EPHESIANS 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him: 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

DANIEL 6:17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.

ADOPTION 60-0522E 212 And if each one of you in here now has not been positionally placed... You might not be nothing but a housewife. Well, you say, "Brother Branham, I never done a thing in my life. I'm not a preacher." Well, maybe God brought you here to raise a family of children; out of that family of children may come another family of children, that'll be a preacher that'll send a million souls to Christ. You had to be here. You're here for a purpose. Did you know that?

Well, you say, "All I ever done was harrow across these old clods. And I'd take out early a evening, didn't know how to make my kids a living. I looked at the poor little fellows with no shoes on. I've set and cried. I got an old buggy, and me and maw went to church." Don't you worry, brother. You just keep loving Him; He's got a purpose for you. You just stay right the way you are; just go right on. See? You might not never preach a sermon, but you might be the great-grandfather of one that'll do it.

IDENTIFIED.MASTERPIECE.OF.GOD 64-1205 33 Things different. We different one from another. We notice in the animal life. We find out in the animal life there's one animal God made a beast of burden, like the horse, and he has to work. And the cow is a sacrifice, but the lion and the tiger roams the forest without any labor or anything. He made a great big animal like an elephant, then made a little bitty fellow like a mouse. Now, who's there to tell God what to do and how to do it? He does it his own way. And He makes the mountains; He makes the deserts; He makes the seas; He makes the plains. He makes one kind of tree hard wood, palm, and so forth. He does it. He makes man different. He gives us each one a different place. And a palm tree can never be a hickory; a hickory tree can never be a palm. Nobody can take your place, and you shouldn't try to take anybody else's place, because you are an individual to God. And God has a purpose for you. He made you thus. You say, "Why did He do it?" He's sovereign. He's got a reason for it being that way. But we find out that we're all guarded by the Word.

REPROACH.FOR.THE.WORD 62-1223 And God sets a time and has a purpose for everything that He does. There's nothing happens just accidentally to those who love the Lord and are called according to His calling. See, we are predestinated. And everything works just right for that; because He cannot lie, and He said that was so, that everything has its time, its season, and it has its way; and God is behind every move. And sometimes you think that everything's going wrong. It's up to us. Those things are put upon us, trials and wonderings; it's testing to see how we will react on a action.

KINSMAN.REDEEMER 60-1002 55 And any time that a believer, gets off of his God-given grounds... Many times in politics, this election coming up and so forth, a good man can be a good man, and he'll wander off of those grounds. Like a certain minister I know run to be mayor of the city. And when he got off of his ministerial grounds, and Satan overtook him. If any Christian gets off of those grounds. "Well, I'll just go down tonight, set with the boys in the pool room awhile; I'll do no harm. I'll just take one little drink." You're off your grounds. Come back. You're only setting your course for trouble. "Oh, all the rest of the girls smoke; I'll just try one." You're off your grounds. Don't do that. Stay in the homelands. "Oh, well, everybody over here, they call me old fogy; they call me old fashion." Stay there anyhow. That's your place. Stay in Christ.

JESUS.AROSE 56-0405 45 ... To the newcomers, here's what happens, here what it is. It's yielding to the Spirit of God. Just yield yourself. It's a way, perhaps, you'd never be able to do it, probably I'd never be able to do what you do. But God has put us all in the church for some purpose, for His purpose.

HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL 56-0902 19 Notice in there, God had a servant down there by the name of Daniel, a young prophet about forty years old, who was serving the Lord with all of his heart. And God had a work for him to do. And in the carrying away of Babylon, remember, if God has a work for you to do, all the demons out of torment can't take you. They just can't startle you in any way. God's got a purpose for the Holy Ghost Church. And all the devils of hell will never be able to take it away. God's got a purpose for it. And it will never be destroyed until God lets it fulfill the purpose that He has ordained it to do, and it will.

UNITY.ONE.GOD.ONE.CHURCH 58-1221E 33 You take a fine piece of machinery like a watch, and let every piece of that machinery work in harmony, and it'll keep perfect time. But when one piece gets one way, and one another, it won't keep time. No matter how good the jewels are, it's all got to be unified together. That's God's purpose, for us to unify together and be one.