God’s Plan for us …
Do you enjoy your life or do you find yourself going through life feeling like you don’t fit? There have been times I could say yes to both questions! But God has encouraged me throughout my life that He has had a plan for my life. But none of the past encouragement’s have measured up to that which we received last Sunday.
The Pastor at Grace Fellowship in Lawton OK, spoke on God’s purpose for our lives on June 23rd. (Not just my life, but anyone’s life.) He spoke from Psalm 139, and pointed out that God knows everything we will do even before we were conceived. It’s like the book of our life is already written and God is reading it as we are living it. Not only that but He has read it before, and wants to read it again. He Loves US! Don’t ask me how that works, I don’t know!
The Pastor spoke of Nehemiah, Joseph, Moses, and Abraham. And how God had a plan for each of their lives, and ours.
I have thought from time to time that God didn’t need two David’s, Moses’s or Paul’s. He only needed one, so that’s just what He made. In the same way God only needs one YOU! He made a UNIQUE you with a plan in mind from before the foundation of the world, and He is working that plan out in your life. Just like weaving, He has the warp and weft all planned and only He knows what the final product will be.
Craig and I were so blessed that God used the Pastor to remind us of all the work He has been doing in our lives up to this point. God has used Psalm 139 throughout our marriage to encourage us, and He knows us, and is with us. God has been leading both Craig and I in re-reading Genesis and has been focusing on the lives of Abraham, Joseph and Moses.
Craig was taught Nehemiah very early in his walk with the Lord and it holds a very special place in his life. It seems that I’m rambling, but my point is that God spoke to us at church, in a way that we could understand. In essence He was saying you have been hearing from Me and you are on the right path!
If you feel that your life is boring and unsuited to you, maybe it is! Ask God what His plan is for YOUR life. His plan will fit you as He made you for it! You may do things you never thought you would or could, trust me, you won’t be bored!
The Pastor at Grace Fellowship here in Lawton Oklahoma hit on every single verse God has given us since we left Oregon in October of 2018. Isn’t God AMAZING, He directed us to this little church in Lawton OK, so we could hear his plans for us again.
Ephesians 1:17
17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe.
Psalm 139 (Our Wedding Verse)
1 You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
The Book of Nehemiah
The Story of Rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem Gods way.
Psalm 105 (Moses, Joseph, and Abraham)NKJV
What GOD has give Me (Craig) as my job description.
105 Oh, give thanks to the Lord!
Call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples!
2 Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him;
Talk of all His wondrous works!
3 Glory in His holy name;
Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord!
4 Seek the Lord and His strength;
Seek His face evermore!
5 Remember His marvelous works which He has done,
His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,
Habakkuk 2
Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
Because it will surely come,
It will not tarry.
In other words, God said to us, I’ve got this. DON’T Worry. Since that Sunday service, we have received about 1/3 of what we need to upgrade the bus, we received the student loan to pay for the tuition. We still need to figure out where to live in Texas for school, but I have had work offers through starting in December 2019 all the way through May 2020, and I haven’t even started school yet!
Blessings,
Craig and Deborah <><