Following God's Plans | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | March 28, 2025
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🗓️ 28 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that. |
| 0:05.7 | James, chapter 4, verse 15. |
| 0:10.1 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:13.9 | Our reading titled Following God's Plan was written by Karen Huang and read by Joyce |
| 0:19.9 | Dinkins. |
| 0:22.6 | James Chapter 4 verses 13 through 17. |
| 0:28.6 | Now listen, you who say, today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, |
| 0:34.6 | spend a year there, carry on business, and make money. Why, you do not even know |
| 0:40.3 | what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then |
| 0:48.0 | vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, if it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that. |
| 0:56.4 | As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. |
| 1:00.7 | All such boasting is evil. |
| 1:03.9 | If anyone then knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them. |
| 1:17.0 | Following God's plans, written by Karen Huang. |
| 1:25.8 | I was unable to focus on a work project because of anxiety. I was afraid that my plans for it wouldn't succeed. My anxiety came from pride. I believed my |
| 1:31.7 | timeline and plans were best, so I wanted them to proceed unhindered. A question broke |
| 1:38.8 | through my thoughts, however. Are your plans? God's plans? The problem wasn't my planning. God calls us to be wise stewards of our time, |
| 1:50.6 | opportunities, and resources. The problem was my arrogance. I was fixated on my understanding of |
| 1:58.4 | events and how I wanted them to turn out, not on God's purpose and how |
| 2:03.4 | he wanted my plans to turn out. James Four encourages us to say, if it is the Lord's will, we will live |
| 2:12.0 | and do this or that. We're to plan not with a presumptuous mindset, thinking we know everything and have control over our life, |
| 2:20.3 | but from a position of submission to God's sovereignty and wisdom. |
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