Welcome to this weekend's In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Today's podcast takes us back to the basics, reminding every believer in Jesus of our true purpose for living.

Join us for getting the big picture as we look to Ephesians Chapter 1 for clear biblical insight that helps us see life from God's point of view.

As you look at your life at this particular moment in your life, would you say that you're

trying to fit God into your plans by answering your prayer, meeting your needs, and so forth,

or could you say that you honestly and truly are trying to fit

your life into God's plans? Are you trying to fit God into your plans? Are you trying to fit

your life into God's plans? Now most of us have very quickly answered, oh, I'm trying to fit my

life into God's plans. Whatever God wants, that's what I want.

And we say that, and more than likely, we're rather sincere about it.

But as we go through this message, I want you to ask yourself the question, Lord, what is the

truth about what I'm doing?

What is the real truth about whose plans

am I concerned about? Am I really trying to fit my life into your plan? Or am I saying,

Lord, here are my plans and I want you to fit into what I have figured out. The reason I call this

getting the big picture, because I believe that's

exactly what it's all about. Well, it's amazing what we think about our life. But in Ephesians

chapter one, my friend, here is God's big picture for your life. So I want us to see, first

of all, here, God's big picture of your life from his viewpoint.

And there are four things I want to say about that.

So if you just jot these words down, and as we go along, you may find something that may be

applicable to you that you'll want to jot down under these words.

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