Proverbs 16:9

“In his heart a man plans his course but the Lord determines his steps”
Proverbs 16:9

Well the Lord has put on my heart for some time to write a blog. I am not the best writer in the World, but my prayer is that the Holy Spirit will guide this blog. May my thoughts not be mind, but the Lord’s. Before I go on I just want to let you know that I am serving the Lord in Ensenada, Mexico at Reino de Los Ninos an Orphanage. I have been serving since January 31, 2010. Enough of that and lets get to business.
Today is May 12, 2010 and it’s my day off. I am setting at Starbucks as I write. This morning, I slept in and trying to recover from my cold. The Lord put on my heart to write about Proverbs 16:9. Every morning we wake up making plans with what our heart’s desires but do you pray if it’s the Lord will. In the morning I try to remember to pray that the Holy Spirit will lead my every step and that every thought. May our everyday be the Lord’s will. Apparently I am human and the flesh gets the best of me sometimes.
Before coming to Christ we all had our plans, hope and desires. Some of us wanted to be rich, popular, and wanted by someone else. Then, one day Christ came into your life and everything changed. Some of us had an addiction to something. That addiction was our desire, hope, and our god. But God redeems us from our addictions. So, our plans start to change, our heart’s desires become God’s will. He starts to lead us to do things, we didn’t like before. Those are the beauties of letting God determine our steps because He guides us to do things that once scared us or thought we would never do.
Confession, I never thought I was going to be able to serve God full-time. I really thought you had to be a well known person in your church. I also thought you had to be rich. I am not well known and I am poor. I am an orphanage myself and God has given and taken away. He has completely humble me and has taught me to depend on His promises. Many ask why I don’t have a paying job knowing that I a college degree instead I am serving and completely depending on the Lord to provide. I have always had a full-time job since I was 16 years old. Know I am a servant of God and leaning onto Him daily. Becoming an orphan at 18 and being so independent since the death of my mother then receiving Christ and depending on Him was something I was not use to.
My plans were to get married and have a family that I always wanted because I come from a family that is scattered. Yes, I got married alright, but it was not God’s timing and my husband left me when we were just two years married. I not mad at God at all. God used the most heart breaking moment of my life for His will to be done in my life. I picked my cross and kept marching along Jesus. The Lord used all that disappointment, suffering, and abandonment to serve Him. In God’s timing God gave me that family I always wanted. He blessed me will an awesome Spiritual family in Christ. My Spiritual family has been supporting me through prayer and biblical counseling. My Spiritual family has been by my side in my suffering and has helped me carry my cross. We walk together to Our Lord’s presence and worshiping Him together. The Lord place in the life of 31 kids and be like a mother to them here at the orphanage. Hugging them and healing their cuts and being a shoulder to cry on when they get out of control. Allowing the Lord to Love them through me has been one of the greatest blessings.
Just think about the disciple Paul. Paul knew he had to go to Rome. Paul could not make his plans until the Lord lead. Paul could not just book an airplane flight to go straight to Rome. Paul suffered, went to prison, and was beaten before he got to Rome. He arrived at Rome as a Prisoner. God was always, by his side. God provided and determined His steps.
Today, the Spirit may put on your heart that He wants you to serve Him in a ministry, or be a missionary. We won’t know the steps to God’s will for us. We won’t know God’s plans for us until we walk by faith and pick up our cross. Paul was a man with plans to killed Christians. Paul’s plans to kills Christian was not an option when he accepted Christ into His life in Acts chapter 9. The Lord’s plans for Paul’s life were to transform Paul into a disciple that would go out into the World to preach the gospel and help many understand the Lord’s true doctrine.
God’s plans for us are part of our conversion.

“For HE knows the plans He has for us”, declares the Lord, plans to prosper us and not to harm us, “plans to give us hope and a future”. Jeremiah 29:11