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Explore God's plans for you, as declared in Jeremiah 29:11, amidst challenges and setbacks. Learn from historical figures like Abraham Lincoln who faced adversity yet emerged victorious. Reflect on the significance of punctuation in God's divine plan and the importance of not giving up where God may be merely pausing.
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God’s Punctuation Understanding His Love and Care
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. • Jeremiah 29:11 The Conclusion
For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. • For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. GOD’S PLAN FOR ISRAEL
Defeated by Enemies • Loss of Inheritance • Servitude • Destruction of Homeland • No Earthly Advocate Israel’s Despair
Bethesda – “In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.” • John 5:2-3 Waiting on “something”
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. What’s the Expectation?
1831 - Lost his job • 1832 - Defeated in run for Illinois State Legislature • 1833 - Failed in business • 1834* - Elected to Illinois State Legislature • 1835 - Sweetheart died • 1836 - Had nervous breakdown • 1838 - Defeated in run for Illinois House Speaker • 1843 -Defeated in run for nomination for party • 1846* - Elected to Congress • 1848 - Lost re-nomination • 1849 - Rejected for land officer position • 1854 - Defeated in run for U.S. Senate • 1856 - Defeated in run for nomination for Vice President • 1858 - Again defeated in run for U.S. Senate • 1860 * - Elected President More Losses than Victories
A period, also known as a full stop…the end of a sentence. • It shows that an idea has finished. The Finality of the “PERIOD”
THE COMMA – • Greek (κόμμα)– “something cut off” • Used to separate parts of a sentence such as clauses and lists of three or more things. CONTINUATION OF IDEA
DON’T PUT A PERIOD WHERE GOD PUTS A COMMA IS HE REALLY FINISHED ?