In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, listening to God.

It is a very comforting thought to think about the fact that God loves you and me enough to have made a plan

for our life.

And he planned it before you and I ever existed, because he's known everything for all time.

So that you weren't just an accident.

God had a plan for your life.

Now, whether you understood that or not is a different issue.

But he does have a plan for every single one of us.

And the very fact that he has a plan is an expression of his love for us,

that he thinks enough of us that He wants the best for us.

He has a plan that he has laid out in His Word, that if we will just follow His Word,

follow His plan, we'll have life at its very best.

Because His plan is always the best. His plan is not always the easiest, but it is the best.

Some of his plans may lead us to places like we have to climb mountains or walk through

valleys or whatever it might be.

But he has a plan.

And I would simply ask you in the beginning of this message,

have you ever asked God to show you his plan for your life?

Have you ever asked him if you were following his will and his purpose for your life?

Or did you just sort of grow up thinking I'll do what comes next,

or I'll do what's the most convenient to do?

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