God's Good Idea

God's Comfort Zone

Ephesians 1:3,4

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

⁴According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

GOD’S GOOD IDEA

You were created in the mind of God before you were conceived in a womb. You were God’s idea. And God is the One who made you for a specific time and place on this earth.

You aren’t an accident, a mistake, an error, an incident, or a mishap.

You were fashioned and made by Elohim – the Lord God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. You were meticulously made by the Master. Many people today grew up hearing that they weren’t wanted by their parents. They were told that they were the result of a “careless moment.” If you have been told that, you need to know the truth.

Your mother and father didn’t create you. God created you. Your mother and father set up a circumstance in which God had the option to make you then or to wait and make you at another moment in time. But it is God who made you. You are His creation. And God doesn’t make mistakes.

It doesn’t matter if you were conceived during an act of date rape and born to a welfare mother who had thirteen other children by ten different men. God is the One who ordained and authorized your birth. He created you for his purposes and His glory.

He didn’t allow you to be aborted or miscarried. He didn’t allow you to be stillborn or to die of crib death. He didn’t allow any number of childhood accidents or diseases to take you out. From the instant He had the idea of you, He intended that you should live and participate in His plan and accomplish His purposes.

He never took His hand off your life. It doesn’t matter if you were abused as a child. God brought you through that experience alive, and He brought you to an understanding of Jesus Christ as your Savior and raised you up so that you could still fulfill His purposes and reflect His glory in spite of every effort of the enemy to destroy you, diminish you, defame you, or discourage you.

The fact is, if you hadn’t gone through everything you have gone through, you wouldn’t be the person you are today. And God knows that! He has been in the process of creating you, fashioning you, molding you, designing you, refining you, and perfecting you since the moment before the foundations of the earth when He first thought of you!

He gave you your own personality, your own abilities, your own spiritual gifts, and your own identity in Christ so that you, and you alone, might praise Him the way you praise, give what you give, minister like you minister and love as you love.

Oh, yes!, When God thought of you, He had a good idea!

- Bishop T. D. Jakes

Ephesians 1

   ¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
   ²Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
   ³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
   ⁴According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
   ⁵Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
   ⁶To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
   ⁷In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
   ⁸Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
   ⁹Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
   ¹⁰That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
   ¹¹In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
   ¹²That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
   ¹³In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
   ¹⁴Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
   ¹⁵Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
   ¹⁶Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
   ¹⁷That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
   ¹⁸The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
   ¹⁹And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
   ²⁰Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
   ²¹Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
   ²²And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
   ²³Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

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