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- Herausgeber: Riaan Engelbrecht
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
God only wants the best for us. After all, any parent only wants the best for their children, so why would it be different when it comes to our relationship with God? God’s intentions towards His children have always been good, pure, glorious and wonderful. Only the best says God for His children. God’s plan and purpose for us are the BEST, and this transcends every aspect of our lives, be it our spiritual journey or our journey through life. The VERY BEST God has in store for us will glorify God, exalt His Kingdom, and it will give meaning to our existence. It is the best that will prosper us in spirit, soul and body. If we truly seek God and His plan above all, we then seek His Kingdom and righteousness. And for those who seek His Kingdom with devotion, will be rewarded for the rest shall be added (Matthew 6:33 – spiritual and physical blessings and favour). As we love God, His plan for our lives shall unfold, be revealed and shine as a glorious light in the darkness. And the good news is that it is never too late to come into alignment with God’s plan. Never.
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GOD'S BEST PLAN
First edition. July 29, 2022.
Copyright © 2022 Riaan Engelbrecht.
ISBN: 979-8201445256
Written by Riaan Engelbrecht.
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Table of Contents
Copyright Page
God's Best Plan (In pursuit of God)
Only the best for God’s children
God is able
What is the best?
The blessed life of seeking God’s Kingdom
Author and finisher of our faith
Favour of the Lord
Giving our best
Wait upon the Lord and be at peace
God will sustain the plan
What God upholds will not fail or sink!
Purpose in God
By the Spirit, not the flesh
The Patriarch meddling
Do not presume what is God’s will
Let God’s will as established be done in your life
God is good
God’s promises
The A-team
Run the race to the end
Because it rained
A cheerful heart of faith
Our life divine – a colourful work on a canvas
Never too late
Acknowledge and recognise the Ishmaels in your life
Giving birth: the elephant and the dog
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God’s Best Plan
Table of Contents
Only the best for God’s children
God is able
What is the best?
The blessed life of seeking God’s Kingdom
Author and finisher of our faith
Favour of the Lord
Giving our best
Wait upon the Lord and be at peace
God will sustain the plan
What God upholds will not fail or sink!
Purpose in God
By the Spirit, not the flesh
The Patriarch meddling
Do not presume what is God’s will
Let God’s will as established be done in your life
God is good
God’s promises
The A-team
Run the race to the end
Because it is rained
A cheerful heart of faith
Our life divine – a colourful work on a canvas
Never too late
Acknowledge and recognise the Ishmaels in your life
Giving birth: the elephant and the dog
Only the best for God’s children
Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
God only wants the best for us. After all, any parent only wants the best for their children, so why would it be different when it comes to our relationship with God? God’s intentions towards His children have always been good, pure, glorious and wonderful. Only the best says God for His children.
As children, we have probably all resisted and rebelled against our parents, declaring they ‘know nothing’ and ‘we know everything’. We so often, even at times unintentionally and with noble intentions, resist God because we think we know the best for our lives. Just as a parent truly knows what is best for a child, how much more will our heavenly father who is all-wisdom not know what should be the perfect path for us to follow? Matthew 7 says, “9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”
The sad reality is that often as His children we get into trouble because we have not listened to our Father. God knows our frailties and loves us deeply despite our misgivings and arguments, yet it pains Him when we follow not His perfect will and purpose for our lives. It really boils down to obedience, doesn’t it? It is about trust and putting our faith unreservedly into His hands. Sure, we stumble and fall along the way, but God will always pick us up. Sure, we may have gone astray regarding our purpose along the way, but this is still the same God who leaves the 99 to find the one lost sheep.
Proverbs 19:21 says, “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.” God’s plan and purpose for us are the BEST, and this transcends every aspect of our lives, be it our spiritual journey or our journey through life. The VERY BEST God has in store for us will glorify God, exalt His Kingdom, and it will give meaning to our existence. It is the best that will prosper us in spirit, soul and body. If we truly seek God and His plan above all, we then seek His Kingdom and righteousness. And for those who seek His Kingdom with devotion, will be rewarded for the rest shall be added (Matthew 6:33 – spiritual and physical blessings and favour). As we love God, His plan for our lives shall unfold, be revealed and shine as a glorious light in the darkness.
Let us be honest, we do not know the road ahead, but God does. This is also why God’s word is the light and the lamp unto our path (Psalm 119:105). Despite how wise we think we may be, God knows all. Whenever things don’t make sense, to God everything always makes sense. We need to absolutely and without fail, in great courage, trust in God’s plan and purpose, even when it seems God has forgotten us or is punishing us. God never will leave us, He is love. God knows what is best. Yet is not always easy. Most of the time it is very hard when someone else, even if it is God, steers the ship of our lives. But He is our loving Father – faithful, loyal, longsuffering, full of grace, mercy and love.
Yes, many times it seems difficult to trust in God’s plan. For it requires submission, patience, and the strength to endure. In our anxiety and frustrations we keep praying for our will to be done, all the while we cannot see the perfect plan of God that needs to come into fulfilment. In Matthew 6 we are taught to pray for God’s will to be done. By the way, it was not advised but commanded by Jesus for God knows that His will for our lives and families is perfect and will lead to those wonderful green pastures and quiet rivers of Psalm 23. He is the Good Shepherd. Shall we not simply fall into His arms, rest, and know He has the best intentions for us?
Is it not amazing when God does not answer us according to our needs and wants we blame Him? Yes, this saddens the Lord, for as our Father we must rest in His love, hear His heartbeat and know that in His Presence He will lead us. God demonstrated this truth of being a loving God throughout the Bible. Nothing has changed. His will for us is already settled in heaven. It is good, pure, and right. So we must trust in God, be still and not be fearful or anxious for His will shall be done.
In our fellowship with God, how often do we not try and impose our will upon God, outlining our plans and intentions? Should we rather not be listening to Him, abiding in His beauty and resting in His faithfulness? Should we not rather pray for the strength to follow His will, to discern His path, to testify of His greatness and the faith to endure? Exalt Him, for God is good all the time.
Philippians 4 says, “6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” God knows our hearts. He knows everything about us when we rise and when we sleep. He is the alpha and the omega. He is the author of our faith. So even in our struggles, disappointments, and hardships rejoice for God is wonderful, and His plan is the best for us. Rejoice, even when your plan does not always work out for God is true to His Word and His promises stand forever. Yes, rejoice, for His plan shall be fulfilled if we just trust, obey, and hold onto His mighty hand.
May we always know that we serve a great God. There is no dispute regarding this truth. A great God of no equal. And the greatness of God is evident in how keeps His Word, and fulfils His Word no matter what. He brings to fruition what He said, and His promises stand forever. He shall forever be with us, and He shall bring to pass what has been placed within us to achieve. Such is the nature of God – majestic, beautiful, glorious and wonderful.
God is able
If we agree that God only wants the best for us, just as important is to agree that God has the ability and is capable to make it happen. It is great if we are to stand around a table with God and He rolls out a blueprint for our lives. I know, God only shows us in part, but if we had to see what God sees our immediate question will probably be something like this: “This is good God, yes it is wonderful and great and I can see what you want to accomplish, but how is this going to happen?”
This is where God steps in and will most likely say to us to just have faith. For while we are called to be obedient to His will, we are also called to walk in faith. God knows in His finite wisdom that if we knew the entire plan for us, then it will simply overwhelm us. So He shares the journey bit by bit, calling on us every step of the way to trust, yield, submit, and to have faith. We are urged in Galatians 5 to walk in the Spirit (verse 16). God in His greatness and goodness knew it would be impossible for us in our strength to remain committed to the plan, considering we are living in perilous times, so He sent the Holy Spirit to lead and guide us on our daily journey.
Jesus said in John 3 that those who are reborn by the Spirit will be able to see the Kingdom of God. When we have truly yielded our lives to God, walking by the Spirit in obedience, we shall be able to “see”, meaning discern, know, understand and comprehend the path of God and the plan He has in store for us. Isaiah 11:2 makes it clear that it is by the Spirit of God that we are led by God’s understanding, wisdom, might, power, counsel and knowledge. We need the Spirit of God to lead us in might and wisdom so that we may run the race and see God’s best plan for us come to fruition.
Remember, the difference between faith and trust is that faith is to believe that God can do something, while trust speaks of knowing that God will do something. While God only has the best planned for us, we need to have trust and faith in His abilities to bring our mandate to completion. Yes, God can and will bring about the best plan. And without a doubt, He is able! It is rather funny if you think about it how we constantly try to interfere in God’s work for our lives. This is because we think we know better, or that we can do a better job. God is God, so why would we think we can do a better job?
Scripture tells us numerous times that “Nothing is impossible with God.” The Bible encourages us to believe that all things are possible with Him. Matthew 19:26 says, “But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” In Luke 1:37 we read, “For with God nothing will be impossible.” We need to remember “Isaiah 55: 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
We read of the promises to Abraham in “Genesis 12: 1 Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Can you imagine Abraham’s reaction? Abram (to be called Abraham after the covenant for it means father of a multitude) was in his mind 70s, and suddenly God tells Him to leave his land and travel to an unknown destination where he will become a father of a great nation! Our first reaction was to think that this is surely impossible.
So Abraham was commanded by God to depart the house of his father Terah and move to the land formerly given to Canaan but which God now promises to Abraham and his offspring. Sarah, also known as Sarai, is the wife of Abraham. We read in the same chapter, “4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him.“ Our faith needs to be accompanied by action. God had revealed His best plan to Abraham, yet the servant had to react to God’s call. And so obeying God's call, Abraham brought his wife Sarah, his nephew Lot, and the wealth that they had acquired, and travelled to Canaan.
Because there was a harsh famine in the land of Canaan, Abraham and Sarah travelled south to Egypt. It took 10 years before they returned to Canaan, and we find Abraham and Sarah were still childless. You could imagine what Abraham must be feeling. God had promised him the land and a great nation, yet for 10 years not much happened! And now, on top of it all, they were getting very old, and surely they needed a son to make a nation come to fruition!
It is because of our fleshly frustrations that we begin to come up with our own plans. Sarah suggested that Abraham have a child with her Egyptian handmaid Hagar, to which he agreed. This produced stress between Sarah and Hagar, as Sarah protested to her husband that the handmaid no longer regarded her as an authority. Hagar fled from her mistress but returned after angels came to her. She then gave birth to Abraham's son Ishmael (from which the Arabic nations are born). Abraham was now in his 80s.
In Genesis 17 when Abraham was 99 years old, God declared his name: "Abraham" – and gave him the covenant of circumcision. Many years had passed since God had spoken to Abraham without seeing the manifestation of God’s plan. Almost 25 to be exact! Many of us are in the same boat. Years come and go as we wait for the signs of fruit without much happening, and so we get frustrated, and irritated and begin to follow our own will and plan.
Yet, God had given Abraham the certainty that Sarah would have a son. Shortly afterwards, Abraham and Sarah were visited by three men. One of the guests told Abraham that upon his arrival next year, Sarah would have a son. While at the tent entrance, Sarah heard what was said, and she laughed to herself about the possibility of having a child at her age. Sarah soon became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham, at the very moment which had been predicted. Abraham, then a hundred years old, named the child "Isaac." Isaac would go on to become a crucial character in the biblical narrative, fathering Jacob the eventual Patriarch of the Israelites.
What an incredible story! God had spoken to Abraham when he was 75 about His blueprint, and so many years later did Abraham see God’s mighty plan bearing fruit. And it was by the miraculous hand of God that allowed Sarah to give birth to Isaac. The great nation as promised by God was set in motion! Glory to God. Out of the nation of Israel would of course come Jesus, the Saviour of the world. So God had certainly not revealed everything to Abraham, but just what he needed to know. Abraham could never have known how his purpose fitted in God’s greater plans, which involved sending the Saviour to die on the cross so that all mankind may be saved.
No one of us knows how our purposes fit into God’s greater plans. Are not islands, ultimately, all our purposes intertwine when it comes to God’s Kingdom. Nothing has to do with fate or luck. God’s will is perfect and right, so we need to lean upon Him for He knows how to govern our lives to bring forth the best and how to bring about Kingdom-purpose. Proverbs 3 says, “5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” Yes, we must acknowledge God as our Lord and allow Him to direct us.
Consider also the story of Joseph, who was the most loved son of his father, Israel (Jacob), given the famous robe of many colours. When Joseph reported having dreams of his brothers, and even the stars and moon bowing before him, their jealousy of Joseph grew into action. The brothers sold him into slavery to a travelling caravan of Ishmaelites who took him to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh's guard.
Joseph must surely have thought his life was over. He was in prison, betrayed by his brothers! Yet God had a plan in place and it all had to do with the much greater plan of establishing Israel in the Promised Land. In Egypt, the Lord's presence with Joseph enabled him to find favour with Potiphar and the keeper of the prison. With God's help, Joseph interprets the dreams of two prisoners, predicting that one of them will be reinstated but the other put to death. Joseph then interprets the dreams of the Pharaoh, which anticipate seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. Pharaoh recognises Joseph's God-given ability and prompts his promotion to the chief administrator of Egypt. Take note that Joseph also had to take action by faithfully interpreting the dreams!
Shortage of food in Canaan forces Jacob to send his sons to buy grains from the Egyptians. This is where we read of the story of Joseph testing the character of his brothers by placing a silver cup in the sack of Benjamin and falsely accusing him of theft. When Judah offers to stay in place of Benjamin (the youngest), Joseph knows that his character has changed and reveals that he is their brother. Joseph explains they need not feel guilty for betraying him as it was God's plan for him to be in Egypt to preserve his family. He told them to bring their father and his entire household into Egypt to live in the province of Goshen because there were five more years of famine left. Jacob is then joyously reunited with his son Joseph.
This then sets up for the offspring of the brothers to be enslaved in Egypt and then to eventually be led out of Egypt after hundreds of years to finally travel to the Promised Land as given to Abraham. In the Promised Land, God’s plan of redemption to the entire world begins to unfold by establishing Israel as a nation and eventually anointing David as a king (through whose lineage Jesus is born).
How about the story of Moses? His story begins when the Pharaoh was afraid of the Israelite slaves because there were so many of them and ordered all the boy babies to be killed. Moses' mother protected him. It says, “She saw that he was a special baby and kept him hidden for three months” (Exodus 2:2). When she couldn’t hide him anymore, she made a little boat, placed him in it, and hid baby Moses in the reeds on the banks of the Nile River. He didn’t stay there long before being rescued by the Pharaoh’s daughter. Being unable to nurse him, she hired a Hebrew woman to do the job. This woman just so happened to be Moses’ mother! God is awesome! God knows what He is doing, and He can accomplish His great plans.
After Moses was weaned, the Pharaoh’s daughter raised him in the palace surrounded by all the luxuries of Egypt. Talk about God’s plan coming into action! He grew up in the palace but knew he was a Hebrew. When Moses saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave the Bible says, “Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand” (Exodus 2:12). Pharaoh found out what Moses had done and tried to kill him. Moses ran for his life. He lived out in the desert of Midian for 40 years, became a husband to Tharbis and Zipporah, and a father to Gershom and Eliezer.
God wanted Moses to rescue the Israelites from Egypt. Moses was afraid and gave excuse after excuse, one being that he stuttered. Moses told God, “Please send someone else” (Exodus 4:13). God didn’t want to send someone else and got angry with Moses. Exodus 3 says “10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” God had a plan for Moses, yet Moses couldn’t yet embrace it. Yes, we must embrace God’s plans, for His plans are the best for us. We must stop resisting God and just yield to His majesty.
How about the story of King David, so well-loved in Israel? He was a shepherd and the youngest of eight sons. In 1 Samuel 16 the prophet came to the house Jesse to anoint the future kind, but he knew none of the brothers presented was to be anointed according to God’s great plan. We then read, “11 And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him. For we will not sit down till he comes here.” 12 So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with [f]bright eyes, and good-looking. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!” 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah.”
The rest as they say is history. David would eventually become king, after showing his mettle during the confrontation with Goliath. David would have probably laughed at God’s plan when he was but a mere lad to become a famous king. Never in his wildest dreams did David believe God had such a great plan in store for him!
Nehemiah was a Jewish leader who supervised the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the mid-5th century BC after his release from captivity by the Persian king Artaxerxes I. He also instituted extensive moral and liturgical reforms in rededicating the Jews to God. In the Book of Nehemiah, we find the powerful story of the rebuilding of ancient Jerusalem's walls after the exile. This rebuilding, in the face of great odds, represented the people's renewal of faith, their overcoming of national shame and the reforming of their conduct.
God had a plan for Nehemiah, as He has with all of us. While in captivity, he would never have thought that God planned for him to become a great leader in Israel’s history. But God’s plans for us are always the best. We must just obey and be faithful. We read in “Nehemiah 2: 4 Then the king said to me, “What do you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. 5 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.” 6 Then the king said to me (the queen also sitting beside him), “How long will your journey be? And when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. 7 Furthermore I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given to me for the governors of the region beyond the River, that they must permit me to pass through till I come to Judah, 8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he must give me timber to make beams for the gates of the [d]citadel which pertains to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house that I will occupy.” And the king granted them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me. 9 Then I went to the governors in the region beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me. 10 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard of it, they were deeply disturbed that a man had come to seek the well-being of the children of Israel.”
We then read how Nehemiah views the wall of Jerusalem. He was accompanied by a few men. “17 Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.” 18 And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. So they said, “Let us rise up and build.” Then they set their hands to this good work.” Nehemiah took action in faith! While God has a plan, we need to take action, and we need to move in faith!
How about the story of the Apostle Paul? Here was a learned man of the Law, called Saul, who was hell-bent on persecuting the Christian Jews. Yet God had a plan for Saul. A great and mighty plan fashioned before his birth. Such a plan was set in motion on the road to Damascus. Of this account we read, in “Acts 9: 6 So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
Paul would become one of the greatest apostles who ever lived. He wrote most of the New Testament and planted the first seeds of the Gospel among the Gentiles far and wide. Yet, at one stage he was persecuting Christians! Like Abraham, Moses, Joseph, and David, Paul would never have imagined how great God’s plan was for his life. He couldn’t have imagined that God was about to make him one of the most prominent preachers of the Word of all time.
Imagine Mary’s shock when we learned she was pregnant and that the baby was conceived by the Holy Spirit! And of course, the child will be called Jesus, the Saviour of the world! John was born to become the prophet to prepare the way for Jesus and to baptise the Lord. God brought to fruition all their purposes, for God is a God of the impossible. The entire Bible speaks of purposes being fulfilled as ordained by God. Just read Hebrews 11, for great things happen when we move in faith and align with God’s plan!
We all run the risk of missing the mark, meaning failing to see God’s plan for our lives coming into fruition, because of our stubbornness, moving in the flesh and pursuing our will. God has a great and good plan in store for us. This is why we need to lean upon God and trust in His wisdom. Such a plan could have far-reaching consequences or ramifications, impacting generations, even though we may never the true extent of the purpose behind God’s plan. We are not God, but we are His servants called to obey. We can only trust it is the best plan, and that God’s plan has great meaning, and value and is important.
What is the best?
If we talk about God’s best plan for us, often this will conjure up images of great fortune, fame, achievements and even earthly glory. While God certainly does not intend for us to suffer, life should be focused more on our spiritual wealth, and then the prosperity of our soul and body will come into alignment.
We need to understand God wants us to be joyous, and even have good things. It says in “Psalm 84:11 The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right.” So if we do right by following God’s will, then we receive the promise that we will experience the fullness of God’s goodness. This boils down to Matthew 6:33 about first seeking God’s Kingdom and His righteousness above all else for God’s best plan for us to come into alignment.
At the moment in churches, there is an ongoing dispute regarding the prosperity gospel. Unfortunately, many people stumble over their theology here. We need to understand God is good. God wants us to have good things, yet our focus should not be on “things”, but on God, for those who seek God will taste His goodness. The reality is when we do what is right in God’s eyes and put God first in our life, He will not withhold good things from us. God does want us to prosper, but first in spirit, then soul and then the flesh. A lot of prosperity gospel teachings focus more on ‘goods’, therefore materialism, than the Kingdom of God. God makes it clear – seek first the Kingdom (the spiritual), and then the rest shall be added.
People often wonder if something is God’s will or not for their lives. While determining God's will sometimes require much time in prayer and seeking godly counsel, one thing is absolutely certain: God’s will for our lives is only goodness. But then God knows what is good for us, therefore, what is the best. This is why we need to follow God, listen to Him and lean upon His understanding. Romans 12 says, “1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
Anything which is not good for us in spirit, soul, and body cannot be God’s will for God is not cruel or wicked. A lot of ills such as depression, anxiety, sickness, and physical poverty we bring upon ourselves because we do not follow God’s best plan. So many people fall into dangerous and destructive habits for they keep on resisting God and His best plan for their lives. Anything which is destructive to our health, wealth, and happiness cannot be from God. God's good will for us is to lead lives that are pleasant, beautiful, excellent, rich, well, appropriate, beneficial, happy, honest, honourable, right, excellent, of good constitution, better, well, prosperous, fair, precious, fine, wealthy, favourable, agreeable to the senses, valuable, kind, ethical, and even bountiful. This is only possible when we abide in God. So yes, the Lord’s will is pleasant, beneficial, prosperous, and agreeable when we abide by Matthew 6:33.
