Proverbs 16:3 NLT “Commit your plans to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.”
I was reading in one of my devotionals this morning and the writer used a different verse but brought up a point sadly I haven’t thought of!
Commit our plans to the Lord! Easy enough! We may lay out our new business thoughts, plans, or dealings to the Lord!
We may be contemplating a life-changing move and commit these thoughts and plans to the Lord!
Possibly a mountain of debt that we spend many hours sweating and praying over, committing our needs to the Lord!
The child in your family causing havoc and pain, a disobedient teenage, a wild young adult? Prayers to the Lord, for the lessons that need to be learned, understanding to seep in, awakening to happen, and protection from their errant ways.
The list of guidance, protection, provision, clarity, direction, grace, favor, and mercy prayers seem to always be for the big picture or a specific.
But what if…
We started our day by asking the Lord what his plans are for our day?
So simple yet so profound!
Sure, we have jobs, school, responsibilities but what if we asked the Lord to guide us and our day! What blessings we may be missing out on because we see through our tunnel vision, not his worldly eyes.
Not blessings that he will take us to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, even tho it’s possible but the blessings of walking in his shadow! His protection within his guidance,
The new person or group of people he may introduce you too. The ability to face a challenge you’ve been putting off! The door you never even noticed that just opened to a new world of excitement and possibility. The peace and strength we didn’t know existed until deciding to partner with the Prince of Peace every day and throughout the day!
With the Lord as our partner we won’t fail! We may take different paths than we originally intended but when we learn to trust the path, everything else falls into place.
Be blessed today and ask the Lord to join you within your plans, to lead, and then settle back, glad to be the assistant!
Thank you for joining me today…🥰
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