There is a saying: 'Ask and you will receive', isn't it stopping what Jesus has already planned for us?
First: it's not just a saying, it is Jesus' command for us: "ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." (John 16:24)
Our Omniscient God knows the end from the beginning (Isa 46:10), but it doesn't mean that He wrote it on a rock, that nobody can change (Jonah 3:5-10), in fact, he has never taken away our free will to choose our way (Deu 30:19)
The Jeremiah 29:11 ("For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.") is most of the time taken out of context, because there, God is telling His people that He will allow them to be in slavery for seventy years, 'till they repent, and seek Him. So what happen to them is not that God forsook them, but leads them into a way of repentance, which will bring peace and not of evil, to give them an expected end. So it's advised to use that verse to call for repentance, not a 'repentance-less prosperity'!
But anyway, there are things that God will never change His mind of:
- the judgment upon the 'rejected': 1 Sam. 15:22-29; Psa 95:11; Heb 6:4-6.
- his promises of eternal life to those who believe: Tit 1:2;
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First: it's not just a saying, it is Jesus' command for us: "ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." (John 16:24)
Our Omniscient God knows the end from the beginning (Isa 46:10), but it doesn't mean that He wrote it on a rock, that nobody can change (Jonah 3:5-10), in fact, he has never taken away our free will to choose our way (Deu 30:19)
The Jeremiah 29:11 ("For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.") is most of the time taken out of context, because there, God is telling His people that He will allow them to be in slavery for seventy years, 'till they repent, and seek Him. So what happen to them is not that God forsook them, but leads them into a way of repentance, which will bring peace and not of evil, to give them an expected end. So it's advised to use that verse to call for repentance, not a 'repentance-less prosperity'!
But anyway, there are things that God will never change His mind of:
- the judgment upon the 'rejected': 1 Sam. 15:22-29; Psa 95:11; Heb 6:4-6.
- his promises of eternal life to those who believe: Tit 1:2;
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