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It's All In The Plan. Series
Contributed by Rev. Howard Lewis on Feb 5, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: God has a plan for all His children. It is our job to find out exactly what it is He wants us to do.
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It’s all in the plan
When I began to seek the Lord Jesus I asked Him, Lord what is it you want me to tell your people? Then I allowed Him to direct my path and God said tell them the truth, as long as it is the truth I will back you up. So the scripture came to me..
Jeremiah 29:11
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
First of all God said, “I know the plans I have for you..,”. What are plans I asked myself, and Webster says it like this; plans mean :design or make a plan of (something to be made or built).: "they were planning a garden". synonyms: design, draw up, sketch out, map out.
I then perceived that we are a creation of God’s, and He has designed us for a certain task. We have been built for His use and pleasure and we are yet on the Potter’s wheel. We are a building not made by man’s hands. We were design from the image of God, for God, to do the will of God. We are God's plan.
Then the scripture says,”declared The Lord”. In other words he formed a decree with this statement. He said,” plans to prosper you,” He wanted you to be successful not only in your spirituality, but also in business, marriage, family, church and the things of this world. He wanted us to be someone in the gospel as well as in our homes. He wanted you to be respected in your communities and succeed in your work to persuade souls to the kingdom. He had plans to use you, but in order for you to be used, ( I wanna be used by you, use me Lord.) we must be expurgated. In other words you must be washed in the Blood.
Yes sir you must be made whole. You must be clean. No one wants to drink water out of a dirty glass. No one wants a steak served on a garbage can lid. No one goes to church looking for a stripper, or a Harvey warbanger drink. But the plan of the church was to worship Christ.And in order to worship him you must be born again.
I got news for you baby your plans may look like cotton candy, they may taste like cotton candy, but if it's not God's plan then you're just destroying your life. Try this candy instead, for He's sweet I know. Oh taste and see that The Lord is good. He's sweeter than The honey in a honeycomb.
The bible says that the plan was not to harm you. God didn't send this preacher to harm you but to help growth continue in the church. He didn’t send His Son to harm you, but to save you from your sins. He didn't give you the ten commandments to cause you harm, but he did so that you would have a guide to the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
In 3 John 2-5
2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
God’s plan was to give us hope and a future. Hope that one day in the future we shall walk with Christ in the new Heaven and the New Earth. This is where Jesus came in. Because in our bible’s it teaches us in John 14:6 Jesus said “That I am the way the truth and the life..”, He is our hope, our future, our plan, our way, our truth. Without Him the songs saids I can not do nothing. Why, because He knows all about you, He created you and he has a different plan for your life.
It was in the plan for Christ to go away, and to come back. It was in the plan for Judas Iscariot to betray Him, and then to regret his decision to do so. It was in the plan for Peter to follow Him and then deny Him. It was in the plan to walk this earth for 33 years, and then die for your sins and mines. I come to tell you today saints of God, that it’s all in the plan.
Jeremiah 1:5 The bible says,“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart, I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
God had a plan for your life before you were even born. He set you apart from the others. Now watch this,...you are a holy person , you’re a strange person , you are peculiar child of the king. God knew the plans He had for you. Plans to usher, plans of a deacon, plans to sing in the choir, plans to minister to children, plans to be a caregiver or to shelter the homeless.