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Embracing God’s Plan

by womenwithdestinyPosted on April 3, 2017

I believe we all have a dream for our lives and dreams come quite easy for me. What doesn’t come so easy is embracing God’s plan. I should, of course. I must, if I embrace obedience to my King, but therein lies the difficulty for most of us in the Western Church. We have been raised in democracy with many freedoms and choices. We are comfortable with our freedom. Yet we are kingdom people who profess our allegiance to a King.

My dictionary defines the concept of allegiance with words like, commitment, dedication, loyalty; cooperation; communalism, consecration, devotion, enlistment and faith.

We like the sound of those words, especially the last few, but liking them versus walking them out can be difficult for freedom-minded people like ourselves.

Surrendering my dream to embrace God’s plan in God’s way, and in God’s timing, yeah. To me that is the true definition of “letting go.” And that doesn’t necessarily come easy.

It means I must be willing, patient, and open to a new way of looking at my circumstances. Not easy to do when you believed you had the “perfect plan” is it?

I think sometimes when our hopes seem dashed it is not that we misunderstood the “what” but that perhaps we misunderstood “the how, the when, and the why.”

God’s ways for us are perfect.

“For I know the plans I have for you…” says Jeremiah 29:11.

How many times have I heard someone quote that verse when talking about their dreams?

But there is also this verse from Isaiah,

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” [55:8-9]

Our “thoughts” are often so imperfect.

So our loving Father steps in. Rearranges our life—our plans. Constructs a new way. And let’s face it, getting rearranged God’s way can really hurt sometimes. Especially if it comes in painful ways we are struggling to grasp or understand.

 

God says nothing is impossible for Him.

He tells me to ask and ask BIG.

I think sometimes when it seems as though God is shipwrecking our dreams it isn’t because we have asked for too much, but that we have expected, too little.

Our dreams are to serve His Kingdom plans for us.

We serve an omnipotent King, and I think that we are often tempted to “help things along” in our impatience, and that is when we can get out of our King’s timing. God has every intention of fulfilling His plan—but always in His time and in His way.

I surrender my thoughts, my plans, my timing, and hang on tight to the promises in God’s word.

I must wait as I cling to words like these.

endurance

 

“For with God nothing is impossible and no word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfillment.”

Luke 1:37 AMP

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I am a passionate follower of Jesus Christ, with an equally passionate belief that every woman who chooses to follow Jesus, has been destined for greatness in His Kingdom. He chose YOU to change the world and you have everything you need IN HIM to do it!

Hi! I’m Molly…

And I want you to know you haven’t come to this page by chance. I have asked God to bring you here. I have asked God to give you everything you need most…

And yes, I have asked Him to give you HOPE as you search for your own unique PURPOSE.

LORD, right now, will You wrap your arms around the precious one who is reading this. Will you breathe fresh hope into their heart, and bring fresh strength to their life. Please teach them Jesus… just HOW MUCH You love them!

In Jesus Name I ask this, amen.

GOD LOVES YOU!

He does, you know….  LOVE YOU!

And, I’ll tell you something else that might surprise you… He wants you to know Him and find the purpose that He has planned for your life.

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Isaiah 65:24 TLB

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