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And now, here's Andrew.

I hadn't got time to go back and go over everything I've taught,

but I started teaching about how it's God's will

that he had a plan for you that was written in his book

before you were ever born.

We were ministering out of Psalms 139, 14 through 16. And we went

through a bunch of things. We wound up in Romans 12, 1, 2, where it's God's will for you to be a

living sacrifice. And if you will do that and then renew your mind through the word of God,

you will prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

And this is what jump started my life. I just knew that God had a purpose for me, but I didn't

know what it was. And when I got to seeking him to find out his will for my life, I found out

that his will isn't for me to be a preacher. Now, it is in a sense.

I'm not disagreeing with people who say it's God's will for you to have a vocation.

But God's will for you is to be a living sacrifice.

And then how he uses you is really a secondary thing.

You know, it's not my ministry that is the focus of my life.

It's Jesus.

It's a focus of my life. And this is just how

he has told me to, you know, use my relationship with him. And if you ever get that wrong,

if you ever get to where you are more concerned about what you're supposed to do than what you are

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