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Trusting God's Plan 0:02 We wanna honor God because he sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the god of all things possible. He's the god of all0:22 miracles.0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphries.0:56 And I am Naina Keegan. How many of you know that it is not your job to secure your future? How many of you realize and know that God has a1:07 plan? Everybody knows the refrigerator scripture, Jeremiah 29 11. That's the truth. That God has a plan for your life. A plan and a purpose for your life to bring hope and1:19 he's got everything all planned out for you, but do we really believe that? All we have to do is look at the the the lilies of the field and the birds, the the sparrow. They1:31 don't worry about it. They don't have barns that they stockpile stuff in. They don't have their giant retirement account. They every single day, God is just taking care of them and they're living a1:42 carefree life and God wants us to rest in him and know that he's got our futures he holds the keys to all that we need he is our our1:54 source He will give us all we need for life and godliness and he has the plan and to secure our future. It's already been stamped. It's already been etched out the minute2:06 you gave your life to to to and made Jesus Lord and savior of your life. You've already given your life to Lord and he's holding that life and that future for you.2:16 And it it can be a scary time when you're in a time of transition and we're kind of going through that with, with our youngest daughter who is about to graduate, and she does not know where she wants to go. And she's2:26 like, it's so scary and, you know, and she doesn't have to worry. She just has to to put herself in line with God. She has to call upon the Lord and say, Lord, what do2:38 you want me to do with this degree? You know, when I graduated from college, it was very uneventful because I grad I finished school in the summer, and I couldn't walk until2:50 December. So I walked out of my last class, and it was silence. It was so hot and miserable, and I thought this doesn't seem victorious at all. I3:02 I have waited for 4 years, and I wanted to get out of this place for 4 years, and I just took my last test, and no one's even around to celebrate it because it's summer. You know?3:14 And and so Doesn't matter3:15 in a big Louisiana family that we're gonna have a crawfish boil3:18 or something. Eventually, but not that day. Nobody even cared. You know? But you know what I did? I decided to have a moment. I decided to make my own moment with the Lord, and,3:30 Troy and I did the g we we worked in TV ministry back then, and so we had the keys to the church. So I thought I'm gonna go down to the church, you know, since nobody cares except maybe3:42 God, that I just finished school. And I unlocked the door, and I went down to the altar, and I laid there on the floor face down, and I said, here it is. Okay. I did this. Now use it. I3:54 am asking you to use this degree Amen. For the glory of you. I give it to you. And boy, he has. You know, he really has. He has so been4:06 so precious, and I did not know what I was gonna do. And and it has just been, you know, just like an unfolding, like a gradual unfolding. God has secured my future. I didn't have to4:18 worry about it that day on that hot, terrible, awful, lonely summer day, but but he saw that act and he really has used it. It's amazing.4:29 Well, you humbled yourself. And when you humbled yourself before the Lord, God loves a humble and contrite heart because that's when he can use you. Too many of us think you know we're gonna go do this and then this and4:40 here's my 5 year plan and this is what I'm gonna do and you know God just wants to just tear that 5 year plan up because really we ultimately don't want anything he doesn't want us to have and you know4:52 it's about trusting him and and listening to him and letting him order every step. You think about I think about when Jesus was first getting on the boat with with5:04 Peter and he was the fisherman, you know, and he was out on the boat and, God told him, talk about your future. You know, they were struggling, weren't catching any fish, all that was going5:15 on, and Jesus said, you know, let's go out again and cast cast the nets again. And think about what Jesus might have thought. Okay. He's not a fisherman.5:28 He doesn't know what he's talking about. We know the good time to fish. That time has passed. We're not gonna catch any fish. This is ridiculous. It's gonna cost us more toiling and more labor,5:40 and we're not gonna catch anything. But something in him made him just okay, what do I got to lose? Might as well try it. You know, that's the thing about God, you know,5:51 so they went and not only did they catch, they could not even take it all in. And think about that hall didn't just bless him it blessed the town it blessed everybody6:03 it blessed the merchants it fed everybody it was exponential and when God speaks that's how he is it's like you know Peter imagine, there's so many times6:15 in the Bible where I look at the situation through that person's eyes and I think, I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't have listened. Like, you know, a lot of times, go rig Exactly.6:26 7 times about river. Speaking of fish. Yeah. Go get the coin out of the fish's mouth.6:32 Like Be like, this is crazy.6:34 Scared of fish. Like, I mean Yeah. I would be, like, scared to stick my finger in the fish's mouth. I mean, I'm sure it's fine. You know, I'm not really scared of fish, but it's6:44 like the bible really didn't specify the size of the fish.6:48 You know? Maybe. He got the money for the taxes out of the fishes house. It could have been small. Like what?6:54 It could have been just a little bath.6:56 It didn't have to6:58 be crazy. But, you know, I think about, like, you know, you know, when he says go rinse off in the in the in the river 7 times, but it wasn't even the closest river. There was, like, he had to pass all these7:09 bodies of water, and then I would have thought on his fifth dunk this is stupid, on his sixth I told you it was dunk, why am I doing this? And then 7 times he got up and7:21 his skin was as smooth as a baby but this guy had had leprosy. You know God, it doesn't make sense to our carnal mind and carnal mind is is is enmity with God because7:34 we cannot possibly think God's ways. We cannot fathom what he thinks and what he's doing. But if you look at some of these these situations in the Bible, it's about obedience.7:47 It's about when God wants to secure your future, he wants you to amen him. He wants you to obey him. Step out in faith, do the things you never thought you could do, just7:58 listen to him even if it doesn't make sense, even if it absolutely seems ludicrous to you. If God said it, you're gonna be able to do it and he's gonna help you do it and you're gonna it's gonna8:10 be amazing8:11 to see what God does through that situation. It's so true. And God is he's faithful to do what he promised. And so we are going to continue to talk8:23 about, for I know the plans I have for you, plans for good and not for evil, plans for hope and a future. And I don't care where you are right now, if you feel hopeless,8:35 keep watching because we are gonna be back with Grace Grace with Naina Michelle.Gratitude and Faith 8:41 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus, and that is the mission of Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, to see people's lives change with the saving power of Jesus8:53 Christ. When you donate to Grace Grace Ministries, you're also reaching orphans and the underprivileged throughout the world as well as the United States. The Bible says that when we help the least, the forgotten and the9:04 overlooked, we have done something for Jesus himself. Will you be a part of what God is doing to help those in need and those who are hungering to hear the real message of Jesus? Give today by logging9:16 on to nainaandmichelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send in a check to 63 15 b FM 14 88 Road,9:28 number 1 22, Magnolia, Texas 77354. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization. Gifts are tax deductible, so join us in the join us in the great commission today.9:40 Give now.9:43 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. We are talking about, you know, God's gonna secure your future for you. And I don't know about you, but have you ever noticed that God9:55 never really asked you to be on the planning committee? Like he doesn't run it by you. He doesn't say, hey, what do you think about this? No. Because he's so set and secure in the path and the plan that10:07 he already wrote for you because he doesn't make mistakes. He's not like, you know, writing it down and scribbling it out going nah, nah, let me try it, let's think of something else. No, God's plan is perfect for you10:19 the first time and he's not asking us to be part of that committee, he's not asking oh he's asking you to to be on the welcoming committee, to to welcome his plan into your life, to10:30 welcome him into your life because and then let him lead you, guide you, and show you great and mighty things you do not know and let him take you, you take him by your his10:42 righteous right hand and just follow him and ask him show me Lord I don't have a clue but you do, and I want what you have for me. And it's about just surrender,10:53 surrender, love. Grateful. You know, be grateful for what you do have. Be grateful. If you're breathing right now, there's hope. Truly, there is that God can use you. You know, I I can remember,11:05 when my grandfather, who was 1 of the godliest people that I knew growing up, when he went blind And he was old, and, he he used to say to me,11:17 you know, why do you think God has not taken me yet? Why why is is there even a purpose, a hope for me? And I would say yes, because you're an intercessor and God knows11:29 that you're you're needed to pray some things through. And I remember right before he passed away, he called me, and there's no way he could have known what he knew unless God had spoken it to him11:41 through prayer. You know, so there's always a hope if if you are, in a in a sick bed right now, if wherever you are, you know, there's a hope and God has a future for you. And I11:53 would encourage you to, you know, like I I think about the I was thinking about this this morning about the the 10 lepers. You know, there were there were 10 lepers, and and12:05 and god's god Jesus healed all 10, but 1 came back to him and said thank you. Right? Now these lepers had no hope.12:17 They had no future. They I mean, they were going to be living in exile from their family and loved ones, their friends. They no matter how much people loved them, they still had to live away from them. They could12:29 they had to live away from human touch. And, and and and there were 10 of those lepers, and they were absolutely healed by Jesus himself.12:41 But only 1, 9 of them left, but only 1 went back to him and said thank you. And I think about how important thankfulness is to your future. If you have gotten out of the pattern, and I think we12:53 can all get out of a pattern of being grateful, I think that part of the blessing of the future comes in being grateful for what you're what you're going through now, even if it's hard.13:05 It says in everything give thanks. Now that sounds crazy. In everything give thanks? Even in the hard times give thanks? You know whenever the man went whenever the leper went back and told Jesus thank13:17 you, there was something that happened to that leper that was different than the other 9. It says, now go, I have made you whole. You wanna be whole? You wanna have that future that God desires for13:28 you? Walk in gratitude and see what happens,13:32 seriously. Right? I mean, and and, you know, there's always no matter what you're going through, there's always something to be thankful for. You know, you can get up in the morning and thank God for that. Yes. You know,13:43 thank God that I'm here and that, you know, I have a roof over my head and we have food in our home. And, you know, there's so many things that we take for granted every day. And I know that whole thing that, you know,13:54 what if you woke up tomorrow with only the things that you thank God for today? What would you have? Scary. And so, you know, do you ever just think about that? And when you start praising him and from an attitude of14:05 gratitude, it's like you you you become so like, when the minute you start recounting the blessings and the things that you have to be thankful for, all of a sudden, you you your heart just changes and you start14:17 going, oh, my gosh. God, you are so good to me. You've done so many good things. And, you know, when we when we praise him, in the midst of what's happening, you know, that's how we get to move forward14:29 and and, you know, I I feel like that's how we expedite, you know, things through praise. You know, God says he inhabits the praises of his people and so his job14:41 has already secured our future. It's our job to praise him, to thank him, to every day say, give me a strategy. Let let me do 1 thing today that's gonna move me in the14:53 direction that I need to move. What what what is the next steps? And maybe you'll have a notion to send some email or to make a call or to go on a different route from where you're going, what15:05 you usually take. I mean, God can put people in your plan, in your path, people that you you you didn't even realize that need to be part of what's next in your life. God can15:16 give you divine appointments, divine assignments, divine assignments, divine blessings because he his blessings are so much bigger. The Bible says in Ephesians 3 20, he will15:28 do exceedingly abundantly more than you can ever ask or think. So ask big first, think big first because he's gonna do more than that. So don't15:40 level set your expectations. Get him up there. How big is God? And God's plan for you is so big and so powerful and so many of us miss it. And we15:52 it can it15:52 can be so little. You know, what God is asking you to do. I know years ago, I'm actually walking in a blessing that started with an email about 12 or 13 years ago. Seriously, I'm not16:04 kidding. Because the Lord told me to write an email to this man that I really didn't know. I worked with him, but he was my superior, and I didn't he lived in another16:16 state, and I I was a little intimidated and I just thought, I do not know him. This is crazy. And I just, just kept feeling this, like my heart was16:28 about to beat out of my chest. And so I thought, alright, alright. What do you want me to say? This is gonna be weird. I do not even know if he's full gospel and will believe that I have heard from you.16:39 This is16:40 the thing. Yep. Here we go. So I write this email according to what I'm thinking God is saying, and I, you know, I feel the Holy Spirit as I'm writing it, but, you know, you're still not sure because you're16:51 human. And so I'm like, I'll send it. So I sent it. Nothing. I get no response. I'm like, oh, I did I did not hear17:03 from God. Now forever, he's gonna think I'm so weird. And, so anyway, months later, months, alright, I go and I have a meeting. It's in Virginia Beach, and I I17:15 sit down, he sits down by me at dinner. And he said, did you know? And I said, did I know what? And he said, did you know that the Lord had spoken to me that someone was17:27 going to have a word for me? And, and that that it was going to be the second word in a series of 3. And I said, no, I had no idea. And he said, I17:39 didn't think so, but that was from God what you sent for me. And all these years later, we work together still, and the relationship is such a so much there's so17:51 much trust because he knows it was impossible for me to know that, and it's just wonderful to work with him. And so the Lord has just really put a bond there for the future. You know, who knewGod's Assurance and Our Role 18:03 that an email would be so powerful, you know?18:05 That is amazing, and we're gonna talk talk more about that when we come right back. You are watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle.18:12 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus, and that is the mission of Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, to see18:35 part of hungering to hear the real message of Jesus? Give18:46 today by logging on to nainaandmichelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send in a check to 63 15 b FM18:58 14 88 road number 122 Magnolia, Texas 77354. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization. Gifts are tax deductible, so join us in the19:10 great commission today. Give now.19:13 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. We're talking about how God has your future. It is in the palm of his hands, and it's not your job to secure your future. You know, we talked19:25 earlier about the ravens, and you know the Bible says consider the ravens. It doesn't say, you know, hey, look at the ravens. You know, consider them means to ponder, to think19:37 about what God is doing for just a simple bird and how he takes care of them and how he wants us to trust him with that childlike faith in the most simple way. It doesn't19:48 mean that we shouldn't, you know, save and put money away or do some things that we know to do. You know, when you do all you know to do, God will take care of the rest. But it means that we can20:00 trust an unknown future to a God who holds the future in his hands without fear and without worry. And we don't have the minute we hear bad news, we we don't have to pick that20:12 up. We can say, no, I'm gonna trust God. God knows about this. And, you know, God's not worried about what we're worried about. You know, that's the thing. You know, whatever it is you're going to20:24 express or whatever fear you're gonna have or you know it's not the first time God's heard about it he knows your thoughts before you even think it he knew that that was gonna pop up but how do you get rid of20:36 that is by trusting him is by going you know what it doesn't make sense to me God but you are a God of your word, you are a man that should not lie, you know the truth, you know that20:47 I'm gonna choose to trust you no matter what because you hold the future in the palm of your hands. You are the righteousness, we are the righteousness of God in Christ and he will never let us go. And so when we trust20:59 that and know that and speak that no matter what our minds are telling us to say, you know, your mind's over there saying you better worry, You better run around. You better go do all these things and try to figure it21:09 out yourself. That's just an effort of futility that it's not gonna get you anywhere but more anxious.21:16 Well, and I think living in today's world with you know, when you hear bad news all the time with what's going on in the world, you think about what's gonna happen to our finances, what's gonna21:28 happen to our health care, what's gonna happen to our food supply, what's gonna happen to transportation. It goes on and on. The list goes on. And and so you can get so concerned about21:40 those things and try to brace yourself for all of that. Who could even know? I you know, but the Bible says that I stand watch and I wait to see what you're gonna say. There there's a scripture that21:51 talks about how, they they you know, it's in Isaiah, and they knew that calamity was going to come. And this man who was a servant of the22:03 Lord, who had been in an office of ministry, he would not seek the Lord. And so he just made up his own plans. Like, he got a water supply. He did some things, you know, but it was all wrong because it22:15 was not what God told or would have told him to do. God knew what was gonna happen. And and you know what was interesting too is that he even built, like, this big sepulcher, which was this big tomb, you know,22:27 that he was gonna put himself in when he died, which I think is interesting because here he was walking in pride, self reliance, walking setting up his own future even up to death, and22:39 it only led to death everything that that he had. And and and, you know, the bible talks about how the lord said, I'll hurl you like a ball. Like you are going to end up in a foreign country. You're not even22:51 going to be able to be in your nice fancy grave. You are not even going to live there. You have missed me. You didn't listen to me. I would have prepared you, and I'm going to put someone else in your office and23:02 calamity's coming. And so it's like had he listened, maybe calamity wouldn't have come had he sought the Lord, had he prepared properly. Yeah. He did23:14 some things, but they weren't god things that god wanted him to do. They were things he thought, well, you know, this might happen or that might happen. The same can happen when you brace yourself for, you know, the23:25 news these days. So it is not our job to secure our own future. Do not rely on yourself. You don't know what's gonna happen in the future. Only God knows. You have no23:37 idea. So that is why every day, the very air you breathe comes from the Lord God himself. And again, he will never leave you or forsake you. If you wanna know23:49 what to invest in right now, invest in the gospel.23:53 Invest in the word of God. Invest in your bible. Make sure that you the best investment you could ever make is filling your life with the word of God, making sure you know the word of24:05 God, making sure that no matter what, if somebody says tomorrow that you it's illegal to go to church, you cannot have a bible, know that word, have it in your heart, know that24:17 word of God because it is alive, it is there to conquer over every single situation that we could ever deal with or go through, It will tell you how to live, tell you what to do.24:30 God says he knows when you would live, move, and have your being. It is no accident that you are here. We are here for such a time as this, and God's got us in the palm of his hands, and he's24:42 got our futures, and they are secure in him no matter what. No matter what, we can trust him. He's got us. Yes.24:50 And if you feel like there is no hope for you, and there is no future for you, that is a lie from Satan. Because the fact that you're breathing means there's hope and there's future for you. And if you willHope and Salvation 25:01 trust in Jesus right now, he's gonna give you a future more than you can even imagine. So let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we give our whole hearts to you. We surrender our lives to you. Jesus,25:13 we believe you died on that cross. We believe that God rose for raised you from the dead, and we believe that if we will ask you into our heart, which we do right now, that we will be saved, Lord,25:25 us and our household. And God, give us a future. We rebuke any spirit of suicide off of of anyone who's listening right now, and that they will be it will be replaced with a spirit of hope and future by the25:37 power of the Holy Spirit, we pray. In Jesus' name, amen.25:43 Wow. We just know that God's got a plan for you. He does, and just trust that. So if you want more, we're so grateful that you watched the broadcast today, but you can find out more, about the25:54 Lord and and his scriptures and his word on our social media. We have podcasts. We have books. You can check us out. You can find all of that if you just look on our website at naina michelle dot com. We love you guys so26:06 much and we know that that if you just stay strong and keep the word in your life God will work it out for you. So stay tuned we have a wonderful message from our dear friend Daryl Youngblood it26:18 is power packed. You are not gonna wanna miss it. We love you guys. God bless you so much.26:22 Does science disprove God? Is there a26:25 war between science and faith?26:27 We don't need God to create a universe. There's no evidence for God, and it's irrational. Is there no evidence for God? Am I delusional for my beliefs? It is delusional and stupid. Am I brainwashed? Do I ignore26:39 reason?26:40 Logic. Critical thinking. 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