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Immanuel Church

Write Your Plans in Pencil | James Week 6

Write Your Plans in Pencil | James Week 6

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Immanuel Church

1260 Welsh Rd, Lansdale, PA 19446, USA

Sunday 8:30 AM

Sunday 10:00 AM

Sunday 11:30 AM

The problem isn’t with your planning or lack thereof. It’s with the posture you’re approaching life.
Proverbs 21:5 “The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty."

Proverbs 15:22 “Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.”

Proverbs 16:3 “Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed.”
"As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more" (Ps. 104:15-16).
“Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow" (Ps 144:4).”
“Show me O Lord my life’s end and the number of days; let me know how fleeting is my life. You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man’s life is but a breath." (Ps 39:4-5).”
“The dangerous life is not IN the will of God, but OUT of the will of God. The safest place in the world is right where God wants you.”
4 Ways to Plan with a Posture of Surrender

1. BEGIN WITH A BLANK PAGE: Start your day with open hands.
“God I surrender everything to you today.
My words. My thoughts. My decisions. My appointments. My minutes. My hours. My seconds. Everything Lord is yours.”
4 Ways to Plan with a Posture of Surrender

2. PUT DOWN THE PEN: Release your need for control.
4 Ways to Plan with a Posture of Surrender

3. STEP OUT EVEN WHEN THE WAY ISN’T CLEAR
4 Ways to Plan with a Posture of Surrender

4. TRUST THE ULTIMATE PLANNER: Believe God Knows What’s Best.