“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.” – Proverbs 19:21

When Abraham was seventy five years old, God called him out of his father’s home to a land where He would show him. Along with the call was a promise to make him a great nation, although he had no son.

The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” – Genesis 12:1-3

Although the above verse highlights the blessings God would bestow on Abraham if he obeyed, it does not in anyway suggest the man was poor. We know from scripture that while in his father’s homeland, Abraham was a man of influence with many servants at his command, and he had a lot of possessions. One would say he lived a comfortable life. However, in God’s eye, he was out of purpose, and this was because he was wrongly positioned. God needed Him in a different geographical location to enforce the promise He had for his life.

“He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. – Genesis 13:4-5

This passage teaches us that you can be in a very comfortable home, job, relationship, church or be financially independent and still be out of the will of God. It is crucial that you understand the will of God for your life. It is important that you ask Him the right questions. “Is this where you want me, Lord?” He may be desiring that you take a different path. He says in Isaiah, “My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts are higher than your thoughts.”

Indeed, many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. When Jesus taught us how to pray, He said “thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven” to enforce the manifold intent of God for our lives. Today we’re telling God, “Let your will be done in our lives.” In Jeremiah 33, God says to call on Him, for He will show us mighty and great things. I pray you will be persistent in prayer, and that your ears will be opened to the voice of God, so you will know and understand His perfect will for your life. Amen.