October 12th 2022.

PLANNING IS NOT A SIN

Proverbs24:27 Do your planning and prepare your fields, before building your house. NLT

God is a planner. A very detailed planner. He leaves nothing to chance. He planned our lives before we appeared on the scene.

The creation of the world and how He put everything in its place is a proof of detailed planning.

Orderliness is a proof of adequate planning. Orderliness is the plan of God for our lives and not the other way round.

Some persons see planning as helping God but they fail to realize that God has given us liberty to plan within His will for our lives.

Proper prior planning prevent poor performance. That is very true. Good things dies in the hands of those who don't plan. Resources waste in the hands of non- planners.

Another truism says "If you fail to plan, you have planned to fail."

God has given us the liberty to plan within His will for our lives. There are Christians that see proper planning as something carnal but when you look at the lives of such people, they don't have visible results.

As Spirit-filled believers, all you need do is to receive the pattern from God and plan towards achieving what's on God's mind.

Even Jesus stressed on the importance of planning when He was talking about counting the cost If a man want to build a tower.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish ( Lk 14:28-30).

Have you seen a contractor/builder without a plan and budget? You don't start a building contract and request for money half-way because you under-budgeted, nobody would take such a contractor serious.

You have to live life consciously knowing fully that there is no time to play.

In fact, you need to plan your prayer time, study time, when to fast and so on. Devil is a deliberate planner and that is why he succeeds in his dirty business but God's people hardly plan.

Those in the world plan very well and they outwit God's children, so why shouldn't we plan? Terrorism is the plan of some people to propagate their ideology.

They have plans to take over military, commerce, politics and governance as a means of propagating their ideology and they're succeeding. We have greater power and wisdom on our side to take over our world.

Dearest, God is not against planning, please start planning and write them down.