God says: I know the plans I have for you... "...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

If your feeling an emptiness, a void, a whole in your gut it may be because you are not forefilling God's plan and purpose for your life.

Let's look a the story of Jonah.  Jonah is certainly a book about following God’s plans and purposes for your life. God told

Jonah was a prophet during a time of deep corruption, much like today's times. God told Jonah to go to Nineveh and preach to the people about repentance and turn them back to God.  Jonah was dead set against God showing the people of Nineveh any grace.  Jonah decided he knew best and he refused to do what God told him to do.

Yes, Lord!  The people! We all know about the people.  My pastor says "Your hiding your gifts because of the people and the PEOPLE don't even like you."

My step-father put it in the carnal "Your talkin' about the people and 80% don't give a darn, he used the d-word and the other 20% are just glad it isn't them!

Now the reason WHY Jonah ran away from the call of the Lord in the first place.  He simply did not like the Assyrians, (The people) whether they lived in Nineveh or not, and he had been and was at the moment - very angry at God.  For he figured that God should not help these enemies of the nation Israel

We all can relate to how he felt.  Now you regilious spirits don't count.  We all know that you walk on water and you would never have ran away!  Yeah!, Yeah! Yeah!

But for us Jonah's, we know how he feels: Lord, I don't want to go back to that church another Sunday with those NINEVEHITES!   They in the choir, the usher board, the deacon and deaconess board, the alter workers and on some days I even think the NINEVEHITE spirit is on my Pastor.

Lord, Help!

Please, don't send me back there!

And what happens next Sunday he sends you right back "front and center."

Why?  Because he has a plan and a purpose.  Listen, to what I just, just discovered the people (THE NIVITES) have nothing to do with your purpose and they can't stop God from forefilling his plans and purposes for you.

It's not the people it is the enemy!

And besides, what he said to me is this:  Your all in the same boat!  Your all saved by GRACE and not by WORKS!  And the only reason your still standing is because of my blood.  Cause when I look at you I dont see your SINS (and they are many) What I see is MY BLOOD!

My blood justifies you!"MISS QUEEN OF THE NINEVEHITES!

That's what the enemy does he keeps us focusing on others and their faults.  When we should compare ourselves to God and we will always come up short.

He (The Devil) is after our PURPOSE

You see what he did to Jonah.  He had Jonah abandon his God purpose than he told him to kill his self.

Tell the Devil "HELL NO, I WON'T DIE WITH GOD'S PURPOSE IN ME!"

And after being used of God, Jonah quit.  He no longer wanted to be a Prophet.

Basically, what he said is "God, I quit!"

Then Jonah says "Now, O LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live."(vs.3)

- "...He wanted to die, and said, "It would be better for me to die than to live."(vs.8)

You see what he did to Jonah.  He had Jonah abandon his God purpose than he told him to kill his self.

Tell the Devil "HELL NO, I WON'T DIE WITH GOD'S PURPOSE IN ME!"

Unfortunately, when we are not in the will of God we get depressed.  Often times people become so depressed that they become suicidal.

The void, loss or emptiness that we feel becomes to overwhelming that is why we must stay in the will and purposes of God.

Remember, we must stay forefill our purpose.  Look at what happened when Jonah forefilled his purpose 122,000 were saved.

It may seem like something simple that God wants you to do and you don't want to do it but carry it out and see how it is multiplied.

Again, God says "I know the plans and purposes that I have for you. Plans to prosper you and not harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future.  Jeremiah 29:11"

Lord, I think I just ministered to myself!!!