habakkuk 3.6 (niv) says, HIS ways are eternal. listen GOD does not have a plan b for my life.
think of the biggest mistake you've ever made. then think of the biggest sin you've ever committed, that thing you regret the most. then think of the biggest disappointment you've ever had.
do you think GOD knew about those in advance before you ever did them? yes, HE did. and since HE knew those were going to come up anyway HE has woven that into HIS plan for your life. HE included them.
romans 8.28 (niv), all things work together for good. good or bad GOD can somehow turn them around and bring good out of them. they all fit into a plan. that means no matter what has happened in your life you're still on plan a. GOD has not changed HIS mind and GOD's purpose for your life has not changed.
all the time i hear people say, “i made this big mistake... so for now on i've just got to settle for second best.” but there's only one problem with that. the words second best are not found in the bible. you are still on plan a. GOD knows everything that's going to happen in your life and HE's fit it all in to work for good in your life. even the mistakes and sins you commit that are wrong and bad, GOD can teach you from those things. you can learn many, many good lessons.
so what is GOD's plan for my life? john 10.10 (tev) says that GOD's plan for your life is that you might have life. i have come that you might have life, JESUS said.
HE wants you to enjoy life. live it and not just exist. then in romans 8.30 (ncv) it says GOD's plan for your life is to become like JESUS CHRIST. GOD planned for them to become like HIS SON. you learn to think like HE thinks and feel like HE felt and act like HE acts. become like JESUS CHRIST.
it all begins with a relationship. romans 10.9 (tev), if you confess with your mouth that JESUS is LORD and believe that GOD raised HIM from the dead, you will be saved.
just a thought from the front porch…
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
you are valuable, you really are...
we need to affirm each other’s value to be successful in our relationships.
psalm 130.13-14 talks about the value of every individual. (ncv), YOU made my whole being. YOU formed me in my mother’s body. i praise YOU because YOU made me in an amazing and wonderful way. what YOU have done is wonderful.
david tells us, he clearly explains that no baby is ever born by accident. no baby. the parents may not have planned it. it may have been unplanned. it may have been an “accident”. it may have even been the result of a rape or crime.
but the issue is even though we misjudge, we don’t plan, we do wrong things here, GOD doesn’t bring babies into this world by accident. it was formed for a purpose and the scripture says that even before you were born, GOD formed you in your mother’s womb, gave you certain abilities, knew how you’d look, knew how you’d talk, knew what you’d be good at, knew what you’d be bad at. HE shaped you, HE formed you.
the bible says HE even numbered your days, planned your life even before you came out of the birth canal. that, by the way, is why abortion is murder. it short-circuits GOD’s plan. and it says that my desire is more important than GOD’s plan.
i don’t know if you really understand that you are custom made. that means you have tremendous value.
and people need to hear that today. people are striving to be affirmed. they want to know that they matter. they want to know that they count, that their life has meaning and significance.
a study a while back of 10,000 women revealed that the number one cause of depression among women was low self-esteem. we have an epidemic of low self-esteem in our society today because people don’t feel valuable. why is that?
there are lots of reasons. one of the reasons is the theory of evolution that is taught in schools. if you are just an accident of nature, just happened, there was no CREATOR behind it, you just happen to be a more complicated form of slime, the truth is then you don’t matter. if it’s all by accident, you weren’t intended and you just happened to be one who got higher up on the scale than the frog in the pond, then really your life doesn’t matter. that’s what secular humanism does to our society. it teaches people to be devalued.
on the other hand the bible says no child is born by accident but you have a purpose in life, that GOD created you for a purpose. HE had you in his mind even before you were made, before even your mom and dad even knew you were coming along. that’s part of GOD’s plan.
just a thought from the front porch…
psalm 130.13-14 talks about the value of every individual. (ncv), YOU made my whole being. YOU formed me in my mother’s body. i praise YOU because YOU made me in an amazing and wonderful way. what YOU have done is wonderful.
david tells us, he clearly explains that no baby is ever born by accident. no baby. the parents may not have planned it. it may have been unplanned. it may have been an “accident”. it may have even been the result of a rape or crime.
but the issue is even though we misjudge, we don’t plan, we do wrong things here, GOD doesn’t bring babies into this world by accident. it was formed for a purpose and the scripture says that even before you were born, GOD formed you in your mother’s womb, gave you certain abilities, knew how you’d look, knew how you’d talk, knew what you’d be good at, knew what you’d be bad at. HE shaped you, HE formed you.
the bible says HE even numbered your days, planned your life even before you came out of the birth canal. that, by the way, is why abortion is murder. it short-circuits GOD’s plan. and it says that my desire is more important than GOD’s plan.
i don’t know if you really understand that you are custom made. that means you have tremendous value.
and people need to hear that today. people are striving to be affirmed. they want to know that they matter. they want to know that they count, that their life has meaning and significance.
a study a while back of 10,000 women revealed that the number one cause of depression among women was low self-esteem. we have an epidemic of low self-esteem in our society today because people don’t feel valuable. why is that?
there are lots of reasons. one of the reasons is the theory of evolution that is taught in schools. if you are just an accident of nature, just happened, there was no CREATOR behind it, you just happen to be a more complicated form of slime, the truth is then you don’t matter. if it’s all by accident, you weren’t intended and you just happened to be one who got higher up on the scale than the frog in the pond, then really your life doesn’t matter. that’s what secular humanism does to our society. it teaches people to be devalued.
on the other hand the bible says no child is born by accident but you have a purpose in life, that GOD created you for a purpose. HE had you in his mind even before you were made, before even your mom and dad even knew you were coming along. that’s part of GOD’s plan.
just a thought from the front porch…
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