Quotes About God's plans

Our desires correspond precisely to God's plans. It's not that we want something, so we engage in wishful thinking that what we want exists. It's the opposite—the reason we want it is precisely because God has planned for it to exist. As we'll see, resurrected people living in a resurrected universe isn't our idea—it's God's.

God trades your natural plans and ideas for His through the supernatural medium of exchange, tongues for personal edification.

God had plans, but the reasons for those plans were too lofty to fathom in the weakness of his human mind. But his heart? His heart still ached at the loss he suffered. Was still suffering.

We need money not only for meeting our own needs, but also for fulfilling God's plans.

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

God honors obedience, and He has distinct plans for us. I think the dreams that God puts in our hearts, we can fulfill. He's equipped us for that.

I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.

They say God laughs when you make plans, that's why I make appointments and sometimes reschedule.

I guess God has His own plans for all of us. And I trust His decision. He always does what's best for me.

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. " Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for?

Second, it changes our use of the pulpit—the Word now supports our intoxicating plans and purposes, rather than those of God. This is inebriated preaching. Finally, it shifts our understanding of authority—the preacher's "fresh" and "spirit led" devotional reading becomes the determinative point of truth. I call this "inspired" preaching.

We have a saying in the Alpenwald, Fraulein. Plans are jokes written by men for God's amusement.

Think of normal as being what God intends for your life. Un-normal is everything that's something other than His plans for you. Life gets easier that way . . . . Go ahead and stress about what you should care about, but ignore the rest. -Mark Bishop

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans, as used to be said; though in present day, the idea of God laughing is next door to blasphemy. An ultra-serious fellow, God is now.

The hardened disobedience of men's hearts leads not to the frustration of God's plans, but to their fruition.

Self-freedom is simply not letting your yesterday or past affect your today and tomorrow. However, avail yourself the freedom from anything that has been holding you back in order to embrace the future ahead of you. Listen up, you are where God wants you to be at this very moment. Besides, every experience of life is part of God's plans for your life. Although some experiences may be unfavorable sometimes, anyway relax and never worry. For, the end justifies the means.

By giving us stories like Joseph's, God allows us to study his plans.

By giving us stories like Joseph's, God allows us to study his plans.

No matter how far off the path you have gotten from the plans and purposes God has for you, when you surrender your life to the Lord and declare your utter dependence upon Him, He carves a path from where you are to where you are supposed to be, and He sets you on it.

If you want to birth the miraculous you cannot afford to waste time getting offended. Offense stops you carrying the promise to full term and you never really know what God plans to do with a situation that offends you at first.

Mensch tracht, Gott lacht. (Man plans, God laughs.) —Yiddish proverb