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DATE: Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025
THEME: How Believers Lose God Without Leaving Church (2)
TITLE: God Can’t Be Part of Your Plan—He Is the Plan
SCRIPTURE TEXT: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” — Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV)
BY: EFFIONG ETOK
Carrier of God’s Word
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
God does not apply to join your plans—He is the Architect and the Blueprint of destiny.
MAIN MESSAGE
Beloved, hear me: the greatest deception of empty religion is to treat God like an addition—like a backup plan, a spare tire for life’s emergencies. But the Almighty will never play supporting roles in your script—He is the Script Himself.
Jeremiah reminds us that God already has thoughts concerning us—“thoughts of peace, to give you an expected end” (Jeremiah 29:11). If He is not The Plan, then every plan is a road to frustration. When you relegate God to part of your strategies, He withdraws and allows you to taste the barrenness of self-reliance.
This is why many believers pray, fast, and yet remain bound, because the throne of their trust is already crowded—with ambitions, with systems, with men, with hidden alternatives. Hear me: God cannot be used; He must be enthroned. He cannot be squeezed into your agenda; He must be the agenda.
Even in our healing, our careers, and our daily pursuit of progress, this truth remains unshaken. Doctors may prescribe, friends may assist, employers may promote, but none of these are the Source. They are only fragile channels through which God, The Plan, manifests His will. To forget this is to silently dethrone Him. Believers lose God without leaving church when they celebrate the instrument but ignore the Giver. Every success must be traced back to Him, every achievement must bow to His authorship, every help must be acknowledged as His hand—irrespective of who “scored the goal.”
Until you lay down every alternative and embrace Him as The Plan, your life will remain a cycle of partial victories and recurring bondage. Peace is not found in many strategies, but in one surrender.
PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS
•Father, forgive me for making You an addition. Take over every plan of my life—be my foundation and my future, in Jesus’ Mighty Name!
•Lord, dismantle every structure I built outside Your will. Let my will bow and Your will prevail, in Jesus’ Mighty Name!
•Spirit of the Living God, reorder my life until Christ is revealed as The Plan. Strip me of every reliance on men or systems, in Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen!
BREAKING POINT
Every plan outside Him is not just risky—it is self-destruction disguised as wisdom.
