A prayer for when plans change, written by Alicia Heedley and read by Kelly Givens.

There are many plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 1921.

Have you expected your life to go one way and then something happens that throws you off

from your plan?

Perhaps it was the career path you thought you were headed toward, yet you have found

yourself in something completely different than you first set your heart on.

Maybe you thought that by the time you were 30, you'd be married with a child on the

way.

You thought things were supposed to happen according to your plan, but the reality you

were living in is nothing of the sort.

I've had many detours in my life, the most recent being when I lost my job in a career I

loved. It was definitely by God's design in the end, but this was a change of plan I didn't

ask for, nor was in my timing. I had to walk through the idea that my plans had changed

and remind myself that it's the Lord's purpose that prevails.

The thing is, we need detours and plans to change.

Just through the detours, God always takes us to where we're supposed to be going in

the long run. It's okay if it doesn't look the way we thought it was going to look, because

thankfully, God knows the bigger plan.

God is God. Oftentimes, a detour may be his way of getting you to look at him and fulfill

his purpose.

He's the whole picture, your whole story, your entire future, and his purpose prevails.

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