God has a plan and purpose for every human soul that ever lived – that means you included. That plan was already prepared for you and I even before we were born. The good news is each person can find out what that plan is because it has already been prepared ahead of time by the Almighty God himself. That plan is there waiting for us to find out what it is. Then after we have found out what that plan is, He then grants us all the ability and resources to fulfil it completely.

Step one in that plan is being born into God’s family through a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Without coming to God first through Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour there will be no point in looking any further. The Scriptures declare that without Jesus and a faithful life in Him we are God’s enemy and we will be subject to His wrath. That doesn’t sound like too good a plan to me, that’s why step one is receiving Jesus and going on to living a life in close relationship with Him until the end. So, I will be talking about a plan the Lord has for each and every one of His children, but first I want to be sure you understand that without Jesus being the central focus every step along the way, it would not be God’s plan at all. Only through Jesus do we receive eternal life and only through Jesus can we be a partaker of all the other good things God the Father has prepared for us.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me John 14:6

Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. “All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep John 10:7-11

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. “And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. “I and My Father are one.” John 10:27-30

Jesus is Lord and Saviour to all that come to him and live faithfully for Him. In the Bible there is offered to the children of God through Jesus many benefits and promises – let’s have a look at some of them

·        The New Birth

·        The promised Holy Spirit

·        Friendship with God

·        Fruits of the Spirit

·        Authority over the works of darkness

·        Divine health

·        Divine healing

·        Divine prosperity

·        Divine protection

The list could go on and become quite large, for these and many other promises and benefits are offered to the believer in Christ. Why is this? It is all because God is extremely good to us and He has included them all in His great plan for our lives. But where I feel to go in this series of teaching with regards to the plan of God for our life, is not what is written in the Scriptures, but what is not written. You see, God has a plan for each of us individually that has not been written down as such for everyone to see, but one that is hidden in the heart of God just waiting to be found by you and I. God has not hidden His plan from us but He has it hidden for us. If we will walk out our Christian life as He has designed it, it will be one of great fulfilment to us and one of great blessing to many others. When God created you and I He had others on His mind also that would be touched, influenced and blessed because we obeyed the Lord. Here are just a few thoughts on the kinds of things God has already planned for His children – hidden away for those who want to do what it takes to find them and then go ahead and live it out...

·        Where in the world you will live – the exact location

·        Who your friends will be

·        Who you will marry

·        What your profession will be, including ministry profession

·        Which church you will attend

·        Who you will influence

·        Which lives you will personally touch

·        Which people will be touched that you will never meet in this life, but will be nevertheless because you followed the plan of God for your life

God our Father knows all there is to know about each and every one of His children, what we like and what we dislike. He knows what is best for us, what we should do and what we shouldn’t do. He understands all there is to know about you and I and because of His comprehension of the end from the beginning has decided to plan it all out ahead of time. All we have to do is get on the pathways that He has set before us and then walk them out with Him. This may sound like something we could take or leave according to what we feel like doing at the time, but let me tell you, the Lord will require and accounting from each one of us in the light of what He has “already” called us to do for Him. Solomon had some insight into this, that our lives are already planned out for us by the almighty Creator, and we will each be expected to give an account on what we have done and how we have lived.

I know that whatever God does, It shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. That which is has already been, and what is to be has already been; and God requires an account of what is past Ecclesiastes 3:14-15

David