{"id":44639,"date":"2018-07-24T04:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=44639"},"modified":"2018-07-24T04:31:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:31:14","slug":"our-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/24\/our-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Our plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"verseid:1.12.10\"><b>Genesis 12:10<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. \u00a0When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, \u201cI know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, \u00a0and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, \u2018This is his wife.\u2019 Then they will kill me, but they will let you live. <a href=\"verseid:1.12.13\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.\u201d \u00a0When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. <a href=\"verseid:1.12.15\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh&#8217;s house. \u00a0And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. \u00a0But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram&#8217;s wife. \u00a0So Pharaoh called Abram and said, \u201cWhat is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? <a href=\"verseid:1.12.19\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Why did you say, \u2018She is my sister,\u2019 so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.\u201d \u00a0And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">We read of Abraham going to Egypt and prior to entering he has a plan to protect his life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>His plan was made out of fear.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>His plan was made out of wanting no harm.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I take this as an example of how easy it is, in our lives, to trust God for parts of it and other parts we do not even consider putting it into His hands.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I wonder why it is that we limit our trust, faith, and reliance in the awesome and all powerful loving hands of God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">God certainly does not change.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>God\u2019s steadfast love and protection do not waver.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>What He has begun and continues to do in our lives is in His more than capable hands.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In Ephesians it says that &#8220;<em>He can do more than we ask and much more than we can imagine.&#8221;<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>So why do we go down paths without taking time to seek God and His plans.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If God is for us who can be against us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">God created all there is by speaking them into existence. He has split the Red Sea, brought water from a rock, bread from heaven, calmed storms, healed the deaf, blind, and sick, brought back dead to life, redeemed the lost, shut the mouths of lions, saved men from fire,\u00a0 and has given us precious promises of \u201c<em>the battle is not yours,\u201d \u201cnever leaving or forsaking us,\u201d and \u201cwhere you are there I am also,<\/em>\u201d \u2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Be mindful of thoughts and plans that are self in nature and contrary to trusting God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 12:10\u00a0\u00a0Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. \u00a0When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, \u201cI know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, \u00a0and when the Egyptians see you, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/24\/our-plans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our plans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44640,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44639\/revisions\/44640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}