Plays and Plans that Work

“Sixty percent of the time, that play always works” is the way one football coach described a play that failed and put his team behind in the score. Is that what I really heard? How many football games can one watch without going crazy? I’m not sure, but 34 bowl games, plus professional end-of-season and playoff games, plus a High School all-star game or two and I was close to overdosing on television football last week. But that’s what he said. Come to think of it, I’ve had days like that, days when I just knew that I had prepared well and planned the day correctly. But at the end of the day, I thought “most of the time, those plans should have worked.” We have plans for the year to come. They should work. They look good on paper. May your plans and mine work for the glory of God in 2009 – at least 60% of the time. “May He grant you according to your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your purpose” (Ps. 20:4).

Join me in praying for the following global concerns:
• Pray for missionaries in Ukraine as they witness during the holiday season, which has only begun for the Ukrainians ending shortly after the Orthodox Christmas January 7th.
• Pray for a missionary family who leave Oklahoma in January to return to Poland.
• Pray for the surfer ministry in Portugal.