God had a plan when He created the world in which we live. He also had a plan when He made YOU. The most wonderful experience that can happen to you is to discover and participate in God's plan for your life. Now STOP! Don't think this is a bunch of rules and regulations. IT IS NOT! It is a FREE gift! This Great Discovery begins when you realize GOD loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
2. God has a plan for your life.
The Bible demonstrates the fact that God loves you and wants you to enjoy the abundant life.
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have life more abundantly. John 10:10b.
3. Why are most people not experiencing God's love and living the abundant life?
Because...Man is a sinner and sin has separated him from God:
But your sins have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you... Isaiah 59:2a
God did not make man to love and obey Him automatically; but gave him a will and freedom of choice. Man chooses to disobey God and go his own self-willed, sinful way; that is why bad thigns happen every day. Every one of us, you and me, included has chosen to disobey God in many ways...
For ALL have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 3:23
Sin is missing the mark of perfection, or doing something bad, and results in spiritual death.
For the wages of sin is death but The gift of God is eternal life. Romans 6:23a
4. Man's Own efforts cannot repair the damage created by sin.
Man has attempted to bridge the gulf which separates himself from God by doing good works, living moral lives, devising philosophies, be