TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - Nov 5, 2025 - Proverbs 16:6-9 - Grace, Peace, and Providence: Path of the Righteous

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

Proverbs 16:6–9 traces how divine mercy and human humility shape the ordered life. “By mercy and truth iniquity is purged,” revealing the covenant harmony between grace and moral reform. When a man’s ways please the Lord, even his enemies are subdued by divine peace. Better a little with righteousness than great gain without justice, for the heart’s plans succeed only when the Lord directs its steps. In this Morning Manna teaching, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart unfold the pattern of holy living—atonement leading to fear, obedience leading to peace, and every path brought under the rule of God’s providence.Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc BurkhartYou can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today!www.megafire.worldGet high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!www.AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!www.Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!www.books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. Today is Wednesday, November 5th, 2025, and we are very honored that you are here with us today, wherever you are in the world, and whatever time of day. The Morning Manna class meets in real time at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, at Faith and Values.com. And we would invite you to join us at that. that time if you if you're able to if not um you you can watch or listen a video on demand

or audio on demand later in the day the main thing is you have set aside an hour of your day to study the holy word of god now yesterday we began our study of chapter 16 of the book of Proverbs. And today we're going to continue with verses 6 through 9, only four verses today. Let's pray, invite the Holy Spirit, and then Doc can read the word. Father God, our Father in heaven, you are so wonderful. You are so good. Father, I bless you. I bless you and praise you. Father, we adore you.

We love you. We are deeply grateful to be in your family. Father, we humbly ask for the Holy Spirit's presence in this morning man of class to teach us your word, to make us better disciples, to make us better citizens. your son's kingdom. In his name, Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless everyone. Glad to have you here with us here on a beautiful Wednesday morning here in Florida. We're here in Beal Beach, Florida, broadcasting around the world. And we have an audience that

stretches all the way from Russia to Australia, Japan to Brazil, Malaysia, to Canada, and all points across the U.S. We welcome you today to this Bible study. We're continuing to our study in Proverbs. We're in chapter 16. We're going to be focusing on verses 6 through 9 today, 6 through 9. So if we want to turn to chapter 16, the book of Proverbs, I'm going to read from the King James. Before our class began, we had a brief discussion, I guess in the pregame show, talking about Bible translations and everything. And someone asked why I use the King James. And I said, well, it's because it's what I'm familiar with, what I study from, what I preach from. they were asking for some recommendations on we like the world english bible uh we like uh the

modern english version uh new american standard uh those tend to be pretty accurate but just keep in mind that the king james isn't perfect nor any of these other translations perfect either but that's why we study the word together so that we come and discern what the word of god says and so uh that that was just a preference there for folks. Today's theme throughout our passage is mercy and truth, and I think you're going to see that stand out as we begin reading verse 6. By mercy and truth, iniquity is purged, and by fear of the Lord, men depart from evil. When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. And then verse 9, a man's heart. A man's heart

deviseth his way but the Lord directeth his steps God bless the reading of his word today amen so doc when I was when I started praying I don't know if you notice that I had a big grin and what was bubbling up inside my heart was to sing a song written by Eddie Fisher You got to be my age to know who Eddie Fisher was, okay? It was a great singer back in the 50s and 60s. But as I started to pray, the lyrics of his song, it was written in past tense. I'm going to quote him in present tense.

It was, oh, my papa, to me you are so wonderful. Oh, my papa, to me, you are so good. No one could be so gentle and so lovable. Oh, my papa. He always understood. You always understood. That's why I was smiling. That song was bubbling up inside of me.

I always felt like the Lord was saying, go on, Rick. Sing it. Sing it to me. All right. I'm like, Lord, I'll sing it to you in private. All right. I'm not going to do it. and I don't I don't feel comfortable doing it on the internet you know but that's that's what my that's what my heart desired to say Papa you are so wonderful

you are so good you're so gentle and lovable you always understood I think it goes with today's verses so yesterday we studied chapter 16 verses 1 through 5 and and we learn that while humans may plan and they speak and they act the outcome belongs to the Lord whose wisdom guides us and governs us every step of the way the verses yesterday 1 through 5 challenged us to commit our work and our motives to God and that he would establish which actually means stabilizes our thoughts and that he alone judges our hearts but it warned that

pride opposes God's divine order that the humble find favor under God's grace now we're going to study a cluster today and that's what I do each day we take clusters usually five five verses in a cluster today it's four and the reason is because tomorrow's lesson begins a new cluster with with verse 10 so I'm trying to keep these clusters together

today's cluster is verses 6 through 9 and it bridges the sovereignty of God with man's responsibility to live rightly and it explains how sin is forgiven and how

our righteousness is maintained through mercy and truth and fear reverent fear reverent fear so we'll begin with chapter 16 verse 6

by mercy and truth iniquity is purged and by the fear of the Lord men depart the subtoagent is almost identical by mercy and truth iniquities are purged and by the fear

of the Lord everyone departs from evil mercy and truth are covenant terms in the old covenant and the new covenant they describe God's steadfast love his faithful integrity it's why a song oh my papa you are so wonderful to me see our father wishes for us to know how much he loves us yes it's beyond our comprehension it's beyond our comprehension And when you begin to understand how much he loves you,

your heart will desire to never disappoint him. So mercy and truth expressed the character of God revealed in redemption. Yes. a love a love that pardons a truth that upholds justice in the old covenant sacrifices symbolized atonement animal sacrifices sacrifice a symbolized atonement in the new covenant Jesus Christ embodies both mercy and truth and not just as a symbol but as the actual sacrifice that's right and the old covenant the animals they were just symbols so forgiveness is not a contradiction of justice it is the

fulfillment of justice in divine faithfulness i think some people think well if i forgive i'm letting them off the hook they haven't paid for what they did well you don't want to pay for what you did either you don't you don't have enough credits you're bankrupt remember blessed are the poor and spirit we're bankrupt you don't have any chips on the table you got nothing to play the game with okay to be talking about you know i'm not going to forgive somebody they need to pay they need to pay they need to feel some pain they need to hurt oh you don't want god to say that about you By mercy and truth, iniquity is purged.

We don't have to discuss what iniquity is. Everybody knows what iniquity is. Yeah. Yeah. It's what you did when nobody was looking. Right. Okay. You can just put a label on it.

Purged. purged literally means atone for it's anticipating the cross of calvary where sin is atoned for yes so this verse in the old covenant unites the theological doctrine of atonement with sanctification. Right. Doc, the mercy of God removes guilt and the truth of God removes deceit. Amen.

You see the purpose of the two by mercy and truth, iniquity is purged. And it's interesting that those words are like that mercy and truth because in the Hebrew there is no and between those words. It would read something like by mercy truth, inequity is purged. And what that means is this is in Hebrew is one of the languages that does this. They form a covenant relationship of words. In other words, you can't really have one word without the other word. They're bonding.

together here in this sentence they're not two separate concepts they're so intertwined with each other they become one and so the idea here is by mercy and truth that's a covenant relationship and God is making making a promise by my covenant mercy by my covenant truth I will purge your iniquity yes so God forgiveness always produces a moral change in the center. The sinner responds by becoming a servant of truth. If there's no moral change in the center, what was the purpose of God's forgiveness he forgives those who are remorseful repentance means repentance is not saying i'm sorry i'll never do that again you caught me i'm sorry repentance means i recognize i've been traveling the

wrong path. I'm going in the wrong direction. I'm going to change directions and go another way. God forgives our sins when we repent. When we show God, we're changing

the way we're walking, the direction in which we're walking. That's what he's after. Hey, you got off the righteous path. You got to over here on this you got sideways over here this is taking you into trouble you recognize it you repent and you go i'm getting back on the right path and god says great i forgive your sin it's just that simple and we go like that all through life we're walking in the straight path

we get sideways we repent we get back on the straight path we go on the straight path for a while we get sideway. That's the way we walk, isn't it? Yes. Don't beat yourself up because you've done it. Praise the Lord that he's so merciful and kind.

He pities us. Think of it. He pities us. Mercy would be indulgence and truth without mercy would be despair so god's grace is both tender and true and that creates holy mercy amen by the fear of the lord men depart from evil reverent all a love a reverence that trembles trembles in awareness of God's greatness of his majesty of his holiness a faith that obeys the person the man or woman who has tasted mercy

will fear ever offending again the giver of that mercy. Let me say that again. The man or woman who has tasted God's mercy will fear ever offending again the giver of that mercy. Amen. That's the fear of the Lord.

by the fear of the lord men depart from evil when you have when god has bestowed mercy on you and forgiveness for something terrible you did horrible and you realize he didn't beat you up he didn't cast you out into a ditch and say get out of here He didn't reject you. He didn't condemn you. He didn't punish you. He didn't put you in the doghouse. Instead, he embraced you.

Amen. He embraced you and hugged you and kissed your cheek and said, I forgive you. Let's work this out. Let's walk the right way. Let me show you why this happened. Let me show you. show you what's happening in your life that's causing this this sin let's get this taken care of

see all that is god's mercy all of it is this mercy when he says let me let me do open heart surgery on you let me get down deep inside your heart let's get into your brain and see what's in your brain yes okay let's what's tormenting your mind God, that's his mercy, to deliver you, to deliver you from ever offending him again. This, this fear is not terror. It's the awareness of God's presence. guiding our conscience and it's loving so forgiveness will lead to holiness and when sin is purged reverence for god will grow so the order of this verse is crucial By mercy and truth, and equity is purged, by the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil.

Atonement precedes Reformation. We think we have to be reformed before we can be atoned. Yeah. We're putting it back on ourselves again. Oh, we have to. fix this. It's up to us to fix this. I send. I made a mistake. I got to do all these things to get myself right so I can be atoned. Okay. What's that one thing that you're going to do that's going to make everything perfect? What is that thing? I don't know, Doc. I gave up trying to

find it. I'll give you a hint. It's nothing. There's nothing you can do. It was all done. on the cross right when you get this down inside you you will be liberated you'll be liberated you'll have joy because you realize it doesn't have anything to do with me it was all done on the cross jesus said it is finished period there it is done done the work was done he wasn't saying i'm finished this is it i'm dying he said my work the reason i'm on this cross it's finished our atonement the purging of our sin comes before our reformation God goes first. Yes.

He goes first. Why? Because he sees our heart. When he sees the sorrow, when he sees the remorsefulness in us, he then takes the first step. Amen. So genuine repentance is the fruit of both mercy and all.

Grace melts. what guilt hardened grace melts what guilt hardened grace is an energy, a substance

that we can't describe it. What is it? is it just a word or is it something it's something from heaven not just a word so the fear of the lord turns forgiveness into faithfulness and his mercy reconciles us to our father and our fear of him keeps us near him forgiven of something grievous to the Lord you cling to him like a child clinging to his or her father saying you know when a child's been lost you know you're like at an amusement park or in a some setting where there's a lot of people crowd and the

child wanders away and gets along doesn't really intend to do anything bad just you know children are you know their attention is is uh distracted they see something they go wandering off and then the fear hits them i can't find my heart father i'm lost i can't find my father and they realize i don't know where i'm at i'm lost and when the father finds them the child clings to the father crying daddy daddy i was so afraid i couldn't find you this is this is this fear that the scripture's talking about that when we get lost and we realize I'm really in trouble and our father finds us and he wipes away the tears we're clinging to him and what was that little child saying

daddy I'll never leave you again I won't I won't hold my hand please hold my hand daddy hold my hand right see they're afraid I don't want to ever leave you again That's what this verse is teaching. By the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil. I promise, Daddy, I'll never go over there again. I'll never do it again. I'll never go over there. It's the fear of the Lord.

So mercy and truth deal with past guilt, and the fear of the Lord governs present conduct. Amen. Mercy and truth bring peace with God. Fear of the Lord produces purity before God. Amen. I like that. Mercy and truth revealed divine character of God.

The fear of the Lord reflects divine holiness. Mercy and truth justifies the sinner. The fear of the Lord sanctifies the saint. the harmony in these verses is revealing the gospel in a miniature form grace to cleanse fear to keep keep that formula in your mind today grace to cleanse fear to keep see the same god who forgives also transforms he's not done with you when he forgives oh no no no oh he'll forgive but he's not done with you he wants to get to the root of this problem what caused this sin let's deal with that source what is it

where did this come from and then he's working on you he's getting inside your heart inside your mind don't be afraid of the of the surgeon he's a good surgeon

he's a good doctor he's there to save you you want to be looking up at the surgeon you know you're awake that's the thing he does open heart surgery and you're awake you're looking up what do you see doc hey let me tell you what i'm looking at right now is it bad yeah it's bad can you get it out yeah i can get it out is it going to hurt maybe a little bit okay pull it out doc pull it out see he he's not going to leave you just in a forgiven state he wants you in a transformed state if it's just forgiven you're probably going to do it again

and he'll have to forgive you again and he will yes but you're not making any progress he desires to move us to the next stage he wants to move you from milk to meet yes at some point he says you've got to get on the operating table you got to let me look inside you let's do a scan

he's the only surgeon he doesn't need any equipment to do a scan his eyes do it he just scans you see the christian faith is not merely a pardon received but it's got to be holiness pursued you can't just stop at my sins are forgiven yes praise god or all yes hallelujah but you have to move on and on that journey you'll be doing great and then there'll be a speed bump

and there'll be a pothole it doesn't mean you were a hypocrite doesn't mean you were phony it just means hey we're at a point in this journey we've got to we've got to fix something before we can go on

the rest of the journey there's a rest stop here there's a pit stop we got to go in here and have some service done to continue the journey doesn't mean that your journey up to that point was fake it's just no god brought you to a place where he says now at this point we're going to do an operation and i'm going to get some more mileage out of you and you're going to run smoother. Your engine's going to hum. You're going to go faster. What's he doing?

He's purifying our lives so that we bring glory to him. Amen. Matthew Henry said, the mercy of God is the spring and his truth the channel through which sin is pardoned and when the heart reverence becomes a hedge against evil amen that's good Charles Bridges

the beams of mercy and truth meet in the cross their iniquity is purged mercy and truth yes the beams okay all right think of the beams you got mercy and truth he said their iniquity is purged

from that sight springs the fear that keeps the soul from returning to folly Charles Simeon he that is forgiven much fears much mercy softens the heart

truth steadies it fear guards it Alexander McLaren The fear of God is not the dread of a slave but the devotion of a child who dreads to grieve his father Right Charles Spurgeon Mercy and truth are the two angels

That bring the penitent to peace Fear of the Lord is the same sentinel that keeps him there. All right. Let's move on to verse 7. Wow. We spent 35 minutes on one verse. Was there that much in that verse?

We could keep going. There's more. All right. Verse 7. When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. You know, I hear this verse quoted a lot, but not lived out a lot. I know. Septuagin is identical.

When the ways of a man please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be a peace with him. The ways of a man, a man or woman, okay? The ways refer to the course of life, habits, motives, intention, direction. the ways your ways you know we always say he's got his ways yes just his way yeah she's stuck in her ways okay well you know what that means that's the way they've been doing it and they're probably going to continue doing it so when the way you've been doing it and the way you're going to continue doing it pleases the lord he makes your enemies be a peace with you to please the Lord means living in harmony with his will his plan not just performing good deeds

but walking in agreement with his character right so we think that we're pleasing the Lord by the things that we're doing for him but we're not in agreement with his character the words of our mouth the attitudes are in our mind are all our ways the ways that we talk about people the ways that we treat family members or friends or enemies our ways they're not pleasing right so the question is is there a way your life that's not pleasing the lord i mean not we're not talking acceptable to the lord but giving him delight yes that's what the word really means is uh we think of please oh well i you know i hope that pleases that person or whatever no no no no it has a much deeper meaning it means delight

it means more than just well okay i'm happy with uh no it's like wow i'm very very happy with that I'm pleased with that. Doc. Old Testament prophet Enoch. He just disappeared. He didn't die. He didn't die. Nobody ever found his body.

He was just walking with the Lord one day. I like to think that they were just walking along Rick and the Lord said to Enoch, you know, we're closer to my place than yours. Why don't you just come on home with me? Yes. But why? What does the Bible say about Enoch?

He pleased God. Yes. And then it says and was no more. That's right. And was not. Was not. He was not. He disappeared with the Lord.

He disappeared. he was that pleasing to the Lord the Lord should come home with me yeah yeah just come on over to my place hang out so are you you know that's a real challenge in our lives isn't it do our ways please the Lord enough with the Lord would just say won't you come out hang out I like you know I'd like for you come out hang out at my place I know that's a real challenge the fact that we're still here. What does that say? I'm walking closer. I'm getting closer.

I'll keep walking. Religion tries to impress God, but not delight him. Yes. Okay? Religion seeks to impress God, not delight him. him. He doesn't need to be impressed. He desires to be delighted. He desires that we put a

smile on his face. So when our conduct aligns in right standing with his ways, when our ways become his ways he then becomes our defender and he diffuses hostility towards us so pleasing the Lord begins in secrecy before it is

manifested in public behavior so the root of peace with men is peace with God. Yeah, you know, in the Summer of the Mount where Jesus said, Blessed are the peacemakers. Well, I hear that use so often when it comes to, well, most recently with Donald Trump

and the supposed ceasefire deal in the Middle East and everything, blessed are the peacemakers. But really, true peacemakers can't make peace with others until they've made peace with God, can they, Rick? That's right. That's right. The most essential thing each of us can do is to be at peace with God. Amen.

All right. Remember yesterday, David, King David, search my heart, oh, Lord. What was that? David asking? Is there anything inside of me you don't like? Yeah. He maketh even his enemies to be a peace with him. God causes, God himself does it. He causes peace to arise where hostility once stood.

It doesn't. mean that your enemies like you. It just means they stop. They find somebody else to hate. They move on. They go someplace else. Doesn't mean that they like you. It just means

the Lord diffuses their hostility towards you. Now, this is not a promise of freedom from opposition. But it is a promise that God has control over its outcome.

Amen. I mean, Apostle Paul had enemies. But somehow, God can transform hostility into harmony. He can soften hearts.

And he can make adversaries powerless. sometimes the way he does it is he strips your enemy of their power they may still hate you they just can't do anything about it i like that he'll set a table for you in the presence of your enemies he'll make your enemies watch you eat a buffet from heaven and they can't do anything about it So I want to get down to this John Gill said Peace with enemies is of the Lord's making

He inclines their hearts to kindness Restrains their wrath Or takes them out of the way That's another I didn't even Sometimes your enemy dies all right that's the extreme notice it says there he makes even his enemies to be at peace with it he makes it in other words it's in god's sovereign plan yes god will i it's tough for me to

reconcile but i i still accepted how does god make an enemy to be at peace with me does he violate free will i don't ask stupid questions like they just said the word says it just believe it But sometimes, Doc, when somebody will not respond to the Lord's pressure, I'm talking about an enemy, the last resort is the Lord removes that man or woman, just takes them out of the earth. That's right. And one day your enemy is gone. And you have peace.

The person who was persecuting you, harassing. you, vexing you, sabotaging you, just making your life miserable, suddenly that person's not here. Yes. Alexander McLaren, men who walk with God are too strong

for human hate. It breaks against them as waves against a rock. Was that McLaren? Yes. I had another quote from McLaren that stood out to me was,

God holds the leash on the dogs of hostility. Oh. God holds the leash on the dogs of hostility. I thought, man, that's an incredible picture there. There's still mean dogs. Yeah, but God's got the leash. He's got a leash on them. They're growling.

They're snarling, but they can't get to you. Verse eight. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. Septuagint, better is a small portion with righteousness than great revenues without justice. Identical. So better is a little with righteousness. The literal Hebrew says good is a little in righteousness. Good is a little in righteousness.

It's showing moral quality over material quantity. Yes. So in God's economy, he measures wealth by purity, not possession. Purity over possession. so a little here refers not only it does refer to money but to any any limited portion of worldly success or comfort obviously righteousness here means upright living integrity of heart alignment with God's ways so it's teaching us that the soul that walks upright in alignment with God's ways

enjoys peace even in scarcity so the righteous man or woman's portion is better because it's blessed and it's guiltless right over in the Psalms Psalm 37, verse 16 says, a little that is a little

that a righteous man has is better than the richest of many wicked. And just remember, God's little lasts longer than the world's much. Amen. He can stretch your little. And the sweetness of a clean,

conscience outweighs the prosperity of corrupt success people with a clean conscience go to bed at night and sleep well wealthy people who cheated their way to success don't sleep well revenues then great revenues without right obviously Revenous means income, harvest, profit, success, the produce of your labor and trade. And that phrase without right, it means it's the same kind of idea or phrase that goes with unjust scales, unjust weights and measures. Yes, without justice. Right. You cheated.

Great revenue. through cheating, through injustice, financial gain that violated moral laws. So it's telling us that unjust wealth comes with invisible losses, namely peace. number two divine favor Amen So the ungodly may possess a lot But they can't enjoy it It's like

Doc Being a corrupt wealthy man or woman Is like It's like eating a feast and the table is a tomb

okay you're eating a feast but you don't have a dinner table it's a tomb try you're having a buffet and a mausoleum yeah I mean who would go to a mausoleum

for a buffet meal when you say hey this is kind of creepy without right without justice it speaks of the injustice of the heart the refusal to let god rule over one's motives and the means by which they gain success Charles Bridges The comparison is not of quantity but quality What is clean the little is solid gain

What is foul though much is dust and ruin Albert Barnes The peace of righteousness outweighs the pomp of wealth Justice sanctifies little Injustice profanes abundance Charles Simeon It is better to be a poor saint than a prosperous sinner But one has God for his portion

The other has nothing but vanity Alexander McLaren The glitter of gain hides the grime of guilt Ooh Gain hides the grime of guilt But righteousness gilds poverty

With peace Charles Spurgeon you're going to like this one doc A crumb from God's table is better than a feast from the devil's pantry A little A little with a blessing is better than a mountain with a curse One more verse Verse 9

A man's heart deviseth his way But the Lord directs his steps all the translations are the same right and this kind of goes back to that same theme we had yesterday on that too with same concept here yeah so we're wrapping up these two sets these two clusters right and then in verse 10 we'll start tomorrow we begin a new cluster so deviseth means to devise means to plan to arrange if you're planning if you're arranging there's deliberate intention a man's heart devises his ways we know that the heart is speaking about the center of our being

our reason our motives our heart our i mean our feelings our intentions it's all in our heart the scripture is not condemning planning in fact there are other scriptures other scriptures tell us the plan right yesterday we talked about planning right and we you know throughout the old testament and the new testament too but throughout the old testament there is the uh obvious concept of choosing the lord choosing him making a plan to follow after him. And so it's not just a matter of us floating around like some sort of leaf on the wind where it just takes us anywhere. Know that there's human agency involved. But that this verse also describes the limits of that too. Yes. Our plans and God made us to be thinkers. He made us to be

planners to be builders. That's in our nature. We're creators. We're we're we're we're We're like our father. We're made in the family business. He's in the creation business. Yes. We're made in his likeness and image. But our plans are finite and they're fallible. They're limited and they're flawed.

Our plans. The future is beyond our vision. We think that we're, Doc, first time I saw if I'm pronouncing his name Masa So Mr. Son

The man Let's just stick with that. Yeah, Mr. Son, I can say the Japanese billionaire who owns soft bank and I Paul and I

we saw him in Barcelona 2017 and Mr. Son was bragging that his corporation had a 300 year plan and everybody was in all you know because you got all these corporate executives there you know hey

if they have a five year plan that's big this guy's got a 300 year plan it's just vanity just vanity and I think if he'd talk long enough he would have said and we're going to invent a technology to allow me to live another 300 years

I wouldn't doubt it so yeah so our plans seem wise until god rearranges the path he doesn't mix it up to say hey now i messed up your plan no he's like i see your plan it's got some it's got some problems okay i'm going to rearrange it and and help you get there so the best of our plans must bow before the Lord's perfect plan. He's got a greater design.

He has a perfect will. So if you plan without prayer, that's presumption. You're presuming your plan's going to work. And what about praying without planning? then you're really just wishing that you're really just wishing aren't wishing yes but planning with in prayer with god's guidance is prudence so god honors thoughtful stewardship but he will overrule self-willed ambition because it's not going to be good for us so the man or woman who

devises plans must remain humble we have to know that our the drafts of our plans are subject to divine revision you have to come to the place where you say okay lord here's the best plan i can come up with now you you take it from here that's the best way lord i've thought this through i've worked it out here's my plan i give it to you i commit my plan to you what did we study yesterday we commit our plans to the lord that means roll it over on him now lord take my little plan and you supersize it you make it perfect amen and what i've learned in life is that god will take our plans for things that we desire to do for him good things where we think the destination is the important thing where we're going to be when we accomplish this plan and

God says, no, the journey to the destination is the important thing. Because I'm going to work on you. I'm going to tinker under the hood. I'm going to mess with your engine while you're trying to get to that destination. See? Why? Because when you get to the destination, I don't want you to be the same person you are now. Amen.

so the lord directs his steps the lord establishes the lord arranges the lord makes firm there's divine control over your steps god not only supervises the destination but also the sequence of steps that lead to it he orders your steps yes it's just a lot easier just to submit to submit to his perfect will his plan go ahead and give him your plan it's okay

he desires you to give him a plan Doc knows I work on plans all the time oh yes because I have to think through Lord I believe you're telling me to do these things for your kingdom I'm taking this seriously the fact that I'm working on these plans is proof it's my proof to you that I'm taking this assignment very seriously

and yet I know that my plans are limited and I need him to direct my steps that's why when we go on uh to these conferences and to these events and other things like that always like to pray lord give us divine appointments and divine conversations uh and reason why is because he he's bringing us to these particular events and things we've made the plans and everything but god has another plan has another sovereign plan uh i'm thinking recently we attended a conference and it was a dud i mean you know the one i'm talking about rick yes all right and i but the more i look back on it and started reflecting on that is that all right we found a sector that has

absolutely no bearing on what we're doing say we know what to avoid moving forward now and so yes and so that cleared out a lot of uh stuff we thought was important but uh it really pointed us in a different direction so the lord has divine conversations and divine appointments for us not just for special events but throughout the day and then and always think god's always got a conversation that he wants to have was somewhere throughout the day god's got a conversation that he wants you to be a part of all right what i'm thinking about right what picture i've got in my mind doc to understand this the verse okay uh verse nine a man's heart devises his way but the lord directs his steps

when you get in your automobile or truck either on your phone or if you have a GPS in your dashboard um you you enter in a destination I'm going to this city, this address. You put in the destination. This is where I desire to go. And the GPS then comes back, sometimes with even two or three suggestive root, suggested routes.

Yes. One route takes 30 minutes more. than the other route. But there's no tolls. But there are no tolls. So you're given a choice. Think of that when we give God our plans, Lord, I desire to go there. This is where I desire to end up, whether it's in your career, in your finances, your marriage, your family, your health, whatever it is.

You're telling him the destination, the goal. He responds back like a GPS. a divine GPS, here are the roots. Here's the one I recommend. But the Lord directs his steps. So what do we do? Why do we follow a GPS easier than we follow God?

We get in an automobile or truck and we don't have any problems obeying a GPS. we're taking by faith really that the GPS is correct aren't we yes and we make turns and stops and we do all this stuff because the GPS tells us to do it right an invisible signal went to a device think about this and a signal that you cannot see touch taste to manipulate or anything else told you to go someplace yes so our our plan sketches the path but god determines the root but the lord's governance includes both interference meaning he'll change our course

and influence he'll guide our will on the journey to getting what we're after we may decide we're not even after that anymore amen because he shows us something better that ever happened to you like you know what i really don't i really that's not really what i desire okay yeah i know i got you this far to let you see it he frustrates our plans to fulfill his purposes. But our peace rest in knowing that even his detours are part of his design. Steps.

He directs our steps. It means of your movement, what is the smallest increment of your movements each day? steps we take steps this means that the smallest movements of our life are directed by the Lord our choices our meetings the moments of our life

even our detours our detours or choreographed by the Lord it's a it's a it's grace guiding obedient feet all right

we're way over gotta wrap it up all right I've got some big plans I got to work on doc right now yeah that's right and let the Lord order the steps of them so yes

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Some valuable information. He'll be sending out another one today. If you're having any kind of issues with receiving Rick's newsletter, you've signed up in the past and aren't receiving let us know. You can direct message me here on faith and values, or you can send us an email and just let us know if you're having any kind of issues, but we do want to get that newsletter in your hands. Rick always has some valuable information that he picks up, and the theme this week has been on what's been happening with gold and silver, and I saw a new story today, Rick, that

China is going to start storing gold for Cambodia. And so now China is getting into the gold storage business for other countries. Yes, they're building. China's building a vault in Saudi Arabia. So that's in the news today, folks. So some of you were asking about matters concerning gold. If you want that information, I would encourage it. Get Rick's newsletter.

He goes into some detail and has some links to some podcast and to other material that will give you some insight as well so i encourage you in that all right rick any uh any other uh words or any other announcements that we need yeah two things i i've got some quotes from the commentators on this last verse uh charles bridges said we are free to plan bound to submit safe to trust well i like that god's providence is the compass of the believers course Albert Barnes said the contrast between man's planning and God's directing is not contradiction, but cooperation. Providence completing what wisdom begins. Charles Sumian, our plans are the scaffolding.

His purpose is the building. Let him pull down or raise up as he wills. Alexander McLaren Man draws the map But God holds the compass The truest wisdom is to walk As if every step Were guided by unseen hands

Charles Spurgeon The Lord not only knows our way But makes it It is a blessed thing When our way is his way And his way Our walk one more thing so kind of goes with what we're talking about here today

we are working on some very big plans for 2026 and I'm reading Leslie I'll keep smiling Leslie all right he's working on it folks okay so i'd rather be on radio okay in on radio you don't know if i'm smiling or not so we're working on some very big plans and we believe it's the lord's plans and they're stretching our human abilities at where we're at right now in terms of staff and funding and time. And we need to have these things ready by late December. And the Lord is doing some other things that are just in the works that are just amazing. I've already told you about Morning Manah will be going on satellites in three continents. North America, Africa, and Europe.

yes starting in early February we have so much to do and in the natural the calendar is we're dwindling in days and so anyhow Doc and I will we have to travel next week for the entire week we have a we have a meeting we have to attend it's very important that we attend the meeting and we have to travel a distance to get there my plan was to pre-record five morning manna lessons but the lord directed my steps the my unexpected sickness knocked out several days and i i didn't have the energy to prepare an extra five lessons because it would mean that this week uh i I'd have to have 10 lessons, the five that we're doing Monday through Friday this week,

and then I'd have to have five more for next week. I'd have to have 10 lessons together. I just didn't have the physical energy to do it. And so what I've decided to do, and I'm asking you to give me grace on this, I'm sure you will, is that Jody told me that the number. The number one request that we get from people is for us to talk about the parables. We haven't talked about the parables for, I guess, over a year. Yes.

So what we're going to do is there are not going to be new lessons. We're going to go back and we're going to get five lessons from last year about the parables. And so next Monday, what's it? I was going to say specifically about the parables. about the parable of the sword, the basic, the basic parable, the parable that unlocks all the other parables. Yes, and we did, we did five lessons on one parable, right? Yes. Okay, so that's what will be our lesson next week. Now, there's a, there's a chance. Doc and I will pop in online

from our location and just say hello in the class just to be there, okay? Yes, the TV will be 30 minutes. Our lessons are going to continue to be an hour, and so the way it's going to

be is that a one hour lesson will be divided into two parts. What they're going to see on TV is I mean, we almost us did tree lessons today right okay so that that's the way we'll produce the TV program and but anyhow this is an extremely important trip and I almost how how do I say this okay yesterday afternoon late yesterday afternoon i uh i went alone here in the office and i was praying

about the blessing that's coming there's a blessing there's a blessing coming okay um and i told you i believe that the lord is going to do i believe that there are believers who are going to be blessed in November and December and I believe the Lord had already he's already chosen who's going to be blessed okay and I was praying about the blessing that I

know that the Lord is bringing to us and I was listening to a podcast well I had been and I bumped my I bumped my cell phone and a podcast that I wasn't listening to started playing

and it was a minister who's passed away but had a huge church and the message was when the blessing comes don't tell anybody right I'm not kidding you that sounds counterintuitive doesn't it and the message was sometimes the blessing is so sacred to God

he doesn't desire the unsaved to know about it okay we give our offerings to God as their sacred gifts right we present our offerings to God they're sacred these are sacred offerings it never occurred to me doc that his gifts to us are sacred dog it never occurred to me that his gifts to us are sacred and he's like hey you know this is between you and me my nature oh I see I'm just going to tell you this whole year God has just been doing a work inside of me the whole year showing me things about myself that he's saying these these are the things you need to change okay doc I was brought up in a church culture that said when God blesses you you got to shout it from the rooftops to praise him

right okay to praise and to glorify him giving glory for the blessing all right that's what you know show your thanksgiving tell everybody the goodness of God okay that's the way I was brought up testify just stand up and testify okay but what the Lord showed me yesterday was not a son the motive behind that doctrine doc is pride that's what he

showed me yesterday the motive behind that old Pentecostal doctrine is pride you know what you're saying when you stand up I want you to know how God bless me today

what are you saying look at how look what god did for me but not for you yes yes and i really he showed that to me yesterday and i said lord i was taught that i was obligated to tell people to show you that how appreciative i am

he's like no it's between me and you you show me by your worship you show me by your thanksgiving it's between me and you okay is this is this speaking to anybody today okay so um nobody's business you got it bob okay the other thing is the the world is changing is not going to be good wisdom says don't

don't be a prosperity flasher okay use wisdom as God provides for you in a time of famine don't use

wisdom don't be announcing to everybody how God is blessing you okay I know what the Lord is doing for us right now for me this ministry he's showing me I've made provision to carry this ministry through a drought just leave it at that okay God is going to get you through what's coming. This is why I was telling you earlier today at the beginning of this of this lesson. Do not fear and do not panic when you hear rumbling in the stock market, in the precious metals market, in commodities.

Crypto. Crypto is, oh, it's, well. Yeah, Bitcoin is. a hundred thousand today so it's cratering it's cratering okay paul you were given the same word that's interesting yes okay george you got pray to your father in secret and he will reward you openly if the blessing is indeed from the father it will be seen without us talking about yes that's what he's saying let the people People who are watching you notice there's something different.

There's something different about him. There's something different about her. Something's changed. And yet they've not told me what it is. Let the blessing of the Lord speak for itself. You got it. George, let the blessing of the Lord speak for itself.

itself you don't have to you don't have to be a prosperity flasher because that's all it is doc see that's a that was an old pentecostal dog here in my brain it started out as something good yes and yet yesterday the lord said That's a fur ball. Get it out of you. You know? Hack it up. All right.

Well, that was the post-time show, okay? Praise the Lord. All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we appreciate you being here with us today, no matter where you are in the world. And some of you now are tuning in very late in the evening. When you're with us live, we have friends in Australia where it's pushing 11, 12 o'clock, depending on what part of Australia that you're in. And so we really appreciate you tuning in live no matter where you are in the world.

And thank you so much. It means a lot to us that you would take time out of your schedule to be with us live every day. But whether you can join us live or not, these episodes are available every day for you to go back and watch and listen to we're on a variety of different platforms, YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, TikTok. We put some shorts on there to try to reach a whole new audience and everything. And so we just encourage you to continue to share these lessons with others. And keep praying for us because we're planning on doing a lot more with Morning Manna here as the new year evolves. And so there's a lot of exciting things happening.

the Lord's opening some amazing doors and providing divine provision for everything that we need. And so we appreciate you so very, very much. Stick with us, folks. A rising tide lifts all ships. And so I encourage you, as the Lord blesses this ministry, he's going to bless you too. And so we appreciate your partnership there. Yes. Be expecting, be observant, God's faith. favor coming upon you in the coming weeks. Just watch for it, okay? But you don't have to advertise it.

Just praise them. Look, the main thing is how we walk in life. Let that be our testimony. Not about what God gives us. Let our testimony be how we walk in life. amen okay and the it's between you and the lord about your thanksgiving and praise for what he gives you okay but i'm telling you folks i i'm a strong believer in that that whatever the pastors are going through the the biblical teachers somehow it carries over into the congregation

and we god works in a lot of hearts at the same times okay just be expecting favor and blessing to come to you in the coming weeks okay and receive it with thanksgiving and joy and then just be quiet about it okay thank the lord but be quiet about it amen okay all right got to go see you God bless you. We'll see you on the Thursday edition of Morning Manna. God bless you. Love you.