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Is there a plan God has for me?

|or I know the thoughts
and plans that I have for
you, says the Lord,
thoughts and plans for
welfare and peace and not
for evil, to give you hope in
your final outcome.
Jeremiah 29:11
¢oes God have a specific
purpose for our lives?
þhis question must first be
answered before we can
even start to consider finding
our purpose.
4nless we believe that God
has a specific purpose for us
why would we try to find
one?
þhe first question I ever
asked about God that was
sincere and ultimately led to
my finding Him was, ³¢o you
think there is a God and if
there is what does He have
to do with us?
þhe existence of
God and His
relationship with us
is the ultimate
question of purpose.
If there is no God
there is no
purpose.
þhe Western faith in
materialism has resulted in
such chaos that only the
relics of a once held
Christian belief system has
kept it from completely
destroying itself.
mt the core of
atheism is the denial
of any sense of
purpose to human
life.
ms a very popular pro-
abortion speaker once told
me in a public forum, ³Even
if we come to fully accept
that the fetus is fully human,
so what? We kill chickens
don¶t we?´
Without a faith in God there
is no basis for human worth
or purpose. We are no more
significant than the spiders
we crush to rid our homes of
them.
þhat is why the most
ruthless heart is one that
really believes there is no
God.
I believe anyone who looks
at the world as it really is will
come to the conclusion that
there had to have been a
designer who created the
world and ultimately us.
§ut even that knowledge
does not answer the
question of purpose.
Õnowing that something or
someone designed all of this
does not tell us that there
was a purpose in creating it.
þhe creator could have been
an alien from a dying race
like 2001 a Space Odyssey
promotes.
In that case the purpose of
humanity is non specific.
þhere is a grand scheme but
the individuals have little or
no purpose themselves.
þhe creator could have been
just filling in time. Or
he/she/it might no longer
exist«.
þhe understanding that
human beings were created
by God with a purpose is
only found in believing that
God is real and has a
personal relationship with us.
þhe more personal an
interest He has in us the
more profound is the sense
of purpose.
We have come to
understand that God is so
completely interested in us
that He knows even the
number of hairs that we
have.
mre not five sparrows sold for two
cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten
before God. ±Indeed, the very hairs
of your head are all numbered. ¢o not
fear; you are more valuable than many
sparrows

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Õing ¢avid fully expresses in a song
the intimacy he knew God had with
him in Psalm 139.
Õing ¢avid fully expresses in a song
the intimacy he knew God had with
him. þhe song is found in Psalm
139.
. . . O LOR¢, you have searched me,
and known me. 2 You know my
downsitting and my uprising, you
understand my thought afar off.
Psalm 139:1-2
ms our Creator, God knows us
perfectly. He created our Spirit,
Soul and §ody. He knows
everything about us«..

EVERYþHING
3 You compass my path and my lying
down, and are acquainted with all my
ways.
4 |or there is not a word on my tongue,
but, lo, O LOR¢, you know it altogether.
5 You have beset me behind and before,
and laid your hand upon me.
Psalm 139
He is not just a far off creator that started
the world and left it. He remains
intimately connected to His creations.
He is perfectly involved in everything we
do, think, feel, believe.
EVERYþHING
5 You have beset me behind and before,
and laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for
me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from your spirit? or
whither shall I flee from your presence?
Psalm 139
þhe picture ¢avid sings to us about is so
clearly the experience of his life. God is
so closely tied to His creation that it
goes beyond human capacity to
comprehend it yet it is able to be
discerned by the revelation of God. He
is always with us.
 If I ascend up into heaven, you are
there: if I make my bed in hell, behold,
you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there shall your hand lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
Psalm 139
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall
cover me; even the night shall be light
about me.
12 Yea, the darkness does not hide not
from you; but the night shines as the
day: the darkness and the light are both
alike to you.
Psalm 139
¢avid will not let us think for a moment
that God is even slightly distant. He is
totally connected to His creation.
þhough ¢avid did not know about
atoms if he did he would have sung that
God is connected to us even on a
subatomic level.
Several centuries later Paul as
well reaffirms that Jesus is the
very force that keeps everything
in life from coming apart.
|or by Him all things were
created, both in the visible and
invisible, whether thrones of
dominions or rulers or
authorities - all things have
been created by Him and for
Him.
Colossians 1:16
þhe ³him´ that Paul speaks of is
God¶s only son Jesus who He
sent to give his life for us to
bring us back to a full
relationship with God.
mnd He is before all
things and in Him
all things hold
together.
Colossians 1:17
Jesus is involved in even
the sub atomic particles
in our being.
We cannot possibly get a
message from the §ible of a
Creator that is uninvolved.
þhe §ible tells us that our
Creator continues to create
in our lives.
Now ¢avid moves us from
the larger experience of
God¶s intimate connection
to us to the specifics of
our creation.
13 |or you formed my inward parts; You
wove me in my mother¶s womb.
Psalm 139
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þhis is even more
specifically stated in the
great anthem of praise
that resounded on the day
John the beloved who
wrote the book of
Revelation received his
prophetic vision.
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down before him that sat on the
throne, and worship him that
liveth for ever and ever, and
cast their crowns before the
throne, saying,
Revelation 4:10 (ÕJS)
þhou art worthy, O Lord, to
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Revelation 4:11 (ÕJS)
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will.
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