Ever had your plans go astray?

Look forward so very much to some event only to have it cancelled or perhaps you became ill and could not attend?

That experience has never once happened to God. God makes a plan and no problem is big enough to prevent God from fulfilling His plan.

God emphatically states in Today’s Verse, “I WILL DO THIS!” Not, “I hope to do this” or “I will try to do this” but “I WILL do this.”

Sometimes life goes haywire for you and me. There are so many disappointments in life and that includes ministry, too. We may have a pity party like Elijah and wonder if ministry is worthwhile. That’s where faith must arise and conquer our doubts.

Throughout my 48 years of up-and-down (mostly up) ministry I have remained convinced of: 1. The power of God to change lives through His WORD; 2. The call of God upon my life to be a minister in whatever capacity He wishes to use me; 3. That God WILL keep His word and bless the sowing process (Matthew 13). God WILL bless what we sow. The harvest may come today or next year or even after the Lord calls us home.

But it WILL come. God’s will WILL be done. He WILL accomplish whatever He pleases.

Evangelist Glenn Mathews says with such confidence, “You may say, ‘I just don’t know what is going to happen.’ Oh, yes, you do. The Lord is going to come. Suddenly, but certainly, and the dead in Christ are going to be raised. And we who remain will be called up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and we will forever be with the Lord.

“If you think it is rough now, you wait until the Church of Jesus Christ is gone, and seven years of hell on earth begin. The Lord is going to come back. He is going to establish His Kingdom. We won’t study war anymore; it will be peace. Not just peace in the valley, but peace on the mountaintop. Not just for the Jews but for the Gentiles as well. We are going to enter into that. God is sovereign.” (Expositions That Matter, p. 29)

Above all, never ever give up. Have faith in God! The zeal of the Lord of hosts WILL do this!

Of the increase of his government and of peace
    there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
    to establish it and to uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
    from this time forth and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Isaiah 9:7 ESV

Tom Swartzwelder was born again at the age of nine in an old-fashioned revival meeting. Tom received his B.A. from Tennessee Temple University and his M. Div from Luther Rice Seminary. He has pastored for nearly forty years in both bi-vocational and full-time roles. He provides practical how-to-do-ministry resources for the disciples of Jesus Christ at http://www.godsgreenhouse.net. Tom’s latest book is “God Speaks–Today!”