Morning Prayer, Tuesday, April 14, 2026 - WORD(S) OF THE DAY: GOD HAS THE FINAL SAY

Father God, there are times when I know the way I want to go is not Your way that I try to create a plan that could get me what I want.  I’m so sorry.  Amen

“[9] “In their hearts, humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.” (Proverbs 16:9 NIV)

“You may be walking through a tough chapter of your life.  It isn’t over until God says it is done.”  There are times when we really want things to go our way or to have what we want, that we will twist the narrative to make it fit.  The Bible says “God’s Word is the same, yesterday, today and forevermore.”  I have read the Bible through about five or six times, and not once have I found it to say that I can bend God’s Word to make my plan fit even though deep down, I know it is out of the will of God.  I can remember times when I really wanted to do something.  Like many of us, I would talk to people who agreed with my plan, but then there was that one person who would ask, “Is that God or you?”  Problems start when I don’t listen to them and keep moving in the direction I want.  That’s when things can get really sticky.  People are writing song these days that say, “God don’t play about me.”  Well, let me tell you a truth, “God don’t play.”  He will allow us to go on for a while doing life “our way,” and then one day.  Many can testify to that.  We have to be fully committed to life on God’s terms.  Anything will cost us.  Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane said, “Not my will, but your will be done.”  He was fully committed.  In spite of the fact he did not want to go to the cross, He stuck with God’s plan.  That is the way we should live our life.  Stick with God’s plan even when it seems so far from what you want.

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"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."  John 3:16