Making Plans

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

May He grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. — read the full passage →

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. — read the full passage →

Don’t they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. — read the full passage →

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: — read the full passage →

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established; — read the full passage →

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, — read the full passage →

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

Let all things be done decently and in order.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is none like me; — read the full passage →

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways. — read the full passage →

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you, — read the full passage →

He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. — read the full passage →

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — read the full passage →