"You Are God's Special Project! He Is Daily Working To Perfect You." By: Dr. Shuffel P. Hepburn

You are God's special project. He's daily working to perfect you. That's our message.

The Lord has given extra special gifts to many who are living on earth today. Here are a few examples.

Three persons that are said to have the highest IQ in the world today are Terence Tao an Australian

Mathematician, Chris Langan a rancher and former bouncer at a bar and Yong Hun Kim a Korean professor at Cornell University. These are super geniuses. Their IQ's are above 200 with one being as high as 275. To give you a better idea of what this means. Consider that a normal person's IQ is around 100. Then there's a talented footballer from Portugal named Cristiano Ronaldo who is the most followed person in the entire world with more than 1 billion followers. Another called Dwayne the Rock Johnson was the highest paid actor in the world in 2024. Sir Thomas Edison, Isaac Newton, Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci are said to be among the top intelligent people that have ever lived. One invented the light bulb, one invented the parachute and helicopter and the other discovered

calculus. And did you know that the smartest people are born in the month of September. In addition there is at least one study that says Asian people are the most intelligent people in the world.

And what about Daniel Browning Smith known as Rubber Boy. He's an American actor, comedian and TV host who holds seven Guinness World Records for being the most flexible man in the world.

There's also Liberty Bars an English dancer

called Flexible Girl who has seven Guinness World Records. She discovered her gift by accident.

Why does God give special gifts and talents to certain people and what seems like more prosperity to certain nations? Of course we do not know the answer to these questions but we do know that if these super famous persons with all their popularity and wealth gain from their wonderful gifts, if they do not come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior before they die, they have lived in vain and are without eternal hope.

And we know that all those who come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior receive special gifts from God and have a special place reserved for them in eternity. It is important for us to know that God has not left us short of any good thing. He tells us in Psalm 84:11, "For the Lord God is a sun and shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Bless the Lord. He expands on this in Ephesians 2:10 telling us, "We are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." And this means that we are His handiwork, His masterpieces created in Christ Jesus, having been reborn from above. And we have been spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used for good works which God has prepared for us beforehand. And He wants us to walk in the path that He has laid for us, living the life that He has pre-arranged and made ready for us.

We become God's special children, His workmanship or His project when the Lord Jesus Christ enters our heart. A project of course is a piece of planned work or activity that is completed over a period of time and intended to achieve a particular aim. The word project comes from the Latin word projectum, which means to throw something forward. and this can be taken to mean that when Christ enters our hearts He projects or throws us forward, not backwards. He throws us forward by making us better, He improves on us so He can send us forth to do His bidding.

Now here's the awesome nature of a project. Number one, projects are time limited and so are we. The Lord has placed us here for a season. We are timestamped with a beginning and an expiration date. And then like a well thought out project, He's also given us specific purposes and like all projects we go through life cycles as He perfects us. In order to achieve His objective, each project is made uniquely adapted to fulfill a specific plan and of course we are uniquely suited to God's plan for our life. And finally God's projects are vehicles for venturing into the unknown. And of course man is an explorer. And when we stand back and look at all of this we see that every child of God fits this description of a project because we are indeed his workmanship created to do good works. However as we set out on this journey in Christ, we soon learn that we are not just an ordinary project but an extraordinary one.

And you will recall that at the creation, according to the book of Genesis each day after God created the heavens, the earth and all that are in them. He stood back and admired His workmanship saying that it was good. However on the sixth day after creating mankind in His own image and likeness and making them male and female. He stood back and said "It was very good." The holy scriptures bring into focus what He meant by saying His creation of mankind was very good and we will examine some of these statements made by God about His human creations in this message.

Number one, according to 1 Peter 2:9 the people of God are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. And when we examine this we begin to understand why God requires so much of us, His children. And we understand the Israelite people who were the first to be called the people of the Most High God, Was separated from the rest of the world. We understand why the Lord God put His mark of circumcision upon them and expected obedience from them above and beyond what was expected of the rest of the world.

As we try to understand what the Lord meant when He said that we are a chosen generation and a royal priesthood, more light is given to us in John 15:16 where He tells us "You did not choose me but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain. That whatever you ask the Father in my name He may give you. These things I command you that you love one another.

According to research, typically when a king appoints someone it involves that king using his power to fill a position of authority or influence and this may be a governmental post or the post of a high ranking position in the king's court or in his military service. The king possesses what is called executive powers that give him the authority to do these things. Our God is the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords and His sovereign powers are greater than any other. And therefore His chosen ones are indeed royalty and the things done by them have His seal of approval and cannot be challenged because they are authentic. In this way the work we do for the Lord will remain. It will last and when tested by fire our work will not be destroyed. And therefore we are the Lord's handiworks designed to live a life that reflects Him or that reflects His character. And you may say that God has already planned the good works that His children will do. And that He has equipped them to live them out. In His letter to the Colossians the Apostle Paul said that when he heard of their great faith he never ceased praying for them, asking the Lord that they may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. And that they may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the

knowledge of God. Strengthened with all might according to His glorious power. For all patience and longsuffering with joy. Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified them to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. Therefore friend we are expected to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, That we may please Him in every good way, bearing good fruit, doing good works, while growing in the knowledge of God. Gaining strength in our daily walk through this dark and wicked world because we are children of the light and not children of darkness.

Some of us today like the children of Israel in Jeremiah's time have forgotten our God. We have forsaken Him and gone in hot pursuit of the things of the world and we have turned to worthless idols and this has caused us to stumble and to stray away from the pathway that the Lord has laid for us to walk in. But He's saying to us the same thing that He said to the children of Israel through the prophet Jeremiah the day that He sent Jeremiah down to the potter's house to learn about the works of a potter. And He said the following oh house of Israel can I not do with you as this potter says the Lord. Look, as the clay is in the potter's hand so are you in My hand oh house of Israel. Like the nation of Israel had become in that day many of us are either unaware or have forgotten about the power of our great God. The power to build up and the power to tear down. We need to come back to this. Therefore it is important for us to cooperate with our God as He works to perfect us.

There's a beautiful psalm in which the Lord promises that He will fulfill and complete His purpose for your life. The psalmist declares the following in the 138 division. Though I walk in the midst of trouble you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies and your right hand will save me. The Lord will perfect that which concerns me. Your mercy O Lord endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands. This is the cry of the psalmist, and should be the cry of every one of us. There are many who desperately need to know that the Lord will revive them and save them. They need to know that the Lord will complete the work that He's begun in them. Please know that not only will the Lord complete this work but He will indeed perfect it. Be assured my friend that the Lord has not forsaken you.

For in another place He says "For a brief moment I

abandon you, but with great compassion I will gather you. In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment but with everlasting favor I will have compassion on you." Isaiah 54:7. Many are struggling with ailments Today. Struggling with disappointment and struggling with feelings of neglect and abandonment and some are perhaps at the end of their rope. But this verse promises us that God will fulfill and will complete His purpose for your life. This promises us that His mercy endures forever and urges you not to give up. Because He will not forsake the work of His Hands.

I pray God's blessings upon you, His peace, His grace, His mercy and the completion of the project which you are in His hands. God bless you in Jesus mighty name, amen.

You've been listening to this message and perhaps you do not know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and perhaps you didn't understand that you were God's special project. Well my friend you are and He's waiting for you to come to the table. Please say this prayer after me and God will hear it and honor your sacrifice. Say after me:

-Father I am a sinner.

-Please forgive me my

sins.

-I am sorry for the many ways I've been disobedient to You.

-I crave your forgiveness. I need your forgiveness.

-Please help me.

-I want to return to You

and I have decided to invite Jesus Christ into my heart.

-Dear Lord Jesus make my heart Your Home.

-I give You the key to my heart because I now belong to You forever.

-Please give me the Holy Spirit to lead me into all

truth.

-Thank you Lord for saving my soul, amen.

Welcome friend to the body of believers in Christ. There are many of us here awaiting the return of the Good Master. In the meantime we want to

encourage you to become water baptized as quickly as possible. Begin reading the word of God.

Begin in the book of John then go to Matthew, Mark, Luke. Pray daily, attend at your local church and one glad morning the Savior will come and receive us all unto Himself. And we shall indeed forever be with the Lord. God bless and keep you in Jesus mighty name, amen.