Text Messages: God wanted you • 7.31.22

Perris Valley Church

Series: Text Messages

Title: Paul said: Did you know that God wanted you?

Date:7/31/22

Location: Perris Valley Church

Transformational Point: You are planned, and important, and you have the power and ability to please God.

Ephesians 1:3-4 (NLT)

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 4 Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.

Point number 1 in your notes is this:

You are not an accident. You were planned and chosen by God.

Point number 2 in your notes is this

You were planned, wanted, and chosen to be holy.

Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)

For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

Matthew 25:34 (NLT)

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.

Colossians 1:22 (NLT)

Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

Ephesians 1:5 (NLT)

God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.

Romans 8:29 (NLT)

For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

Philippians 2:13 (NLT)

For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

Point number 3 in your notes is this

You are here because it pleased God to create you, and He gave you the power and ability to please Him.

Ephesians 1:6 (NLT)

So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to the riches of His grace

Point number 4 in your notes:

Our best is not even close to good enough. Because of our weakness, God offers us the gift of a voucher, but you can’t unlock it if you don’t accept the gift.

Romans 3:24 (NLT)

Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.