ARMORBEARERS’ CELL 2020

Benjamin Franklin, “If you plan to fail, you fail to plan”

Think about a meal first. Last week I asked: “Why does it take so much time to prepare everything for a meal and then discover that eating it
only takes minutes.”

Then God ministered in my heart, He said, “The key to breakthrough is preparation”

Victory is not sweet without the preparation. In fact, what made you enjoy the victory, was the preparation you made. You could not
appreciate answered prayers without praying for them. Prayer is preparation. The decisions we make today is critical. The people that we
go with critical. The songs, the movies and how we spend our time today is critical. What we do today can affect a whole decade.

Preparation is very essential for what lies ahead. God will definitely bless what you have prayed for. Don’t just plan for a year, plan for the
decade. Make sure that what you plan today is lasting, worth it, kingdom-building. God wants you to plan, in fact.

This year may it become your mantra: No distractions, no compromise.God clearly said in my devo that this year, He calls us NOT TO
COMPROMISE. He calls us to ABSOLUTE HOLINESS.Daniel: 3:17-18

A plan is of no use without convictions. If you write down and have some plans yet decide not to follow the steps, you will never get to your
destination/victory. The victory lies upon the preparation and planning.

We plan for our dreams, we plan for our clothes and food however, what I would like to do here is to try to persuade you to set
aside time each week in the coming year to plan—and specifically to plan your life of prayer and devotion and ministry. The
bulldozer of God's Spirit often arrives at the scene of our heart ready to begin some great work of building, and he finds that due to
poor planning there are piles of disordered things in his way. We're not ready for him.

PLANNING
1. Anticipate – Proverbs 6:6-7
2. Seek counsel – Pr 15:22 - Here the wisdom of planning is taken for granted, and the writer simply gives us advice for how to
make plans that succeed. He says, Don't be so independent that you think yourself above counsel. Read the wisdom of
others who have gone before you. Talk to experienced and wise people. Watch the way others do things and learn from
their mistakes and successes.

3. Commit to the Lord – Pr 16:3 - How can you plan in such a way that what you produce will have abiding value and not just
pass away overnight? Answer: Commit it to the Lord. That is, always seek the Lord's guidance and strength in your
planning. Trust his wisdom and not your own. Then your plans will bear fruit that stays.
4. Have an agenda daily – Pr 31: 15 – 16

Careful planning is part of what makes a person wise and productive. Not to plan is considered foolish and dangerous. This is true
even though the Proverbs teach that we do not know what the future may bring. "A man's mind plans his way, but the Lord directs
his steps" (Proverbs 16:9). The fact that the Lord is ultimately in control of the future does not mean we shouldn't plan. It means
we should commit our work to the Lord and trust him to establish our plans according to his loving purposes.

As you plan for the year, the decade and your Ignite. It is very critical that you write them down, even write practical steps in
achieving them.

A person who plans is a person with dreams. A perosn without a dream will always be a slave to their reality.

Plan for the Most Important Things in Your Life 

Plan how you are going to spend time with your family to deepen and strengthen the relationship. Plan how you are going to get the
amount of exercise you need to stay healthy. Plan how you’re going to get through your finances to meet the whole week, the whole
month or the whole year. Plan as to how you will grow. Plan how you will expand your ministry. And most important, plan how
prayer and meditation on the Word are going to be significant parts of your life. Without a plan these most important things always
get pushed aside by urgent pressures.

Make Planning a Regular Part of Your Life 

But it won't work just to plan something tonight or tomorrow. Planning must be a regular part of your life. This is in addition to the
time I expect we are all taking each week to plan our week's work.So my plea to you is that you set aside time each week to plan,
especially to plan your life of prayer and Bible study. For example, since Sunday is the first day of the week (not the last day of the
weekend!) and belongs to the Lord, take ten or fifteen minutes each Sunday and think through when you will pray and what you
will study that week. Give some thought how God might want to use you that week in a special way. Plan the letters you need to
write, the Bible verses you want to memorize, the visit you want to make, the book you want to read, the neighbor you want to talk
to, etc.

The Proverbs teach us to plan. The greatest missionary who ever lived was a planner. God is a God who does all things according to
plan. And Jesus set his face to go to Jerusalem because of the most loving plan ever devised.He planned for our joy; we ought to
plan for his glory. So how do you see yourself this year?