God's Plans, Not Ours

 

God’s Plans, Not Ours

 

In Isaiah 55:8-9 God says that His thoughts & ways are not our thoughts & ways & that His thoughts & ways are higher than ours. We are also told in Psalm 33:11 that God’s plans stand to all generations, meaning that God does not change His plans.

 

King David wanted to build a temple for God. In 1 Chronicles 28:2 King David says, “Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building.”

 

David wanted to build a temple that would honor God & be a place the people would come together to worship God. This was a worthy & God honoring plan.

 

But in 1 Chronicles 28:3 says, “But God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.’” It was not God’s plan for David to build Him a temple.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about us following God’s plans, not our own.

 

In Acts 16:6-8 Paul had a plan to go further into the province of Asia, but God said no. Then Paul had a plan to go to Bithynia & again God said no. In Acts 16:9-10 God gave Paul a vision of a man from Macedonia standing & urging Paul to come over & help them. Paul immediately left to go to Macedonia.

 

Paul had a plan. It was a worthy & God honoring plan. But it was not God’s plan.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about following God’s direction for our lives.

 

In the NLT Proverbs 16:1 says, “We can make our own plans, but the Lord gives the right answer.”

 

Our plan may be a worthy God-honoring plan, but we must let God gives us His plans & His directions for our lives.

God’s plans are always perfect & have the right timing. His plans are always right because He is all-knowing, all-powerful, & all-loving. So, His plans are always done with complete knowledge of the circumstances & what is right. His plans will always succeed because there is no power greater than God’s to stop them. His plans are always for His glory & our benefit because He loves us.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about trusting God’s plans because He is all-knowing, all-powerful, & all-loving.

 

We made mistakes when we put our plans into motion & then ask God to bless them. We must seek God & humble ourselves under His authority & seek His plans & then follow them. His will in & through our lives. That glorifies God & that is what we were created to do.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls,

Joe