Hello, thanks for joining me today for Give Him 15, the title today.

Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

Jeremiah 2911, for I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord,

plans for welfare for good, not for calamity or evil, to give you a future

and a hope. Many people consider this verse only when in difficult situations, using it to

inspire hope that God has a plan for their deliverance or recovery.

Though certainly including this, the verse has a much broader meaning. Future, to give you a future

and hope future is derived from a Hebrew word that includes the meaning of destiny.

The new King James Version at times actually translates it this way.

The word plans is taken.

I know the plans I have for you, taken from a word meaning to weave or plate as in

braiding hair or straw, maybe making a mat out of straw, or mix.

The word it just means mix.

It can even refer to craftsmen inventing musical instruments, artistic objects, weapons, and other objects.

The concept is simple. combining two or more substances to create something new.

When used in reference to the mind, it refers to thoughts, mixing together to form plans.

God has plans for our future that involve more than rescue operations.

They are his all-wise thoughts woven together into plans before we were ever born.

Psalm 139, 16.

They become a hope-filled plans woven together before we were born.

That become a hope-filled destiny.

We can have confidence that we are more than a meaningless blip on eternity's

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