Consult God In Everything And He Will Establish Your Plans

Hello, and welcome to Social Media Ministries. My name is Spencer Coffman. Thank you so much for being with us today — we’ve got a great sermon for you.

And it is about your life, and how you can continue to have success, or know what to do, or prosper in your life.

Now that’s a pretty great sermon, so hopefully you’ll stick with us. Hopefully, you’ll find this information valuable and insightful and apply it to life, and have great results, and share it with others, so that they too can be successful and prosper in this and understand what the secret is.

So what is the secret? Well, it’s very simple — consult God. That’s what you have to do throughout your life. There may be many, many, many major decisions that you need to make.

And in everyday life, people make hundreds of decisions, either through habit or through thinking some are of no consequence. Some are of other, of huge consequence.

I can make a decision to pick this pen up, and I could make a decision to throw it at the camera, whatever. You can make all these choices. That, maybe, don’t even matter, but they all add up.

Or there could be a big decision like a career choice or a life-altering choice, and it’s these bigger decisions that you really need to weigh in and have this ability to consult God.

Now, in these little choices, like whether or not I throw the pen at the camera, hopefully, I’ve already known enough and I’ve consulted God enough that I know that that would be a foolish choice.

So that choice, in a way, yes, I consulted God through it, but it is ingrained in me, what to do and what not to do. It has become a force of my nature or a force of habit. And that’s what you have to do as well.

And in all these choices, you need to consult God, because he is the one who is giving you the choice. You need to find out if it is a part of God’s plan for you. God knows the plans he has for you.

Let’s go to Jeremiah 29:11. You probably know this verse. We use it a lot. It’s very, very popular — it says, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
God knows the plans He has for your life. So, if you don’t know what the plans are for your life, how can you find out? Your guidance counselor, a psychologist, a therapist, a counseling session, your parents, your friends, your family?

No! Sure, they might be able to help you, but unless they are Godly people and unless they consult God in their own life, then the advice that they give you is not going to help you. You need to consult God.

God knows the plans. So if He knows the plans and you want to know the plans, who should you ask? God.

It’s like if you know a bricklayer and you have a brick project. Are you going to go to a plumber and say, “Hey, come on, how do I put these bricks so that they don’t fall down? The plumber is not going to know — go to the bricklayer.

If God knows the plans He has for you, who do you need to ask about the plans in your life? God. You need to consult God.

Proverbs 3, Verses 5-6, says, (Proverbs 3:5-6) “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways. Submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.” That’s incredible!

In all your ways. In everything you do, submit to God. Trust in Him. He will make your paths straight. Yes, you can make plans in your life. We have a sermon, so check it out in a card.

It’s called “Making Plans.” You can watch that — check it out on our website. Go there — type in “Plans” or “Making Plans.” We have several sermons on different plans in your life.

And you need to make sure they are in alignment with God’s will. How do you know that? Consult God in each and every choice you make — you need to consult God. Why? Well, especially the major decisions in your life, because He already knows what He wants for you.

Yes, there’s your will, there’s God’s will. If your will is in alignment with God’s will, then that is excellent. Things will go great. You are working in alignment with God’s will.

You are doing His will here on Earth, but if your plans are not in alignment with God’s plans, with God’s will, then guess what? Not going to be as great.

Yes, it’s going according to God’s plan, but not according to what He wills for your life. What He wants for your life. He knows what He wants you to do.

For example, I had a plan for my life. I wanted to do one thing. I spent years learning, studying, and working toward a goal for my life that I thought I was supposed to do.

I truly believed it was my purpose. 10 years, a decade of my life. I worked at getting there for 10 years or so. Before that, maybe five years before that, because when you’re a little kid, you don’t really know.

But ever since I was young, I knew what I wanted to do. And I had that, and then when I was at the right schooling age, I spent a decade preparing for it, only to find out it wasn’t going to happen. It wasn’t for me.

Rejection, time and time again. Closed doors, and it’s like, what is going on? I just spent 10 years of my life working toward this and five years beforehand wanting it. 15 years total, wanting this outcome, and it’s not happening. I was on my own plans.

Yes, I was consulting God. He was a part of it through the whole time. But He was supporting me in that, but it wasn’t God’s ultimate will for my life.

For example, you might say you are a great whatever, salesman, and you’re out there selling, making money. You have a successful career. God gifted you with a great ability to speak and influence others.

And you might be very successful in that, and God is blessing that, but God might say, “No, my ultimate will for you, my purpose for you, was not to be the salesman. My purpose for you was to go out there and be a litigator and to be a lawyer and to litigate for my Kingdom, to help those who couldn’t defend themselves.”

Or to get settlements and to bring more money into the Kingdom for the building of his Kingdom. And you were working on one thing, and you were blessed using the skills God gave you, but He had a better plan.

So if you consult God, you will know that ultimate plan for your life. How do you know which way you’re going if you’re blessed? It could be very hard, but that’s why you have to consult with God, and He will let you know.

Let’s go to Proverbs 16:9, Proverbs 16:9. This is a great verse, it says, “In his heart, a man plans his course, but Yahweh determines his steps.” You can be planning your course. God can be determining your steps, and eventually, you need to know if that course is in alignment with what God has for you.

There’ll be certain little things — they work out, some things maybe don’t work out. Follow those things that are going well, and incrementally, you will get to where you need to go.

Trust God. He plans in detail. We have a sermon on that called “God Plans In Detail,” so check that out for some more insight.

Let’s keep reading. In Proverbs 16:1-3, “To a man belong the plans of a heart, but from Yahweh comes the reply of the tongue. All a man’s ways seem innocent to him, but his motives are weighed by Yahweh. Commit to Yahweh in whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.”

Three separate Proverbs, all related together, in your heart, man or woman. You have plans for your life. You plan your course. You have desires, but God will establish your steps.

So if you have a plan to do one thing and it’s not being established, God’s not establishing that plan. But He might be giving you an opportunity to do something else. Recognize that opportunity. How?

Consult with Him — consult God in that. All your ways may seem innocent. You might say, “You know, I really love doing this. This is really easy. This isn’t hard.”

Consult with God, and He might be telling you, “This is where you need to be going. I’m weighing your motives, and your motives are for ease and pleasure. I want you here.

Your motives for building My Kingdom. Yes, I know it’s hard. Do you think it was easy for everyone that came before you? For the missionaries and disciples that have been persecuted and lost their lives?

It wasn’t. But that’s where you got to be, or do you think it’s easy to go to work and work all day long building My Kingdom?”

Whatever it is. Litigating cases or unclogging toilets or building houses or hospitals or communities or acquiring land or being in real estate, or coding on a computer for eight hours a day. Whatever it is.

Yes, of course, God wants you to enjoy your work. And if you’re truly doing what God wants you to do, you will enjoy it. That doesn’t mean it’s always going to be easy. There will be troubles, there will be trials, we’ve had several sermons on that. So you can check them out.

But trust in God, and He will establish this for you. Let’s go to Psalms 37, Verse 5. Psalms 37:5 says, “Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust Him, and He will do this. – He will do this for you!” so read the rest of this, and you will know what God will do for you.

So much! He will make your righteousness shine. He will have you succeed in what you do. There are other verses in Proverbs. It says that the blessings of the Lord bring wealth and add no trouble to it.

We have several sermons on money and finance. Go check them out on our website. When you are in alignment with God’s will, when you consult God, guess what happens? He blesses you without trouble.

Now you might say, “Okay, well, I consult God all the time, but I don’t seem to be getting a lot of answers. Read the Bible. That’s a great way to get more answers. Spend more time in meditation, and in thought, and in prayer with Him.

Now, when you’re praying to God, if you’re simply talking the whole time or praying the whole time, thinking the whole time, there’s not a lot of room for a conversation. There, it’s simply a monologue to God. You’re just, you’re just talking to Him the whole time.

So when you ask God a question, like, you give Him your prayers, you give him your concerns, and then you say, “God, what should I do?” Pause, give God time to respond, let Him enter your thoughts, let Him enter your mind.

Quiet out that stuff. “Oh, I gotta pick up the kids. Okay, I gotta stop, all right, when I’m done with this. I need to shower. I need to brush my teeth.” No, no, no. Stop. “All right, today we gotta go to the gym.” No. Stop.

Quiet all of that chatter in your mind, and sit in silence listening for God to whisper to you, that’s still, small voice in your head. God will speak to you. You need to be quiet and let Him do it.

He will use others to speak to you. He could speak to you in dreams at night. In visions during the day. So pray for that. In addition to consulting God, if you’re consulting others around you, that’s great.

Proverbs has many advisors. It says, “Plans fail for lack of counsel.” Proverbs 15:22 “Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.” Okay, so wait a minute. I’m saying consult God, but then consult others.

But who are the others you’re consulting? Your therapist? Are they Christian? Do they consult God? Your psychologist? Christian, yes, no? Counselors, guidance counselors, advisers, parents, friends, relatives, family, whatever.

If they are deep in the Word, they’re a great person to consult. There’s a story of a king who, the advisor, the first of all the king died, all right, then a new king took over. An heir, a relative, took over.

Young, inexperienced, maybe a partier, and he says, “What should I do?” And the advisers of the king, who were wise and learned, and they were with God and consulting God, they were more wise. They advised the king, the new king, in a certain way.

Saying, “This is what you have to do. This is a great way. You’re going to, you’re going to win the kingdom — the people will love you. Be a little light around them, don’t tax them so hard, give them this, be a blessing to them,” and he’s like, “Okay.”

Then he goes to his friends, ungodly people, partiers, maybe drunken people, just young youths that don’t have experience, and he says, “What should I do?”

And they’re like, “Are you kidding me? Don’t do that — tell them that my little finger is thicker than my father’s wrist, and you thought your loads and your work was hard under him. It will be worse under me.”

And guess who this king listens to? These unwise people, and he tells the people that. And then… Ruin. Disaster. They hate him. They think of him as a tyrant and a dictator and a burden, and some person who’s just being horrible to them.

And they don’t like it. And the kingdom is in turmoil and ruins and war and conflict. It’s just a mess. Consult God, and make sure the people with whom you consult for advice are also consulting God. They need to be Godly people.

With many advisors, these plans will succeed, but if your advisors are not with God, then the advice they are giving you is not going to help.

So, make sure that in any decision, big or small, you are constantly consulting God. You’re asking God to establish your steps in anything you do, every single day. You get up, you do your morning routine, great!

God has established that plan for you. He has established those steps. Established as in it is routine, it is established. It has been established that you wake up. You do this, you do that, you do this. Why?

Well, you care for your body, you brush your teeth. Maybe shower, you do this, you’re taking care of yourself like God wants you to do. He has trusted you with a body. You need to be a good steward of that body. You feed it, you care for it, you nurture it.

He has given you time. So you’re being a wise and a good steward of that time. You’re not waking up in the morning and just sitting on the couch watching TV. You’re doing something with it.

He’s maybe entrusted you with a family. So you are being a good steward of the family He has given you. You are taking care of them. You are sending them out on their way. Whether it’s your kids off to school, your spouse off to work, whatever it may be.

You are providing for them. Maybe you’re going to work and you’re providing for them to stay home. Whatever the case is, God has trusted you with that. So you’re being a good steward. You are — that plan is established.

Then there are other things in your life, whether it’s a work decision, whether it’s a money decision, a career decision, a life choice. Moving or living somewhere, buying a car, selling a car, getting rid of things, whatever.

Those choices you consult with God and you consult with the people around you who are also consulting with God. And together you can make informed decisions based on the Bible, on God.

Establishing your steps and putting the right course in your heart, and with many advisors, those plans will succeed, and God will add no trouble to it. He will establish your righteousness. He will build the Kingdom through you, here on Earth.

So you need to do that. Have counsel. Have advisers. Have people you can call to get more information. Have them pray for you, because while they’re praying for you, then that will also help unlock God’s voice.

Make sure you’re giving God time to respond to you if you are asking Him of all these questions and praying for guidance. You’ve gotta be willing to listen. You gotta be willing to pause.

You gotta be spending time reading His Word so He can speak to you through it. You need to be listening to Him in quiet places so that you can hear Him speaking to you.

God is the best advisor. Seek Him, seek Him in everything. Let’s check out Psalms 20:4, God is saying this so… “May He give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.” Proverbs has — “in your heart, you’re planning your course.” You have heart’s desires.

May He give you those desires in your heart and make all your plans succeed. If your plans are in alignment with God’s will and if your plans are a result of consulting God, they will succeed. Know that. Understand it, and seek to do it more in your life, and encourage others to do the same.

Let’s pray.

Lord Jesus, thank you for this message. I pray that people take it to heart, that in their hearts they would plan their course. That you would firmly establish their steps, tell them which way to go.

Lead them to your path of righteousness. Put people in their lives — mentors, counselors, advisors, friends, family, relatives that would be with you. That they, too, are consulting you.

Lord, let that be the first question they ask if they’re going for a therapist, or they’re going for an adviser, or a guidance counselor. They say, “Hey, how is your walk with Christ? Are you consulting God in everything you do?”

And if that person is not, then they need to get rid of them and get a new advisor or a new counselor in their life. And Lord, open the doors so they can find those people. Give them a panel of advisors to help them in their life, that — that they will be one with you.

That they will consult you. That they will have many advisors and that their plans will succeed so they can continue to do your will here on Earth.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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