Happy New Year, my friends. Here we are, 2025. Can you believe it? Do you have any big plans for the new year?

Do you have any big hopes for what might happen in your life this next year? That's exactly what we're going to be talking about today.

We're going to talking about planning your life, but also trusting the Lord, relying on him as you do so. Welcome to the

morning mindset. If you're new to the morning mindset, I hope you find this to be a daily opportunity

for you to get your mind aligned with the truth of God's word for this day. And friends, before we dig in,

I want to encourage you if you've been listening to the morning mindset for some time, or you find

the morning mindset to be helpful in your daily preparation, would you consider sharing the morning

mindset with someone else right now? The new year is a great time for you to let someone

else know the benefit the morning mindset could be to them as it has been to you. Please share the

morning mindset. You can help change the course of someone else's life by sharing God's word

with them. Okay, friends, let's open our Bibles to Proverbs

chapter 16 verse number nine as we continue this 15 day jumpstart into the new year. Before we read

God's word, let's ask him to teach us what his word has to say. Our father, as we read these Proverbs today, we want you to be our teacher.

We ask you to open our hearts and minds to think of the circumstances in our lives that these

things apply to directly.

Enable us to apply it rightly and enable us to live it out.

It's in Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

All right, friends, Proverbs chapter 16, verse number nine.

This proverb is the kind that is stated as a fact, and it's stated so, wanting us to

observe the truths that the writer has observed, wanting us to take them to heart and ponder them.

So let's listen to what the writer proverbs has to say to us.

The heart of a man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. Okay, friends, now this is a very

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