²³Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people, ²⁴knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:23-24 (CSB)

¹During the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence, ²so the king said to me, “Why do you look so sad, when you aren’t sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” I was overwhelmed with fear ³and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins and its gates have been destroyed by fire?” ⁴Then the king asked me, “What is your request?”  So I prayed to the God of the heavens.
Nehemiah 2:1-4 (CSB) 

⁵and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor with you, send me to Judah and to the city where my ancestors are buried,^, so that I may rebuild it.”  ⁶The king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So I gave him a definite time, and it pleased the king to send me.  ⁷I also said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let me have letters written to the governors of the region west of the Euphrates River, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.
Nehemiah 2:5-7 (CSB)

God’s master plan for you:

1. Believing in Jesus

¹⁹So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household.
Ephesians 2:19 (CSB)

¹⁴For this reason I kneel before the Father ¹⁵from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. ¹⁶I pray that he may grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power in your inner being through his Spirit, ¹⁷and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, ¹⁸may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, ¹⁹and to know Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. ²⁰Now to him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us—²¹to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:14-21 (CSB)

⁶God provides homes for those who are deserted. He leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious live in a scorched land.
Psalm 68:6 (CSB)

³⁴ “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. ³⁵ By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
John 13:34-35 (CSB)

God’s master plan for you:

2. Belonging to His family.

¹⁹So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household.
Ephesians 2:19 (CSB)

⁵in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.
Romans 12:5 (CSB)

¹⁸And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
Matthew 16:18 (CSB)

²⁹For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, ³⁰since we are members of his body. ³¹For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.^{, 32}This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:29-33 (CSB)

²²And he subjected everything under his feet^, and appointed him as head over everything for the church, ²³which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.
Ephesians 1:22-23 (CSB)

God’s master plan for you:

3. Building His Kingdom

¹³He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. ¹⁴In him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:13-14 (CSB)

¹⁷for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:17 (CSB)

¹³Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice.^, For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matthew 9:13 (CSB)