{"id":11561,"date":"2024-09-05T15:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11561"},"modified":"2024-09-05T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:58:45","slug":"planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=11561","title":{"rendered":"PLANNING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FAITH CAPSULE: <\/strong>Are you planning or does God do it?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 25:1-13<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God does the planning; we do the preparing.\u00a0<\/strong>
Seeking God is a plan of wanting to see God, but preparation is to seek God diligently to see Him.
The values you have to see God is the evidence rooted in your act and behavior<\/strong>.
In seeking God to find God, \u201cWhat you do is what you believe; everything else is just religious talk.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>
The wise virgins value the invitation and adjust their behavior accordingly to be ready.\u00a0
They are women who have pure hearts, cultivate goodness, and guard their speech.\u00a0
They are righteous and have faith.\u00a0
In the parable, faithful waiting involves preparation and readiness, not planning and predicting.
The teaching encased ten virgins of Jesus points to being ignored by the world.
Are you preparing and ready?
Are you planning and predicting?\u00a0
Ten virgins waited.
Five virgins prepared.
Five virgins only had a plan.
Five virgins who got shut out represent irresponsible ones not prepared.
Preparation is calling upon God by seeking Him diligently.
Preparation is not seeking Him one way but having a relationship with God.\u00a0
Throughout the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus teaches people about living and growing in a relationship with God.\u00a0
Jesus stresses that being spiritually alive means not just knowing religious information or being with a denomination but doing\u00a0<\/strong>what Jesus teaches regarding love for God and neighbor.
The biblical truth is this: God does the planning; we do the preparing.
Jeremiah 29:11<\/strong><\/em> informs us what God says:\u00a0For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord.<\/strong><\/em>
In Genesis 12,<\/strong><\/em> God told Abram to begin a journey and\u00a0didn\u2019t even tell him where he was going<\/em>.\u00a0
Abram couldn\u2019t plan the itinerary but prepared by telling his family, wrapping up business details, packing his tent, and setting out.\u00a0
The Exodus from Egypt is a story of prayer and preparation.\u00a0
God planned the Exodus, but no person could.\u00a0
No one would have written the story God did, and Moses didn\u2019t get to see the whole plan ahead of time.\u00a0
The Israelites prepared by marking their doors, taking everything, they could carry, eating fast food, and waiting for the word to move out.\u00a0
John the Baptist preached:\u00a0\u201cPrepare the way of the Lord.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>He didn\u2019t say,\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cPlan the way of the Lord.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
Are you planning in the place of preparing before God?
Proverbs 19: 21<\/strong><\/em> informs all:\u00a0There are many plans in a man\u2019s heart, Nevertheless the Lord\u2019s counsel\u2014that will stand.<\/strong><\/em>
It is the wisdom and character of one who lives by the word of God (believer) to prepare in the place of the plan.\u00a0
All are limited to planning the future, much of what happens, but to give to prepare in watching and praying.
The biblical approach to the future involves\u00a0prayer and preparation more than prediction and planning<\/strong>.
Prayer for today:<\/strong>\u00a0Ask that seeking God in preparation be meaningful and established in your way of life before Him. (Seeking God diligently)<\/em>
Ask that the plan of God for your life shall stand all the days he has given you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you planning or does God do it?\u00a0 Matthew 25:1-13 God does the planning; we do the preparing.\u00a0Seeking God is a plan of wanting to see God, but preparation is to seek God diligently to see Him.The values you have to see God is the evidence rooted in your act and behavior.In seeking … Continue reading PLANNING<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11562,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11561\/revisions\/11562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}