{"id":6334,"date":"2018-06-13T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2018-06-12T17:06:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T00:06:57","slug":"prior-planning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/prior-planning-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PRIOR PLANNING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jeremiah 29:11<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c\u2018For I know the plans I have for you,\u2019 declares the\u00a0Lord, \u2018plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope you are as thrilled as I am at the realization that God has\u00a0<strong>&#8220;special plans&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0for each one of us, and at the same time a\u00a0<strong>&#8220;promise&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0that is available to all who call upon His name. The efforts we exert to achieve our goals always involve &#8220;doing it ourselves,&#8221; rather than &#8220;resting in God and allowing Him to do His work in us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of our human attempts at self-improvement leave us with an empty feeling as we begin a new search for the next thing to make us feel completed. This only leads to further frustration and walking out of His will.<\/p>\n<p>We were created with a &#8220;God-shaped&#8221; emptiness inside of us.\u00a0 Those who have received Jesus Christ as their personal Savior know that only\u00a0<strong>He<\/strong>can fill that particular void. Old things have passed away and all things have become new.\u00a0 Eternity is in our hearts and we have passed from death into life.\u00a0 Ah!\u00a0 The sweet peace it brings!<\/p>\n<p>By resting in the Lord, we are able to simply be led by His Spirit to accomplish His purposes.\u00a0 That is so much better than getting caught up in the flurry of doing &#8220;in the flesh&#8221; what God desires to accomplish in us through His Spirit. It takes\u00a0<strong>PRIOR PLANNING!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah 29:11 \u201c\u2018For I know the plans I have for you,\u2019 declares the\u00a0Lord, \u2018plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.\u2019\u201d I hope you are as thrilled as I am at the realization that God has\u00a0&#8220;special plans&#8221;\u00a0for each one of us, and at the same time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jeremiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}