“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” – Jeremiah 29:11
Except for two years in the Army, Don Elliott spent the first 57 years of his life in Arkansas. He was a football coach and a high school principal for many of those years.
Then in 1986, Don spoke with some relatives. They had spent three months in Africa doing missionary work. Don and his wife Almeda started thinking that after his retirement from the school system it would be a good idea for them. The couple had full intentions of going to Africa for just three months. But after meeting a gentleman talking about missions, Don one day came home and said, “Almeda, what do you think about going to China for a year?”
The couple, sensing God’s plan, ended up teaching conversational English to Chinese students for several years in an effort to reach them for Christ. Now Don was from a rural area in Arkansas, but God decided to send him to a city of 2 million people in China.
In 2017, Don went home to be with the Lord. A Chinese student, who had been influenced by Don’s ministry, spoke at his gravesite. He said: “The first time I went to church, he brought me. The first Bible I ever had, he gave me.”
God’s plans are far greater than any plans we may have for ourselves. Today in prayer, praise the Lord and look to Him for the wonderful plans He has for your life.
"God hath a work to do, and not to help Him is to oppose Him." - John Owen
God’s Word: “Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare.” – Psalms 40:5
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