Welcome to the In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, November 13th.

God didn't create you just to exist.

He has a plan.

And it's a three-fold purpose.

On today's podcast, you'll have a chance to see where you stand and discover your next step.

Do you realize that God has a very specific plan for your life,

that he has not just left you here to flounder through life and wander around trying to figure out

what you're going to do, how you're going to spend your life? You see, most of us have the

idea that God has got of this great vast universe and how in the world could he be

personally interested in any one of us. But if you recall in the sermon on the Mount what Jesus said,

he said, for example, that even the sparrow that falls, the birds of the air, that he provides

for, he says, aren't you more important than sparras than birds? Then he said,

for example, take the lilies of the field and the grass of the field. If God takes care of them,

does he not also take care of us? And all through that passage in the sixth chapter, he is talking

about his personal interest in us and that we don't have to

worry because God is genuinely interested in whatever concerns us. Well, I don't know all of

God's will for anyone else's life, but this I do know that God has certain desires for your life and my life.

And that is the theme of this message.

And the title of the message is this, God's loving desire for you.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to First Timothy.

And in First Timothy, the second chapter, Paul is talking about worship in the church

and praying. And in the midst of that,

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