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Life Planning With Jesus

Because doing it on your own will leave you wanting

J.R. HEIMBIGNER, AUTHOR
8 min readJul 8, 2021
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I used to go through a considerable amount of work to create a life plan.

In fact, I created an entire course on how to create a life plan and then make it work for you. It even led me to create a planner/journal around the entire thing too.

But this year, I realized something. All that work is for not if it doesn’t line up with God’s Kingdom purposes for my life. I can have all the plans in the world, yet, if I don’t bring them before God, they are not likely going to happen.

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. (Proverbs 19:21)

If this is true, then my planning was doing something good, but it was giving up on seeing something great happen. So, in the next few minutes, I am going to share how we can take typical life planning techniques and create a spiritual practice out of it too.

STEP 1: Sit Before Jesus and See Your Life

A while back, I had a dream. I was sitting before Jesus on a cold stone seat. We were watching a replay of my life and to my right, there was a large kiln with a conveyor belt moving a huge slag of…

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J.R. HEIMBIGNER, AUTHOR
J.R. HEIMBIGNER, AUTHOR

Written by J.R. HEIMBIGNER, AUTHOR

Husband & Father of 3, Author of 18 books (14 Bestsellers), Helping Christians grow closer to God, experience Jesus, and walk in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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