What plans do they have for you?

“The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of His heart through all generations. He makes the thoughts and plans of the peoples of no effect.” – Psalm 33:10b-11

If you have been in ministry for any amount of time, you have run into “the peoples” referred to in this scripture. “The peoples” are also the “they” that have all sorts of plans and thoughts –some good, some evil. The peoples seem to always have some counsel about the direction of your God-given vision/call.

The peoples can tell you what and what you are not anointed to do. They even tell you that you are not called to the office Jesus Himself appointed you to and gave you as a gift to His very own body. They withhold goodness when it is in their power to do good by you and the ministry God has assigned your hands.

The peoples hear God saying, “Bless _________ (put your name in the blank) with $500.” They have the money right in their checking or savings account, but they turn a deaf ear and refuse to obey God and give. They think nobody else knows they withheld resources with your name on it. As a matter of fact, God tells many of us that He spoke to them and told them to bless us. The peoples overlook you as God’s gift. They hate you, the gift, Jesus gave them. The peoples ignore you and the anointing of God on your life. They will choose any non-anointed, un-appointed person for a task except you . . . even though God spoke to them and called you by name for the task.

If it’s in their power to train, elevate, or impart some spiritual gift for the work of the ministry, they will shut up their bowels of compassion for the work of God and deny this opportunity to be used mightily by God to advance His Kingdom. They simply have their own thoughts and plans concerning you. In all their getting, they didn’t get a revelatory understanding of who you are to God! But here’s the good news:

God causes all their thoughts and plans to be of no effect!

He will still bless you with the financial resources for His work. He will simply send a willing vessel along your way. I’m not talking about one who is willing with their lips only, but with demonstration and action. This vessel isn’t jealous, competitive, or envious of the gift you are to Christ’s body. Why does God send along a willing vessel? Yes, of course, because He love us, but here’s the real reason:

His counsel stands forever!

God didn’t need to confer with “the peoples” to call, appoint, and send you as a gift to His body. He counsels with Himself, and His counsel is tried, true, and sure. Heaven and earth shall fade away, but God’s word will remain. What He counseled with Himself about you is written. It’s His word, and His word is enduring. His word is forever settled in heaven . . . and therefore in earth. It doesn’t matter what the peoples plan or think. Hallelujah . . . rejoice, equipped man/woman of God. Bask in His counsel, servant of the Most High God. You can lay back, snuggle up, and rest in His counsel.

Don’t fret yourself over what “they” say, think, do, plan. God is with you. He is for you . . .who can be against you? The peoples? No! “They?” No!

His counsel stands forever!

The counsel of the Lord stands forever! Rejoice and be exceedingly glad!

Lord, we thank you we don’t need to concern ourselves with the plans of the people. We thank You that you are sending wiling vessels our way. Vessels that are able and willing to fulfill Your counsel over and towards us. We thank You, Lord that they are in full agreement with what You have written in heaven. We thank you that they are able to see Your counsel and line up with it. Thank You for releasing us from the power of what the people think and plan. For truly, what they think and plan is of no effect anyway. Today, we give them no more power because through Your word You’ve sent today You have revealed and fully healed us from the false power we have given them over our God-given visions/calls.

Your word over us prevails. We line up the power of Your word and every word, plan, and thought they possess is broken up off us in Jesus’ name. We are free to rest, bask, and rejoice in Your everlasting counsel. The naysayer, unbeliever, non-pliable, non-moldable, can’t-be-stretched vessel has no authority over us or You. We declare and decree that You withhold no good thing that will propel us forward in our call forward. You are our Resource, oh Lord. For cattle on a thousand hills belongs to You. If You have need of something, it will be used by You. Just like the colt You untied for Your very own triumphal entry. Untie our colt(s) in the realm of the spirit this day that we may be graced to make the triumphant entry into the very place(s) You’ve preordained, planned, and counseled with no one about.

We thank You. We thank You and praise You. You are Baal-Pharez (Perez) . . . our God who creates a breach for us that we may enter into all You have for us that You may be glorified. Thank You for the openings/breaches that You are creating now. Right now in the realm of the spirit. I speak to things that have been blocked, tied up, and closed off concerning the visions You’ve given us, and I command openings now. I thank You in advance for the reports of how You did it, and we shall pay no attention to the gazers that stand back and say, “How did you breakthrough? How did you burst forth?” The resounding answer in heaven is Baal-Perez!