Game Plan

Football pre-season is here and the regular season will be starting soon.  Do you have a favorite team?  A favorite coach?   We all watch with great sense of expectancy and hope at the start of a new season as we watch our team take the field.  Every player and sports fan knows that the team needs a game plan in order to do well.  And every player knows that they need to follow the coach’s game plan in order to do well and succeed.  Our lives need a game plan, too.  And the best game plan comes from God who has a plan and purpose for our lives.  It is a plan and purpose we can trust because God loves us and cares about us and, come what may, God will see us through.  Hear these words of hope and comfort from Jeremiah:
 
(verse of the week)
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart.  I will be found by you” (Jeremiah 29.11-13)
 
(prayer of the week)
Lord, thank you that you have a plan and a purpose for my life.  Thank you that your plans have a hope and a blessed future for me.  Help me to follow your guidance and give me strength and courage to follow your plan and purpose in all of life, through your power and to your glory, amen.
 
Have a blessed week!—Pastor TJ
 
(quote of the week)
O God, my Father, don’t let me die without having really lived and really loved.  John Powell