| "(Roaring) deep calls to (roaring) deep at the thunder | | | | are directed to a certain church and at this church a |
| of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your | | | | missionary trip is planned for the youth or young adults |
| rolling waves have gone over me. Yet the Lord will | | | | or even an adult group to go to China. This child |
| command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the | | | | desires to go, goes with the group and while there the |
| night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of | | | | Holy Spirit stirs up this desire to be a missionary to the |
| my life." Psalm 42:7 | | | | people of China. The thoughts, the roots, the desires |
| This gives me the mind picture of a giant finding a tiny | | | | have all been planned and planted there by God to |
| kitten, scooping it up and holding it in his hands ever so | | | | fulfill this plan for this particular child. It sounds almost |
| gently. Or of a sumo wrestler being very rough in the | | | | impossible that every detail can line up at a particular |
| wresting ring then afterward takes his little | | | | time in space for everything to come to a certain point |
| two-year-old daughter by the hand to go out for ice | | | | and bring about this one detail in so many details in life. |
| cream. "Roaring deep" gives me the thoughts about | | | | Yet this one plan coming to fulfillment will affect every |
| God being very large, huge really, and very | | | | plan ever planned because there will be people that |
| commanding, yet His dealings with us...gentle and very | | | | this person affects and touches every moment there |
| kind in comparison. He "will command His loving | | | | and then further bring about the complete plan of God. |
| kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall | | | | These moments in time when all the things come |
| be with me". How awesome!! He created the universe | | | | together so completely to bring about a plan is called a |
| with the words of His mouth. He keeps the universe in | | | | divine appointment or "Moed" - appointed time. Some |
| balance: time, seasons, prophecies that have been | | | | of us take these so for granted when they happen |
| foretold coming to pass at the exact time He planned. | | | | but it is nothing short of miraculous. Think about it...God |
| And then He created us to have fellowship with Him. | | | | lines up this over here, He lines up this over there. He |
| He created us to love. Picture a married couple | | | | puts the thought in this person's mind to go here and |
| planning to conceive their first child and then all during | | | | the thought in this other person's mind to go there, too. |
| the pregnancy their excitement over the coming birth. | | | | Either person has a free will and can change their mind |
| They plan the nursery, they prepare with buying baby | | | | and not go. But the divine plan of God, planned before |
| clothes, diapers, baby wipes...everything! Some parents | | | | the earth existed, is coming to pass and all of Heaven, |
| even plan where the baby will go to school, what he | | | | all the angelic host is working together to do the will of |
| she will do...play soccer or football, do gymnastics or | | | | God and get this done. Every plan is connected to |
| ballet. Some even begin their future college fund! All of | | | | another plan then another then another...all inter-related |
| this planned even before the birth takes place. Where | | | | to bring about the end result: All coming to the saving |
| do you think parents get these tendencies? From our | | | | knowledge of Christ and bringing about every promise |
| very own loving Father who does the very same thing | | | | God has made in His Word. God had it written down |
| for each and everyone of us. Well, actually, He did the | | | | not as a history book but for us to proclaim and bring it |
| very same thing for each and every one of us. Even | | | | about. There is much in the Bible that has not yet been |
| before the foundations of the earth were formed, | | | | completed that will be before the return of Christ for |
| each and every one of us was a thought in God's | | | | His Church. So next time you have a thought to do a |
| heart, a plan He planned out to the very "nth" degree. | | | | particular thing or go to a particular place (no matter |
| And just like earthly parents, He did all the preparation | | | | how simple and natural it may sound) and then you |
| for us to fulfill that plan. Unlike earthly parents, though, | | | | have another thought to disregard that thought, STOP!! |
| God has unlimited means and resources to prepare | | | | Pray and ask God, "Which direction should I go? Is this |
| for us. With every plan He's planned He also has | | | | one of those divine appointments and I'm about to miss |
| provided everything to bring that plan about. | | | | it?" He'll let you know...just listen. |
| Let's say He has planned for a certain person to be a | | | | Proverbs 20:24 "Man's steps are ordered by the Lord. |
| missionary to China, for instance. I doesn't always | | | | How then can a man understand His way?" (By |
| happen this way but I have heard of it. This child is | | | | prayer and asking God.) |
| born to a family that travels a lot and maybe even to | | | | Other verses to consider: Proverbs 16:1-4, 9. |
| the orient. This child becomes accustomed to | | | | All verses taken from the Amplified version of the |
| uprooting, traveling, meeting new people-even people | | | | Bible. |
| of a different language and culture. Then the parents | | | | |