labeled one thing or another: educated or uneducated, responsible or reckless, qualified or inexperienced, young
or old, shy or outgoing, too much or not enough.

We allow those words and labels to limit us and stick to us. They can break our spirits as much as sticks and stones
can bruise and bloody our bodies. They can bring us to our knees, stop us in our tracks before we even get started
in life because we begin to believe them.

If we allow these hurtful words and labels to loom larger in our hearts and minds than the promises of God, they
can fool us into missing God’s truth about who we are and what we were created to do. They can stop us from
pursuing the purpose God has had in mind for us from the beginning of time.

When there is a fight between our hearts and our heads, experience has taught me that the best thing we can do
is pick up our Bible and remind ourselves of what God’s truth says. And God’s truth says…

…You and I were designed and made to do good works in Christ, works prepared before the creation of the world.
(Ephesians 2:10)
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…You and I were fearfully and wonderfully made, formed by God from the beginning. It is that — not the identity of
our parents or circumstances of our birth — which gives us our identity. (Psalm 139:13-14)

…He has redeemed us and calls us by name – His children. God’s redemption is bigger than any label from your
past or present. (Isaiah 43:1)

…He has chosen us. He has called us out of darkness into His light – so that we can praise Him. None of us is an
afterthought or an accident. (1 Peter 2:9)

So no matter how you were born, no matter the particulars of your birth, you were chosen in eternity long before
you ever arrived at this point in time. God has created you to do good works of eternal significance, and He has
not created you ill-prepared for that.

Return to the truth of God’s Word that will last forever, instead of meditating on circumstances of your life that will
change and fade. It is God’s truth about who we are and who He created us to be that enables us to move forward
into the future undaunted.
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RE F LE CT ION

What are some words that have hurt you in the past?

What is God speaking over you now?

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Of the truths listed above, which one means the most to you and why?
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YOU CAN C ONQUE R F E AR

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and
help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand (Isaiah 41:10).

What do you fear? What part of living are you avoiding because of fear? We all fear something until we learn to
overcome it.

Some of us fear failing. Others fear success. “What if I stick my neck out and fail?” we say. “What if the business
gets too big too fast and I can’t keep up, or my customers see how little I really know and what an amateur I am?”

How can we live undaunted if we are paralyzed by fear? We can’t.

Some fears are rational. Other fears are not so rational, like one of mine — being in too small or tight a space or
being confined. Some fears are subtle, like a general apprehension or worry, while others are dramatic, like dread
and terror.

When we’re young, we may fear imaginary beasts in the dark, under our bed or in the closet. When we’re older, the
invisible but oh-so-real monsters of disease and death may be what we fear is lurking in the dark. We may even
live consumed with anxiety that all our secrets will be brought to light.

Whatever our story, whether our fear is subdued or strong, rational or irrational, the danger real or imagined, fear
has a mission: It will always try to stop us, trip us up, and put our lives on hold. It will always seek to immobilize us
and divert our attention away from daring to fulfill God’s call on our lives.

God calls us to serve with what we have and with who we are, but if we don’t lean into Him and overcome our
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fears, then we won’t fulfill what He’s called us to do. We won’t touch the people we’re destined to influence.

⋅The coworker you were meant to mentor.

⋅The single woman who would love someone to sit with her in church.
⋅The new family in the neighborhood who could use an introduction to the community.
⋅The young women in recovery who could use an encouraging role model like you, someone who
knows how to write a resume and dress for an interview.
⋅The lives that could benefit from the initiative God has called you to launch.
⋅The families whose livelihood could be provided by the business you are called to start.

When we let fear run our lives, we close ourselves off from anything that might hurt us or cost us or make us
uncomfortable, including opportunities to serve God and walk in His promises. Jesus warned us, “The thief comes
only to steal and kill and destroy.” Fear is a thief like that. It can cause us to hold back and run away from the very
assignments God has designed just for us.

But if we’ll trust, if we’ll lean into Jesus, if we’ll keep our eyes on Him, we can rest in what He promised: “I have
come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10). And a full life is an undaunted life.

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To live undaunted is to show courage and resolution. It’s to live unafraid, undismayed, unflinching, unshrinking,
unabashed — fearless. It’s being bold, brave, gritty, audacious, daring and confident, even when we face
opportunities not to be. It’s a fight, I know. But it’s a worthwhile one.

RE F LE CT ION

What do you fear? What assignment from God have you been avoiding?

In what areas of your life do you need to build your trust and faith in God today?

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What are some Scriptures you can use to do this?

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YOU DON 'T HAVE TO DO IT ALONE

God has said, "I will never fail you. I will never abandon you." (Hebrews 13:5, NLT).

There is nothing God cannot do. Not in my life. And not in yours.

I’ve been honest about what I’ve been through, yet I have no idea what you’ve endured. Maybe you’ve been
shocked by blows you never saw coming. A child you can’t reach. A spouse who isn’t faithful. The loss of a loved
one all too soon. Maybe you’ve been wronged in ways I can’t imagine. Maybe you failed at something. Caused
something.

God has mercy for that too. But whatever any of us have been through, facing it and all its pain is the way forward.
Surrendering it to God is the way to living with undaunted faith.

God is always with us and always making a way for us to do His will, to bring His hope and change into this world.
But so many times in our lives, there’s so much temptation to think otherwise.

When we’re asked to speak to a group but think, I can’t! I’m too shy. I’m not a public speaker.

When we want to volunteer at a local shelter, but our schedule tells us that we’re too busy and cannot
add one more thing.

When we want to give some money or groceries and goods to a family burned out of their home, but
our checkbook says there’s not enough in our account to pay even our own bills, let alone help
with someone else’s.

When we want to make a career change to follow what we know is our calling, yet our confidence
mutters, Stay where you are. There are too many unknowns! It makes no sense to give up a job
other people would give anything to have, just to try for some fleeting sense of happiness.
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Difficulty is the bully that steps into our path and tries to wrestle us to the ground and pin us until we cry uncle.
He will try to outshout both God and our own thoughts until he confuses us. He will loom so large that we can see
only what’s right in front of us — the problems, the obstacles, and all the reasons to stop.

We live caged by the decisions we make or actions we take and by the wrongs we have suffered. We talk about
our future. We hope for our future. We even complain about our future. But rather than step out of our caged life
and into the future that Jesus Christ died and rose again to give us, we put off the change, the new territory, the
hard work, the tough choices, the honest confession, the difficult conversation.

The only way to claim our future, to step into the calling God has in store for each and every one of us, is to face
our issues with undaunted faith. When God has called you to do something, He will always make a way where
there is no way. You just have to remember that difficult isn’t impossible. It’s just difficult. It’s a place we move
through on our way to where God wants us to go.
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RE F LE CT ION

What difficult circumstance in your life have you labeled impossible?

What are you allowing to cage you in?

What are some declarations you can make in faith over that situation and over yourself today?

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YOU GE T TO C HOOSE

... I can't tell you how much I long for you to enter this
wide-open, spacious life (2 Corinthians 6:11, MSG).
Moving into the wide-open, spacious, undaunted life God has called us to — a life of faith — will always be our
choice to make.

In the animal kingdom, lions can be captured and rehomed in a zoo, forced to leave one habitat and adapt to
another, but God will never force us to exchange one life for another. He calls us to a life of undaunted faith, but
whether we do so will always be our choice.

When I learned that I was adopted — abandoned by my birth mother at a hospital, given a number instead of
a name, and then adopted by loving parents who kept this secret from me for thirty-three years — I could have
succumbed to a caged life, letting the pain of my past lock me up and keep me confined forever.

But I had a choice. I could let the shock of it all cause me to spiral downward into captivity mentally, emotionally,
even physically, or I could walk in faith. I chose to put my trust in God and keep moving forward with undaunted
faith, though at times it felt like more than I could bear.

Each time God showed me a place in my heart where I was caged in — whether it was because of something done
to me or a consequence of my actions — I chose to break out and move forward. But each time it took faith. And
it will take that same kind of undaunted faith for you to move into your future.

Undaunted doesn’t mean it will be painless.

Undaunted doesn’t mean you will never feel betrayed.
Undaunted doesn’t mean you will never be fearful.
Undaunted doesn’t mean you will never grow weary.
Undaunted doesn’t mean you will never fail.


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Undaunted doesn’t mean you will never be disappointed.
Undaunted doesn’t mean you will never be confused.

Undaunted means that despite all these feelings, we trust, knowing that He who promised is faithful (see Hebrews
10:23), that because greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world (see 1 John 4:4), we have the strength
to walk by faith every step of every day.
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RE F LE CT ION

Are you ready to choose a wide-open, spacious, undaunted life?

How can you do this today, right where you are?

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Content from this devotional adapted from Undaunted: Daring to do what

God calls you to do Updated & Expanded by Christine Caine. Copyright 2018
by Christine Caine. Reprinted with permission of Zondervan Publishing.
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