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Wednesday... God has a plan.


Psalm 78:7 (NLT) says, "So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands."

Wednesday... God has a plan.

And we want to know right now what it is in our life, don't we? But that isn't the way it works. No matter what is happening, God is at work with his plan.

I've just read Psalm 78. It is quite a story. Verse 7 (NLT) says, "So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands." Now we see here that it is better if we seek it out and following it but no matter what, his plan is still at work.


Now this Psalm take us through a whole lot of happenings and in verses 1- 2 the Psalmist writes, "O my people, listen to my instructions. Open your ears to what I am saying, for I will teach you hidden lessons from our past - stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us."Yes not all that happens is good but God uses it. He has a plan.

I also read Acts 7. Now in chapter 6, Stephen, a man full of God's grace and power was arrested. And in chapter 7 he tells a story to his accusers of their people and of God's working through them starting with Abraham all the way through to Jesus and their murdering him. In verse 51 he says, "You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? That's what your ancestors did, and so do you!" And they in no way like what he said, so they took him out and stoned him. Stephen was the first martyr.

Now that story didn't end well but it didn't stop God's plan from happening. Verse 57 says, "Then they put their hands over their ears and began shouting. They rushed at him and dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. His accusers took off their coats and laid them at the feet of a young man named Saul." Now that is the way to stop God's plan. But it didn't.

This is where we are introduced to Saul who after a great encounter with God who changed his name to Paul and who then went on to write a big portion of the New Testament and who become a great missionary to the Gentiles. God used the bad for good. By the way, Stephen went to a better place, heaven.

Yes God has a plan. Nothing that we do can stop it. Now we may be having trouble right now with what God's plan is in our life but as Psalm 78:7 (NLT) says, "So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands."

Verses 7-8 in the Amplified Bible says, "That they should place their confidence in God and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments, and not like their fathers - a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generations that did not prepare its heart to know and follow God, and whose spirit was not faithful to God."

Yes, God has a plan so let's put our confidence in God and keep His commandments. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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