Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, August 9th.

Christians are completely forgiven, but often still struggle with living that way.

That's where the process of sanctification comes in.

Let's learn more about this in Part 2 of Sanctification, God's Grand Plan.

Do you believe that God has a plan for your life?

Or do you feel like He just left you here to do your own thing?

Well, in the 29th chapter of Jeremiah, He makes it very clear that He has a plan for our life,

and here's what He says in the 11th verse.

Brian, over plans that I have for you, declares the Lord,

plans for welfare and not for calamity, they give you a future and a hope.

Probably most people are going to live their lives.

They're going to come to the end of their life.

And then not even really going to realize why they were here.

They'll never think about the fact that God had a plan for them,

that He had the best possible plan anyone could even begin to imagine.

And yet they will have lived their life, and all be over,

and they'll miss the whole point of which they were living.

Well, God has a very grand plan.

I mean an awesome grand plan.

He has a grand plan for every single person,

but there is one word that sums up God's great plan

because of the different facets of that word, and what it means.

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