Walking in Destiny
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Walking in Destiny
Walking in Destiny
You are fully KNOWN by God
You are fully KNOWN by God
O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
Did you know that God is intimately involved in your life?
God knows everything about you
Every event you experience
Every movement you make
Every step and stopping point along your journey
Every aspect of your ways, habits, and character
Every word before you speak it
Everything about you
You are under God’s CARE
You are under God’s CARE
You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.
He has hedged me behind (God preserved me through my past)
He has hedged me before (God will preserve me in the future)
He has laid His hand upon me (God is preserving me even now)
You are NEVER ALONE
You are NEVER ALONE
Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,” Even the night shall be light about me;
Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
God is always actively present in your life (He is omnipresent)
You have never been alone
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND
One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.
After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you."
You are not alone now
You will never be alone
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
We will never escape His presence
You are specially DESIGNED by God
You are specially DESIGNED by God
For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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.
You are here by God’s will
You are not an accident. (There may be “accidental” parents, but there are no “accidental” children.)
God gave you the gift of life.
You are personally designed by God
God formed you in your mother’s womb.
You are fearfully and wonderfully made
You are born for such a time as this.
Your life has PURPOSE and MEANING
Your life has PURPOSE and MEANING
Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them.
“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.”
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace,
to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Disobedience can altar God’s perfect will
Do not be overly wicked, Nor be foolish: Why should you die before your time?
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.
For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
Your life is PRECIOUS to God
Your life is PRECIOUS to God
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.
God is always thinking PRECIOUS thought of YOU!
Your life is NOTHING without God
Your life is NOTHING without God
Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties;
And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.
Come home to Your heavenly Father through faith in His Son Jesus Christ. Discover true MEANING and PURPOSE for YOUR life!
Come home to Your heavenly Father through faith in His Son Jesus Christ. Discover true MEANING and PURPOSE for YOUR life!