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

Next on In Touch, God's Grand Plan.

Do you feel special or do you feel rather insignificant?

Do you feel like God takes a personal interest in you,

or do you just feel like you're one of those whole creation of souls out there somewhere

that doesn't really make a lot of difference? Do you believe that God has a plan for your life,

or do you feel like he's just sort of 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 a life.

And here's what he says in the 11th verse.

For I know the 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 they're not even really going to

realize while 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. It'll all be over, and they'll miss the whole point for 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. Most people are going

to miss it, but he still has a grand plan. In fact, that whole entire grand plan could be summed up

in one word, probably in a word that most people have never even heard a sermon on. They've read it in the Bible once in a while and they'll think, well, what does that mean?

Well, I'm not quite sure.

And they skip over it and keep going.

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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