A plan God Calls you

Psalm 139:13–18 NKJV

13 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them. 17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.

Jeremiah 1:5 NKJV

5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”

Proverbs 22:6 NKJV

6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

1. The life you have is a gift from God. Don’t waste what is ahead looking back.

Isaiah 46:10 NKJV

10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’

Psalm 139:16 NKJV

16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

God has a plan and you have a place in it.

We have a problem surrendering our lives to Christ.

we seem to have no problems with grandiose ideas.

I wanna be a rock star etc. etc.

God has a purpose for your life.

God is not surprised by anything that has happened in your life, both the things you have done, and the things that have been done to you. there is healing for your hurts.

there are people who let their pain, their past, their problems become their identity.

Romans 11:29 NKJV

29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

God is sovereign, whatever God’s purpose is for you is without repentance.

2. what does God do with my pain and my sin?

a. what does God do with my sin?

1 Peter 2:24 NKJV

24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.

Psalm 103:12 NKJV

12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

God forgives my sin, so that I might live to righteousness.

He removes it as far as the east is from the west.

he forgets my sin.

Isaiah 43:25 NKJV

25 “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.

b. what does God want to do with my pain?

i. He wants to heal us.

Matthew 14:13–14 NKJV

13 When Jesus heard it, He departed from there by boat to a deserted place by Himself. But when the multitudes heard it, they followed Him on foot from the cities. 14 And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick.

ii. He will help us help others.

Matthew 5:15–16 NKJV

15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

3. what do I do now?

Matthew 5:15–16 NKJV

15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

1 Timothy 5:22 NKJV

22 Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.

1 Timothy 3:6 NKJV

6 not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.