Dear Ones,
Hope you have a joy-filled day. Al is sick so someone else is doing the Bible study today.  I plan to surprise him with pumpkin pancakes and bacon today. I am also loading him up with lots of vitamins and healthful foods. I have my treatment this morning and I think my feet are getting better. PTL! I
Devotions from Judy’s heart
Each day it is important that we are led by the Spirit and not just doing our own thing. He desires to be the initiator of our actions rather than us off running on our own and then say, “By the way Lord, bless what I am doing and hope you will tag along.” No, we must wait to know what God is up to and agree to join in with His plan. Proverbs 16:1 and 9 say, “Mortals make elaborate plans, but God has the last word…We plan the way we want to live, but only God makes us able to live it.”

Jesus Himself was willing to wait for God’s plan for ministry. I wonder if it was easy for him to wait 30 years, working as a carpenter with his dad, before He was launched out to do His Father’s miraculous work. But He waited for His Father’s timing that brought marvelous results! In our lives when we let Him set the agenda and do things His way, some surprising things happen that that wouldn’t otherwise happen. We may all wonder what things we have missed by jumping in too soon with our plans or delaying what God has asked us to do and realize too late that the timing is off.

There have been times when we have planned to visit friends or our kids and grandkids, and then at the last minute we have to change plans. This is such a time as we planned to go to Kurt’s tomorrow in KS for the Super Bowl and have to cancel as Al is sick and has that bug that seems to be going around. We have prayed and hoped but Al is not well enough to go and we don’t want to bring unwanted sickness either. Disappointing but we learn that God’s timing is best, and it is perfect, even if we never find out why we are at times blocked from doing what we think are great plans.

Let us desire to know the Lord’s plan for each day and to see the mark of His hand in all that we do.

Challenge for today: Start your day out in prayer and asking the Lord to set your agenda.
Blessings on your day and prayers and love, Judy