{"id":50,"date":"2011-07-06T01:02:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T01:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:22:03","slug":"god-has-a-plan-for-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"God Has A Plan for Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John 8:66-68                        Joshua 24:1-15<\/p>\n<p>Like the Master Potter that Jeremiah watched, God has a plan for our lives. God has an individual plan for every individual life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I. God&#8217;s plan demonstrated in Old Testament.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Abraham in his darkest hours believed God<br \/>\n2. Jacob even in his self centered beginning.<br \/>\n3. Joseph while a slave sold by his own brothers.<br \/>\n4. Moses in the house of Pharaoh.<br \/>\n5. Job&#8217;s darkest hours never kept him from becoming what God wanted him to be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II. The Freedom of will is seen in the Power of Choice.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The freedom of choice is beautiful and dangerous.<br \/>\n2. But man is compelled to make a choice.<br \/>\n3. Some plan of life is ruling us.<br \/>\n4. It may be a plan to live aimlessly.<br \/>\n5. Joshua called for decisions based on facts.<br \/>\n6. Jesus left no room for aimless or worldly plans in a full fledged follower.<br \/>\n7. Some plans of life should be soberly thought out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: One may reject God&#8217;s plan for his life.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Psalm 8: Says that created things are doing Gods will. The moon, stars, and sun obey God&#8217;s plan.<br \/>\n2. Man alone can reject God&#8217;s plan for his life.<br \/>\n3. But, there is a price on rejection of God&#8217;s will. Arab and Jezebel, Saul the first King, Lot in Sodom, Jonah sailed the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: There is a Reward in following God&#8217;s plan.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. God crops are not all gathered in the fall.<br \/>\n2. Heb. 11: Tells of many that are waiting.<br \/>\n3. Paul the Apostle said: &#8220;I have fought the fight for the good, I have run my race, I have kept the faith. Now the crown of doing right awaits me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>V: How can one know God&#8217;s plan? Start where you are doing what you know!<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Do you know God&#8217;s plan for you?<br \/>\n2. Would you let him show you?<br \/>\n3. Would you begin where you are and move to where you know he would have you be?<br \/>\n4. &#8220;The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step at a time.&#8221;<br \/>\n5. Life without a plan is like a ship without a rudder!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 8:66-68 Joshua 24:1-15 Like the Master Potter that Jeremiah watched, God has a plan for our lives. God has an individual plan for every individual life. I. God&#8217;s plan demonstrated in Old Testament. 1. Abraham in his darkest hours believed God 2. Jacob even in his self centered beginning. 3. Joseph while a slave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}