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The Fulfillment Principle: Experiencing Pure Joy in Your Life
Drawing on the challenge of one of Jesus most powerful parables, The Fulfillment Principle is packed with stories, encouragement, and motivation to help readers discover and pursue their God-given gifts in order to experience the joy of a lifetime for a lifetime. Asking readers, ''Are you ready to dream God s Dream?'' Bob Westfall invites those who are overwhelmed and unfulfilled to realize this simple but profound ''When you use the gifts God gives you to live out the dream He has birthed in you, then you experience the joy of fulfillment that comes straight from heaven.'' Through real-life stories, readers will see practical examples of people who are using their God-given gifts to live in fulfillment. They will also see the extraordinary impact individuals can have when they use their gifts instead of burying them. Bob Westfall talks to readers about realizing unceasing joy, the embedded nature of God-given talents, and making ''Your life . . . well spent'' a reality. Fulfillment isn't impossible or unreachable. It starts with the understanding that God created each of us with a glorious dream for who we are.
128 pages, Hardcover
First published July 5, 2011
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October 4, 2011
Today was a dark, rainy, too long, depressing, very bad day. Fortunately, I picked up a little book, The Fulfillment Principle, that proved to be a great encouragement. Soak in these words from author/speaker Bob Westfall . . .
“There’s something you want, we all want. In fact, our hearts ache for it. Some of us realize it sooner than others. Unfortunately, some of us never realize it at all.
It’s joy. It’s fulfillment.
It’s pleasure and contentment and peace—an unending spring of living water—that runs deep within our very being. Do you have it?
Books have been written about going from ‘good to great’ and from ‘success to significance.’ But this little book is different. It’s intentionally written not to give you a temporary high or take you on a mountaintop experience, only to let you fall back to reality again, unchanged, trying in your flesh to cling to the concepts of some manual.
The 100-proof fulfillment principle conveyed through the stories and scriptures in this book is bulletproof. Fears arise, uncertainty looms, storms hit, but the joy is there, inside you—a rock that can’t be rolled, a fire that can’t be quenched, a contentment that can’t be contaminated.”
So what’s the secret Bob shares in the book? You can find it in the Parable of the Talents, especially Matthew 25:21, where Jesus says, “Well, done, good and faithful slave; you were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things, enter into the joy of your Master.”
Each story and example focuses on identifying what talents—what treasures, abilities, passions or skills—the Lord has given us and then making an all-out effort to invest them for His kingdom. Bob says the ROT or “return on talent” God promises is JOY! He shares a quote from Erma Bombeck that sums up what our goal should be . . .
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything You gave me.’”
Need some encouragement today? Pick up a copy of The Fulfillment Principle. Believe me, it would make a great gift for a man or a woman. Since I love gift baskets, I can imagine filling a basket with Almond Joys and other goodies and topping it off with this book. And, hey, Christmas is coming, so I could also add ornaments that say JOY or a cd of Joy to the World . . . I could go on and on!
“There’s something you want, we all want. In fact, our hearts ache for it. Some of us realize it sooner than others. Unfortunately, some of us never realize it at all.
It’s joy. It’s fulfillment.
It’s pleasure and contentment and peace—an unending spring of living water—that runs deep within our very being. Do you have it?
Books have been written about going from ‘good to great’ and from ‘success to significance.’ But this little book is different. It’s intentionally written not to give you a temporary high or take you on a mountaintop experience, only to let you fall back to reality again, unchanged, trying in your flesh to cling to the concepts of some manual.
The 100-proof fulfillment principle conveyed through the stories and scriptures in this book is bulletproof. Fears arise, uncertainty looms, storms hit, but the joy is there, inside you—a rock that can’t be rolled, a fire that can’t be quenched, a contentment that can’t be contaminated.”
So what’s the secret Bob shares in the book? You can find it in the Parable of the Talents, especially Matthew 25:21, where Jesus says, “Well, done, good and faithful slave; you were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things, enter into the joy of your Master.”
Each story and example focuses on identifying what talents—what treasures, abilities, passions or skills—the Lord has given us and then making an all-out effort to invest them for His kingdom. Bob says the ROT or “return on talent” God promises is JOY! He shares a quote from Erma Bombeck that sums up what our goal should be . . .
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything You gave me.’”
Need some encouragement today? Pick up a copy of The Fulfillment Principle. Believe me, it would make a great gift for a man or a woman. Since I love gift baskets, I can imagine filling a basket with Almond Joys and other goodies and topping it off with this book. And, hey, Christmas is coming, so I could also add ornaments that say JOY or a cd of Joy to the World . . . I could go on and on!
September 30, 2011
What is the driving passion of your life, that one thing that brings you more satisfaction than the world?
Are you getting the maximum return on your talents? Would you say that your life is characterized by joy? Jesus wants our joy to be “full” (John 15:11); how can we truly experience this in the middle of our often joyless and mundane existence?
Using the Parable of the Talents as an outline, this book walks the reader through a prayerful analysis of the passions and gifts given him by God, and how to make the most of them in this life. If we are His workmanship (Ephesians 2:10), then He must have an explicit mission for us to accomplish.
Interspersed among the pages are stories of people who have discovered God’s mission for their lives and have experienced joy living beyond themselves. Their goal: to hear God say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
SO WHAT?
I don’t know how brick and mortar bookstores actually make any sales of these tiny books since you can usually finish reading it before you even get to the checkout line. To guard against such a casual reading, the author was careful to put some meaty, introspective questions at the end of each chapter, which add to the impact of the book.
Socrates famously said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” The Biblical prophet Haggai warned his countrymen, “Consider your ways!” Jesus told us all in Luke 16:10, “He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much.” Clearly the injunction to stop and analyze the direction of our lives is a wise one.
The author’s intended audience lives in the part of the world where one may freely pursue and find relative success in his passions and gifts. However, this privilege is still foreign to much of the world. We must be careful that we find the source of our joy in God alone and not in our accomplishments.
One nitpicky exegetical point to mention: the author takes the parable of the talents, a reference to future judgment, and unabashedly applies the reward of joy to the present instead. While there is no question from other texts (John 10:10; 15:11; 16:24; 17:13) that Jesus intends His joy for the here and now, we dare not read into a parable beyond what Jesus said (2 Timothy 2:15).
Are you getting the maximum return on your talents? Would you say that your life is characterized by joy? Jesus wants our joy to be “full” (John 15:11); how can we truly experience this in the middle of our often joyless and mundane existence?
Using the Parable of the Talents as an outline, this book walks the reader through a prayerful analysis of the passions and gifts given him by God, and how to make the most of them in this life. If we are His workmanship (Ephesians 2:10), then He must have an explicit mission for us to accomplish.
Interspersed among the pages are stories of people who have discovered God’s mission for their lives and have experienced joy living beyond themselves. Their goal: to hear God say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
SO WHAT?
I don’t know how brick and mortar bookstores actually make any sales of these tiny books since you can usually finish reading it before you even get to the checkout line. To guard against such a casual reading, the author was careful to put some meaty, introspective questions at the end of each chapter, which add to the impact of the book.
Socrates famously said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” The Biblical prophet Haggai warned his countrymen, “Consider your ways!” Jesus told us all in Luke 16:10, “He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much.” Clearly the injunction to stop and analyze the direction of our lives is a wise one.
The author’s intended audience lives in the part of the world where one may freely pursue and find relative success in his passions and gifts. However, this privilege is still foreign to much of the world. We must be careful that we find the source of our joy in God alone and not in our accomplishments.
One nitpicky exegetical point to mention: the author takes the parable of the talents, a reference to future judgment, and unabashedly applies the reward of joy to the present instead. While there is no question from other texts (John 10:10; 15:11; 16:24; 17:13) that Jesus intends His joy for the here and now, we dare not read into a parable beyond what Jesus said (2 Timothy 2:15).
August 22, 2013
Fantastic book!! It really opens your eyes on what our individual gifts can do to help the world be a better place!
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