Welcome to The Soul Food Revival Series with your host Jimmy Hilton, “encouraging spiritual intimacy unto Christlike fruitfulness”. Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations”. I want to talk about this ‘knowing’. When I ponder that, it's an amazing thought to think, that even before Jeremiah the prophet was born, even before God had actually formed his substance in the womb, God already knew him. Now, because others have stated... like Ezekiel, Paul...they’ve all mentioned that... and David, they mentioned the ‘knowing’. This is the revelation that the Spirit gives, that God knows us. God is the one who created us. He is our creator. And so, He already has an idea of what He was doing before we were born. Sometimes we might think, you know, it's my parents choice or I was an accident. But think about this; what God was saying to Jeremiah. “Even before you were conceived I knew you”. Past tense, “I knew you”, not, “getting to know you”. Sometimes we think that when we come to Christ that's when God begins to know who we are. But the reality is before you were even a thought, before your existence, God knew you. Just think about that. God knew you, He knows us. He knows us. He knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows us better than those around us. And yet it should encourage us because like with Jeremiah he was appointed to be this prophet to the nation and he was scared. And yet God already knew what He was working with even before he (Jeremiah) became a prophet, even before. So were talking about even when he was a child, even when he was a baby, even when he was in the first trimester the second and third in the womb. God already knew him. And I wonder if we apply it to ourselves and realize (you know) God knows us and why should we try to avoid Him. Shouldn’t that encourage us and build us up to really grow in intimacy with Him; in an intimate relationship, in a more consecrated type of lifestyle with Him? Because before we became a Christian, God knew us. Or maybe you're not a believer right now. Maybe you don't believe in God. You don't believe in Christ. But God says, “before I formed you in the womb, I already knew you. I already know you”. And he's not disappointed in what He knows. Jeremiah found out that God says, “I have plans for you” (Jeremiah 29:11). Because He knows us He has plans. And He was saying this to Israel, “plans for welfare and not for evil to give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11). It's not just a crowd of people He’s saying that to. But, He is saying that to us as individuals because God knows us. He knows us in accordance to the plan that He has for us. These plans are not to make it hard on us, but it's to give us a good life; for us to have a future to look forward to, because that's where hope is. Hope is for a good expectation not an evil one. And God says, “No matter where you are now, or how you see yourself, or how others perceive you, it doesn't matter. I know what I'm doing. I know what I have intended (for us) for you”. And when we come to Christ, sometimes we think that at the time we became born-again that's when God found us. But the reality is, that's when we discovered that God was already prepared for us. And that should be exciting because even if you don't know Him now, He's already said, like he said to Jeremiah, “Before you were born, I consecrated you.” Consecration means that, “I've actually set you apart and I've claimed you to be my own. I've claimed you to be my spokesman or my own prized possession”. And you know sometimes we might think, ‘Well I may not be qualified for this, so I don't think that God has any interest in me”. And that would be a lie. Paul, the Apostle Paul, he was not always a good guy in regards to the gospel. He was actually someone who would be working in an antichrist type of spirit when he was Sa