Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 174
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life Ministries
International
Littleton, Colorado
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Michael
gives us a very definitive statement about “man” and “man’s plans”…and how man
should “ignore, or destroy, his plans.” And
Michael gives us such a way… This is a
very important and helpful writing!
DAY 159
Ignore
Your Plan
But My
people did not listen to My voice, and Israel did not obey Me. So I gave them
over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own devices.
--Psalm 81:11, 12
Sometimes
I start a discipleship session with a question, “So what is your plan?” People generally are not sitting
around waiting for advice on what to do. Before they ever step through my
office door, they have decided exactly what course they are going to follow and
are merely seeking counsel that agrees with their decision. Many times I
talk to a husband or wife who has already decided that the way to fix their
marital problem is to split up. Others decide the best way to correct their
situation is to run, and some others believe that if the people around them
would change, the predicament would then resolve itself. Our plan is not His plan, and
experience will confirm
that assessment. Our
plans are often devised out of frustration, anger, disappointment, and
hopelessness; and since they are anti-Sermon-on-the-Mount/Life-on-the-Mount,
they include no love, no Spirit, no Christ, no brokenness, no laying down of
our lives. The solution
is not to correct our plan to make it something we can more comfortably live
with; that would still only be our plan in different clothing. As Corrie
Ten Boom said, “Just because there is a mouse in the cookie jar, that does not
make it a cookie.” Often we
are in a state of so much emotional disruption that we just cannot think
“spiritually.” We are too consumed with the morbid satisfaction that
comes from contemplating how we will get even with someone or make him pay for
something he did or said. So
we must have a plan for destroying the plan that will destroy us. Here
is just such a plan: When
entertaining any scheme that is anti-Christ, simply pray before falling off to
sleep each night, “Father, please do not give me over to the stubbornness of my
heart; do not let me walk in my own devices.” Pray even when you cannot yet really mean it.
God hears even idle words. He
will hear, and He will answer!
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
How about this…”a plan for destroying the plan that will destroy us.” Abandoning our plans to God and asking Him to
not allow us to be given over to the stubbornness of our heart & not
letting us walk in our own devices.
Well, amen.
Why is this an issue in the first place?
Well, look at ALL the ways Michael describes the lives of too many
Christians making “anti-Christ” decisions.
WHEN will life as a Christian have none of the sad testimony so
mentioned???
And, then why do Christians make a plan that “is not His plan”? Oh, wow!
God tells us WHY in the 81st Psalm quoted at first of Michael’s
writing: “But My people did not listen to My voice, and Israel did not obey Me. So I
gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own
devices.” This life that is in
essence behind our making anti-Christ plans is the result of our stubborn
heart!
With a “stubborn heart” against God, man can look forward to a life like
Michael describes and “schemes that are anti-Christ.” SO…we MUST USE the plan Michael gives us: “pray
before falling off to sleep each night, ‘Father, please do not give me over to
the stubbornness of my heart, do not let me walk in my own devices.’ “
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