Sue led our meeting this afternoon and was also our speaker!

We were asked the question, “How adaptable are you?” Sometimes, God blocks our plans.  Are we happy to say goodbye to them and allow God to have His way? 

Isaiah 55 v 8-9 says, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways”, declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

It is important to be ready and prepared for the Lord’s prompting because He has a plan far greater for us and any plans we might have.

Sue shared two examples of this:

• When Paul and his co-workers planned to continue church planting in Asia,  God gave Paul a vision to go to Macedonia in Europe (Acts 16 v 9-10). As a result of this, they left immediately which was a very important decision.
• In Philippi, Paul and his companions had planned to go outside the city to the river where they expected to find a place of prayer but met a group of women. This would have been culturally unacceptable yet Paul stopped and shared the gospel with them (Acts 16 v 13-15) – another very important decision. As a result of this meeting planned by God, Lydia, a prominent business woman, became a key part of the young Philippian church.

If Paul hadn’t have been ready to change his plans in obedience to God’s call on his life, there may never have been a Philippian church. Are we as adaptable as that? Definitely food for thought!