DK - HIS PLAN & HS POWER

INTRODUCTION THEME: Holy Spirit Power – It’s God plan that you & I would all experience and see HS Power in our lives MESSAGE TITLE: HIS PLAN & HS POWER PRAYER    Your King is present here tonight! Your King is in your midst! Fully present. GOD LOVES HIS CHURCH  REALIGNING HIS CHURCH WITH HIS PLAN PULLING US AS INDIVIDUALS BACK ON MISSION Colossians 1:9-10  WHEN IS THEN LAST TIME YOU THOUGHT ABOUT GOD’S WILL AND PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE? IT’S MY PRAYER TODAY THAT YOU WILL SEEK GOD SO THAT YOU WILL HAVE COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WILL & PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE THAT YOU MAY HAVE SPIRITUAL WISDOM & UNDERSTANDINGSO THAT YOU WILL PLEASE THE LORD, WALK IN POWER AND BE FRUITFUL

ILLUSTRATION – Words & Phrases  EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THAT GOD HAS A PLAN FOR MY LIFE BUT HOW EASY IT IS TO DRIFT

DISCIPLES, SPEND TIME WITH GOD & HAVE GOOD PEOPLE AROUND ME  PLANS: SOME ARE GOOD & SOME ARE NOT SO GOOD

GOD’S WAY IS ALWAYS BETTER HIS PLAN FOR MY LIFE IS ALWAYS MORE FULFILLING  AREA 1 - WHO GOD IS THE ENEMY wants us distracted and doesn’t want us to be reminded of who God is

PS RACHEL - Moses up Mt Sinai  JESUS – OUR KING JESUS IS LORD OF ALL!   HE IS OUR KING! ALL AUTHORITY & POWER RESIDE WITH HIM THAT’S WHO HE IS – IT’S HARD TO DRIFT WHEN YOU KNOW WHO HE IS AND HE HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE! HOW LONG HAS THE PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE BEEN IN PLACE? THE BOOK OF LIFE The Book of Life was written before the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8). THE DEPTH OF LOVE THAT GOD HAS FOR YOU & I Isaiah 49:16  “See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands. YOU BELONG TO HIM

HE HAS SET YOU APART LORD, GIVE US A FULL REVELATION OF YOU WILL & PLAN FOR OUR LIVESHE HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE / IT WAS ESTABLISHED A LONG TIME AGOYOU BELONG TO HIM – NOTHING CAN SEPARATE YOU FROM HIMHIS PLAN BRING US BACK ON MISSIONHIS PLAN LEADS TO LIFE HIS PLAN LEADS TO AUTHORITY & POWERHIS PLAN LEADS TO FRUITFULNESS HIS PLAN LEADS TO HS SPIRIT POWER IN OUR LIVES

AREA 2 – SAUL / PAUL Saul: thought he was following God's plans for his life  SAUL: ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS ON THE ROAD

Acts 20:22-24 (NLT) GOD HAD A PLAN FOR PAUL’S LIFE - It was written before time began GOD’S PLAN FOR HIS LIFE BECAME HIS CENTRAL FOCUSPAUL WAS SOLD OUT TO GOD’S PLANEVEN IF IT INVOLVED HARDSHIP / JAIL & SUFFERING PAUL KNEW HARDSHIP BUT IN FOLLOWING GOD’S PLAN HE ALSO EXPERIENCED HS POWER IN HIS LIFE MIRACLE #1: Acts 14 8-17 A MAN HEALED Paul & Barnabas are in Lystra They see a man with crippled feet

IF PAUL WAS DRIFTING HE WOULD HAVE MISSED THAT OPPORTUNITY PAUL WAS RIGHT WHERE HE WAS MEANT TO BE THAT MOMENT WAS ORDAINED BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF TIMEPAUL SAW THE POWER OF GOD MOVE MIRACLE #2: Acts 28 3-6 SNAKE BITE Paul is collecting sticks for a fire and a snake bites him on the hand. The people there saw it hanging off his arm and said Paul was a murderer and that justice had caught up with him. But Paul shook off the snake into the fire and was unharmed. The people waited for him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But when they had waited a long time and saw that he wasn’t harmed, they changed their minds and decided he was a god. WHEN WE WALK IN GOD'S PLAN FOR OUR LIVES WE SEE HS POWER IN ACTION. MIRACLE #3: Acts 20 7-12 MAN FALLS OUT WINDOW MIRACLE #4: Acts 13 6-13 THE SORCERER Acts 13:6-13   INVITE TEAM TO STAGE PAUL: HIS NAME WAS WRITTEN IN THE LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLDHE WAS SET APART FOR A PURPOSEGOD HAD A PLAN FOR HIS LIFEPAUL WAS OBEDIENT – HE MADE GODS PLAN FOR HIS LIFE CENTRAL TO HIS LIFEHE SAW HS MOVE IN POWER YOU: YOUR NAME WAS WRITTEN IN THE LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLDYOU ARE SET APART FOR A PURPOSEGOD HAD A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFEWHEN YOU MADE GODS PLAN FOR HIS LIFE CENTRAL TO HIS LIFE YOU WILL SEE MORE OF HS POWER IN YOUR LIFE CONCLUSION