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Speaker 1: need to connect with your Father in Heaven. No matter
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Speaker 1: today's prayer to know God's plan is not to harm you.
Speaker 1: Together a prayer to know God's plan is not to
Speaker 1: harm you, written and read by Carrie Eichberger. For I
Speaker 1: know the plans I have for you to clear the Lord,
Speaker 1: plans to prosper you and not to harm you, Plans
Speaker 1: to give you hope and the future. Jere My twenty nine,
Speaker 1: verse eleven. My eyes reluctantly opened, and the first vision
Speaker 1: that registered was the clock on the wall. It was
Speaker 1: six thirty PM and I had gone back for surgery
Speaker 1: twelve hours prior. Alarm suddenly hit me. The surgeon had
Speaker 1: told my husband six to eight hours, and I knew
Speaker 1: he would be worried. Something must have gone wrong. That
Speaker 1: was all my foggy brain and numb body could contemplate.
Speaker 1: And then, without a thought, these words scrolled like closed captions,
Speaker 1: word for word in my mind, for I know the
Speaker 1: plans I have for you that clears the Lord plans
Speaker 1: to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to
Speaker 1: give you hope in a future. I was heavily sedated
Speaker 1: coming in and out of consciousness in the recovery room,
Speaker 1: but I still clearly remembered this moment, and I am
Speaker 1: in awe of the Lord from bringing this truth to
Speaker 1: my heart at such a critical moment. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: know jerem I twenty nine to eleven well, and I
Speaker 1: can't tell you how many times I've heard it and
Speaker 1: recited it myself. But a couple of months before my surgery,
Speaker 1: it spoke to me and settled differently. It was the
Speaker 1: specific plan of God not to harm us that rang
Speaker 1: sweeter at a time when I desperately needed to know it.
Speaker 1: Have you ever felt in harm's way, or maybe that
Speaker 1: a good future for you was in question. Possibly you're
Speaker 1: questioning something in front of you in this very season.
Speaker 1: It may not necessarily be physical harm or fear for
Speaker 1: your health, but maybe you question the safety and security
Speaker 1: of other fragile scy circumstances with a relationship, finances, a job,
Speaker 1: or some other situation that you can't see a positive
Speaker 1: solution to yet I get it. I have felt in
Speaker 1: danger of harm from all sorts of struggles, and certainly
Speaker 1: many moments before and after the complex spy and surgery
Speaker 1: I endured. But I'm thankful for the truths of Jeremiah
Speaker 1: twenty nine to eleven. And I'm thankful for this perfectly
Speaker 1: timed reminder God gave me, along with the shift of
Speaker 1: perspective that I'd like to lend to you today. Yes,
Speaker 1: His plans are to prosperous, but that means they are
Speaker 1: not to harm us either. And it's the harm we
Speaker 1: often fear, our downfall and destruction, the decimation of our hopes,
Speaker 1: hearts and bodies. And though we are not immune to hardship,
Speaker 1: as we live in a fallen world where Satan still
Speaker 1: schemes to harm, it's God who wins his goodness and
Speaker 1: plans override any harm the enemy could ever plot. I
Speaker 1: would soon learn that something did indeed go wrong after
Speaker 1: my surgery. Just when the surgeons were finishing up and
Speaker 1: removing my chest tube, my blood pressure tanked and it
Speaker 1: took an extra few hours to stabilize me. Little did
Speaker 1: I know this was just the beginning of many more
Speaker 1: dips and twists in the weeks of recovery to come,
Speaker 1: and I would need these biblical truths more than I knew.
Speaker 1: This is true of your life too, when fear tells
Speaker 1: you harms a hand, when life turns upside down and
Speaker 1: inside out, you will need to hold tight to God's
Speaker 1: hope filled promises. I wanted these words written on my
Speaker 1: heart and never to leave my sigh or soul. I
Speaker 1: even purchased a scripture plot to place by my side
Speaker 1: before surgery, to remain present every day day thereafter, to
Speaker 1: keep me grounded in truth, the truth that no matter
Speaker 1: how hard things seemed, God's plan was not to harm me,
Speaker 1: That no matter what life looked like in the moment,
Speaker 1: God had plans for my future that were good. That
Speaker 1: we're prosperous, and that would always prevail. And the same
Speaker 1: is true for you. I hope you will write these
Speaker 1: truths of Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven on your heart
Speaker 1: and in the halls of your home too, because life
Speaker 1: won't always lead you along the easy path free from
Speaker 1: struggle and suffering. I bet you're facing some hard things today.
Speaker 1: All of us always will to some degree. Yet what
Speaker 1: we can be confident in is this. No matter where
Speaker 1: God allows our path to take us, his plan is
Speaker 1: never to harm us. God's plan for us is for
Speaker 1: a good future, a future full of His presence and peace.
Speaker 1: And God's plan always prevails and prospers. Let's pray, Lord God,
Speaker 1: your plan is never to harm me or hurt me.
Speaker 1: Yet so often I feel this very fear. I want
Speaker 1: to believe with all my heart the truth that no
Speaker 1: matter where I wind up or what rocky path I
Speaker 1: find myself on, you still have good plans go the
Speaker 1: enemy intends to harm me, You intend to help me
Speaker 1: and lead me to a beautiful future full of your goodness,
Speaker 1: full of your protection, peace and loving presence. Lord, I
Speaker 1: praise you that your plan is the one that prevails,
Speaker 1: and that it is so so good in Jesus name. Amen.
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