Summary
Today we’ll be discussing the plans we make for our lives. So often, our plans symbolize control. Giving up control of our life’s direction can be scary and feel unsafe. But this is all part of growing in trust of our heavenly Father. As we continue in that direction today, may you feel encouraged and motivated to place your plans in the hands of a capable, trustworthy Father who has your best interest in mind, always.
Our Scripture for today comes from Proverbs 19:21, and today's worship is Whatever Your Plan Is by Bethe Music feat. Josie Buchanan.
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We just launched Vol. 7 of our First15 Devotional Series, Trust. And I couldn’t be more excited!
Trust is one of the devotional books I’ve been most anticipating, because of how critical trust is to our ability to thrive in and out of life’s difficult seasons.
This year has been arguably the hardest year we’ve faced globally in a generation. The pandemic has quickly taken its toll in every corner of our society, and every corner of the human heart. And the effects of systematic racism, and our lack of true racial reconciliation across the U.S. and beyond has brought us face to face with the mountain of division we’ve yet to overcome.
Personally, when life is good I find it easy to trust God, to be grateful for the ways he’s providing for me. But when my circumstances get hard, I find myself taking my life back in my control, and suffering as a result.
In Scripture, so many of God’s promises of peace, of provision, of safety are linked to our trust. Trust is like the “yes” that empowers God to move in deeper and more profound ways in and through us.
So I want to sincerely encourage you to get Trust today, to immerse yourself in this 5-week guide that will help you genuinely and wholeheartedly trust God. Because when you give God your trust, you’ll find an abundant peace and life that can carry you with unshakable joy through even life’s hardest challenges.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we'll be discussing the plans we make for our lives. |
| 0:08.6 | So often, our plans symbolize control. |
| 0:12.0 | Giving up control of our life's direction can be scary and feel unsafe, but this is |
| 0:17.5 | all part of growing and trust of our Heavenly Father. |
| 0:21.9 | As we continue in that direction today, may you feel encouraged and motivated to place |
| 0:27.8 | your plans in the hands of a capable, trustworthy Father who has your best interest in mind. |
| 0:35.4 | Always. |
| 0:36.8 | Welcome to the first 15 podcast. |
| 0:40.5 | Our plans are one of the areas of life in which it can be most difficult to trust God. |
| 0:46.8 | So often, we look within ourselves to discover desires and ambitions and form plans based |
| 0:53.2 | solely on our understanding and limited perspective. |
| 0:57.4 | We place the weight of planning our lives squarely on our own shoulders and settle for |
| 1:03.0 | a life filled with pressure and failure. |
| 1:07.0 | Our Heavenly Father is speaking over His children, His great desire to guide us. |
| 1:12.8 | He longs to share His wonderful plans with us that will satisfy the deepest desires |
| 1:17.6 | of our hearts and help us store up bountiful treasure in heaven with Him. |
| 1:23.9 | James 413-15 illustrates the necessity of looking to God for our plans. |
| 1:30.9 | Come now, you who say, today or tomorrow, we will go into such and such a town and spend |
| 1:36.0 | a year there and trade and make a profit, yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. |
| 1:42.3 | What is your life? |
| 1:43.8 | For you are a mist that appears for a little time than vanishes. |
| 1:49.1 | Instead you ought to say, if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. |
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