The Plans God Has For Us

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.

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

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

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.

“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.”

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

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

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

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.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

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

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — 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.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

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

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed. — read the full passage →

“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. — read the full passage →

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

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

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

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

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

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

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

If you love me, keep my commandments.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the 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; — read the full passage →

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

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;

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. — read the full passage →

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

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

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. — read the full passage →

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;

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. — 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?

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren’t they in your book?

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 →

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

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,

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

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

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

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

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, — read the full passage →

There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and your children shall come again to their own border.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. — read the full passage →

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.”

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;

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. — 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. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.