 to do this again. Okay, praise the Lord and Shalom. Welcome everyone to our Ministers Foundation course. Welcome to all our in-person students from all over India. It's a joy to have all of you here. And also our online students from all over the world and also from India. And it's a joy to have and a blessing to have students from diverse backgrounds. You know, just representing every tongue, tribe, nation, coming together in this manner just to study God's word, okay? So in this course, we will be studying three APC publications. The first one we'll be studying is this book called Fulfilling God's Purpose for Your Life. And our in-person students have received a copy of it. There is Hindi versions for those of you who struggle with English, especially our in-person students. You can also, you know, study it in the Hindi version so you have a better understanding. For our online students, I have posted this PDF copy of this publication on the stream page so you can access it. And for our e-learning students as well, it's there in your course content tab. You can just click on that and you can access this book. Now in this course, we will be basically helping you, equipping you with the necessary tools or the necessary materials, the insights that you need to know what is God's plan and purpose for your life, okay? God has a plan and a purpose for your life. We'll look at it in detail. We'll be studying that so you will be able to know how to find out God's plan, God's purpose for your life. And also we will help you to build a strong and effective ministry even as we look into receiving God's guidance and code of honor, okay? So three books that we'll be studying. And I just invite all of you to engage in discussions, ask questions, share your experiences so that, just a minute, yeah, share your experiences so that it will help us to learn from each other, also will help you to answer your doubts that you have. Don't think your question is silly or stupid. It's not, every question is important, you need answers. So please feel free to ask any question that you have. If you did not understand anything, please ask me and I will explain again and I would make it more clearer for all of us to understand, okay? So even as we are a learning community, it's to be nice if all of you can ask questions, share your experiences, engage in meaningful discussion so that we can all grow together in understanding and applying God's word in our life, okay? Now the first book, as I said, we'll be studying is Fulfilling God's Purpose for Your Life. Just to give you a quick run-through through this book, in the first chapter, we will be basically studying about which we are going to cover today. We will look at the whole idea that God has a plan and a purpose for our life. Are you excited that God has a plan and a purpose for your life? Yes, God has not just created you and put you here on this earth or he's not just, you know, you're not an accident. He's created you for a plan and a purpose. So that is what we'll be studying in chapter one. In chapter two, we're gonna be talking about how to recognize God's plan and purpose for your life. How do we discover God's plan, God's purpose for our life in any given stages of our life or any given season or any given point in our life? You know, we all go through seasons and stages in our life. Yes, we will talk about that in chapter two so you'll understand more clearly. And then we'll also cover nine different ways how we can recognize or how we can know what is God's plan for our lives. In nine different ways we will look at and how we can discover God's plan and purpose for our lives. In chapter three, we're gonna talk about an understanding about how or we're gonna receive an understanding of how God is gonna prepare us, how God prepares us, you know, for what he has called us to do, how God is gonna prepare us to fulfill his plan and purpose for our life. God does not just tell us, hey, this is my plan and purpose. Take it, go and do it. Try to figure it out yourself, how you're going to do it. No, he's not a God like that. He is a God who prepares us. God reveals his plan and purpose, he prepares us, he gets us ready, he gets you and me ready for what he wants us to do in life. And so in chapter three, we will be talking about the preparation process. In chapter four, we will talk about how we need to position ourselves right to fulfill God's plan and purpose. So we need to be the right time, the right place, in the right attitude, in the right character, the right mindset to receive God's provision, to receive God's anointing, to receive God's blessing and to fulfill what he has planned and purpose for our lives. So that is what we are gonna be talking about in chapter four. In chapter five, we'll be talking about God's calling is not something that is easy and simple. Of course, God gives us a skill, he helps us, he aids us, he strengthens us, he fills us in our areas of our weaknesses, he strengthens us in those areas. But it's also something, it's a high call, it's a high price that we have to pay. It's not gonna come easy for us. It's not gonna say, we're not gonna say, okay, God, I'm here, just give me a download of your plan and your purpose. Just give me all the skills, I'm here waiting and then I'm gonna just go and do it. It works like that sometimes, but most of the times it requires us to work hard, do our part, spend time, energy, equip ourselves. So it's a price that we have to pay to fulfill God's purpose and plan for our life. So we're gonna be talking about that in chapter five. And finally, in chapter six, we're gonna talk about how God has given us a plan and purpose, how we can all start off very well, but how it's important for us to finish the race. It's important for us to finish the course, okay? It's important for us to finish the course. So we're gonna talk about how to finish the course successfully, okay? So even before we look at chapter one, I just mentioned briefly what we're gonna look at in the six chapters. Before we look at chapter one, I just want to encourage you by saying that, each of you are not an accident waiting to happen, okay? You've got a destiny. You've got a future. You've got places to go. You've got people to meet. You've got lives that you can touch and you've got things to do, okay? So God has a destiny for you. God has a future for you. God has places he wants you to go. He has people he wants you to meet. He's got lives that he wants you to touch and he also has things that he wants you to do. Amen. Are you excited? Yes? So we must, you know, catch on to what is God's dream? What is his plan and purpose for your life? There is no greater purpose than to live God's purpose for your life. Now, if you notice some of these things, what I'm saying is not in this publication. It's not in this book. So maybe you want to make some course, you know, notes that you want for yourself, okay? It will help so you can just take down, okay? There is no greater purpose than to live out God's purpose for your life. There is no greater satisfaction than to fulfill God's purpose for your life. There is no greater adventure than to walk according to God's purpose, okay? I'll repeat that again. You know, we need to catch on to God's dream for our lives. There is no greater purpose than to live out God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater satisfaction or happiness than you fulfilling God's plan and purpose for your life. There's no greater adventure. You know what's the meaning of adventure? What's the meaning of adventure? It's like a journey, okay? You're going to a new place for sightseeing. You're excited. It's an adventure. It's a journey, something that you're going to explore, okay? So there's no greater adventure than to walk according to his purpose. So you need to catch on to God's dream. You need to hold on to what's God's dream plan and purpose for your life. And like I said, it's not going to be easy, okay? There are going to be some challenges. There are going to be difficulties. There are like, sometimes the difficulties can be like a mountain that you have to climb. You know, there are some devils you have to fight. Some situations, difficulties, Satan's oppression, opposition, people that will come in your way. And you know, but at the end of it, it's all going to be worth it because you are going to be fulfilling God's plan for your life, okay? So even as we go on this course and we learn about what is God's plan and discover what is God's plan and purpose for your life, how to fulfill it, how you receive God's guidance for your life, how to be equipped to be an effective minister. I want you to just enjoy this journey, learn and also, you know, put into practice what we are, learning, okay? This is not like history which you studied in school and college, non-geography. This is not, you know, like economics or social studies, but this is something that is more practical. So whatever you are hearing, we want you to put it into practice so that you would know what is God's plan and purpose for your life and fulfill that, okay? So before I go on, I'm going to be giving you a lot of extra notes and I want you to be writing it because some of these will come in your assessments, okay? It's not just gonna be from the textbook, it's also going to be from the, you know, the extra information or the extra notes that I'm giving to you. So I would appreciate it if you take down notes and sometimes I'm going to, especially for the online students and the e-learning students, I'm just gonna be a little slow because some of our students, in-person students, you know, who come from North India, struggle a little with the English, so maybe I'll have to give some simpler words, so please be patient, okay? Before we go on, we'll just pause for a word of prayer, we'll just commit this whole course into God's hand and just ask God to lead us and guide us, okay? Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this day, we thank you God for this opportunity to learn from your word. Thank you that you have great plans and purposes for each one of us. You created us not by accident, God, none of us are an accident. You created us for a significant, for a purposeful plan that you have for us and God, even as you have that plan and purpose, we know it's not a mystery, but something that you want to reveal to us and so we pray God, even as we go about learning how to discern and know your plan and purpose for our lives, that you would open our hearts and minds, that God, you would help us to listen and also to put into practice what we are learning so that we can discern and know your plan for our lives and walk in it and fulfill it, God. We thank you that even as you reveal it to us, God equips us and strengthens us. We thank you for each and every student, we bless them and God, we commit this entire course into your hands, we pray that our journey of learning would be effective and a powerful one. We thank you for hearing our prayer in Jesus name, we pray, amen. Okay, so before we look into chapter one, I'm just going to establish a few important facts that will help us to understand that God has a purpose for each one of us, okay? Now, there is something that we need to understand about God, that our God is a God of plan, he's a God of purpose, he's a God of design, he's a God of objectives or he's a God of objectivity, okay? So what do I mean when I say God is a God of plan, he's a God of purpose, he's a God of design or objectivity, what do I mean by that? Anyone? What do I mean when I say God is a God of plan, purpose, design? God of clarity, okay? God knows what he's doing, he knows all that he's doing. Thank you, get through, yes, he knows what he is doing, yes. How do we know that our God is a God of plan and purpose and design? Esther says he's organized and not random, yes. Thank you, Esther, that's good. How do we know that our God is a God of plan, purpose and design? How do we know? Very simple, we can see that. Because he has created the universe for us and we see the stars, the moon, the universe. Thank you, get through, yes, Nate and Esther as well, creation, when you look at creation, right, there is order, right? We have morning, we have afternoon, we have dusk, we have, you know, and we have nights. And then again, the same pattern, then we have different season, which comes in the same pattern. Suddenly does God does not wake up and say, hey, you know, it's not raining in Bangalore, so I sense no, no God does not do that. Or does not say, hey, you know, it's been very cold in Bangalore, so I'm going to have summer now for them. God does not work randomly, but he's a God of plan, design and purpose, okay? You know, it means that Daniel says, it means God does not do anything accidentally, yes. Okay, God does not wake up in the morning, he actually doesn't have to wake up, but you know, just in our context, you know, God does not wake up in the morning, say, okay, let me decide what to do today, let me see which side I can raise, get the sun to rise up in the morning. No, he does not do that. Oh, you know, God is not like that, okay? He's a God of plan, purpose and design, we can look at creation, we can see that. Even when we look at our bodies, we see that there is perfect plan, order and design, right? Suddenly your heart doesn't move from your left side to your top of your head, right? Your eyes does not say, hey, I'm tired of being in the same position, I go right down to the feet, right? It does not do that. There is order, there is plan, there is a design that God has followed. He does, yes, he does everything orderly, yes. Let's look at scripture, what Psalm 33 verse 11 says, okay? One of you can read that, Psalm 33 verse 11, there is a mic for the in-person students, okay. Psalm 33 verse 11 says, though the council of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations. So what does this verse say? That God has plans in his heart, okay? Some of us don't like to plan, right? We just like to do everything like this. Wake up in the morning, what do I do? You know, where do I go? Okay, let me do this, let me do that. There is no plan and order. Some of us don't like to plan, but I've got some good news for you, that the God that we serve, the God that we worship has a plan. He's got a plan, he has plans in his heart, okay? Jennifer says, all his works, the Eden Garden God's plan for redemption of human through Jesus. Yes, we even see God's plan of redemption, how he unfolds it, it right from creation, you know, how he brings about his plan of redemption, how he's continuing to work out his plan of redemption even today, okay? Look at Acts chapter 15 verse 18. Did you call Abinas for the Micra students? Oh, yeah, so in person students, when you're reading, you can read from this mic, okay? So our online students can hear as well. So can somebody please read Acts chapter 15 verse 18, please? He who made these things known so long ago. Yes, so Acts 15, 18, thank you Anusha says, known to God from eternity are all his works. What does it mean? It says God knows ahead of time, what he is going to do, okay? God knows even before he created the world, even before he, you were born, God knew that in 2023, you will be part of APC Bible college, okay? So he's got plans and he knows ahead of time, before time what he is going to do. Look at Isaiah chapter 46 verse 10. So can somebody please read? And if you want to read, please take the mic in person students. Isaiah chapter- Tony, I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass but I'll do whatever I wish. Amen, thank you Anusha. There is a cue here. Let me just see what, Kalol Chaudhary has raised his hand. Yes, do you have a question? Kalol Chaudhary, you raised your hand. Okay, so Isaiah chapter 46 verse 10 says, God declares the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying my council will stand, I will do all my pleasure. So God knows the end from the beginning, okay? God knows what is going to happen 10 years down, the line 20 years down in your life, you know, he's already seen the end from the beginning, he already knows your destination, that means even before you start your journey, even before you start traveling, he knows where you are going to be, he knows where you are going to get, okay? He knows when you will start your journey, he knows when you will, where you will be at different stages of your life, he will also know when you are going to finish your journey, okay? That's the kind of God that we serve, he knows everything about our lives, he and he has, you know, great plans and purposes. So here we see through these scripture verses that God is a God of plan, of purpose, of design and of objectivities, okay, or objectives. He's not a God who says, let me see what I should do, he does not work randomly, he does not say, oh, Adam and Eve sinned, okay? I didn't expect them to sin, I didn't expect them to disobey, now what am I going to do? You know, how am I going to remove sin? No, even before he created Adam and Eve, did he know that they're going to sin? Are you listening with me? Am I too fast? Yes, just a, okay. Even before God created Adam and Eve, did he know that they're going to sin? Yes, no? Yes, just a. Yes, he knew that they are going to sin. So it was not something that he was shocked or he was taken aback, okay? He knew that they were going to sin. So did he already have a plan of redemption? Did he already know how he's going to save the world? Yes, he already knows how he was going to save the world. So he's already has everything in perspective, in plan, in purpose. So he does not work randomly, okay? In-person students, are you able to understand? Some of you are looking very lost. Do you understand everyone? Yes, no, okay. Slowly, a little more slowly, okay. He does not work by randomly, means he does not work by chance. Okay, let's take a chance. Let's see what will happen. No, God does not work like that, okay? And he does not even work arbitrarily. That means he does not work randomly or by chance. He's got a plan in place already. So even if he has a plan for your life that you have to study in APC Bible college, and suddenly you find it difficult and you say, I don't want to study in APC Bible college. I don't want to do anything with Bible college. I want to go and do what I want to do in life. Does God know that? Yes, he knows, right? Is he going to stop you? No, he is going to speak to you. He is going to encourage you. He's going to strengthen you. But then he's finally going to let you make the choice, okay? Just like Adam and Eve told him, they should not be eating from that tree, but God knows that God knew that they're going to eat from the tree, yes. He could have stopped them. He just gave them the free will to choose. So God has given us the free will to choose, but yet he has a plan and a purpose for our lives, okay? Now if you look at your books, the textbook, it says that God has a specific plan for us and he has a master plan. So God has a master plan, or another word for master plan is his eternal plan or his eternal purpose. And God also has a specific plan and purpose for our lives. So two things, God has a master plan, or another word is an eternal plan and purpose. And the second thing, he has a specific plan for us. What do you think is God's master plan? What? Salvation, eternal life, good. So God's master plan or his eternal plan is that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. That is God's master plan, eternal plan. God also has a specific plan. What does that mean? Thank you, Lucy. Lucy says to save us. That's God's eternal or master plan. God also has a specific plan. What does that mean? God has a specific plan. The word specific means something that is more detailed, not general. It's general is like he wants all men to be saved, but specific is what? Esther says, customize plan for every individual. Well said, thank you Esther. That means God has a plan for each one of us. Even though God has a master plan, that all of us are part of the master plan, that he wants all of us to be saved and all of you in this class is part of that master plan because you've made a choice to receive God's salvation and accept him as your Lord and Savior. But he also has specific plans for each one of us. What does that mean? God has specific plans for each one of us. Individual plans for each one of you. What does it mean? Unique plan, yes. Which means he wants some of you to be teachers, evangelists, missionaries, pastors, chefs, pilots, what else? Doctors, engineers, bankers, you name it and all of that, okay? So he's got specific plans for each one of us, okay? But when we are fulfilling that specific plan, we are also fulfilling the master plan, okay? Even as we go about fulfilling the specific plan for each one of us. So even if you're going to be a businessman or a businesswoman, even in that you need to see how you can share the gospel minister to others. Even if you're a teacher, how you have the potential or you have the opportunity with so many children, so many young people that even as you teach them some subjects you can even share the gospel of Jesus Christ with them. If you are a farmer, you have the potential or the opportunity to share with people in your village, in your town, with other farmers about Jesus Christ and lead them into salvation, okay? So the Bible reveals to us in the New Testament that God has a master plan. It reveals his eternal purpose. Let's look at Ephesians chapter one verses nine to verse 12. So can somebody please read Ephesians chapter one verses nine to verse 12? Before that Sanjay says, sorry, Anusha, before that Sanjay says we need to partner with God in the specific plan for us. Yes, we need to partner with God in our specific plan and also for the eternal plan and purpose or the master plan. Yes, thank you Sanjay. Yes Anusha. God has now revealed to us his mysterious will regarding Christ which is to bring to his own good plan. And this is the plan at the right time we will bring everything together under the authority of Christ. Everything in heaven and on earth. Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God. But he chose us in advance and he makes everything work out according to this plan. God's purpose was that we choose who were the first to trust in Christ would bring praise and glory to God. Amen, thank you Anusha. So here it says in Ephesians chapter one verses nine through verse 12, it says having, as God is saying, having made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself that in the dispensation of the fullness of time he might gather together in one, all things in Christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth in him. I'll explain this verse to us. So here this word says that there is a good pleasure. There is something that God is really excited about. There is something that God is really happy about which he has purposed in himself, okay? Which means that the plans and the purposes God has for us and for the entire world is something that he's really excited about. Is something that he's really happy about and that is something he has purposed in himself. It's not something that he had a board of directors meeting or he did not have a committee meeting. He did not call the angelic advisory board. He did not call some angels made a board and say, okay, let's discuss what can we have? What are the plans and purposes that we can have? We human beings, when we are part of something we, you know, an organization or a business or, you know, a church, we have a committee, right? Committee needs a group of people who meet together who discuss and make decisions what best can work. But here it says that God has a good pleasure. Something is excited about his plans and purposes and it's not something that he discussed or planned with anybody, it's something that he planned within himself, okay? And he decided in himself and he was pleased with what he has decided, what he has purposed, okay? Then the word says that in the dispensation of the fullness of time, he met gathered together in one, all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are in earth. So he says, this plan that God has for us, you know, what is his plan is that his culmination of all times, okay, it's a culmination of everything that he's going to do and what is he going to do? So what is God's plan? What is this great dispensation of the fullness of time is he's going to gather people together, all those who are in heaven and those who are on earth he's going to gather all of us together, okay? Look at what verse 11 says. He says, in him also, we have obtained an inheritance being predestined according to the purpose of him, okay? So it says, according to the purpose of him or according to his purpose, so God has a purpose and he has predestined us according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will that we who trusted in Christ Jesus should be for the praise of his glory, okay? So here this verse says God has a plan and a purpose is something that he has planned in himself and what is that plan and purpose that he has is that he might gather all in heaven and earth all who believe in him or together in himself, okay? And he says that here in verse 11, he says, according to his purpose, having predestined all, according to the purpose of him. That means even before we made a choice to salvation or even before we chose Jesus Christ as a Lord and Savior God knew even before we were the creation of the world that we are going to choose him and he is going to work all things in us, okay? According to his will, according to his plan and purpose so we can fulfill his plan, his purpose and he can receive all the praise and the glory, okay? Yes, it's Ephesians chapter one verses nine through verse 12. Is that not the right verse? Yes, Ephesians chapter one verses nine to 12. So on page one of the new book, we'll have new books or old books. New books, that's on page one of chapter one. Is there any doubt about this? Is it okay? Nisha and Shekhar and Sanjay. Oh, you wanted me to repeat the reference? Yes, it's Ephesians chapter one verses nine to 12. Okay, any doubts so far? Any questions? So here in Ephesians chapter one verses nine to 11 and also 12, we see in verse nine and 11, it specifically says that God has a purpose, okay? And the purpose is what's something that he has purpose in himself, okay? Look at what Ephesians chapter three verse 11 says. Ephesians chapter three verse 11. So can somebody please read Ephesians chapter three verse 11 loudly? Yes, go ahead. Is it on? Okay. According to the eternal purpose, which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. Yeah, so here this verse says, according to the eternal purpose, which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. So God has an eternal plan or a purpose, okay? The master plan, as I said, another word is eternal plan and purpose, okay? Which he is executing, which means which he is bringing about all these past years, which he's finishing, which he's completing, which he is fulfilling and which he is continuing to fulfill and complete, okay? So the master plan that God has, it's a plan of salvation for all mankind is something that he is already, you know, being, is completed. It's something that he's also completing and fulfilling here now in the present, okay? So what is God's eternal plan or purpose? He read in Ephesians chapter one, verses nine to 12, what is God's eternal plan and purpose? Salvation, but in Ephesians chapter one, verses nine to 12, what is God's eternal plan and purpose? To gather people, those in heaven and those in earth, in Christ Jesus, okay? What does it mean to gather all people in heaven and earth and Christ Jesus? It basically means that all who accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior, become part of the kingdom of God, become part of the family of God, become sons and daughters of God, we become heirs of God and co-heirs with Jesus Christ, okay? So that is what we saw in Ephesians chapter one, verses nine to 12. Now let's look at first Timothy chapter two, verses three and four, what does Paul say? How does Paul put it, okay? First Timothy chapter two, verses three to four, can somebody read that please? For this is good, acceptable inside of God, our Savior, who desires all that to be saved and to come to the college of... Amen. So Paul is writing to Timothy and he's saying, what is God's good, acceptable, what is good and acceptable in the sight of God? What is good and acceptable in the sight of God? That all that he desires that all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. So what's God's desire for mankind? What God's desire for mankind? To be saved. Yes, to be saved. He says here to come to the knowledge of the truth, okay? So this is God's master plan. This is God's eternal purpose that he wants everyone to be saved. He wants everyone to come to the knowledge of the truth and he wants to gather them together in Christ. And is God fulfilling his master plan on earth? Yes, he is. Has he fulfilled it in the past? Yes, okay. Will he fulfill it in the future? Yes, okay. Then we see that God not only has a master plan or an eternal plan and purpose, but he also has a specific plan for each and every one of us that he has created. So he has individual plans and purposes for our lives. Amen. So just tell your neighbor, hey, God has great plans and purposes for your life. Are you telling your neighbor? You need to say or tell your neighbor, wake up, wake up and God has great plans and purpose for your life. Okay, let's look at Psalm 139 verse 16. Psalm 139 verse 16. In-person, sorry, online students, can you hear the in-person students when they are reading? The scripture passage? No, sister. No. That mic is not on. Okay, thank you. Get truth. Not much. You have to increase the volume, please. Yeah. Okay, let's look at Psalm 139 verse 16 and I can ask one of the in-person students can, sorry, the online students, can you please read Psalm 139 verse 16? Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed and in your book, they all were written the days passion for me, when as it, there were none of them. Amen. Here it, what does this verse say? It's such a beautiful verse. You want to check the mic? Okay. It says that even before we were formed, God saw us how we would be, okay? Even before we took our very first breath, even before the first day in our lives, the first hour, everything about us was written in the book, and God fashioned everything for us, even before we began to live our life. So it says, your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed and in your book, they were all written the days passion for me, when as yet there were none of them. Can someone else read what the message Bible says? Message Bible can, any other student, online student can read please. Message Bible, what it says, Psalm 139 verse 16. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth. All the stages of my life was spread out before you, the days of my life all prepared before I had even lived one day. Amen. Isn't that wonderful? You know, it says that even before we lived out even one day of our life and even a one minute, God had everything before him. He sees our life from the start to the finish, from the beginning to the end, all the stages of our life, everything that we go through is there, spread out before God. So nothing goes unnoticed by him. There's nothing that he does not know. So maybe sometimes when we go through difficult situations and circumstances in our life, you know, when we don't hear from God, we think God does not know. He does not understand. He does not see what we are going through. He does not feel what we are going through, but that's not true. That's the lie of the enemy. But what does God's word says? He says, you know, everything, our whole life is spread out before him, all the days of our life, even before we lived out even one day, everything is known to him. He knows everything about us. So every stage of our life has already been prepared, been planned, even before we lived out even one day of our lives. Isn't that amazing to know that we have a God who is so intimately connected with us, who desires so much about our lives to, he's so much connected with our lives. He's not somebody who just created us, created this world, put us here and left us to live life on our own, but he's just so intimately connected with every aspect, every stage, every detail of our life. So all the days of your life, all the days of my life were written in heaven even before I took my very first breath. See, the very first breath, even before that, you know, all the days of your life, all the days of my life were written in heaven even before we took our first breath. And God has a blueprint for your life. You know what's a mini blueprint? What's a blueprint? It's a map, okay? It's a model, planning, yes, you know, especially when you're going to build a house or a building, you know, the architect will give you a sheet. It's called a blueprint. Where will be the doors, the windows, the rooms, you know, everything will be mentioned so specifically. So what you need to do is just take that from the designer or the architect and you give it to the builder and he sees everything and he will build it according to what has been planned. So God has a blueprint for your life. He has a dream for your life. Isn't that exciting? To know that this great big God who's so awesome, so mighty, his omnipotent, he's all powerful, omniscient, who knows everything. God is omnipresent, present everywhere. And the word of God says, no man has ever seen God because he lives in unapproachable light, even though he's so amazing, so awesome, so glorious, but yet he has a plan and a purpose and a dream for your life. At least for that, can you all give me a smile because all of you are looking so serious and so sleepy and so lost, okay? Just be excited. Tell your neighbor, hey, God has a dream for your life. Yeah. You know, God has a plan and a purpose and a dream for your life. So even before you took your first breath of air on the earth, God has a dream for you and he's created you for a plan and a purpose. Sometimes we think we're useless, we're good for nothing, we're hopeless, we're a failure. That is why I couldn't land up anywhere. I landed up in a Bible college. Did you ever think like that? No, you know, don't ever think like that, okay? You're not an accident. You're not hopeless. God has created you for a plan and purpose. Amen. Okay, let's go for a break and we'll meet after the break.