The Sermon God Has Plans For You by David McGee
Aug 31, 2014
God Has Plans For You (33:55)
Referenced Scriptures: Jeremiah 1:11-12; Jeremiah 29:10-11
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Jeremiah 1:11-12
11) Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what see you? I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.
12) Then said Yahweh to me, You have well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it.
Jeremiah 29:10-11
10) For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
11) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
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The naming job was common in the hospice and it was. Now he was very, very health and they were asking him asking the question is a deal do you want to be put on a respirator should something happen because all yes I was like oh okay I will holiday on ninety five some make late eighties early nineties, whatever, and he's very frail. Been sick for many years and now he has a terminal disease as well. We reviewed all that. Mrs. know you need to be used alone before on a respirator should something happen all yes I said goal. What's the reason why may choose not to die is doing what you like, okay, you know, I may choose not to die in knowledge is called death before there's a word that we did. We give far. I defer from that I choose not to get off SI okay. And you know he you know it's like I do now. I can choose whatever I want to. And that's not the way to some sorry middle if you're waiting to figure out do not rejoice when the end is up. Humans are to say you don't add the sorry to say this individual and their family had worked through that whole process, and it was not of our program in writing, else because he wanted to be put on life support system, and they put him on life support system, and I believe he was on for weeks and until finally it was ill. They just couldn't stand it anymore. The family made up their mind that I guess he's choosing to go but in our life. There are so many choices that we make, and I was again in the context that God has made a choice. I think God has made a choice and what is God 's choice that is what is God 's choice towards us and Scriptures, and I want to read and they are Jeremiah, chapter one verse eleven twelve God 's message came to me. What do you see Jeremiah said the walking stick. That's all. And God said good eyes. I am sticking with you all make every word I give you come true okay and so God has a message. Of course Ruth what the next one in Jeremiah Jeremiah twenty nine eleven where she says in the message Bible, God, this verse ten of eleven gods word on the subject, but that God has a message for you God 's word on the subject. Yes, as soon as Babylon seventy years are up. Not a day before also up and take you and take care of you as I promised them bring you back home. I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out plans to take care of you not abandon you, plans to give you the future, you hope for, so whenever we think that God has plans for us lawfully elected to look at Jeremiah 's is looking for a few moments on Jeremiah in light of today's standards is complete and total failure. I Jeremiah is your for forty years. He was a spokesman for God to the tribe of Judah, and when Jeremiah spoke nobody listens you know when Jeremiah spoke literally no one listens. He urged the people to relax to change their ways to hear the voice of God, that they were going into bunnies. They were young that Israel is very punished by the Babylon in captivity, but their money here and so the king then got other false prophets around them, and he had the false prophets tell them, tell him the king what they wanted to hear and Jeremiah comes along and give them the word from God, and not least, not heat he's no good and Jeremiah then had severe. He gave the word of God under severe duress. I mean, it was it was persecuted, he was thrown in prison, he was thrown in a sister join assistance if they opposite my brother. That's hitting Baghdad AI K assist her in and he got the other. Well, it is well again you dig a hole down like the top of the well and no doubt made three feet to feet wide and designate down a few feet goes way out like a Apple on a core area and will withstand me out in a small stamina and underground. They just big open cavern. I dig it out and that's where they would have water running into the sister while often the cisterns and aiding the felon. There never got out and if their money and mucky from the water coming in there, so Jeremiah was thrown and one of them, and there is no way of escape, and you know that the light down there is no food down there. There may be may not be water, and they put them in one of those quaint some Jeremiah was not very well regarded his audience didn't listen to his neighbors forsook him but in God 's eyes. Jeremiah 's mother, the most successful profits Jeremiah is one the most successful profits and yet he didn't have anybody follow him because of Jeremiah was obedient, regardless of the opposition. He had a message from God to his life and a message from God to the children of Israel, the Judah and so what we have to recognize here in. We see this in verse and chapter one. All that Jeremiah hears the call of God and knows that God has called him and has given him as aware his personal word God is given to Jeremiah his personal word for his life, and then God gives the Jeremiah word for the nation of Judah, and for Israel and Jeremiah 's word for his life was one of security and that he was writes in what the message to be heard and confirmed the message in his heart by God confirming it, and then he took the message that God gave him for the people and kept telling them, and he kept telling a repentant turn to God, or he's not apply to issue writs at the turn to God, Oregon outlets not get to go well for you. While the Babylonian captivity, if reality spoke about that number of times that the Babylonians, the first time they came and ransacked Israel. That's when I took Daniel Micha Shadrach, and then to go to know that the best of the best of the of Israel back to Babylon. While then they kept coming back in taking more people in the king of all of Israel and Judah decided they weren't going to go out in the false prophets told the King, we can fight in which Alaska's goblets to protect us. Jeremiah 's in the city, and he can't guess what this is God 's act upon your life surrender to the direct of the Babylonians and go to battle, and they listen to Jeremiah and so they besieged the city and it was at terrible time in which they were resorted leaving the capitalism and is within the city walls in Jeremiah, the weeping prophet. Wait for the city of Jerusalem, weep for the people, and he was there in the midst of that, but back to chapter one, chapter one verse five I like this one also reported a number of times before I shake you in the womb I knew all about you see, God has a message for us and his message to us for us is that when you are yet in your mother 's home and you have a thing to say about who you are or what you're going to be the whether you are going to be a male or female boy, girl, you didn't have any say in any of that God knew who you were and he knew all about you. He shaped you night and shake me like this. I made myself like that subject, but but God but God sent the signal made our character. Put it all together and before you saw the light of day. I have holy plans for you know if they okay, that's not speaking to Jeremiah thought it doesn't stop with just the profit. It is one of those declarative statements led not only to Jeremiah, but is so every one of us who are his child in the God has a plan for us and God has a purpose for us and he told Jeremiah go to be a prophet to the nations. That's what I had in mind for you focus on God comes the Jeremiah and he tells him the word of the Lord came to him now in those days, the spirit is where we come reveal himself to the oh, and is aware speaking there into your heart and the heart or mind. Now with allowable voice management for some and others. It wasn't it was it was time likely it was a revelation to their heart. Now you and I were here. This is the word of God became now there are is full of stories. It's full of promises. It's full of direction to stand to sit to wait in all that this is security that in the midst of trouble on upper sick so we have all of these things going on throughout the book, never a few weeks ago, spoke about how that if we took the book, the Bible and put together the intentions of the stories the provision of God. The promises of God who works of God the Spirit of God against the spirit, the gifts of the Spirit 's fruits of the Spirit put them altogether. He began to put them in the shape and you have Jesus Christ and that's Jesus, the Word made flesh and dwelt among us, so the word is as if God. Jesus himself is speaking to us. Behold, I stand at the door. Knock a man hears my voice and opens the door to him opens the door to me. I will commence up with him and he with me. So God knocks at our door to give us a message and against that message to us by his word, and by his spirit and the spirit of the word come together to touch our spirits and our minds and our hearts to know this is the way walkie and be still and know that I'm God all things work together for good to those loved on the called according to his purpose not I that the spirit of God that he will quicken your mortal bodies that when the spirit of God abides within us, he will quicken your mortal bodies when the trouble got still saw the dead in Christ shall rise, and we which are library majorly caught up to meet them in the air so the us is the word of God, and there are many different facets to it. And just like in the conversation you have with anyone else got a conversation with us about our life about), but what we need, what we want God 's provision for us this date. This is a family and went to take into account that the word comes to loss to prepare us for what is ahead for what were going through Jeremiah was telling the people God has a plan for you, his people and he wanted them to repent so that they wouldn't he will have to go into captivity to be separated from Jerusalem and from Israel, but they wouldn't repent so they suffer the consequences of that and went to Babylon for seventy years. It was a punishment for their sin, but it was Allstate also and was a restorative feature. It was a restoration because they needed to a generation have to be out of Jerusalem be away from all of the false prophets and away from the critics and the God that they had made out from the made up of their neighboring countries and they need to be out and recognize that God is the one who called Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the the one who called the nations brought them out of Egypt set them up in Israel, put them together to have them conquer the land and established in their but they had forgotten about that now they go into captivity Jeremiah, saying, repent, and you won't have to go, but they didn't listen so when they do, they were in captivity and Jeremiah tells and seventy years that tells Jeremiah seventy years, not one day sooner, not one day later. I'll bring back and it happened that way and is Saturday as the reason the Persians conquered the Babylonians and and Danielle moves on to the new Empire, and it all turns around and the children of Israel come back, they come back to the promised land. So here we have the word of the Lord comes to Jeremiah with a satisfying assurance God comes to us with a satisfying assurance that you know what, if this is going to happen. I'm going to happen. I'm going to have it work through you think we can sit down, it's okay. God you are going to all the world and take the gospel there on the severe late. And unfortunately, God wants us to do our part where we are at. God wants us to do our part where we are acting and his Word comes to wireless and God has a message for us, thank God has a message and what is the message doom and gloom. What was me my life is over. Things are going work other people, causing me to fall the government in our we don't get the president out of there. Our world is gone in, we get a new president in the probably be worse. They known the politicians are bad in their corrupt and in all very alarmingly close me, as well as main gas prices up and down. But don't worry though go up enough in this is just as a woeful whoa whoa whoa whoa full-time average weekend we can say whatever it is your life while prices are God 's provisions were going up while she was God speaking to you when you speak to you and what do you speak to you what we want to hear what does God speak to us anything, it is in this context is telling us he's going to Jeremiah that he had ordained him a prophet to the nations. He had ordained him even before he was born. Now a number of a number of you. I stood here and held you as your parents now brought your dedicated to the Lord. We think they had in mind when you were standing there now with our new and never let no a proud parents know Yemen. Yemeni idea. We dedicated Rachel was up in Maine and and and was disliked of this new she was accused of being is the millwright, but God had a plan for an same thing with David Windows is like that of specials and people had special words for David and and you know me through my then know if either one of them had a prayer in the windshield then, sixth grade use one of us was going to die and when moving the relief. Her affect, not really. While she was very strong-willed, stubborn, some people would call and she had the wrong friends and one of the teachers told Rhonda, I would give you a dime for that kid because she was running with the wrong crowd and dust was a mess so we had talking to your hoping that work, but any half she changed her friends to taste her friends took up cheering heard Paula and took up cheering. Make some new friends did a complete turnaround in the same teacher that said, I will give you a dime for her, said I wish all of my girls any of my girls. All of my girls would turn out as good as Rachel now and then he wanted her to babysit his children, so the idea is God 's word for you where you are at in your life now may be a bad time a difficult time provides a word for you. It may be a very good time of your life. Everything is coming together. God has a word for you, seek God has a word for you. God has a purpose for you and that before you even had the intellect to know you can even choose God had already chosen what he wanted you to do then we have the part we have the freedom to choose what God wants us to choose. We have the freedom to follow God 's path or to try and make it on her own. I think that's the right of choice that God will never check away from us, but he will bring his word to us. He will bring his word to us and speak into our hearts by reading it by being a church and Sunday school hour by preaching hearing a talk by reading a devotional whatever God speaks his word to us in this ongoing renewal and all that ongoing renewal is about shoring up that original purpose for life and what we're doing is sometimes discovering it as we go. Now I offer I remember, which was in third grade, she decided to substance abuse inside the substitute teacher decided to be a with Denise second-grade death in second grade. Rachel 's heart was to work with special needs students second-grade. She never veered from that through high school bank going into college out of school and teaching. She's never veered from what you got in second grade, because that was hit. That was the purpose spoken in your heart. David, on the other hand, I never knew what he would do, but he went to El Salvador to visit and everything came together and that was when he was twenty two years old. So Rachel and second grade and David twenty two came together. I'm still looking, but the stuff, but you know the whole idea of what we are. We don't sometimes it's a and ongoing revelation. Sometimes it's an ongoing persistence is an ongoing purpose. The God continues to unveil to us because we're not at the end yet when it's not over job. We know it's not over. You're still dear made you walk on the charges over payment where still living, you're still alive. And when your life is offering a go at the pearly gates and we want God state was well done thou good and fabled sermon notes over again, but until then God 's plan for us. God has a purpose for us and we are to be forwarding this whole thing they do go on this revelation to go on with this understanding, and God is telling Jeremiah says, but I said, hold it, Master God 's Jeremiah students and God is a God, am alone here minute you have a purpose for me while I was younger, my mother 's will. Before you install the light of day you have landed me in Jeremiah, says God, hold on the verse of six. Look at me. I don't know anything about what you're talking about. I'm only a boy, now fitted vintage girlie suggests that the that I knew it. If you have plus Doctor Jeremiah a charity says hold on your you know what you're talking about here. I'm just applying your telling me I'm going to be a prophet. The God places in our hearts the things that we need an sometimes we not may not know the direction that he always gives to us spirit, spirit, being sensitive to God 's leading, being sensitive to what God is seeking seeking speaking to us directing us when we want to be sensitive to his spirit now on call it what wrong with the foot where the college I was going to be a phys ed teacher and football coach on the play football in college. We visit future and teach visit. So I went to school. Now the whole intent and bought the school I went to was the one that I met Wanda was the one the church that I went to down there. The pastor there was very much connected to Zion Bible Institute Northpoint now and he said, and I've and that's when God called me ministry, but it was after I was at the play 's run was going to go to be a football coach because following the dream to be a football coach put me in a place where I had the correct dream coming together the correct plan coming together meeting Ronda and going off to Bible college. So from where I was at. I didn't know was that of a preacher at home while of where I was at in high school in picking a choice for college, being of Rachel was not what I had intended but following the direction that I felt was correct when I finally when I reached that point of being in school in the second year, Rhonda shows up in Zion opens up in the next thing you know I'm not the Bible school the next year, and long story short here I am, but God had a purpose in so we don't always know what that purpose is, but God continues to reveal it. And many times were called on God. You see this with me here. If you know I'm here, and you're there. What you want me to do his way out there, the Lord about because God told him, verse seven, God told me don't say I'm only a boil. Tell you what I tell you where to go and you will go there I'll tell you what to say and you'll say it's the one of the difficulties with our life is I can't get there from here and I can't talk. I really don't want to say I really am not qualified, and God is saying don't worry about getting there. Don't worry about what you can say don't be afraid of the soul don't be afraid of other people. Sometimes our greatest fear it to somebody else. My not like us well get over it. Trust people, not unlike you, Melissa, because you're not likable. Just because they don't like. They would like anybody that was there that would like anybody in a position so get over it on, and the idea of an God tells Jeremiah copyright there looking after you. So when you're there. It's okay if somebody doesn't like you see you can't wait until everybody gets on the bus. Now you resume my bosses right Sheila and savvy whether willing on the wrong bus and the bus pulled out and that was quite a stressful time. So when you're on the wrong bus. It's a very stressful life again not only for yourself but for all those around you. But God has a way of working all things out. Fortunately, all came back to bed and they need to work on that and straighten that out school bus, but in our life. God is right there all the time, helping us through the whole situation verse nine, God reached out to touch my mouth and said, look, I've just put my words in your mouth and delivered with a time, when the time is right, God will give you the words to say always doesn't matter how your abilities or inabilities are if God puts his words, his thoughts into your mind and your heart speak the love with your dog about inflection and I will let on this one. I feel I should tell you is what I feel that I should say enough of this whole message today is what I feel that God wants us to know that God is speaking to our lives your life. My life, God is speaking to us and is telling us, I knew you before you were even born, I had a plan for you lobby for even thought of a plan before you have seen the light of day. I have place for you in my kingdom, and in what I wanted you to do in my kingdom, and you're part of it going on in your dreams and following your dreams are all part of it, but our life is not a dream. Our life is combined is following the word following the path letting God 's light be unlike to our path that we are walking in the steps of Jesus. We are walking where he is already gone before us. When I'm alone in this, and it goes on Lisa's regular time. I put my words in your mouth had delivered. See what I've done okay. That's why we read the Scriptures say what I've done. See what I put together not only in other people 's lives. Well put together in your life, your job is to fold up and tear down take apart and demolish sounds like Ralph the record right rough. The record is a rough record that pleasant, the record, there is always a smasher, upper type of guy, while Jeremiah 's new tell them what they need to do what they need to tear apart but. Verse eleven twelve God 's message came to me. What do you see Jeremiah. This is his first revelation. This is his first vision I set up a walking stick. I thought, and God said good eyes. I'm sticking with you. I'll make every word I give you come true. I'll make every word I give you come true. Jeremiah had a word that nobody would listen to the God said, what I tell you, you speak and it's all going to come true and Ruth when I get the Jeremiah twenty nine eleven, but will maybe next week, but the idea is, God has a plan for us before you were even born as a plan and in the midst of your life no matter where your rat guts Gunnison for second, the plan and that God has his word to put in our mouth so that we can speak the truth in love, so that we can allow his truth to speak to us and to direct our lives because God has a purpose for us right where we are or you wouldn't be there. So, in this place where you are. Allow God 's word to speak your heart to the make to allow you to feel safe in his presence, secure in the knowledge that I love and that God will direct me in the steps of my life as it was with David King, general will conquer leader limeys, leader of a nation, God led him to take down a giant God led him to flight the armies of the Philistines. God led him as he feared for his life. God led him to the throne of Israel. God spoke to him from your descendents will come. My son Saint whenever no one arrived in the plan of things. We just know that were here and allowing God to speak to our hearts. So we spent and everything. I'll make every word I give you come true when God speaks to your heart. God will make you when God speaks to your heart. God will make it come true. It's not up to us to make it happen it's up to us to be available for God to make it happen. Father, thank you for your word that you speak to our hearts. And the Lord that in your plans succeed, you have another purpose for us and it is a dandy except those sore and that everybody agreeing with what we have to say that God is in your work and your will in your life of God in us that all things will come together that your Wolf. We will follow the path that we are on knowing that you will lead us each step of the way whether the path leads in a different direction are we really come to a dead end, and we have to turn left or right guy whatever it is, speak your word to our hearts and we will find peace will find direction we will find power in Jesus name we pray. Emily said amen, unless you The naming job was common in the hospice and it was. Now he was very, very health and they were asking him asking the question is a deal do you want to be put on a respirator should something happen because all yes I was like oh okay I will holiday on ninety five some make late eighties early nineties, whatever, and he's very frail. Been sick for many years and now he has a terminal disease as well. We reviewed all that. Mrs. know you need to be used alone before on a respirator should something happen all yes I said goal. What's the reason why may choose not to die is doing what you like, okay, you know, I may choose not to die in knowledge is called death before there's a word that we did. We give far. I defer from that I choose not to get off SI okay. And you know he you know it's like I do now. I can choose whatever I want to. And that's not the way to some sorry middle if you're waiting to figure out do not rejoice when the end is up. Humans are to say you don't add the sorry to say this individual and their family had worked through that whole process, and it was not of our program in writing, else because he wanted to be put on life support system, and they put him on life support system, and I believe he was on for weeks and until finally it was ill. They just couldn't stand it anymore. The family made up their mind that I guess he's choosing to go but in our life. There are so many choices that we make, and I was again in the context that God has made a choice. I think God has made a choice and what is God 's choice that is what is God 's choice towards us and Scriptures, and I want to read and they are Jeremiah, chapter one verse eleven twelve God 's message came to me. What do you see Jeremiah said the walking stick. That's all. And God said good eyes. I am sticking with you all make every word I give you come true okay and so God has a message. Of course Ruth what the next one in Jeremiah Jeremiah twenty nine eleven where she says in the message Bible, God, this verse ten of eleven gods word on the subject, but that God has a message for you God 's word on the subject. Yes, as soon as Babylon seventy years are up. Not a day before also up and take you and take care of you as I promised them bring you back home. I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out plans to take care of you not abandon you, plans to give you the future, you hope for, so whenever we think that God has plans for us lawfully elected to look at Jeremiah 's is looking for a few moments on Jeremiah in light of today's standards is complete and total failure. I Jeremiah is your for forty years. He was a spokesman for God to the tribe of Judah, and when Jeremiah spoke nobody listens you know when Jeremiah spoke literally no one listens. He urged the people to relax to change their ways to hear the voice of God, that they were going into bunnies. They were young that Israel is very punished by the Babylon in captivity, but their money here and so the king then got other false prophets around them, and he had the false prophets tell them, tell him the king what they wanted to hear and Jeremiah comes along and give them the word from God, and not least, not heat he's no good and Jeremiah then had severe. He gave the word of God under severe duress. I mean, it was it was persecuted, he was thrown in prison, he was thrown in a sister join assistance if they opposite my brother. That's hitting Baghdad AI K assist her in and he got the other. Well, it is well again you dig a hole down like the top of the well and no doubt made three feet to feet wide and designate down a few feet goes way out like a Apple on a core area and will withstand me out in a small stamina and underground. They just big open cavern. I dig it out and that's where they would have water running into the sister while often the cisterns and aiding the felon. There never got out and if their money and mucky from the water coming in there, so Jeremiah was thrown and one of them, and there is no way of escape, and you know that the light down there is no food down there. There may be may not be water, and they put them in one of those quaint some Jeremiah was not very well regarded his audience didn't listen to his neighbors forsook him but in God 's eyes. Jeremiah 's mother, the most successful profits Jeremiah is one the most successful profits and yet he didn't have anybody follow him because of Jeremiah was obedient, regardless of the opposition. He had a message from God to his life and a message from God to the children of Israel, the Judah and so what we have to recognize here in. We see this in verse and chapter one. All that Jeremiah hears the call of God and knows that God has called him and has given him as aware his personal word God is given to Jeremiah his personal word for his life, and then God gives the Jeremiah word for the nation of Judah, and for Israel and Jeremiah 's word for his life was one of security and that he was writes in what the message to be heard and confirmed the message in his heart by God confirming it, and then he took the message that God gave him for the people and kept telling them, and he kept telling a repentant turn to God, or he's not apply to issue writs at the turn to God, Oregon outlets not get to go well for you. While the Babylonian captivity, if reality spoke about that number of times that the Babylonians, the first time they came and ransacked Israel. That's when I took Daniel Micha Shadrach, and then to go to know that the best of the best of the of Israel back to Babylon. While then they kept coming back in taking more people in the king of all of Israel and Judah decided they weren't going to go out in the false prophets told the King, we can fight in which Alaska's goblets to protect us. Jeremiah 's in the city, and he can't guess what this is God 's act upon your life surrender to the direct of the Babylonians and go to battle, and they listen to Jeremiah and so they besieged the city and it was at terrible time in which they were resorted leaving the capitalism and is within the city walls in Jeremiah, the weeping prophet. Wait for the city of Jerusalem, weep for the people, and he was there in the midst of that, but back to chapter one, chapter one verse five I like this one also reported a number of times before I shake you in the womb I knew all about you see, God has a message for us and his message to us for us is that when you are yet in your mother 's home and you have a thing to say about who you are or what you're going to be the whether you are going to be a male or female boy, girl, you didn't have any say in any of that God knew who you were and he knew all about you. He shaped you night and shake me like this. I made myself like that subject, but but God but God sent the signal made our character. Put it all together and before you saw the light of day. I have holy plans for you know if they okay, that's not speaking to Jeremiah thought it doesn't stop with just the profit. It is one of those declarative statements led not only to Jeremiah, but is so every one of us who are his child in the God has a plan for us and God has a purpose for us and he told Jeremiah go to be a prophet to the nations. That's what I had in mind for you focus on God comes the Jeremiah and he tells him the word of the Lord came to him now in those days, the spirit is where we come reveal himself to the oh, and is aware speaking there into your heart and the heart or mind. Now with allowable voice management for some and others. It wasn't it was it was time likely it was a revelation to their heart. Now you and I were here. This is the word of God became now there are is full of stories. It's full of promises. It's full of direction to stand to sit to wait in all that this is security that in the midst of trouble on upper sick so we have all of these things going on throughout the book, never a few weeks ago, spoke about how that if we took the book, the Bible and put together the intentions of the stories the provision of God. The promises of God who works of God the Spirit of God against the spirit, the gifts of the Spirit 's fruits of the Spirit put them altogether. He began to put them in the shape and you have Jesus Christ and that's Jesus, the Word made flesh and dwelt among us, so the word is as if God. Jesus himself is speaking to us. Behold, I stand at the door. Knock a man hears my voice and opens the door to him opens the door to me. I will commence up with him and he with me. So God knocks at our door to give us a message and against that message to us by his word, and by his spirit and the spirit of the word come together to touch our spirits and our minds and our hearts to know this is the way walkie and be still and know that I'm God all things work together for good to those loved on the called according to his purpose not I that the spirit of God that he will quicken your mortal bodies that when the spirit of God abides within us, he will quicken your mortal bodies when the trouble got still saw the dead in Christ shall rise, and we which are library majorly caught up to meet them in the air so the us is the word of God, and there are many different facets to it. And just like in the conversation you have with anyone else got a conversation with us about our life about), but what we need, what we want God 's provision for us this date. This is a family and went to take into account that the word comes to loss to prepare us for what is ahead for what were going through Jeremiah was telling the people God has a plan for you, his people and he wanted them to repent so that they wouldn't he will have to go into captivity to be separated from Jerusalem and from Israel, but they wouldn't repent so they suffer the consequences of that and went to Babylon for seventy years. It was a punishment for their sin, but it was Allstate also and was a restorative feature. It was a restoration because they needed to a generation have to be out of Jerusalem be away from all of the false prophets and away from the critics and the God that they had made out from the made up of their neighboring countries and they need to be out and recognize that God is the one who called Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the the one who called the nations brought them out of Egypt set them up in Israel, put them together to have them conquer the land and established in their but they had forgotten about that now they go into captivity Jeremiah, saying, repent, and you won't have to go, but they didn't listen so when they do, they were in captivity and Jeremiah tells and seventy years that tells Jeremiah seventy years, not one day sooner, not one day later. I'll bring back and it happened that way and is Saturday as the reason the Persians conquered the Babylonians and and Danielle moves on to the new Empire, and it all turns around and the children of Israel come back, they come back to the promised land. So here we have the word of the Lord comes to Jeremiah with a satisfying assurance God comes to us with a satisfying assurance that you know what, if this is going to happen. I'm going to happen. I'm going to have it work through you think we can sit down, it's okay. God you are going to all the world and take the gospel there on the severe late. And unfortunately, God wants us to do our part where we are at. God wants us to do our part where we are acting and his Word comes to wireless and God has a message for us, thank God has a message and what is the message doom and gloom. What was me my life is over. Things are going work other people, causing me to fall the government in our we don't get the president out of there. Our world is gone in, we get a new president in the probably be worse. They known the politicians are bad in their corrupt and in all very alarmingly close me, as well as main gas prices up and down. But don't worry though go up enough in this is just as a woeful whoa whoa whoa whoa full-time average weekend we can say whatever it is your life while prices are God 's provisions were going up while she was God speaking to you when you speak to you and what do you speak to you what we want to hear what does God speak to us anything, it is in this context is telling us he's going to Jeremiah that he had ordained him a prophet to the nations. He had ordained him even before he was born. Now a number of a number of you. I stood here and held you as your parents now brought your dedicated to the Lord. We think they had in mind when you were standing there now with our new and never let no a proud parents know Yemen. Yemeni idea. We dedicated Rachel was up in Maine and and and was disliked of this new she was accused of being is the millwright, but God had a plan for an same thing with David Windows is like that of specials and people had special words for David and and you know me through my then know if either one of them had a prayer in the windshield then, sixth grade use one of us was going to die and when moving the relief. Her affect, not really. While she was very strong-willed, stubborn, some people would call and she had the wrong friends and one of the teachers told Rhonda, I would give you a dime for that kid because she was running with the wrong crowd and dust was a mess so we had talking to your hoping that work, but any half she changed her friends to taste her friends took up cheering heard Paula and took up cheering. Make some new friends did a complete turnaround in the same teacher that said, I will give you a dime for her, said I wish all of my girls any of my girls. All of my girls would turn out as good as Rachel now and then he wanted her to babysit his children, so the idea is God 's word for you where you are at in your life now may be a bad time a difficult time provides a word for you. It may be a very good time of your life. Everything is coming together. God has a word for you, seek God has a word for you. God has a purpose for you and that before you even had the intellect to know you can even choose God had already chosen what he wanted you to do then we have the part we have the freedom to choose what God wants us to choose. We have the freedom to follow God 's path or to try and make it on her own. I think that's the right of choice that God will never check away from us, but he will bring his word to us. He will bring his word to us and speak into our hearts by reading it by being a church and Sunday school hour by preaching hearing a talk by reading a devotional whatever God speaks his word to us in this ongoing renewal and all that ongoing renewal is about shoring up that original purpose for life and what we're doing is sometimes discovering it as we go. Now I offer I remember, which was in third grade, she decided to substance abuse inside the substitute teacher decided to be a with Denise second-grade death in second grade. Rachel 's heart was to work with special needs students second-grade. She never veered from that through high school bank going into college out of school and teaching. She's never veered from what you got in second grade, because that was hit. That was the purpose spoken in your heart. David, on the other hand, I never knew what he would do, but he went to El Salvador to visit and everything came together and that was when he was twenty two years old. So Rachel and second grade and David twenty two came together. I'm still looking, but the stuff, but you know the whole idea of what we are. We don't sometimes it's a and ongoing revelation. Sometimes it's an ongoing persistence is an ongoing purpose. The God continues to unveil to us because we're not at the end yet when it's not over job. We know it's not over. You're still dear made you walk on the charges over payment where still living, you're still alive. And when your life is offering a go at the pearly gates and we want God state was well done thou good and fabled sermon notes over again, but until then God 's plan for us. God has a purpose for us and we are to be forwarding this whole thing they do go on this revelation to go on with this understanding, and God is telling Jeremiah says, but I said, hold it, Master God 's Jeremiah students and God is a God, am alone here minute you have a purpose for me while I was younger, my mother 's will. Before you install the light of day you have landed me in Jeremiah, says God, hold on the verse of six. Look at me. I don't know anything about what you're talking about. I'm only a boy, now fitted vintage girlie suggests that the that I knew it. If you have plus Doctor Jeremiah a charity says hold on your you know what you're talking about here. I'm just applying your telling me I'm going to be a prophet. The God places in our hearts the things that we need an sometimes we not may not know the direction that he always gives to us spirit, spirit, being sensitive to God 's leading, being sensitive to what God is seeking seeking speaking to us directing us when we want to be sensitive to his spirit now on call it what wrong with the foot where the college I was going to be a phys ed teacher and football coach on the play football in college. We visit future and teach visit. So I went to school. Now the whole intent and bought the school I went to was the one that I met Wanda was the one the church that I went to down there. The pastor there was very much connected to Zion Bible Institute Northpoint now and he said, and I've and that's when God called me ministry, but it was after I was at the play 's run was going to go to be a football coach because following the dream to be a football coach put me in a place where I had the correct dream coming together the correct plan coming together meeting Ronda and going off to Bible college. So from where I was at. I didn't know was that of a preacher at home while of where I was at in high school in picking a choice for college, being of Rachel was not what I had intended but following the direction that I felt was correct when I finally when I reached that point of being in school in the second year, Rhonda shows up in Zion opens up in the next thing you know I'm not the Bible school the next year, and long story short here I am, but God had a purpose in so we don't always know what that purpose is, but God continues to reveal it. And many times were called on God. You see this with me here. If you know I'm here, and you're there. What you want me to do his way out there, the Lord about because God told him, verse seven, God told me don't say I'm only a boil. Tell you what I tell you where to go and you will go there I'll tell you what to say and you'll say it's the one of the difficulties with our life is I can't get there from here and I can't talk. I really don't want to say I really am not qualified, and God is saying don't worry about getting there. Don't worry about what you can say don't be afraid of the soul don't be afraid of other people. Sometimes our greatest fear it to somebody else. My not like us well get over it. Trust people, not unlike you, Melissa, because you're not likable. Just because they don't like. They would like anybody that was there that would like anybody in a position so get over it on, and the idea of an God tells Jeremiah copyright there looking after you. So when you're there. It's okay if somebody doesn't like you see you can't wait until everybody gets on the bus. Now you resume my bosses right Sheila and savvy whether willing on the wrong bus and the bus pulled out and that was quite a stressful time. So when you're on the wrong bus. It's a very stressful life again not only for yourself but for all those around you. But God has a way of working all things out. Fortunately, all came back to bed and they need to work on that and straighten that out school bus, but in our life. God is right there all the time, helping us through the whole situation verse nine, God reached out to touch my mouth and said, look, I've just put my words in your mouth and delivered with a time, when the time is right, God will give you the words to say always doesn't matter how your abilities or inabilities are if God puts his words, his thoughts into your mind and your heart speak the love with your dog about inflection and I will let on this one. I feel I should tell you is what I feel that I should say enough of this whole message today is what I feel that God wants us to know that God is speaking to our lives your life. My life, God is speaking to us and is telling us, I knew you before you were even born, I had a plan for you lobby for even thought of a plan before you have seen the light of day. I have place for you in my kingdom, and in what I wanted you to do in my kingdom, and you're part of it going on in your dreams and following your dreams are all part of it, but our life is not a dream. Our life is combined is following the word following the path letting God 's light be unlike to our path that we are walking in the steps of Jesus. We are walking where he is already gone before us. When I'm alone in this, and it goes on Lisa's regular time. I put my words in your mouth had delivered. See what I've done okay. That's why we read the Scriptures say what I've done. See what I put together not only in other people 's lives. Well put together in your life, your job is to fold up and tear down take apart and demolish sounds like Ralph the record right rough. The record is a rough record that pleasant, the record, there is always a smasher, upper type of guy, while Jeremiah 's new tell them what they need to do what they need to tear apart but. Verse eleven twelve God 's message came to me. What do you see Jeremiah. This is his first revelation. This is his first vision I set up a walking stick. I thought, and God said good eyes. I'm sticking with you. I'll make every word I give you come true. I'll make every word I give you come true. Jeremiah had a word that nobody would listen to the God said, what I tell you, you speak and it's all going to come true and Ruth when I get the Jeremiah twenty nine eleven, but will maybe next week, but the idea is, God has a plan for us before you were even born as a plan and in the midst of your life no matter where your rat guts Gunnison for second, the plan and that God has his word to put in our mouth so that we can speak the truth in love, so that we can allow his truth to speak to us and to direct our lives because God has a purpose for us right where we are or you wouldn't be there. So, in this place where you are. Allow God 's word to speak your heart to the make to allow you to feel safe in his presence, secure in the knowledge that I love and that God will direct me in the steps of my life as it was with David King, general will conquer leader limeys, leader of a nation, God led him to take down a giant God led him to flight the armies of the Philistines. God led him as he feared for his life. God led him to the throne of Israel. God spoke to him from your descendents will come. My son Saint whenever no one arrived in the plan of things. We just know that were here and allowing God to speak to our hearts. So we spent and everything. I'll make every word I give you come true when God speaks to your heart. God will make you when God speaks to your heart. God will make it come true. It's not up to us to make it happen it's up to us to be available for God to make it happen. Father, thank you for your word that you speak to our hearts. And the Lord that in your plans succeed, you have another purpose for us and it is a dandy except those sore and that everybody agreeing with what we have to say that God is in your work and your will in your life of God in us that all things will come together that your Wolf. We will follow the path that we are on knowing that you will lead us each step of the way whether the path leads in a different direction are we really come to a dead end, and we have to turn left or right guy whatever it is, speak your word to our hearts and we will find peace will find direction we will find power in Jesus name we pray. Emily said amen, unless you