Anybody recognize this quote? It was "Hannibal" Smith from the old tv series A-team, who at the end of each episode he would say: "I love it when a plan comes together.
My Father has a plan that is in no way comparable to anything that the A-team ever had. Through the prophet Jeremiah he tells the Israel exiles in Babylon "For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." He has those same plans for us. They started back in the Garden of Eden, with the promise of a Savior. Follow the genealogies in Matthew and Luke to see all the intricacies, individuals and complexities of His plan. This plan took thousands of years, passed through the cross and will culminate when we join Him in Glory as His bride. Every day, in every way, He is working His plan in us, for us and through us. Read The Revelation of John to see God's plan come together. It is way better than any A-team plan
When trials and troubles come; and, they will come, remember you are in the center of His plan! It may not feel like it. Don't trust your feelings. They will betray you. When fear comes over you, realize that it is a tool of the devil. Fear is not from your heavenly Father. Satan will play mind games with you and me, trying to get us to doubt the Word. He did it to Jesus. He used the Word, quoted it to Jesus and twisted the meaning. With all of the tools at Jesus' disposal, He used the Word against Satan. The Word is the Sword of the Spirit. It is the only offensive weapon in the armor of God. Satan tries to take the Word out of our life because he has no defense against it, so TRUST THE WORD:
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life ? "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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