THE AGENDA'S

GOD’S AGENDA VS. OUR AGENDA

JEREMIAH 29:11-14

11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

PROVERBS 16:1-4,9

 The plans of the heart belong to man,

but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

2  All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,

but the LORD weighs the spirit.

3  Commit your work to the LORD,

and your plans will be established.

4  The LORD has made everything for its purpose,

even the wicked for the day of trouble

9  The heart of man plans his way,

but the LORD establishes his steps.

AGENDA IS A NOUN, AND THE MEANING IS A LIST, PLAN, OUTLINE ,OR THE LIKE, OF THINGS TO BE DONE, MATTERS TO BE ACTED OR VOTED UPON.

WE ALL HAVE AGENDA’S OF SOME SORT,THINGS THAT WE HAVE PLANNED FOR OURSELFS, AND THINGS WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH IN THIS LIFE. BUT LITTLE DO MANY OF US KNOW THAT WE ARE GOING ABOUT THE WRONG WAY , WE ARE TRYING TO DO IT ACCORDING TO OUR OWN AGENDA AND NOT GOD’S.

LET US DEAL WITH OUR AGENDA FIRST:

Humans are responsible for the reflections and plans of their hearts, but they do nothing that falls outside of the sovereignty of God (16:1, 9). He is in control; his purposes will be accomplished; his kingdom will come. Align your agenda with his.

IT IS ONLY GOD’S PLANS THAT WILL COME TO PASS, WE CAN MAKE ALL THAT PLAN WE WANT TOO, BUT IT SI THE LORDS AGENDA THAT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED.

THAT IS WHY WE HAVE TO COMMIT EVERYTHING TO THE LORD:

If you truly commit your activities to the LORD, it means your will is in submission to his. When that happens, your plans will be achieved, because you’re inviting his will to be done “on earth as it is in heaven”

Matthew 6:10–11 “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.”

SO MANY OF US HAVE BEEN MAKING OUR OWN AGENDA’S FOR SO LONG WE DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT WEATHER OR NOT OURS LINE UP WITH THE WILL OF GOD, AS IF HE DOS’T MATTER.

STOP JUST RUNNING AND ASUMMING IT OK FOR YOU TO LEAVE GOD OUT OF YOUR PLANS, YOUR DON’T PRAY AND SEEK GOD ANMORE YOU JUST INFORM HIM ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE PLANNING ON DOING, THAT’S WHY WE ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL IN THING WE DO IN THIS LIFE.

WHEN WE REALIZE THAT EVERYTHING WORKS OUT FOR HIS PURPOSE AND NOT OURS LIFE WILL GO AS PLANNED FOR US.

16:4

This is a wonderful declaration of God’s sovereignty: The LORD has prepared everything for his purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster. God exercises his prerogative to do whatever he pleases with his creation. Why? Because “the earth and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants, belong to the LORD”

GOD CAN AND WILL ALWAYS DO WHAT HE PLEASE, AND WHAT IS FITTING TO HIM, I KNOW IT’S HARD FOR US TO GET WITH THAT, WELL YOU BETTER GET WITH IT.

Suppose you came into my home and told me you didn’t like how I had arranged and decorated everything. I would have one response for you: “When you start buying the furniture and paying the bills, we can entertain your viewpoint. But as long as I’m spending the money, your viewpoint carries no clout in my house.”

When we start creating planets and giving life, perhaps then we can start dictating how God ought to run the universe. But unless we get that divine clout, we cannot exercise that divine prerogative. It always belongs to God, and he does whatever he chooses. This teaching does not just appear as a fleeting thought in the Bible, but as an overwhelming doctrine (see Job 42:2; Ps 115:3; Eph 1:11). Not even evil and unrighteousness can escape the all-controlling hand of the God who has even made wicked people for his own purposes.

LET US NOW LOOK AT GOD’S AGENDA FOR OUR LIVES:

Jeremiah 29:11–14

11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

God promised to restore his people when the seventy years of captivity ended (29:14, 10). Many Christians are familiar with Jeremiah 29:11, but they don’t know its context. For I know the plans I have for you … plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope (29:11). This is God’s promise to bless his people in the midst of a pagan culture. And it takes on greater significance when it’s seen in the context of exile with no apparent hope (29:11).

Notice, though, that this promise was conditioned on God’s people seeking him in a new way: You will … find me when you search for me with all your heart (29:13). The economic titans and power brokers of the world can’t help us like God can, but enjoying this kind of blessing requires seeking God wholeheartedly. This demands more than attending church on Sunday, tapping our feet to the music, hearing a sermon, and saying, “Amen.” Unless we commit our hearts to the Lord 24/7, we will be no different twelve months from now. But when we worship and obey the Lord through our day-to-day walk with him, he’s ready to communicate with us and even reverse our circumstances.

GOD’S AGENDA FOR OUR LIFE HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN PLACE BEFORE WE WAS BORN.

Jeremiah 1:4–5 “Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”

THAT’S WHY EVERYTHING WE DO SHOULD LINE UP WITH GOD WORD AND HIS WILL.

NOT WHAT WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH OR DO.