20th Dec '20

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Sunday school lesson Jeremiah 29:11

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Hello. Okay, so we had drawing time.
Now I love the drawings that you did the little
one off a t rex, which looks exactly like the
T Rex, the little one off giraffe that looked exactly
like the juror.
But what I don't understand is how does this guy
turn into that guy?
How does a little squishy caterpillar full off hair and
soul turn into a butterfly that is so beautiful and
soft and and colorful?
How does that happen?
I have no idea.
Guys on Dhe.
I like to think of Metamor forces and all those
things, but it just doesn't make any sense to me.
How does something like that happen?
I have no idea.
And I don't think I should even try to explain
it. I understand, you know, or the scientific things.
But how, Guys, How how does that happen?
Well, no idea, Onley, God knows because God is the
creator, right?
Yeah. He's the one who make made those things.
And here is an amazing scripture that I just love
so much.
It says that for I know the plans that I
have for you declares the Lord plants.
Wow! So God had me in his thoughts.
God had you in his thoughts even before you were
formed. That was when you were just a baby.
Not even a baby, a cell, not even a cell.
When you were just in his own mind and he
thought about you, he thought about me and he thought,
Okay, this is where she's going to be born.
This is what she's gonna do.
And her parents are going to have so much of
joy when they look at her on Dhe.
Then she's going to grow up and she's gonna learn
these things.
And then I'm going to give her I'm gonna make
her so talented in this.
And then these are some things that she was not
gonna be able to do.
She will learn from other people and so many such
details that God plans.
He made a blueprint for my life, and he made
a blueprint for your life to.
Isn't that awesome?
Wow. I just love that idea.
Okay. Oh, what is this?
This is the same scripture, isn't it?
Jeremiah 29 11.
Where is where are the plans?
Oh, the plans are missing here, but it says for
I know the thoughts that I have that I think
the words you said the Lord thoughts of peace on,
not off evil to give you an expected end Thoughts.
Is that the same thing as plans?
Well, looks like because thes two scriptures are the same
on God has inspired it.
Looks like the plans that God has are actually what
is in his mind for me all along.
Well, and these are thoughts off piece that means not
thoughts of anger, not thoughts of evil, not thoughts off.
Why did you do this?
Why can't you do it that way?
Not those thoughts, but thoughts of peace.
Thoughts off.
How can I help you to do better?
So you did this.
So how can I help you to do it differently?
What should I do about this?
Oh, that's my little understanding.
Let's explore this a little bit more.
I love exploring the thoughts that I think towards you.
Well, the English teacher and me tells me that think
is in the simple present tense.
That means it is a word that, um shows that
that action never changes.
That means in the past, in the present and in
the future.
It remains the same.
It's sort of like a habit or a fact or
something. That is true.
That never changes.
For example, the sun rises in the east, so that
never changes.
And it says that the thoughts that God thinks towards
me, they never change.
They are the same.
They're always thoughts of peace.
Never thoughts of evil, like not have been once that's
unthinkable. How does that happen?
I have no idea.
Guys. I cannot even explain this thing.
But here it is.
It is a fact that the thoughts that God thinks
towards me towards you are thoughts off.
Yeah, you're right.
Thoughts of peace and not of evil.
Hmm. Can you go?
Okay. Thoughts were thinking about thoughts.
I want to explore this a little bit more.
What are the thoughts that come to my mind when
somebody messes up my plants?
You think about it, too?
Okay. Yeah, Well, I make plans throughout the day that
this this this is what I want to do.
I want to spend time maybe doing my favorite work,
doing something that I enjoy doing.
And then somebody comes and has other plans and they
decide that.
You know I need this to be done.
So you change your plans.
I don't think your plans can fit into my plans.
What are my thoughts at that time?
Thoughts of evil thoughts off.
Don't you mess up my plans.
My plans are important.
And how can you do this to me?
Et cetera?
I won't tell you all the details.
But you know what I'm talking about.
Well, what is the thoughts that I think when something
is important to me, when I say something is good
for you and then you say No, that tze no
need of that.
That's that's not important.
Like I do that with my students all the time.
I tell them that.
Look, guys go through this link.
This is very good.
This is gonna be useful for you.
It will help you to do well in your exam.
And then what happens?
They come to the class without doing their homework without
checking the links without doing anything that I told them
to do because they think as no need for doing
all that.
That's just not important.
Then what happens?
Yeah, they don't get good marks.
And then who gets the blame.
Yes, yours faithfully.
Anyways. So what happens when I do a lot of
work and somebody else takes the credit?
Well, I slog, I slog, I slog, I do something
very beautifully.
And then somebody else comes in and says, You did
this. Thank you so very much.
Now I'm gonna go and show it off to my
friends and everybody else.
And then guess who gets the credit?
Not me, of course.
All right.
And and then, of course, my thoughts towards that person
is I want to show that person I want to
maybe write a letter.
Or I have done that.
Yeah, Yes.
Confession died on dhe or show that person that what
you did was absolutely wrong.
How dare you do something like that?
Yes, I've done all those things.
Those are my kind of thoughts.
Okay, when someone causes me inconvenience when I have a
plan off doing something very beautifully and then nothing goes
according to my plan.
When when there's so many inconveniences, when my child comes
up in demands my attention, when when they're been the
world just piles up and nobody wants to help.
And because everybody has their own plans.
And and then it causes so much of inconvenience.
And I know I cannot do my best.
Frustration, thoughts of frustration, thoughts of anger, thoughts off.
Um, giving up.
Yes, I feel that.
Ah, lot anyways, when I do good and someone still
hurts me when I think of what?
What way?
I can help somebody else.
And then there is no appreciation.
Then what thoughts?
Thoughts off.
How can you hurt me like this?
You need to know what you're doing to me.
But what are the thoughts that God has towards me
when I do these same things towards him?
What I told you about what other people do to
me and makes me angry and upset When when I
mess up Hiss plans.
What are God's thoughts towards me?
The Bible says that he is patient and long suffering.
I do a lot of things to mess up his
plans. He says something is important.
Something is good for me on ice, then uh, no,
not needed E.
So even when I cause them inconvenience or when I
say something is not important, he's form.
But the Bible says that he never schools and when
I take credit, Uh, and I know he forgives me
and he tries to help me to still see the
light. Somehow he wants to help me so that I
don't, uh, continue being like that.
But how he can transform me The Bible says that
God's thoughts are thoughts of peace and not of evil
To give me a future and a hope.
And it says that then you will call on me
and go and pray to me and I will listen
to you on You will seek me and find me
when you search for me with all your heart.
For me, this is something like this'll like a prism
God's thoughts towards me home It's almost like I am
the prism on the thoughts that God has towards me.
That is the light that enters the prism.
And God gives me light about my thoughts and his
thoughts for me.
And then when I yield to that when I love
God to transform me according to his thoughts on to
start thinking the way he thinks about me.
Then you know what comes out of this prism?
You know, right?
A rainbow colors of the rainbow.
And that's exactly how God transforms me so that I
can become like him on my thoughts, my my plans,
everything start matching hiss plans on that is that is
where I want to be.
That is where I want to go.
I love God to do what he wants.
He wants off my life, right?
Yeah, And I've seen that.
You know, every time I yield myself toe God, then
he does.
He does it for me.
He changes my mind.
I no longer feel frustrated when I yield to him.
I no longer have thoughts off anger and, uh, you
know, lack off peace, but they need transforms me on
dhe. You know, Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered this prison
thing, The rainbow colors from the prison on how it
works did that experiment.
He said that the rainbow colors are not in the
prison. It doesn't come in the it's not stored inside
the prison, but rather it is because of the light
that comes into the prism.
That is what gives out the rainbow rainbow lights.
So it's not in me.
I don't have it in me toe, you know, have
the kind of thoughts that God has in every situation.
But it is there in God.
And when I love him toe work in me in
my heart to transform me Then that light comes into
my own heart into my own life into my own
mind my thoughts and transforms me to start thinking like
him to have thoughts of peace towards other people.
When I'm inconvenience when I'm hurt, when you know people
take away the credit when when they do stuff that,
uh, you know, bothers me.
You know, during all those times God shows me how
he can transform me on.
Do something really beautiful in me in my heart where
he transforms me from being a caterpillar to a butterfly
spiritually today my challenge to use the same trust God's
thoughts trust the plans that he has for you.
Allow him to do something beautiful in your life.
But you have to give your thoughts to him.
You have to search him.
Seek him.
Ask him to show him you up his thoughts for
you on when you search for him.
The Bible says that you will find him.
I pray for all of you that this will be
what you will also look for along with me in
God's heart.