Hi Brian!

The word for this week is "plans". We have looked at it before but I wanted to look at it again as it is the title of a song from Brandon Lake's new album "King of Hearts". We'll be looking at Jeremiah 29:11 from the Amplified Bible.

11 For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome. AMP

The KJV Bible says "thoughts" while the AMPC says "thoughts and plans". The word is the Hebrew word "machashabah". Strong's Concordance says: an intention or plan. Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon says: a thought, a device, a plan, a purpose, an invention. The Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament says: The basic idea of the word is the employment of the mind in thinking activity. Reference is not so much to "understanding", but to the creating of new ideas. Our GREAT GOD has the very BEST "thoughts, plans and purposes" for our lives from HIS position of seeing all and knowing all! Isaiah 46:9-10 says it like this:

9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: KJV

ALL of HIS PLANS for us are GOOD and ONLY GOOD! I can't wait to hear what wonderful things He has planned to bless you and your beautiful family in the coming months! Here is that song! 

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!