Today’s Affirmation: I will do today what the Lord has prepared for me.
Do you believe that the Lord has a specific plan for you today? Can this day be planned for you and you not even be aware? Can God be so specific to you? I am not prepared intellectually to debate predestination but I do simply believe in scripture.
This affirmation was derived from Psalm 139:16:
“You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.” (NLT)
Have you ever experienced God showing you a scripture at a specific place in time…just for you in His perfect timing. Was it coincidence? Are you influenced by the skeptics who say God doesn’t get that specific in your life?
Do you believe that “EVERY MOMENT WAS LAID OUT”? Just because we don’t believe it or can not comprehend it does that mean it can not exist? I do not really understand how I can type this message and within seconds it can be viewed all over the world. Just because I can not comprehend it does that prevent it from being so?
One question has been on my heart for a week. Why did Jesus have the practice of going out to pray before the sun came up? After all, wasn’t He God in the flesh? What did he go out to pray about? I had been wondering to myself what would He be talking to Himself about.
Could it have been a matter of focus? Praying that this day He would do what God had planned? David says here in Psalm 139 that God has every moment laid out for us.
I will leave it for others to debate. I choose today that God has a specific plan for me. I pray Father that you will open my eyes to Your plan for me today. Grant me the discernment, the wisdom, the courage to fulfill it.
- Have you asked God what He SPECIFICALLY has designed for you today?
- Pause now to pray and ask.
- Like Jesus, can you go out to pray before the sun rises to seek what God’s plan is for you each day?
Open my eyes Lord that I may see. I am yours and all I want is to complete the plan you have for me today.
Do you have any thoughts about this passage?
Tom Raines
Christian Affirmations4Life
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