I Have Plans for Your Life... God

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 What’s Your Story?

Chapter 2 When God Seems Silent

Chapter 3 I Am A Child of God!

Chapter 4 Please Wait, God is Working

Chapter 5 Discern & Hear God’s Voice

Chapter 6 The Holy Spirit

Chapter 7 Offenses Will Come, Even in the Church

Chapter 8 God is Your Source

Chapter 9 Imagination Creates Reality

Chapter 10 Social Distancing Not Normal

Chapter 11 Time to Reevaluate Your Inner Circle

Chapter 12 WE RISE by LIFTING Others

Chapter 13 You Cannot Have a Rainbow Without a Little Rain

Chapter 14 Everyday Miracles

Chapter 15 Fulfilling God’s Will, Get Off the Couch!

Chapter 16 Discipleship

Chapter 17 A Life of Prayer

Chapter 18 Keep Going! Your Best is Yet to Come!

Conclusion

About the Author

53613.png Introduction

God sent His Only Son, Jesus Christ into the world to redeem man’s relationship and broken fellowship through sin. The sin of one man (Adam) transgressed to all men (humanity). God’s redemption plan demanded a sacrificial offering to forgive the offense. Jesus Christ is that offering for all mankind. Through His body and blood, God has forgiven every man and offers an Era of Grace (Dispensation) for all men to have chance to repent and receive salvation. Because of Jesus, it is now possible for every individual to live out the plan God originally intended!

Romans 5:12 NIV, "Therefore, just as through one man’s

sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus

death spread to all men because all sinned."

First man God created was called Adam, who had transgressed (disobeyed) against God in the Garden of Eden, thereby bringing sin into the world. Every person born now has a fallen (sin) nature. The reason being, since Adam and his wife Eve, had no children prior to this, sin was in every man through birth. Before Adam sinned, there was no sin, sickness, or death. Adam and Eve shared perfect unhindered relationship and fellowship with God, the Creator! The explanation of why today, people sin, and there is sickness everywhere! Prior to this again, there was no such thing! The death that follows sin is physical death and spiritual death, the separation of the self from God by an act of disobedience. As a final outcome, eternal death, or Hell.

Romans 6:23 NIV, "For the wages of sin is death, but the

gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

My purpose for writing this book is to reveal the true nature of God and expose the lies of the devil. Most if not all, have thought or do think, that God is angry at them, non-caring of their conditions, and unresponsive or unmerciful to do anything to help in their situations! My intention is to encourage you to open your heart and mind to the true living God of the Bible and walk in fellowship with Him! Questioning if the negative comments you’ve heard about God are accurate? To dare to embrace truths of His word! If you can, I believe dreams will awaken in you left dormant for years; some will begin to dream, and others will remember the visions that God had placed in your heart an exceptionally long time ago! But more than the dreams, goals, and plans, however wonderful they are, I am hopeful, you will begin to know how infinitely and unconditionally God’s love for you! To understand with all of your heart, how God wants a relationship and fellowship with you! He is not counting your wrong doings, failures or how you’ve disregarded Him. He stands with open arms, wanting you to come home!

Hebrews 4:15,16 AMPC, For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of the temptation, One who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning. Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God‘s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy (for our failures) and find grace to help in good for every need (appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it).

Because of the grace and mercy of God and Jesus, He is not angry with us! God is giving us time in this era to repent and turn back to Him! God so loves you! He created you out of that love and always planned Good for you! God doesn’t have a bad thought towards you! Why, again because of His Son! In other words, Jesus came to make atonement or to pay the penalty for our sins, so that we might be saved.

John 3:16 AMPC, For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.

This means even though, man crucified Jesus at Calvary, God has forgiven man of every past, present and future sins. Why, because Jesus became our living sacrifice, taking the punishment meant for us, to satisfy God’s wrath! We owe Jesus a lot but can never repay Him! One day judgment will come to all those who reject the gift of salvation through God’s Son! If you reject someone’s gift, then nothing has changed! Therefore, the Giver withdraws the gift and the offer, and you remain in your situation! You have been given time to repent and turn back to God before you die in this life! The scriptures say, after death, the judgment!

John 14:6, NLT "Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the

life, No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Jesus is the only way to have salvation and a personal relationship with God. Jesus is the mediator between God and man. The only access to God. If you deny God’s Son, you deny God, because God sent Him!

John 17:8 NKJV "For I have given to them the words which You

have given Me; and they have received them and known surely that

I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me ".

This book is about the redemption plan of God revealed through His word, and the Bible! Redemption is the action of saving or being saved from sin, error or evil. God is Holy, meaning exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness. Sin is an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law, which is punishable by death. Therefore, man needed a savior and through Jesus Christ, we have not only the Savior but another splendid chance to receive the promises of God and live out His plan for our life! Thank God for His grace and mercy! Amen! God always had and still has a perfect plan for your life and that of mankind. God’s heart and plan for you is depicted magnificently in this verse:

Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV, "For I know the thoughts (plans) that

I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not

of evil, to give you a future and a hope (expected end)."

God has a good end in mind for you. God sees the end before the beginning. He wants your life to be filled with good things; peaceful and hopeful! He is always thinking good of you!

In the book of Genesis 6:5 NKJV, Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. So, we see the contrast here that man can think evil continually, but God is not evil, nor does He think evil about you. His covenant with Jesus was to always bless you! God hasn’t changed His mind about why He created you! He wants to bring you back to the purpose of the Garden of Eden!

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What’s Your Story?

Everyone has a story, a beginning, a testimony, and your story is unique than anyone else’s! God perfectly designed you to be absolutely original! Our stories are similar in the sense, we all have been through heartache, pain, rejection, good times and bad. But we don’t all have the same family or live in the same location. No two lives are exactly the same because no two people are exactly the same, not even twins. The world is attempting to replicate man in the form of cloning but only God is the Creator and He has made every person uniquely different. Cloning will never equal nor surpass the intelligent design and intricate details of God’s creation! What makes you so special? In the eyes of God, He cares about every detail of your life! God never created you to go through hardship or heartache but only to a good life everlasting!

Psalms 139:13-16 NIV, "For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place,

when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;

all the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be."

Your life consists of either a job, a business or maybe retirement. You have interests and activities, particularly outside your work, which make your life enjoyable and worthwhile. In most cases, there are some family members. But as a human race, we all like to feel connected to somebody. When people feel isolated from others, this may cause depression and, in some cases, suicide. This is why you see orphaned children go through a lot of trauma in their lives. They may feel abandoned or not belonging. Even a happy well-adjusted adopted child, wonders about their (real) parents from time to time. Some go as far as to seek them out. This is because God, our Creator, designed us to be together. It’s in the genes!

There is a popular company that claim to have a high percentage of accuracy to help individuals find their roots, called Ancestry, where you are encouraged to take an ancestry DNA test and find out where you really come from. An AncestryDNA test is simple, or so I’m told. You order a kit, send in your saliva sample, and voila. You get an email weeks later telling you when your results are ready. Those results reveal your ethnicity estimate, people you may be related to, and new details about your unique family history.

Those tests may be accurate, (I have never tried them), and it would be interesting and maybe good to see how far ones roots traced back. But in actually, the Bible is the most accurate resource that traces as far back to the beginning of time! It tells us our story as a human race, our history, and our roots! That God created the first man, Adam and then his helpmate (wife), Eve, the first woman. God told them to be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth.

We learn from this; that all races (human) came out of Adam. Even Eve came out of Adam.

Genesis 2:7NKJV, "And the Lord God formed

man of the dust of the ground."

Genesis 2:21, 22 NKJV, And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs and close up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

Every race, cultures of languages and nation, came out of the seed of Adam! This is how the world began and begin to populate. However, your personal life story started, God has destined you for greatness! He did not create you to fail and be clueless about what He has provided for you! God created you to know Him! There is hope for your situation. Your future would look so bright if you could only see through the eyes of the Creator!

It is important, to picture yourself as valuable or worthwhile to God, because you are! He foresaw you before your conception. His plan has always been to give you a hope and a future. Adam, and Eve, are examples of God’s original intent for mankind. They were given the same free will we all have. The same right and ability to choose to reject God or obey Him. God is not a dictator, nor does He want us to be robotic and a puppet. But the greatest attribute of His nature is love; and that love allows you to choose, even to reject Him. Adam, and Eve made the wrong decision, as we do so often today; God who is rich in mercy and grace, forgave them and gave them another chance. He is giving us another chance! If someone offers you a pardon, then you reject the offer and proceed to blame the giver for your problems that arose after you refused the gift, that’s insanity! We can no more blame God for our choices, than we can for the consequences that is a result of our actions. God is not controlling us and if He were to, we would not like it.

In America, we enjoy a lot of freedoms but if someone were to take our rights and control us, we would protest. God created us to have freedoms to think and make good choices! And when we succeed, it is our human nature, to not want to be told what to do. If we fail, then we want to blame someone else. This wrong mindset is a result of sin and our fallen nature from birth. Adam and Eve first played the blame game in the beginning. There is nothing new under the sun, the Bible tells us, and it is so true! When they sinned, God came to judge them and Adam blamed God for the woman and Eve, saying the wife you gave me, did this. Eve turned around and blamed the serpent, saying he deceived her! We must take ownership and be accountable for our actions. No matter how much you fail, God is on your side. He is your #1 supporter, cheering you on and believing in you!

Romans 5:8 NKJV, "But God demonstrates his own love for

us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

After salvation, some believers are left wondering what’s next. Are they simply to attend church regularly and wait to go to heaven? Perhaps they weren’t taught what the Bible says about living the Christian life, or they may have never considered what God desires for them as His children. But by reading Scripture, believers can discover that God has plans that He desires to work out in their lives today.

My story or life with Christ began 48 years ago asking the Lord Jesus to come in to my heart and life! I was a child, but I knew there had to be more than just asking, then what? Soon after, prayer became a habit for me; talking to God and our family attended church regularly. Reading the Bible was not an understanding I had, although. And basically, I was a loner, who was content with few friends and family. Consequently, I knew little about who God was. Whenever circumstances would become worrisome for me, I would talk to God about it. Praying a lot gave me solace but there was no understanding on how to get my prayers answered. It was very one-sided conversations to me. My high expectations were for God to also speak to me.

A fervent prayer request of mine from my teenage years, was for God to send me a good husband. As the years went by into my adulthood, and the more I learned through my local pastor’s teachings on marriage