God Himself told me that He has a perfect plan for each and every life, and He calls everyone to that plan. Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God (I Corinthians 7:24). Some people have received God’s plan for their lives while others have gone their own way and done whatever they pleased. They don’t want the will of God, and they don’t seek for it. They don’t want to live holy, free from all sin; and they don’t want to give themselves to the Lord.

Many people have planned their lives exactly how they wanted to, feeling that they have a right to do whatever they want to do; but they will lose their lives at the end of the journey. Many are now being tormented in eternity because they missed the plan that would have taken them to Heaven. There is a literal, burning hell; Jesus said so. And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched (Mark 9:43,44).

God doesn’t want anyone to go to hell; that’s why it’s His plan for His children to be soul winners. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you (John 15:16). God calls some people to preach, some to teach and others to testify and to be living epistles for the Lord. When we find Calvary, we are given God’s light that will shine into all the dark places on Earth to give everyone a chance to be saved.

Live Holy Before God

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service (Romans 12:1). Some people don’t believe you can live free from sin; but the Lord said we’re to present our bodies as living, holy sacrifices, acceptable unto God. This scripture also says that it’s our reasonable service—we owe this to the Lord.

What causes people to go their own way?—They forget God and make their own plans. I was taught that God has a plan for every one of His children, and I found that plan for my life. At eighteen, I found Calvary; and God gloriously saved me. Then He called me to preach His Gospel, and He made a preacher out of me overnight. Before I ever saw the inside of a theological school, I was already preaching and having revivals; and God was blessing people. He was opening doors to me wherever I went.

God could use me like that because I had left the world behind—the music, the sports events and all of its entertainment. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God (Romans 12:2). I had been transformed. I had taken Jesus for mine, and I was complete in Him. Ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power (Colossians 2:10). I was complete in living holy, complete in being free from all sin and complete in the new and living way that Jesus brought. By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh (Hebrews 10:20).

Adam and Eve Failed God’s Plan

God told me that He had made a perfect plan for the first man and woman; and if they had stayed with that plan, everything would have been all right. There would have been no sin on Earth today, and no one would be going to hell—that wasn’t His plan. God told me that when He first made man, He didn’t know man was going to sin. He didn’t look into their future because He knew that if He wanted man and woman to trust Him, He would have to put trust in them.

God deals with people in an honest way. He made a perfect man and a perfect woman; but He warned them, “You have to follow my plan and stay away from the tree of evil. If you go to that tree of death, you will die.” And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 2:16,17). Adam and Eve didn’t stay with the plan of God; and down through the years, multitudes have turned away as well. But all of them have come to the end of their journey and found that there was no Heaven for them.

God had a great plan for mankind, and He sent Jesus to invite each and every person to live in His Heaven one day. God gave His whole heart when He gave Jesus to make us a Calvary. It was the perfect plan for you and me, but man failed that perfect plan. Nothing had ever hurt the heart of God like man and woman going to the tree of death. They had turned their backs on perfect happiness, perfect joy and perfect peace.

God’s Plan for Noah and Abraham

God had a plan to destroy everybody on the face of the Earth, but He heard one voice honoring Him; and that voice got into His heart. Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD (Genesis 6:8). Through that grace, Noah received the great plan of redemption for his family. God would have spared all the people of that day if they would have accepted His plan; but they wouldn’t take it, and He had to destroy every seed of sin.

Noah’s family built the ark according to God’s divine plan, and it took them 120 years to finish it. During that whole time, only Noah’s family took the plan of God and lived free from sin. In order to keep sin out of the family, the Lord shut up the wombs of the four wives; and no children were born for 120 years. He didn’t want to risk the chance of a child growing up to become a sinner and ruining His divine plan for those eight people. Noah’s whole family got on board with the perfect plan of God, and they never turned to the left or to the right.

The Lord told me that He made a perfect Abraham to be the father of the faithful. Always remember Abraham’s great story of faith recorded in Genesis 22 when he set out to offer up his son Isaac as a burnt offering in obedience to the Lord. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure (Hebrews 11:17-19). Abraham’s faith was tested, but he knew that God could resurrect his son. Our faith will be tested in many ways, too, but we must come forth knowing that our faith is good. Never be disappointed when your faith is being tried; just follow God’s perfect plan for you.

God’s Plan for Lot

Lot received God’s perfect plan while he was living in the evil cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, but his sons-in-law rejected the plan of God. They wanted to live as they pleased just as many people do today. And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law (Genesis 19:14).

Lot’s wife wouldn’t accept God’s plan either. She loved the sins of the city rather than Jehovah God. When it came time to flee the city, two angels had to drag her out. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:15-17,26). Out of all the people in Sodom and Gomorrah, only three accepted God’s plan for them—and they were the only ones whose lives were saved. You must always remember that.

The Lord will hold onto you for just so long, and then He will let you go. He said, My spirit shall not always strive with man (Genesis 6:3). God is warning us that He will give up on people. God will close His ears, His eyes and His mind to people who turn from Him; and He’s doing that to many people today. They may think they’re getting by, but they’re not. They’re passing up the divine plan to accept the devil’s plan, one that the flesh will yield to when it is not crucified through the blood of Jesus.

God’s Plan for Joseph

God said that He had a perfect plan for Joseph. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; And they took him, and cast him into a pit…Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt. And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard (Genesis 37:3,4,23,24,28,36).

People may not think that being sold as a slave was a perfect plan, but it was God’s perfect plan for Joseph and his whole family; however, it didn’t start out well for Joseph. Think about all the tears that young boy must have shed and the sorrows he must have gone through; but when you’re in God’s plan, the Spirit of the living God dwells in you, and His wisdom and His plain paths become yours. In his time of need, Joseph looked to God, his dearest friend; and he accepted His plan for his life. I can just hear him saying, “Not my will, God, but yours be done.”

Joseph Didn’t Fail

At one time, Joseph was sent to prison even though he didn’t do anything wrong. Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured. And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. But he refused…And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her. And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within. And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home. And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me: And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out. And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison (Genesis 39:6-8,10-12,16-18,20).

Joseph had to spend a long time in prison, but God was always with him. God had to make sure that he had no ego, and He had to prepare him for the rest of His plan to come.

God has to take the ego out of anyone before His plan can go into effect. Holding onto any ego will cause you to lose the plan of God. I’ve seen preachers with good ministries become ruined because of ego. They wanted people to see them as someone great, and they trampled the plan of God underfoot.

Joseph Is Victorious

When Joseph finally got out of prison, all ego was gone; and God was able to use him to save his entire family. God brought seventy of them into Egypt during the worst famine that the world had ever seen. They would have starved to death in the country they were in, but God provided for them in Egypt. And the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families (Genesis 46:5,6; 47:12).

It took time for God to mold and make Joseph into the vessel he needed to be, but the length of time it takes God to make a person depends on what God has called that person to do. Joseph started as just a slave boy, but God made him rise to become the second in command in all of Egypt. God’s plans are far beyond what people can imagine or think. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:9).

I take God’s ways, and I take His thoughts. This great world-wide Jesus ministry has come forth from the plan of God. His plan took me to Akron, Ohio and directed me to get a people ready to take Jesus to the whole world in this final hour. It was God’s plan to give this ministry an airplane that would help us take the Gospel to the ends of the Earth. God gave me a vision of a plane years ago, and He said this ministry would have a plane one day. That day came, and now I’m taking workers with me to the nations to win lost souls and tell of God’s great miracles. Many of those who travel with me have to sacrifice much to be able to go, but it’s all a part of God’s divine plan. Sacrifice is the making of people.

God’s Plan for Moses

God had a plan for Moses, but it took God forty years to make him. When Moses was born, Pharaoh had declared that all the baby boys would be killed. It was prophesied that a king would be born to the Israelites, and Pharaoh didn’t want that king; but little Moses was in the divine plan of God, and he was saved. And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him…and he became her son. And she called his name Moses (Exodus 2:1-6,10).

God’s plans are simple but fabulous. Little Moses floated down the Nile River and into the heart of Pharaoh’s daughter, and she raised him as her very own son. No doubt, he would have become a Pharaoh one day, but Moses had a different vision. He grew to love his own people, and he turned away from Pharaoh’s house. By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season (Hebrews 11:24,25).

Moses paid a big price, and he became one of the meekest men to ever live on Earth. God had to prepare him to stand up before Pharaoh and tell him exactly what the Lord wanted him to say. He had to be consecrated, dedicated and separated from anything that would keep him from hearing what God was saying to him from His throne in Heaven. God gave Moses His plan that would bring the Israelites out of Egypt. They wouldn’t be delivered by the sword but rather by the hand of God and a mere shepherd’s staff. God gave Moses the power to perform mighty miracles in the name of Jehovah God with only a rod of truth.

God’s Plan for the Israelites

Miracles brought the Israelites out of Egypt, and miracles will bring the Bride out and onto the Mount of His Glory, saith the Lord. I’m not talking about fake miracles but real ones that will shine for all eternity. We will tell the story of the greatness of Jehovah God as the endless ages roll. That’s God’s great plan!

After the Israelites left Egypt, God had planned for them to go straight through to Canaan; but they didn’t take His plan even though God had offered them so much and given them great favor. And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians (Exodus 12:36). God had loaded the people down with silver and gold and other precious things; but the Israelites still sold out to the devil and wasted all those riches. They melted the gold jewelry down to form a golden calf, and they worshiped it rather than Jehovah God.

Because of their sin, God let the people wander in the wilderness for forty years before He would finally allow them to enter Canaan. How sad when they could have been there in eleven days if only they had taken the plan God had offered them. How many of you have suffered because you missed the plan of God? The world is in an awful condition today because billions of people will not accept God’s plans.

Joshua Took God’s Plan

After Moses died, Joshua took over to lead the Israelites into the land of Canaan; but when they crossed over Jordan, they found Jericho shut up. Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him (Joshua 6:1-5).

Just think of all those people marching around the walls with no weapons. A few tooted old rams’ horns, but the plan of God was for the rest of the people to keep their mouths shut. And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout (Joshua 6:10). God had to get the Israelites sanctified and ready. They all had to die to self while the people in Jericho mocked them from across the walls because they had nothing to fight with. In spite of all that, they had to keep marching without saying a word.

On the seventh day, the people marched around the walls seven times as God had instructed. After the final time around, God told the people to shout; and those walls came tumbling down. And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword (Joshua 6:20,21). God’s plans are miraculous!

Israel Wanted Their Own Way

God had a perfect plan for Israel after they had arrived in the land of Canaan. He told the people He was going to give them all the land of Canaan, and then He drove seven nations out. God had promised Abraham that land, and He’s kept His covenant all these years in spite of all the disobedience of the people.

If Israel had kept God’s plan when they got into the land of Canaan, they wouldn’t have had to suffer so much; but they failed. The Almighty God had wanted to be their king, but they didn’t want Him. They rebelled against God and against His plan. All the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations (I Samuel 8:4,5).

God did not want the Israelites to be like other people; they were to be God’s people. They were to live holy and be holy just like God Himself; but instead, Israel got their kings, and almost every one of them led the people deeper and deeper into sin. When King Ahab took the throne, he brought Jezebel with him; and she brought Baal worship in among the people. And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him. And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him (I Kings 16:30,31).

God’s Plan for Samuel

Samuel was in the plan of God. Hannah, his mother, couldn’t have a baby; so she sought God, and the Lord heard her and answered her prayer. And she [Hannah] vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her (I Samuel 1:11,19).

God did give Hannah a son; and she named him Samuel, which means “asked of God.” Hannah didn’t forget her promise to God; and as soon as Samuel was weaned, she took him up to Shiloh and left him there with Eli the priest.

Although Eli was the priest at that time, he had not done all he should have done; and his sons had failed God. They would whore around with the women in God’s holy place, so God killed them. The Lord had even stopped talking to Eli because he would not make his family live holy, and he let them get by with ungodly things. Parents, God holds you responsible for your children, and He has a plan for every child who is born. By your own will you brought that child into the world, and it’s your responsibility to teach that child that God has a plan for him or her.

My mom and dad wanted all of their children to live according to God’s plan. That’s what they yearned for, and they finally did get the plan of God that they desired for all seven of us. They didn’t want us to go into the world and become someone big because they knew it would destroy us, and they knew it would destroy the plan of God for us.

God’s Plan for Elijah

Elijah followed God’s plan for him. Hear him standing before Ahab saying, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word (I Kings 17:1). Elijah had the plan of God, and God confirmed it; but Ahab didn’t believe it. However, Elijah paid him no mind, and the rain did stop.

During that time of famine, God had a plan to take care of Elijah. And the word of the LORD came unto him [Elijah], saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD (I Kings 17:2-5). Elijah was just fine during the whole famine. He was by the brook drinking plenty of water, and the birds came every day to bring him food.

Eventually, the famine got so bad that the brook dried up, so the Lord told Elijah to go to a certain widow woman’s house. So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth (I Kings 17:10-14).

God sent Elijah to that woman because He knew she was a woman of faith, and He knew she’d take His plan. If she had refused, she and her little son would have starved to death; but the widow woman obeyed God. She stayed in the perfect plan of God and received a perfect miracle. God filled up her meal barrel and her empty oil cruse, and the Bible declares that both stayed filled to the brim throughout the famine.

Prophets Have Failed

God had a plan for all of the Old Testament prophets, but some of them failed terribly. Jeremiah said as he was moved on by the Holy Ghost, I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied (Jeremiah 23:21). These prophets had prophesied the thoughts of their own hearts and brought damnation to themselves and to many other people who had accepted their false prophecies. God hates false prophecies, and He hates speaking in tongues at will. People will give prophecies at will and claim they’re coming from God, but they are lies of the devil. Some people claim that they can speak in tongues any time they want to, but it’s all of self and not of God.

The Holy Ghost speaks through me in many languages and dialects, but it’s not by my will at all. One time, God preached a whole sermon through me in Hebrew, and I had never really studied Hebrew. The people in the congregation didn’t understand it all, but they filled the altar because it scared them; and we had a great revival! It’s amazing what God can do when you’re in His plan, and God definitely had a plan for that service.

David Hindered God’s Plan

David had the plan of God even as a youngster. He took that plan and was able to kill a bear and a lion; and later, he killed the giant Goliath who was tormenting the army of Israel. And David said unto Saul…Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God (I Samuel 17:34,36). Saul should have been the one who killed Goliath, but he didn’t take the perfect plan of God.

God chose David to be king in Saul’s place; but later, he turned away from the plan of God when he slept with another man’s wife. And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her…And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child (II Samuel 11:2-5).

David’s situation got even worse when he learned that Bathsheba was pregnant, and he had to decide what to do about her husband. He sent for Uriah to come home from the battlefield in hopes that he would go in unto his wife, but that didn’t happen. Uriah was an honorable man and said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab [the head of the army], and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die (II Samuel 11:11,14,15). Uriah did die in battle, and David had committed murder; but our Lord is so merciful, and David did get back to God when he bleached his bones before the Lord and repented with sorrowful repentance.

God’s Plan for His Temple

David’s son Solomon took God’s plan and built the great temple of God. God let David know that he was too bloody from all the wars he had fought to build God’s holy temple, but God gave him His plan that he should gather the materials so his son could build it.

David helped gather gold, silver and brass from the many nations he had defeated; and then he laid up these materials so they could be used to build the holy temple of God. What a plan! And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight; Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David…So David prepared abundantly before his death (I Chronicles 22:2-5).

Solomon received all the wisdom and knowledge from Heaven that he needed, and he did build the temple. But later in his old age, he backslid just like his father had and went away from the plan of God. For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father (I Kings 11:4). God had warned Solomon not to take any wives of foreign flesh, but he thought he was a big king and that he could do as he pleased.

Arrogance destroys God’s plan in a person’s life. If you’ve allowed arrogance, resentment, hate, grudges or anything else to destroy the plan of God for you, come to Jesus today. You won’t be offered the plan of God much longer because Jesus is soon coming.

Hezekiah Took God’s Perfect Plan

Many of the kings failed God, but Hezekiah was a great king; and he took the perfect plan of God. The Lord loved Hezekiah so much that He gave him fifteen more years to live after He had told him that he would die. At first, the Lord spoke to Hezekiah through the great prophet Isaiah saying, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live (II Kings 20:1). But Hezekiah didn’t accept that message. He turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying, I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore (II Kings 20:2,3).

The Lord heard Hezekiah and spoke to him again through Isaiah saying, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake (II Kings 20:5,6).

God gave Hezekiah fifteen more years, but He’s going to give us a trillion years and more if we will take His perfect plan. At the end of the journey, we will be able to say, “Lord, I’ve walked before you with a perfect heart.”

God’s Plan Brings Life

If you don’t have a perfect heart and live free from sin, you have not taken the plan of God. The greatest part of His plan is Calvary; but without it, no man, woman, boy or girl will ever see the face of God. So many people today won’t take the perfect plan of God. They may go to church, but most churches and their members are spiritually dead when God’s plan brings life!

Dead churches have only a form of godliness; they’ve denied the true power of God, and they’ll go to hell for it. This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away (II Timothy 3:1-5).

The Bible says, Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you (II Corinthians 6:17). It also says, Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him (I John 2:15).

Jesus came and brought the new and living way. He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). Jesus is our tree of life; and without Him, there is no life. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12). Jesus is the only name that can bring eternal life.

God sent Jesus to Earth with a perfect plan for every person. At that time, people throughout the world were eating from the tree of death because only a few had taken the perfect plan of God. There was a time when God winked at ignorance, but not anymore. Since Calvary, everyone can have the perfect plan of God. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent (Acts 17:30).

Take God’s Plan

Have you taken God’s perfect plan for your life? Thank God that some of us have, and we have made an Eden in our hearts because we know in whom we have believed. For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day (II Timothy 1:12). You can’t live by your theories and thoughts; you have to live by the thoughts of God in His holy Word. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4).

You have to live by faith. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is [meaning that He is God], and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). Notice the word diligently—that means you must seek God with all of your heart to get the perfect plan for your life.

Young people may try to make excuses by saying that they don’t know the plan of God for them, but I found God’s plan for my life through prayers and fastings. I took that whole, perfect plan when God saved me, and I still have it today. The Bible says, If ye abide in me [if you live in me], and my words [my promises] abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you (John 15:7).

What kind of prayer life do you have? Jesus prayed knowing that His Father always heard Him. Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always (John 11:41,42). Jesus taught the disciples to pray, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen (Matthew 6:9-13).

Even though Jesus walked and talked with the twelve apostles, every one of them, except John the Revelator, missed the perfect plan of God while He was here on Earth. Only John took God’s plan.

The Baptism of the Spirit Is God’s Plan

God marked me in my mother’s womb with His plan for me to preach the Gospel, and He revealed that plan to me when I was just eighteen years of age. That was when I got saved and filled to the brim with the good Holy Ghost. It’s the perfect plan of God for all believers to be baptized with the fire of the Holy Ghost. On the day of Pentecost, Peter said, For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call (Acts 2:39).

Jesus told of the Holy Ghost before He went to Calvary. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you (John 14:16,17). Jesus also said, Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come (John 16:13).

The Holy Ghost is the One who keeps us on the road to Heaven and helps us do the works of God. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do [meaning on a greater scale]; because I go unto my Father (John 14:12). To believe on Jesus means to serve Him and to take His perfect plan for your life. We have to be just as holy as Jesus is to be able to do His works.

Paul told us that the Lord makes intercession to the Father for us. It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us (Romans 8:34). The Holy Ghost makes intercession for us, too. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God (Romans 8:26,27).

When we know that two in the Godhead are interceding for us, we should pray without doubt or fear and realize that God is always working for our good. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28).

God’s Plan Requires Holiness

The Pharisees in the Bible claimed to follow God; but they were hypocrites, and the Lord hates hypocrites. Jesus told them, Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites (Matthew 23:29)! Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell (Matthew 23:33)? Jesus thought the same thing of the Sadducees.

John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus, didn’t spare the Pharisees and Sadducees either. When they came asking John to baptize them, he said, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham (Matthew 3:7-9). John told them that they would have to repent until their sins were all gone because he wasn’t about to baptize any sinners.

Many sinners have been baptized in water, but nothing changed; they went in dry sinners and came out wet ones. Water baptism is holy, but it doesn’t wash away sins. You have to be holy before you’re baptized, and then it’s an act of a clear conscience toward God. You’re saying, “Lord, I believe you went down into death and that you were resurrected into life; and through your divine blood, I believe I was resurrected through your resurrection power into the perfect plan for my life.” Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4).

When I was saved, I became brand new. I put on the shoes of Jesus, and I’ve been wearing them ever since. You will become a different person, too, when you find God’s perfect plan for your life.

God’s Choice Is Perfect

It’s our responsibility to find the ways of the Lord and to know the plan of God for our lives. Every person on Earth should know God’s will for them. I’ve helped many young people find God’s perfect plan for their lives, but not all of them have stayed in that plan. In God’s perfect plan, He will choose the person for you to marry. I let Him choose my mate, and I’m glad I did. I was planning to pick my own wife; but when I found Jesus, I wanted Him to bring me the girl He had chosen, one who was in God’s perfect plan.

Angel’s home and my home were over 600 miles apart, but the Lord brought us together. He arranged for us to attend the same college, and that was where we met and fell in love. God’s divine plan unfolded before us, and we decided to have a marriage like we’d never seen before. We were always sweethearts, and relatives thought that it couldn’t possibly be or last; but when you’re in the divine, perfect will of God, a marriage will last in perfection.

For twenty-seven years before the Lord took Angel home, we never had one argument or fight. I couldn’t stand to see Angel cry. It was hard enough for me to see her cry when other people would hurt her, so I never wanted to make her cry. We were in the perfect plan of God; and in that plan, God let me know that He took her to Heaven at the exact moment He had planned. When you follow the perfect plan of God, you won’t die until it’s the Lord’s time for you to go.

God Plans Life and Death

After Angel went home, I didn’t know how I could go on breathing without her. I had loved her better than I had loved myself, but she was gone. For the first time since God had saved me, I couldn’t even talk to Him. I wasn’t mad at Him because I knew that it had to have been His perfect plan, but I was as one struck dumb. Then God visited with me before she was buried and said, “It was my divine will to have taken Angel when I did. By taking her, she’ll bring more souls into my Kingdom than if I had left her with you.” And her death has brought more souls into the Kingdom of God than anyone else’s death in our day that I know of, and it’s still bringing people in.

Because God had planned Angel’s death, she was anointed to go to Heaven; and she longed to go. The time came when I knew that if the Lord gave her the chance to go home, she would gladly go. She saw Jesus in our bedroom shortly before she went; and she said, “Jesus is standing over there by the table; don’t you see Him?” Then she spoke to Him so sweetly and said, “Jesus, let down the bridge so I can go across.” The Lord did let down the bridge, and she happily went across. Her memorial garden is still so anointed today; and people have been saved, healed and delivered while visiting there. It was all in the plan of God.

There’s a price to pay for the perfect will of God. The Lord had to teach me to live again. I still miss Angel yet today; but then I think of Jesus and all that He’s done for me, and I know every sacrifice has been worthwhile. Later, in a divine visitation, God told me, “Now I must have both of your hands in mine for the rest of the journey.” My hands are in His hands, and He’s leading us ever onward to the ends of the Earth where multitudes are coming to God.

Don’t Leave God’s Plan

God’s plan is always perfect, but Samson lost that perfect plan. He did eventually get it back, but he really had to suffer. The Philistines took him [Samson], and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house (Judges 16:21).

After he had endured so much suffering, Samson told the Lord, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes (Judges 16:28). Samson knew that he had lost God’s power and had become a total shame to God’s name, but he wanted to feel God’s power just one last time. Samson wanted to die with the enemies of his people, and he ended up killing more of them in his dying hour than he had killed during the whole time before he had lost God’s power.

God’s Plan for the Bride

Don’t be a Samson and walk away from God’s plan. This is the final hour now, and the Rapture will soon take place. It’s the perfect plan of God. Many of us won’t die, and we won’t be found sleeping; we will be changed in a moment. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed (I Corinthians 15:51,52). What a plan! Then we’ll meet the Lord in the air when He makes His second appearance. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord (I Thessalonians 4:16,17).

The Bible says that it will take the power of the Holy Ghost within to change us. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you (Romans 8:11). We will be changed from within, not from without. It will be like an explosion inside, and we’ll be on our way to meet Jesus and our loved ones who have died in the Lord. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him (I Thessalonians 4:14). I’m looking forward to meeting Jesus, Angel, my other loved ones and the multitudes of souls I’ve helped into the Kingdom. What a glad reunion day it will be!

Come into God’s Plan

Sinner, the perfect plan of God for you is to hurry home before dark. The Spirit is calling you to come to the light, Jesus. The devil’s plan that you have taken such pride in is going to take you to hell. Of course, the devil doesn’t tell you that. He tells you that if you take his plan, you can do whatever you want to do. He gives you the spirit of arrogance so you’ll rebel against the One who died for you, and you’ll be headed straight for hell. Once you’re there, there’s no way out.

Take God’s plan and give your life to the Lord. If you’re a backslider, come back to Jesus right now and say this prayer. Oh, God, I’m lost. I’m so sorry I sinned against you, but I’ve come home. I haven’t been using the plan of God, but I want your perfect plan. I know this message was for me today. Please forgive me, Lord, and give me another chance! I know you died for me, and I know there’s power in the blood of Jesus to wash away all of my sins. Come into my heart, Jesus! Come on in!

If you meant that prayer, the light of Calvary has shined upon that dark soul of yours and has given you life. God’s plan now is for you to live holy. It is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy (I Peter 1:16). Then you must go on to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, power from On High.

Take God’s Healing Plan

You who are sick and afflicted, it’s God’s divine plan to heal you. The mail pours into my headquarters from all over the world telling about the great miracles that people are receiving through this Jesus ministry. We send blest cloths all over the world, and people are healed. And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them (Acts 19:11,12).

People were delivered in Paul’s day through those anointed cloths, and the same thing happens today. I touch cloths like Paul did, send them to the world and miracles take place. Paul had the gifts of the Spirit, and those nine gifts work in my life through the power of the Holy Ghost. That’s God’s plan, and it’s His power that flows.

God’s divine plan is to heal you so you can be a witness for Him, but you must serve God and give Him all the glory. People are being healed of all kinds of deadly diseases, including AIDS; and we’re having many of those cases documented to let the world know what the Lord is doing. I can’t heal you of even a slight headache; but my God and my Savior can heal you of everything.

Lord, heal the people today. Heal those with HIV/AIDS. You’ve already healed entire families of that awful disease for which medical science cannot find the cure. Heal people of cancer, lung trouble, heart trouble, diabetes, leprosy and strokes. Let them feel your holy power right now in the blood name of Jesus so they will know that they’re receiving miracles through your blood stripes. We honor you, Lord, for the miracles.

If you want to keep your miracle, you must live holy before the Lord; not one tiny speck of willful sin can get through the gates of Glory. Prayer, Bible fasting and living in the Word will keep you on the straight and narrow road to Heaven, and the Lord wants you to be there one day. That’s God’s divine plan for you.

Remember that every promise you need is in God’s Holy Bible, but you can’t use them until you meet the conditions. Each promise has a condition, and you must meet that condition if you want to receive the promise. May God’s richest blessings be yours.