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[Title] How Do I Know that This is Gods Plan For Me?

[Kicker] We can make life decisions with the confidence that we arent messing up Gods plan
for us Sophie Roberts 4/21/2017 8:35 AM
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As millennials and young adults, we face a lot of important decisions at this point in our lives: Sophie Roberts 4/21/2017 8:52 AM
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what to study, where to work, whom to date, where to live . . . the list goes on and on. Fellow-
millennial Ariel Szuch reflects on the pressures shes felt as shes had to make these decisions:
Ive wondered if I was messing up Gods plan for me. Ive agonized over making THE RIGHT
CHOICE.

We know that because theres opposition in all things, some choices will be better than others.
But Szuch discovered that we shouldnt panic over making the right choice because there isnt Sophie Roberts 4/21/2017 8:37 AM
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only one choice God wants us to make. Gods plan for us is designed so that we can make
decisions and still find the happiness he wants for us.

In her LDS.org Blog post, Szuch shares the following three lessons she learned as she reconciled
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1. Use your agency. Szuch points out that God does not dictate every choice we make; he Sophie Roberts 4/21/2017 8:43 AM
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we move forward with confidence and act in accordance with [our] righteous desires,
counseling with God along the way, we can know were following his plan for us.

2. Trust in Gods plan for you. Sometimes we do receive clear impressions of Gods plan Sophie Roberts 4/21/2017 8:43 AM
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reminds us that God is always trying to give [us] what [we] really, truly want. But it is
always, always [our] choice.

3. Jesus Christ is the way. If we want a model for what our path should look like, God Sophie Roberts 4/21/2017 8:43 AM
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God and become like him. That is Gods plan for all of us. As long as we continue
repenting and exercising faith in Christ, we know we are following the plan for us.

Whenever we might panic about which decision to make to not mess up Gods plan for us, Szuch
wants us to remember this: Me learning is the plan. Me changing is the plan. Sophie Roberts 4/21/2017 8:44 AM
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Read more of Ariel Szuchs LDS.org Blog post, Youre Not Messing Up Gods Plan for You
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[Link to the source article] https://www.lds.org/blog/youre-not-messing-up-gods-plan-for-
you?lang=eng

Source: LDS.org Blog

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