(1 Chronicles 29:11), TLB…Everything in the heavens and earth is yours, O Lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as being in control of everything.

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”: supreme power and authority

1. My plans are

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(Proverbs 16:9) The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

(Proverbs 19:21) Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

(Psalm 33:10-11) The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.

(Proverbs 16:1) GN We may make our plans, but God has the last word.

2. My pain has

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(1 Peter 1:6-7) Phillips… at present, you may be temporarily harassed by all kinds of trials and temptations. This is no accident – it happens to prove your faith, which is infinitely more valuable than gold…

(Job 1:21) TLB The Lord gave me everything I had, and they were His to take away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

(Genesis 50:20) You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good, to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

(2 Corinthians 4:16-17) PhillipsThis is the reason we never lose heart…These troubles (which are temporary) are winning for us a permanent, glorious, and solid reward out of proportion to our pain.

What Is My Responsibility?

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His Word.

(2 Samuel 7:8-14) Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.

And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies.

The LORD declares to you that He Himself will establish a house for you. And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I moved out of your way. Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me and your throne will be established forever.

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in His care.

(2 Samuel 7:18) Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said: “Who am I, Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?

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toward His commandments.

(1 Chronicles 22:3-4) He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more bronze than could be weighed. He also provided more cedar logs than could be counted, for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought large numbers of them to David.

(1 Chronicles 22:5) David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the Lord should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it.”

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your “control”.

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