Hello and welcome to
"Help in Daily Living."
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Today, we're gonna be looking at
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making "Plans for The Future."
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Often when people
make Plans for The Future,
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they are worried and unsettled.
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And what I've come to realize is
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that the life of a Christian
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in this world is a pilgrim life.
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And we need to completely trust
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every single day of
our lives to God's leading.
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And not be
anxious about our future.
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Before we begin this
very important topic,
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I'm gonna ask Jessica to
lead us in a Word of prayer.
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Father God, today as we discuss
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about what you wanna us do
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in the future of our lives
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and just how we
need to live on a day,
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day-to-day basis, I just pray
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that you would
come into our hearts
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and help us to
open our hearts to You
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so that we may know
how to plan for the future.
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Thank you, Father,
for hearing our prayers.
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I love You. In your name, amen.
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When I was growing up,
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I wanted to be a medical worker
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saving lives
and curing diseases.
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My younger sister,
Morgan, had the dream of
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becoming a pilot and
mechanic of her own plane.
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We envisioned that one day
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we'd work
together for God as a team,
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push piloting in the
jungles of remote machine field.
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She'd fly me and I'd
help healing the sick.
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Nothing was wrong with our idea
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and others would
see us successful
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in our dreams and goals.
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But what if that is
not what God wanted for us.
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God sometimes calls us
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to do things outside
of our personal plans.
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It may be simple job without
any reward or recognition.
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But all He asks is
for a willing spirit.
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It may not be on
a mountain's height
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or over a stormy sea.
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But God says, in Jeremiah 29:11,
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I know the
thoughts I think toward you,
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thoughts of
peace, and not of evil,
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to give you a future and a hope
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I want my prayer to be
I'll go where you want me to go,
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here I am Lord send me.
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It may not be on
the mountain's height,
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or over the stormy sea
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It may not be at
the battle's front
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my Lord will have need of me
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But if by a still,
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small voice He calls
to paths I do not know
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I'll answer, dear
Lord, with my hand in Thine
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I'll go where You want me to go
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I'll go where You
want me to go, dear Lord
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O'er mountain, or plain, or sea
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I'll say what You
want me to say, dear Lord
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I'll be what You want me to be
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Perhaps today
there are loving words
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which Jesus would have me speak
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There may be now,
in the paths of sin,
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some wand'rer whom I should seek
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O Savior, if Thy
will be my Guide,
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though dark and rugged the way
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My voice shall
echo the message sweet
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I'll say what You want me to say
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I'll go where You
want me to go, dear Lord
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O'er mountain, or plain, or sea
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I'll say what You
want me to say, dear Lord
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I'll be what You want me to be
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So, trusting my
all unto Thy care,
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I know Thou always love me
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I'll do Thy will
with a heart sincere
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I'll be what You want me to be.
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I'll go where You
want me to go, dear Lord
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O'er mountain, or plain, or sea
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I'll say what You
want me to say, dear Lord
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I'll be what You want me to be
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I think what makes
people most anxious
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about the future is
that we don't want to make
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an utter failure of our lives.
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And--but we won't make
a failure of our lives,
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if we live our
lives the way Jesus did.
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And Jesus made no
plans for his future.
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He was at complete
peace with leaving the plans
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for His life in the
hands of His Father, really.
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Um, Laelle, how
does that make you feel
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about planning your future.
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Well, um, as
being a senior and all,
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like, I have been, you know,
making plans for my future.
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And, like, making plans,
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you know, go to--decide
which college to go to
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and what courses
to take and you know.
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You know, just planning my life
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and I was just sort of in this
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once conceived like
preconceived box, like,
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and there was this
one certain college
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I wanted to go to
and just this one course
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I wanted to take and
that was gonna be it,
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and that's how
my life is gonna be.
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But I think God saw
that I needed to open up
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and see what was out
there and so this part--
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on the first semester,
when I got sick, I went home.
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And I heard
about this one college
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and actually had the
opportunity to go there.
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And it was just a real, like,
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eye opener for me to
see that there, like,
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like it was actual material.
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And like, you know, this is
what I could do with my life.
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And, I mean, I am probably
not gonna go to that college.
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But it was like a
stepping stone for me,
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you know, to get
outside of my box.
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And as of right now,
I've absolutely no idea,
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where I'm gonna go or
what course I'm gonna take.
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I've just like totally
left it in God's hands. Yeah.
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And you're at peace with that?
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Mm-hmm. That's great.
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That's wonderful, just
trusting God completely.
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What about you, Wesley,
planning for your future?
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Hmm. How does that work for you?
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Well, for the longest time,
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all I could
remember wanting in my life
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was to live my life
the way I wanted to.
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I wanted to serve
God the way I wanted to.
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And I can remember,
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ever since I was
about 14 years old,
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I would spend hours trying to
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meticulously plan out all
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the little
details in my life. Wow.
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And after coming
to Fountain View,
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you know, sophomore, and junior,
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and coming up senior year.
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And I was just thinking about,
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you know, what am I
gonna do with my life?
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And as I started to
think about my plans,
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I just felt this, this
sense of unrest, of uneasiness.
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Like, I didn't know what is
gonna happen tomorrow. Yeah.
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And I talked to a friend
about how I felt and I told him,
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you know, how I felt
uneasy about the future.
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And he said, it seemed like
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I hadn't submitted my
life to God totally. Mmm.
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And deep down inside, I
knew he was right. Yeah.
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Proverbs 5 verses, sorry
Proverbs 3 verses 5 and 6,
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says that, "Trust in
Lord with all your heart
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and lean not on
your own understanding.
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Acknowledge Him in all your ways
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and He will direct your paths."
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And I knew deep down in my heart
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that I hadn't done that,
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that I only wanted what I
wanted, not what He wanted.
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And I'm still
learning how to trust him
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but even though I don't know
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what is plans are
exactly for my life.
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I feel at peace knowing
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that He's always
gonna be with me and that,
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I know that whatever
plans He has for my life,
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I can trust in
that, He will be the best.
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Praise the Lord. Amen.
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My face fell as I
looked at the worklist.
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Cafeteria again? I complained.
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I've been working
there for the past two weeks.
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And I was ready for a change.
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You see at
Fountainview, the staff believe
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that work is
important for all of us
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and so we all
work for half the day.
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We are assigned daily to
different places of work.
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That particular day, I
wanted to work market gardens,
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bagging and sorting carrots.
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Not in the cafeteria.
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So I went to talk with the
work supervisor, Mr. Hines.
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I spoke with him quite often
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never being completely satisfied
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with where I was working.
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That day, however, his response
was no different than usual.
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I'll see what I can do.
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I accepted it reluctantly
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and headed off toward cafeteria.
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But the whole time
rather than being cheerful,
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I dragged my feet
and hardly smiled at all.
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It's might as me, I was
signed there again the next day
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and the day after that
for the rest of the week.
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A couple weeks later,
I was reading the book
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"Help in Daily
Living" in my devotions.
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It said let us
remember that while the work
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we have to do may
not be our choice,
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it is to be accepted
as God's work for us.
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Whether pleasing or unpleasing,
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we are to do the
duty that lies nearest.
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Whatsoever thy
hand find it to do,
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do it with all thy might.
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I instantly felt
reprimanded for my bad attitude.
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I should've accepted
that it was God's will for me
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to work in the cafeteria.
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Even if it wasn't my choice,
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it was what my
Master had chosen for me.
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And His plans
are always perfect.
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Everyday there are always
small insignificant duties
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I must do.
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These not only
shape my character
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but give me an
opportunity to work for God.
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And prepare me for heaven.
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I can choose to go on my work
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by having consistently
energetic, cheerful attitude
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and faithfully
performing my duties.
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However, God is the only one
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who can completely
transform my outlook
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on the humble duties of life
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so that I can
experience real joy in service.
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O Master, let me walk with Thee
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In lowly paths of service free
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Tell me Thy secret; help me bear
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The strain of
toil, the fret of care
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Help me the
slow of heart to move
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By some clear,
winning word of love
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Teach me the
wayward feet to stay
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And guide them
in the homeward way
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Teach me Thy
patience; still with Thee
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In closer, dearer, company
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In work that keeps
faith sweet and strong
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In trust that
triumphs over wrong
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In hope that sends a shining ray
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Far down the
future's broadening way
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In peace that
only Thou canst give
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With Thee, O Master, let me live
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You know, when we're
planning for our future,
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one of the sources of wisdom
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that we can look
to is our parents.
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And they can help us
and give us guidance.
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Bristi, how did you feel
about that with your parents?
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Well, when I was 16,
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I was very
rebellious and defiant.
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And my parents, you know,
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sometimes they
would ask me to do
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a simple task
like wash dishes or,
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you know, clean
the house or something.
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And I would always
just roll my eyes at them,
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or retort, or just, you
know, be sarcastic or something.
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This just kept
getting worse and worse
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like this
rebellion inside my heart
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just kept growing until
finally my parents realized
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they needed o take me out.
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And so they decided
to take me to Bangladesh
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for six months
to live with them.
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And at that time, you know,
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I felt like that
was the worst thing
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in the world that could happen.
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'Cause I wanted
to go back to school
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and be with my friends
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and just finish the year
off like any normal student.
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Well, it turned out I
went to Bangladesh that year.
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And at the
beginning of the trip,
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you know, I was
still very resentful
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and very distant like,
you know, from my parents.
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But then, they saw
that and they told me
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that I needed to start working.
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So they gave me a job
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taking care of little
children at an orphanage.
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And as I would be
taking care of these children,
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it was really
difficult for me to be unhappy
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and be
resentful and that because
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these children were
always so happy like
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they just radiated so
much sunshine into my life
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that I started
becoming a happy person.
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And my relationship with
my parents was a lot closer.
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It just started to
get better and better.
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And my relationship with
God even started growing.
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And looking back now, like,
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I would not have missed
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that trip for
anything in the world
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because it really
changed my outlook on life.
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I believe that,
you know, at that time,
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God knew the best thing for me.
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He had the best
plan in mind and He knew
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that those children
would be able to reach me
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in no other way,
like, no one else
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could have
reached me at that point.
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And He used them because
they were dependent on me.
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And as I was
taking care of them,
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I realized, you know, how
much my parents are sacrificing,
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how much they really
cared about me because--
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and I realized how
dependent on them I was as well.
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And now I, I have a very close
relationship with my parents.
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So when
planning for your future,
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you are a senior
now, would you trust them,
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if they gave you
guidance about your future?
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Sure. For sure.
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And going through
that rebellious stage
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and just seeing that
their wisdom was something
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you can trust has
given you guidance
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and kind of given
you a trust in them
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that you never had before?
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Yeah, sure. Praise the Lord.
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Take a look at any
library or book store,
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and you'll find lots of books
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claiming to have the
answer to raising perfect kids.
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But open up a newspaper
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and you'll see
a different story.
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Headlines scream news of murder
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or child abuse and poverty.
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Despite the best
efforts of modern parenting,
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our society has
failed to deliver
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the bright futures of
its children as promised.
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God warns us in the Bible
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that unless we
depend on him for strength,
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our plans can't succeed.
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This is because what
feels like self reliance to us,
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is actually a submission
of our world to Satan.
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Eventually, this slavery
to sin will end in disaster.
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We must depend on
Christ for everything.
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In order to be
free from bondage,
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today I choose to
find refuge from sin
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in my relationship with Jesus.
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By His strength, I
can stop my failing plans
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and let Him lead me to victory.
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Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
00:21:58.78\00:22:03.39
Pilgrim through this barren land
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I am weak, but Thou art mighty
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Hold me with Thy powerful hand
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Bread of heaven, bread of heaven
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Feed me till I want no more
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Feed me till I want no more
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Open now the crystal fountain
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Whence the
healing stream doth flow
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Let the fire and cloudy pillar
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Lead me all my journey through
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Strong
Deliverer, strong Deliverer
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Be Thou still my
Strength and Shield
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Be Thou still my
Strength and Shield
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When I tread the verge of Jordan
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Bid my anxious fears subside
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Death of deaths,
and hell's destruction
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Land me safe on Canaan's side
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Songs of
praises, songs of praises
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I will ever give to Thee
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I will ever give to Thee
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You know, Mr. Lemon, I
have a particular story
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that every time I
think of it reminds me
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that God has a
special plan for my life.
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You see when I
was one month old,
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I became very sick.
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I was down for a
nap on one afternoon
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and my dad came to get me up.
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And he realized
that I was just like
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burning up with fever
and he checked my fever.
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I had a 104 degrees fever.
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So I was just like
doing really badly.
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Anyways, my mom was
away on a dayshift that day
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and so my dad rushed me
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to the hospital
as fast as possible.
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And as he got me to the ER,
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I started having
convulsions and seizures
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and the nurses saw
that and doctors saw
00:24:59.93\00:25:01.48
that and they quickly rushed me,
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you know, back and
started me on IV fluids
00:25:03.08\00:25:05.47
to get my body settling down.
00:25:05.48\00:25:07.69
Basically, they figured out
that I had a blood infection
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and this blood infection
had been caused by a disease
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called vesicoureteral reflux.
00:25:14.21\00:25:17.04
So they, you know, got me
00:25:17.05\00:25:18.30
and started on
the blood infection,
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IVs and stuff then
working on the reflux stuff
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and basically to
make the long story short,
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in my first year of life,
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I was in and out of
the hospital four times.
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And each time I was in,
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I was in there for
like 10, 12 days like,
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you know, a good amount of time.
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A lot of time. Yeah.
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And I had to be on
antibiotics every single day.
00:25:37.18\00:25:40.65
And just for that, particularly
that first year of life.
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And eventually
the doctors decided
00:25:43.58\00:25:45.10
that in order to fix my problem
00:25:45.11\00:25:47.36
and the disease that I had,
00:25:47.37\00:25:48.62
they had to do surgery.
00:25:48.63\00:25:50.21
So they did surgery for me
00:25:50.22\00:25:53.30
and I recovered
with flying colors,
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like it was
absolutely a miracle.
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The disease
should have really like
00:25:58.21\00:25:59.53
affected my kidneys and given me
00:25:59.54\00:26:00.84
really bad health problems
for like the rest of my life.
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But I haven't had a
single health problem since
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and the doctors
basically told me,
00:26:06.47\00:26:07.88
hey, you're good
to go now, right?
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And I am just so grateful
that God has spared my life.
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And I was really young obviously
00:26:13.44\00:26:15.26
when I had this
experience happen.
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But as I've grown up,
00:26:16.92\00:26:18.23
my parents have
told me this story.
00:26:18.24\00:26:20.06
And they told me and reminded me
00:26:20.07\00:26:22.72
that God has a
special plan for my life
00:26:22.73\00:26:25.01
and that He saved my
life for a particular reason.
00:26:25.02\00:26:27.56
I mean, I should have died,
00:26:27.57\00:26:28.74
you know if my dad had come in
00:26:28.75\00:26:29.93
maybe 20 minutes later
to get me up from a nap
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or something like that.
00:26:31.86\00:26:32.96
Like I, I don't know, maybe,
I could have even be dead.
00:26:32.97\00:26:35.95
I don't know what
could have happened.
00:26:35.96\00:26:37.42
But it would have
been possibly too late.
00:26:37.43\00:26:40.25
And just when I
think about that,
00:26:40.26\00:26:43.15
I just know that God
has such a wonderful plan.
00:26:43.16\00:26:46.37
In "Help in Daily
Living," on page 19,
00:26:46.38\00:26:49.78
it says, let God plan for you.
00:26:49.79\00:26:52.32
So as I am planning
for the future of my life,
00:26:52.33\00:26:54.39
you know, I need to ask
God to really come and help me.
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And a little later, it says
00:26:57.61\00:26:58.72
God never leaves
His children otherwise.
00:26:58.73\00:27:00.83
And they would choose to be lead
00:27:00.84\00:27:02.33
if they could see the
end from the beginning
00:27:02.34\00:27:04.05
and then discern
the glory of the purpose
00:27:04.06\00:27:06.09
which they are fulfilling
as coworkers with Him.
00:27:06.10\00:27:09.33
I have such an
important job to do in my life
00:27:09.34\00:27:12.22
and we all do and I know
00:27:12.23\00:27:13.44
that if I have
God really help me
00:27:13.45\00:27:15.49
that my life will be a success.
00:27:15.50\00:27:17.14
Praise the Lord.
00:27:17.15\00:27:18.17
And you can trust Him
00:27:18.18\00:27:19.25
that He will lead
you in the future.
00:27:19.26\00:27:21.95
Wesley, I'm
gonna ask you to close
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with a word of prayer for us.
00:27:23.63\00:27:24.75
Okay. Let's bow our heads.
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Dear, Heavenly
Father, thank You so much
00:27:26.99\00:27:29.24
for the promise
that You are with us
00:27:29.25\00:27:30.58
and that You've
always cared for us.
00:27:30.59\00:27:33.35
And that You know the
beginning through the end,
00:27:33.36\00:27:35.60
Lord, and that You care
for each of us so personally
00:27:35.61\00:27:37.88
that You'll plan
each of our lives for us.
00:27:37.89\00:27:40.10
So we don't have
to walk in the dark.
00:27:40.11\00:27:43.19
Lord, please help
us to realize today
00:27:43.20\00:27:45.02
that no matter what,
You're always gonna guide us
00:27:45.03\00:27:48.26
and protect us. Amen.
00:27:48.27\00:27:49.47
We thank You for this and
we pray in Your name. Amen.
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