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Thursday... Yes, we will succeed.


Proverbs 16:3 (NLT), "Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed."

Thursday... Yes, we will succeed.

Proverbs 16:3 (NLT) says this, "Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed." And we really want success, don't we? So the writer tells us that we must first commit our actions to the LORD. So it seems like we have a part in this matter of success. There are actions involved. Success doesn't come from just giving our desires and our plans to God and then saying, "OK, it's up to you."


Verse 9 says, "We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps." And that is so true.

I just finished reading the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Bible. And Paul throughout the book kept saying that he was going to Rome. Now this morning I started reading Paul's letter to the Romans. He wrote this letter on one of his trips.

Here in Romans 1:10 Paul writes, "One of the things I always pray for is the opportunity, God willing, to come at last to see you." Now in verse 13 he says, "I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to visit you, but I was prevented until now."

The plan was good, the opportunity was there but the timing was in God's plans and the way it would happen and its purpose. Yes in the last chapter of Acts we see that Paul did come to Rome but he came as a prisoner but God's plan worked without a doubt for good and it was a definitely a success as God calls success.

And therein lies our faith and our trust. Proverbs 16:3, "Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed." Verse 9, "We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps." Verse 1, "We can make our plans, but the LORD gives the right answers." Verse 16, "How much better to get wisdom than gold, and good judgement than silver." Verse 20, "Those who listen to instruction will prosper; those who trust in the LORD will be joyful." And verse 32, "Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city."

And again, "Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed." There it is, a thought for today from Proverbs and Romans! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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