His Plans

For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.  Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and heed you.  Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.  I will be found by you, says the Lord... Jeremiah 29:11-14a

Okay, you should feel mighty special now.  I just shared my life verse with you.  God gave me this verse in '97 or '98 and has kept reminding me of it often...every time I doubt.  The fun thing is, after He gave me this verse as my life verse, I began to hear it be talked about and preached on.  Sometimes I think we forget what it says and forget to claim this promise as our own because of how often it seems to be used now.  But it truly has been one I have clung to for the last 14 years.

Today my prayer for you is that you would be okay with leaving the planning in God's hands.  That you would keep walking the one step that He is showing you for today and leave your hopes and dreams in His hands and ask Him to help you to want His hopes and dreams for you more than your own.  That you would know without a doubt that what He wants for you is for peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.  I pray that you call on Him, pray to Him, and seek Him...knowing that He hears you, has the answers, and will be found by you.  I pray that He is a vital necessity in your life and that you crave time with Him as much as He craves time with you.  That you will search and follow Him with all your heart and allow Him to grant you the desires of your heart.  That you would fear nothing and follow Him fully into the unknown.  That you would remember that He never asks you to do anything that He doesn't equip you to do.  This is my prayer for you.