Does God really have a plan for me?

 

Often people use Jeremiah 29:11 to prove the fact that God has a good plan for your life.

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. “

But this text was ment for the Jews who were in excile in Babylon. The prophet Jeremiah is telling them specifically that God has a plan for them.

But like He had a specific plan for them He also has a specific plan for you. I didn’t find a specific verse for it, but all over the bible you see God wants to work through ordinary people. People who haven’t got everything in order. Or who have “issues”.

But also Jesus, when before He leaves to go to the Father, gives His disciples a commandment that shows He has a plan for them. Are you a disciple of Jesus? Do you want to follow after Him? He asks all of His followers to take up their cross daily and to follow after Him.

I sometimes meet people who tell me that they think their lives have no purpose or that they have no dreams. They go through life barely surviving, feeling depressed or discouraged. But whoever you are. You have a purpose and so do your life experiences, talents, gifts and your role.

1. God created you. You are no accident.
2. God has a plan for you. You have a purpose in life.

Ephesians 2:1
“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

You are created for God’s glory

You are created to know God and to have a relationship with Him

You are created to praise God

You are created to bear fruits of the Spirit

You are created so the Holy Spirit can live in you.

You are created to love. (Love God, and Love others like how you love yourself and how God loves you .)

You are created to develop and use your talents and gifts God gave you.

You are created to follow after Jesus and to do what He asks you to do.

But for everything we do, we work or dream for…
We need Him…. we are just little people but when He tells us something to do, to say or to go… Wow!

By the way…without Him, without Love …it’s worth nothing.

Consult Him in prayer, seek His Face, be intimate with God, seek wisdom in His Word and in others who follow after Jesus. God will guide you. He loves to be with you and to help you.

How can I align my vison with God’s plan for me (or us)?

Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your law.

Psalm 17:15 Because I have done what is right, I will see you. When I awake, I will be fully satisfied, for I will see you face-to-face.

Matthew 5:8 God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God.

First of all, Jesus should ALWAYS be your focus. You are loved, you are here for a reason. God has made you, chosen you, has anointed you and has put dreams in you. But when you don’t put Jesus first… always… they mean nothing and will not come to the purpose for which God has intended them.

So…, you may have great plans. To lift up God and to honour Him…. That’s great! Hallelujah,praise God!

The big test will come if you can let go of them for the sake of Jesus. If you can give them back to God. If you can give them to another humanbeing? If you can share or leave the credit to others, but still take responsibility for the critics.

I believe that when we first learn to do His will.

(1.Love God with all your heart and soul and with all your strenght, 2. love the people in the world like how He loves me and 3. love my brothers and sisters)

Then He will surely reveal His plan for us personally. Btw the plans and visions God gives us are always to be seen in His eternal perspective. That sometimes makes it hard for us, who are on earth only temporal.

Also, don’t ask God to bless your plans. Better ask Him to show His blessed plans for you.

Do you really want to know what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God? Then present your bodies to God as a living sacrifice. And be not conformed according to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind! (Daily)

There are several ways to find God’s vision for your life:

through His Word, through te counsel of other godly people, through prayer, through His Holy Spirit and with help of your mind and conscience that He has built into you.