My Plans God’s Plans

• Its has been said “if you want to make God laugh tell him your plans.” Things don’t always work out according the way we imagined. There are things that happen in life that are out of our control.
• Just think about when you have made plans for a vacation and you get to the airport and your flight is delayed or you miss a connecting flight and a day or 3 gets cut off of your vacation. or your luggage gets lost. or you get to the hotel or Rb&b and things are broken or not in alignment with what you were told. you where told there was a gym and pool on site. but nope its a couple miles down the road. you were told it sleeps 6. but the 3rd bed is a buss up air mattress that you had to hunt down a find. ok. well as you can tell i have had some experiences.
• There is one thing that is for sure in life is that you will make plans and those plans will change. And much of how we will enjoy our lives is based on how we navigate those changes.
• How many of you like to plan, use calendars, spreadsheets, you do research analysis? does it always work out the way you planned? probably not.
• So the tendency for many is to go the other direction and say we always make plans and it never works out so forget it already? im just going to have faith and whatever happens happens.
• So most people are somewhere between these two. but james gives us a third option and that is to include God in our plans.

(13) Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” (14) How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. (15) What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” (16) Otherwise you are boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil. (17) Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it. 
James 4:13-17 – NLT

(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)

1. Life is unpredictable but God will guide you through it-(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)

2. Life is short and people are important.(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)

3. Be detailed and expectant with your prayers and thank him all along the way. (MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)

(6) Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. (MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)
Philippians 4:6 – NLT

4. Be about the Fathers business–(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)

5. Doing God’s will is our spiritual nourishment–(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)

(34) Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.
John 4:34 – NLT