- Commit your works to the Lord,
And your plans will be established. - For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
- ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’
- The mind of a person plans his way,
But the Lord directs his steps. - May He grant you your heart’s desire
And fulfill your whole plan! - Without consultation, plans are frustrated,
But with many counselors they succeed. - Many plans are in a person’s heart,
But the advice of the Lord will stand. - Let me hear Your faithfulness in the morning,
For I trust in You;
Teach me the way in which I should walk;
For to You I lift up my soul. - There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every matter under heaven.
- “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. - Do not weary yourself to gain wealth;
Stop dwelling on it. - So teach us to number our days,
That we may present to You a heart of wisdom. - For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts. - This also comes from the Lord of armies,
Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great. - For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
- Do not envy a violent person,
And do not choose any of his ways.
For the devious are an abomination to the Lord;
But He is intimate with the upright. - Certainly the Lord God does nothing
Unless He reveals His secret plan
To His servants the prophets.
I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.