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Ken Ulmer's rousing sermon stirred the hearts of attenders at the National Pastors Convention last year. He again will be a featured speaker at NPC, February 26-March 1, 2003, in San Diego. Bishop Ulmer leads Faithful Central Bible Church, which recently purchased for a worship center the Great Western Forum, former home of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers. This message was featured on Preaching Today audio, our monthly selection of the best in contemporary preaching, and was published online at PreachingToday.com.

Jeremiah 1:4: "Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.'" Then he says in verse 9: "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms" (NKJV). God says: I formed you, I sanctified you, I ordained you, and I set you over the nations. But before all of that, I knew you.

And then God says the words that will change your life: I put my words in your mouth.

You are where you are on purpose. God does not move by accidents. He moves by providence. And he has providentially ordained and assigned you where you are today. You are not there by accident. You are not there because some committee voted on you. You are not there because denominational strings were pulled. You are there because God has set you in place, and he set you there that he might be glorified in and through you. And one of the ways he does that is to place his words in your mouth.

God says he has placed his word in your mouth. He says to Jeremiah:

I touched your mouth, and I put my words in your mouth.

His word entrustedThis suggests, first of all, that God entrusts his word ...

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