Have You Planned?

*Text: Isaiah 25: 1*

“O Lord, I will honor and praise your name, for you are my God. You do such wonderful things! You planned them long ago, and now you have accomplished them” (NKJV)

The Almighty God is worthy of praise, He deserves all honor, all glory and sacrifice of thanksgiving should always ascend to His throne because of the mighty things, the wonderful things that He does. Our God is full of wonders and mighty acts. Job 37: 5 says that God does great things which we cannot comprehend. Psa. 111: 2-3 says that the works of the Lord are great, His works is honorable and glorious and Psa. 139:14 says that the works of God are marvelous. For all these and much more the Lord deserves and has earned our praise. Even if the Lord decides not to do anything anymore, we cannot give Him praise enough for the ones He has done in our lives, families, all around us, in our nation and all over the world

But as great and wonderful the works of God are, there is none that He does without first planning it out. Our text reveals this clearly to us that the wonderful works of God that we see all around us today are works that the Lord has planned long ago. Our God is a God that does not do anything without first planning for it. Right from the time in the Garden of Eden when our first parents sold us out to the devil, God as far back as that time had planned our rescue and what was the plan? The seed of the woman is coming (Gen. 3:15). Jesus came as a fulfilment of that plan and today as many as those who believe in Him have been rescued from the devil and have gained back all that they lost in the Garden of Eden to the devil.

God through His word admonished every one of us His children to learn to embrace planning as well. Unfortunately today, many are going about their activity without a plan. No plan for their life, they have no idea whatsoever of where they hope to be say for instance five years from now and since they don’t know where they want to be, how can they have a plan of how to get there? Some boast about great things they hope to accomplish in their life, but have no plan whatsoever of how they intend to go about achieving it. Talking about the need for us to plan, the bible says in Prov. 24: 27 – “Prepare your outside work, Make it fit for yourself in the field; And afterward build your house”.

Accomplishment of set goals and desires become easy when there is a plan in place, also the existence of a plan makes self-evaluation possible, and we can measure our performance to know whether we are making progress toward the realization of our goals or whether the reverse is the case. Closely meditating on our text you get the impression that the accomplishment of the things that God wanted to accomplish was easy because there already was a plan and the same will be our experience as well because a good plan will always provide a strong drive toward accomplishment.

Do you have a plan for your life? A road map of how you propose to arrive at the glorious destination and accomplish the great things you desire for yourself and your family? If you do not have any then the right time to start making one is now. Without a plan you have nothing to commit into the hands of God and testimony becomes scarce. So I ask again, do you have a plan? Shalom

Prayer Points

1. Father I worship and praise you for you a great God, you do great and marvelous things and you are worthy of praise

2. Father I give thanks to you for your wonderful works, the great things you have done in my life and family

3. Father please help me never to leave without an established God approved and plan of how to achieve the purpose in Jesus name

4. Father please grant me grace to overcome every force that seeks to stop me from effectively and properly planning my life, my family and my ways in line with your purpose for my life in Jesus name.

5. Father through proper planning, help me to accomplish the great things you desire for me and my family and to arrive at the glorious destination you have purposed for us in Jesus name.