Embracing God's Purpose: The Journey of Life

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When you look at your body and how it functioned so perfectly for so many years, I mean you young people just think of the miracle of if you study a little bit. I've read a little bit. I'm not a doctor, but I've read a little bit about the functioning of the human body, the heart and the lungs and the liver and so many parts. [00:52:23]

There are a hundred things that can go wrong and that could have gone wrong in you young people's lives that you may not be alive today. So I've come to see the very fact that you're alive even for one year is a miracle. So many things have to work so much perfectly inside. It's like a Machinery. [00:76:32]

Before you were formed in your mother's womb, God was, His eyes were looking at you. Make it personal. I like to think of that. And I was in my mother's womb, and I was not even properly formed as a body. God's eyes were on me. You can make that personal for yourself. God's eyes are on you. [00:131:52]

God's plan for your life will not be fulfilled if you don't cooperate with Him. And anywhere along the way, you rebel against Him and say, no, no, no, I don't want that. God says, okay, go your way, and we can mess up God's plan. God forgives us. There can be days that are wasted. [00:284:64]

I wasted days in my life when I did not take my Christian Life seriously. I think of 19 and a half years when I was born again at 19 and a half years. I say, Lord, what happened to those first 19 and a half years wasted? I wish I had known the Lord when I was 3 years old. [00:308:32]

The Apostle Paul, he wasted about 30 years of my life. I wasted only 19 and a half. He wasted 30 years of your life, and he did such terrible things like killing Christians. Imagine that. And God had His eyes on this guy who's going around killing His own God's children. [00:326:64]

Repentance was like a fire that made him go full speed like a rocket. And that's the thing that came to my heart. Many people say I'm sorry for my sins, but the sorrow doesn't seem to act like a rocket to propel them to do God's will in future. They say I'm sorry, and God's forgiven me. [00:393:88]

Think of the wrong things you have done, my brother, sister, older people, and younger people. Does it bring such sorrow in your heart that You Weep and say, Lord, I got to make up for that in some way? It does bring in my life, certainly. That's what made me, Lord, I've got to do something. [00:416:08]

One mark of Christian growth is that you discover new areas of being un-Christlike. Like the other day, I said how expecting people to say thank you to you. Do you feel that is un-Christlike? I've never heard that preached anywhere in my life, but God showed it to me. [00:660:60]

I hope you'll move on to the third and the fourth and the fifth and the sixth and discover things that you never even thought were un-Christlike. You say, boy, that was un-Christlike in my life all these years. And I believe there are un-Christlike things in me today which I don't know. [00:795:20]

The important thing is not what I do, how many people I witness to, but have I finished the work God gave me to do. And if God's plan for Jesus was 12 years, He got to be a carpenter. If He had gone around preaching, He would have missed the will of God. [00:980:04]

I hope you'll be gripped by one thing. God has got a plan for my life which was formed before I was born. Lord, help me to know that. Seek with all your heart to know that plan, and I want to tell you something. If you want to know that plan, keep a good conscience. [00:1021:80]

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