What Does God have Planned for Your Life.

Have you ever wondered why things happen in your life?  Have you ever asked or screamed out to God, WHY?  Have you ever laid down something at God's feet, and taken it back the next day because He wasn't quick enough to answer that prayer.  I think we all have at some point, though we forget that from birth to death, from Job to Job, from being single to being married, God has it all planned out in our lives.  We may think that we met the greatest man/woman in the world, and we think we are going to get married, yet down the road he dumbs you, or as guys we dump the girls.  We think that when we get dumped, or when we dump someone it's the end of the world, but is it really?  Is it really the end of the world when something happens in our lives, it may be something tragic, it maybe losing a job, it maybe getting dumbed by what you think is the greatest guy/girl in the world. Yet we forget that God has it all planned out.  Philippians 1:6, says For I am confident of this very thing, that He who begin a good work in you, will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus, 1 Corinthians 2:9 says But just as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear has not heard and which Have not entered the heart of man, all that God prepared for those who love him.  In other words we don't know what it is that God has for us, but we know that it will be good, because we are his children, and He will protect, guide, and lead us to what it is that He has for us.  The message version of Jeremiah 29:11 says I know what I am doing, I have it all planned out, plans to PROSPER you, and not to HARM you, to give you a HOPE and a FUTURE.  We may not see those things now, but in God's timing and way we will.  Because whatever situation, difficulty, trial, or fear we are facing God wins.

Where were you on 9/11

I know this is a day late, but hopefully not a dollar short, I went to a church yesterday in Jersey and felt humbled of being asked to come on 9/11.  Just because of what happened ten years prior.  Where were you when the first towers hit, where were you when you first found out that something had happened in NYC.  I was sitting in a Library on the campus of Valley Forge Christian College, and had a friend come running in, to tell me that something has happened in NY.  So I went running back to my dorm, to call my home, and make sure everyone was okay.  I got my mom crying on the phone telling me that something has happened in the City.  I went into the chapel, seeing what was going on in the city was disturbing and a lot of people where crying.  It was very hard to try and get family members on the phone later in the day.  Ten years later, we lost a lot of people on that day, but we still remember what happened on that day as people who were around when Pearl Harbor happened I am sure remembered.  I usually give my testimony the first time I visit a church for the first time. Yesterday, I told them where I was that day, and I even asked God to help those in the room that may have had to deal with something on that day, or maybe still are.  So where were you on that day, what did you through on that day, your emotions, actions, reactions.  Let us remember that God has us right where He wants us to be.  Jeremiah 29:11 I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you hope and a future. 

The Trials We Face

I have been getting ready this week to do a couple of services this week based on James 1:2-3, which says  2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.  When trials come our way, some of us give up, we think that God isn't standing next to us anymore, He's not in our corner, He is not their nor is He going to help us.
I don't know all that people go through but God does, though when I see Christians going through these trials I sometimes wonder are they trusting in God?  They seem to have giving up on God, and on God helping them.  Do they feel that God has left them? Do they feel that God is not their for them anymore? I am not sure, I am not God, though I do now as it says in Hebrews 13:5 that  Make sure that your character is free from the love of money being content with what you have; for He Himself has said I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU.   During certain trials we are facing or going through we may feel like Jesus felt when he was on the cross, we may feel that God is forsaking us.  Jesus was dying on the cross, after being beaten but yet God's son still screams out ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME.  (Mt 27:46).  We may feel that God isn't in our corner during the trials, we may feel like Jesus felt that his own father was forsaken him, though Jesus tells us inWhenever we feel like giving up remember that Jesus also cried out why are you forsaken me, though God also tells us that He will never leave us nor forsake us.

Made in God's Image

Walking through the mall last night, I realized one thing about my life, that I thought I had gotten either used to, or that I had ingrained in my mind Psalms 139 13:17, that it wouldn't bother me anymore.
I had a couple of people that had starred at me, and looked at my hands.  Now I will grant you that one of those was a young girl probably younger than twelve, and she had said something to her mother.  Probably the fact that I was looking back at her because she was looking at me.  Like the bible says do unto others as you would have them do to you.  Now I am trying to be a little funny with that last comment, but last night, I realized once again that God made, formed, and created me for a reason and a purpose because from what it says in Psalms 139:13-17. For you formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; 16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. 


I am made in God's image, God knew that before I was born that I would be the way that I am, why because thats the way God either formed me, or allowed me to be formed.  God doesn't want his children to go through difficulties and trials, but he allows it only because to strengthen our faith, and strengthen our relationship with him.  So if your going through difficulties today go to God, and He will bring you through whatever it is that you are facing in your life.