Planning Your Work With God [TDPOW #111]
- Staff
- Jun 11
- 2 min read
Scripture
Proverbs 16:3 — “Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.”
Devotional
Planning is part of wise stewardship—schedules, projects, budgets, and priorities don’t organize themselves. Yet it’s easy to plan as if everything depends on you: your insight, your effort, your control. Proverbs invites you to a different posture: commit your work to the Lord first, and then plan.
To “commit” literally means to roll your work onto Him—placing the weight of outcomes on His shoulders. You still think, plan, and act, but your confidence isn’t in your cleverness; it’s in His sovereignty. As you submit your plans to God in prayer, you invite Him to redirect, refine, or confirm them.
This doesn’t guarantee everything goes smoothly. But it does mean you’re not alone in the process. Over time, you learn to hold your plans loosely and your trust in God tightly. Planning becomes an act of worship, not an exercise in self-sufficiency.
Reflection Questions
How often do you intentionally invite God into your planning process at work?
What upcoming project or decision do you need to “roll” onto Him right now?
How might your stress level change if you truly believed He is establishing your steps?
Prayer
Lord, I commit my work and my plans to You. Guide my thinking, ordering, and decisions. Establish what is from You, and gently redirect what is not. Help me plan with diligence and trust, not anxiety. Amen.
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This devotional is designed to encourage you as you live out your faith in the workplace. It works best when paired with regular time in Scripture, prayer, and worship—the rhythms through which we grow to know Christ more deeply and become more like Him.
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