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What Are Your Plans, Hopes, and Dreams?

 

Text:

Proverbs 16:3 (HCSB)

3  Commit your activities to the LORD, and your plans will be achieved.

Observation:

I started this week with the title of today’s message on my heart, and here it is near the end of the week and it is still with me. I read this verse first thing this morning, and it found a place in my heart.

The first word in the verse, commit, caused me to pause, and meditate upon it. There is an app that I use called Roll-It-Up. It is a neat tool for managing your email inbox.

I listened to a devotional this morning based on our focal verse, and it said that to commit is to roll your plans up to God. I immediately made the connection with what I do each day with my email inbox.

I commit now to rolling my plans, hopes, and dreams up to the Lord because He is much more able to carry these cares on His shoulders.

In conclusion, I go back to the verses I started the week with, and I will commit my activities to the Lord, and rest in knowing that He will give me the desires of my heart as I take delight in the Lord.

Psalm 37:4-5 (HCSB)

4  Take delight in the LORD, and He will give you your heart’s desires.

5  Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will act,

Prayer:

Father God, hallowed be Your name. Father, I thank You for being a God who hears and answers the prayers of His people.

Father, thank You for speaking into my heart this morning the need to cast all of my cares upon You. Father, there is no place I would rather have my plans reside then in the hands of my God. Father, I will daily roll them up to You. In the might name of Jesus I pray, Amen.

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Isaiah 55:11 (KJV) 
11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

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Who Does God Want You to Be?

Text:

1 Peter 2:9-10 (ESV) 

9  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 

10  Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 

Observation:

This week I have been asking profound questions. I’m asking these questions because I want all of us to know and do the will and work of God in our lives each day that we are left in this world.

God has something to say to us, and I am looking and listening. When I hear from Him, it is my blessed privilege to share it with you.

Our focal passage gives us some insight and inspiration of who God  wants us to be, and what He wants us to do.

First, God has chosen us to be His people. Notice how loving and compassionate God is toward us; we were not a people, but now we are God’s people. Oh yes, mercy suits our case, and God has given us mercy and His amazing grace.

Second, God tells us His purpose and our work plan. It is this, “That you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called us because of His love for us”. The God who loves you also loves the whole world.

John 3:16 (ESV) 

16  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 

His love for us should compel us to love one another as He has loved us. He wants us to love others with the love of our Lord.

John 13:34-35 (ESV) 

34  A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 

35  By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” 

Prayer:

Father, hallowed be your name. Father, your love amazes me at so many levels.

Father, I have seen in recent days how your love amazes the world when they see it demonstrated by your people in the Market Place. I have seen it in the court house in Charleston, and on the streets across America; not just in the church house, but in the Market Place.

Father, help us by the presence of the Holy Spirit of God, who lives in the hearts of your people, to be love to others. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.

God wants you to be hopeful, and to be love because of this:

Romans 5:5 (HCSB) 

5  This hope will not disappoint {us}, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.