BECOMING THE RECIPIENT OF HIS PURPOSE AND PLAN

[Albert Finch]

In Jeremiah 33:3, we are told to call to Him so He can reveal things that were once hidden but now have become accessible. He wants to bring restoration and establish His purpose and plan in our lives—not man’s plan but His plan. All we need to do is ask.

Psalm 33:10–12: "The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of His heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance."

Here we see that the Lord does reveal His counsel to those who seek His heart for each generation. And where the Lord releases His counsel, He also flows with His might. Counsel and might flow together (see Isa. 11:2).

In First Corinthians 2:10, we also find that the revealer loves to reveal to us the things He has for us:
“But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God” (NKJV).

A HIGHER WISDOM AVAILABLE

This is why, in First Corinthians 2:4–5, Paul writes:

"And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God (NKJV)."

In the very next verse, Paul explains why this is important, writing:

"Yet when we are among the full-grown (spiritually mature Christians who are ripe in understanding), we do impart a [higher] wisdom (the knowledge of the divine plan previously hidden); but it is indeed not a wisdom of this present age or of this world nor of the leaders and rulers of this age, who are being brought to nothing and are doomed to pass away." - 1 Corinthians 2:6 AMP

POSITIONING OUR HEART FOR HIS HEART

Be of good cheer! Don’t be shaken in your faith by the outward circumstances around you or by the plans of people. The plan and purpose of the Lord will be established. As you seek Him, positioning your heart for His heart, He will reveal to you what He plans.

The Lord is sending out His voice, and He is looking for those who have hearts set toward Him. He is giving entrance into the things that the natural cannot access. We can only enter them by the Spirit of the Lord, as Scripture makes clear:

"The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you." - John 14:17 NKJV

"For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father." - Ephesians 2:18 NKJV

Let’s come into agreement with this verse:
“Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know” (Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV).

Here the word mighty actually means “inaccessible.” Once it wasn’t accessible, but now it has been opened to you! Truly, through His counsel and might, He is releasing and activating mighty deeds that can only be done by His Spirit. No matter how small they may seem, they are mighty, because with the Lord, a spark becomes a glory awakening.

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