May 31 – Trust in the Unseen Plan

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today.

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May 31st Trust in the unseen
plan.

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Have you ever felt like you were
spinning a wheel and just hoping

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it landed somewhere good?
Like no matter how much you

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tried to plan or prepare, things
were still unpredictable, still

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out of your hands?
Maybe it’s where you’ll end up

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after school, or whether a
relationship will work out, or

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how a situation at home is going
to resolve.

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Life can feel genuinely
uncertain, and that uncertainty

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can be really unsettling.
Proverbs chapter 16 verse 33

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speaks into that with a quiet,
grounding confidence.

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The lot is cast into the lap,
but it’s every decision is from

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the Lord.
In the ancient world, casting

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lots was the way people made
decisions when the outcome was

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uncertain, essentially like
rolling the dice.

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And what this verse says is that
even that even the apparently

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random outcome is in God’s
hands.

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Nothing falls outside His
awareness or beyond His

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authority.
The things that look like chance

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to us are not chance to Him.
That’s a profound statement.

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It means the situation that
feels out of control to you is

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not out of control.
It means the outcome you can’t

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see or predict is seen by the
God who holds all things.

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And it means you are not
navigating an unpredictable

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universe alone.
You are walking through it with

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a God who is sovereignly present
in every detail.

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Psalm 62, verses 5 and 6 respond
to that truth with the most

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restful declaration.
My soul finds rest in God alone.

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My salvation comes from Him.
Truly.

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He is my rock and my salvation.
He is my fortress.

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I will never be shaken.
My soul finds rest not in having

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all the answers, not in
controlling all the outcomes,

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not in having everything figured
out.

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Rest comes from God alone.
He is the rock.

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He is the fortress.
And the conclusion the psalmist

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reaches is not a fragile hope,
but a settled certainty.

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I will never be shaken.
That’s available to you, not as

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a feeling that comes naturally
or that you have to manufacture,

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but as a choice, a daily act of
trust where you bring what

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you’re carrying to God and say,
I don’t know how this turns out,

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but you do.
And I’m resting in that.

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It doesn’t make the uncertainty
disappear, but it changes your

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relationship to it completely.
And Ephesians chapter 6, verse

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14 reminds us that trust in God
is not passivity.

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You don’t just wait for things
to happen, you stand firm,

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equipped, and ready.
Stand therefore, having fastened

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on the belt of truth and having
put on the breastplate of

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righteousness.
The armor of God is not

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defensive furniture you wear
while hiding.

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It’s what you put on when you
are ready to stand your ground

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truth around your waist.
Because when lies and confusion

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come at you, the truth of God is
what you hold onto.

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Righteousness over your heart.
Because a clear conscience

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before God is your protection
against the enemy’s accusations.

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You are not helpless in the face
of uncertainty.

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You are equipped, you are
covered, and you are held by a

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God whose plans are never
thwarted and whose love for you

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never wavers.
So as this month closes, here’s

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the invitation.
Trust the unseen plan, not

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blindly, not passively, but
actively armored up, standing

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firm and resting in the God who
holds every outcome in His

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hands.
He has not forgotten you, He is

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not finished with you, and
whatever comes next, He already

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knows the way through.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
being my rock, my salvation, my

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fortress, the one place where my
soul can genuinely rest in a

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world that feels uncertain and
unpredictable, I choose to trust

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that nothing falls outside your
hands.

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Help me to stop straining for
control and start resting in

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Your sovereignty.
Equip me to stand firm with

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truth, with righteousness, with
faith in every challenge this

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next season brings.
I don’t need to see the whole

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plan, I just need to trust the
one who holds it.

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In Jesus name, Amen.
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family are not random and your
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darkness loses every right to
stay?

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Proverbs Chapter 16 Verse 33
World English Bible The lot is

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cast into the lap, but it’s
every decision is from Yahweh.

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Psalm Chapter 62 World English
Bible My soul rests in God

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alone.
My salvation is from Him.

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He alone is my rock, my
salvation and my fortress.

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I will never be greatly shaken.
How long will you assault a man?

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Would all of you throw him down
like a leaning wall, like a

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tottering fence?
They fully intend to throw him

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down from his lofty place.
They delight in lies, They bless

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with their mouth, but they curse
inwardly.

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My soul wait in silence for God
alone.

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For my expectation is from Him.
He alone is my rock and my

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salvation my fortress.
I will not be shaken.

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My salvation and my honor is
with God.

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The rock of my strength and my
refuge is in God.

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Trust in Him at all times.
You people pour out your heart

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before Him.
God is a refuge for us.

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Surely men of low degree are
just a breath, and men of high

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degree are a lie in the
balances.

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They will go up.
They are together lighter than a

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breath.
Don’t trust in oppression.

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Don’t become vain in robbery.
If riches increase, don’t set

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your heart on them.
God has spoken once, twice.

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I have heard this.
That power belongs to God also

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to you Lord belongs loving
kindness, for you reward every

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man according to his work.
Ephesians Chapter 6 World

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English Bible Children, obey
your parents and the Lord, for

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this is right.
Honor your father and mother,

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which is the first commandment,
with a promise that it may be

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well with you and you may live
long on the earth.

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You fathers, don’t provoke your
children to wrath, but nurture

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them in the discipline and
instruction of the Lord.

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Servants, be obedient to those
who according to the flesh are

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your masters.
With fear and trembling, in

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singleness of your heart as to
Christ, not in the way of

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service only when eyes are on
you as men pleasers, but as

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servants of Christ, doing the
will of God from the heart.

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With goodwill.
Doing service as to the Lord and

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not to men, knowing that
whatever good thing each one

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does, he will receive the same
good again from the Lord,

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whether he is bound or free.
You masters do the same things

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to them, and give up
threatening, knowing that he who

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is both their Master and yours
is in heaven, and there is no

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partiality with him.
Finally, be strong in the Lord

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and in the strength of His
might.

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Put on the whole armor of God,
that you may be able to stand

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against the Wiles of the devil.
For our wrestling is not against

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flesh and blood, but against the
principalities, against the

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powers, against the world’s
rulers of the darkness of this

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age, and against the spiritual
forces of wickedness in the

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heavenly places.
Therefore put on the whole armor

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of God, that you may be able to
withstand in the evil day.

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And having done all to stand.
Stand, therefore, having the

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utility belt of truth buckled
around your waist, and having

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put on the breastplate of
righteousness, and having fitted

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your feet with the preparation
of the good news of peace, Above

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all, taking up the shield of
faith, with which you will be

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able to quench all the fiery
darts of the evil. 1 And take

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the helmet of salvation and the
sword of the Spirit, which is

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the Word of God, with all prayer
and requests, praying at all

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times in the Spirit, and being
watchful to this end in all

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perseverance and requests for
all the Saints on my behalf.

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That utterance may be given to
me in opening my mouth to make

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known with boldness the mystery
of the good news for which I am

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an ambassador in chains, that in
it I may speak boldly as I ought

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to speak, but that you also may
know my affairs how I am doing.

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Titicus, the beloved brother and
faithful servant in the Lord,

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will make known to you all
things.

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I have sent Him to you for this
very purpose, that you may know

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our state and that He may
comfort your hearts.

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Peace be to the brothers and
love with faith from God the

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Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.

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Grace be with all those who love
our Lord Jesus Christ with

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incorruptible love.
Amen.

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