God Knows What You Need

 "If God wills it, it will happen. If He did not, nothing I do will bring it to pass."

 

 Life is like a garden, you can plant the best of seeds and still some do not grow.  The best laid plans may never come to be. Even the most carefully crafted plans can fail to work out as intended. Some of God's greatest gifts are the prayers that go unanswered. God has opened many doors for us but we often try to crawl through the broken glass window instead, only to be cut by the shattered glass. God is the ultimate parent. Just as when you were a child and you were told no, if you went on your own way, you would often find yourself hurt. God is like the parent who would come pick you up, dust you off, hold you and give you a lesson about listening and following directions, then put you back on course.  God gave us free will and if we push for something hard enough, God will let you go on your own way. He will let you fall because a lot of times failing is the only way we learn. But the good news is, he will be there when we cry out to him. He will pick you up, dust you off and set you back on course. He knows what you need and what is best for you. Praise and thank God for all that he has given you and the things he has taken away. Be faithful and trust in his plan for you. He has set your path and he will lead you in the right direction. 

Jeremiah 10:23

 I know, Lord, that our lives are not our own. We are not able to plan our own course.

Proverbs 19:21 

Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
    but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his way,
But the Lord directs his steps.

Romans 12:2

 ² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Matthew 6:7-13

 ⁷ “When you pray, don’t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. ⁸ Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him!

⁹ Pray like this:

Our Father in heaven,
    may your name be kept holy.
¹⁰ May your Kingdom come soon.
May your will be done on earth,
    as it is in heaven.
¹¹ Give us today the food we need,
¹² and forgive us our sins,
    as we have forgiven those who sin against us.
¹³ And don’t let us yield to temptation,
    but rescue us from the evil one.

 

Matthew 7:21

 "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.