This may come as a shock to you, but did you realize that God has a plan for your life? You don’t have to take my word for it, see for yourself: I will bless you with a future filled with hope–a future of success, not of suffering. – Jeremiah 29:11 (Contemporary English Version) If you study the Old Testament, you’ll see that no matter how often man disobeyed God, God would still develop a plan to...

But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name. Who owe their birth neither to bloods nor to the will of the flesh [that of physical impulse] nor to the will of man [that of a natural father], but to God. [They are born of God!]. —John 1:12-13 AMP The advances in...