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want plans to succeed?

Commit your actions to the Lord , and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3 NLT https://bible.com/bible/116/pro.16.3.NLT When I make a gift, say it is a cake, and I want to send it to my son, I first freeze it, then I post it, and trust the post to deliver it in one piece. This is a huge step of faith, knowing that a cake can easily be smashed to pieces. Yet, I have successfully posted my son's favourite cake twice and had arrive in one piece. Likewise, I must give my plans to a God I cannot see, much like the postman, and trust, in faith, that they will come to pass. Take a risk, trust to an entity much bigger, and more able than you! Amen!

commit your plans

Commit your activities to the Lord , and your plans will be achieved. Proverbs 16:3 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/pro.16.3.HCSB By committing my plans to the Lord, I am acknowlesfing His superior take on them. He can see the how, the why and the what. He knows the best timing, the best focus, the best outlet.  By releasing my control over the whole matter, it reaolves in the best possible way. Today allow the Lord the mastery of the day, allow Him to be God in all things, and see what surprises He has in store. Amen!

His agenda

“Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! Why do you spend money on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods. Isaiah 55:1‭-‬2 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/isa.55.1-2.HCSB We are so focused on what we have in our bank account to spend, whereas if we focus on God and His economy, He provides all we need. If I have it, there is a purpose. If I don't have it the perceived purpose is wrong. God always makes sure I have the finances to give to His agenda. So often, I am caught in the agenda of others. Trust God for His provision, and His agenda. Amen!

come to the waters

“Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! Why do you spend money on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods. Isaiah 55:1‭-‬2 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/isa.55.1-2.HCSB We all know thirst. A hot day will bring it on, as will salty or dry food. Australian men tend to like a beer after mowing the lawn, it tends to 'hit the spot'. Yet all of these measures are temporary and cannot quench a thirst for truth. Jesus met a woman at a well in Samaria, to proove this point. In John 4 He meets an ordinary Samaratin woman who had come to draw water and offers her living water. He tells her about her life and she is mesmerized, as He could not have known what He did without divine access. Jesus is able to quench the deepest thirst for truth and life. He is good, and the best...

wonderfully made

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day. Psalm 139:13‭-‬16 MSG https://bible.com/bible/97/psa.139.13-16.MSG Have you ever thought about whether God spent time planning what we would be like, what our outside image would be, what our internals would work like? As I read the projects of engineers I grasp a small part of what God's planning would have been. Just as God takes His time in all things, I think He took His time with us. We are made in His image. We take time, if we want something to be...

You made me

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. Psalms 139:13‭-‬14 NLT https://bible.com/bible/116/psa.139.13-14.NLT This Psalm was written by King David, thousands of years ago. His recognition of the wonder of his body is very good, the way he describes being knit together in his mother's womb. Most of us have seen video footage of the growth of a baby in the womb, it is truely a wonder to behold. Only hard, selfish hearts could deny God's involvement, and wilfully destroy a child. When we refuse to acknowledge God, we become hard to all things beautiful in mankind. Only a heart that is soft towards God can love and appreciate true beauty without wanting to contrive something from it. Stay soft! Open your heart to your creator. You will be glad you did. Amen!

God of the heavens

Who is this King-Glory? God -of-the-Angel-Armies: he is King-Glory. Psalm 24:10 MSG https://bible.com/bible/97/psa.24.10.MSG We can become so earthly minded that we fail to recognise that a mighty God did indeed create all we know. The heavens are filled with billions of stars and planets, and we, the  chosen, live on the most beautiful, protected planet of all, Earth. This God chooses to want us as His family, and His friends. Little old us, who cannot  create as He does, live for a finite period of time, and spend so much time in conflict, yet He wants us!!! Crazy God