06/02/2026
Do you know that sometimes God will actually allow your enemies to finish their meeting?
He will let them book the venue, sit around the table, write the agenda, assign responsibilities, create timelines, and congratulate themselves before they have even seen the results. He will let them spend sleepless nights planning. He will let them sharpen their arguments, gather their evidence, recruit their allies, and convince themselves that they have finally cornered you.
And while all this is happening, heaven appears silent.
That silence is what confuses many people.
Because we assume that if God is not speaking, He is not working. If God is not moving visibly, He is not involved. But one of the greatest mistakes you can make is to assume that God's silence means God's absence.
Sometimes God is so quiet because He is watching a lesson unfold.
You see, there is something about human pride that God does not interrupt too quickly. He allows it to grow until it exposes itself. He lets people become so confident in their own wisdom that they begin speaking as though they are the final authority over your life.
They start acting like they own tomorrow.
They start acting like they wrote your destiny.
They start acting like they have the last signature on your story.
And God says, "Interesting.. continue."
Because there is a place where God will allow a man to exhaust all his strength so that when the plan fails, nobody can say it was because they lacked resources, or because they lacked intelligence. No one can say it was because they did not prepare enough.
No. God allows the plan to reach its fullest expression, and then with one touch, He reduces it to dust.
Think about it. Pharaoh had Israel trapped. Humanly speaking, it was over. The sea was in front of them. The army was behind them. There was no military strategy left. No escape route. No alternative plan.
Pharaoh was not chasing them anymore. In his mind, he had already caught them.
Then God opened a road where there was no road.
Imagine explaining that in Pharaoh's board meeting.
"Sir, they escaped."
"How?"
"They used the sea"
"What boat?"
"No boat"
"What bridge?"
"No bridge"
"The sea itself moved"
There are battles that God wins in ways that make intelligence look confused.
Because God is not competing with the wisdom of men. He is operating from a realm men cannot even access.
Sometimes God allows the enemy to build the gallows like Haman did. He lets them measure the wood. He lets them hammer the nails, and prepare everything. Then when the day arrives, God simply changes one detail, and suddenly the trap prepared for another person becomes the trap of the one who built it.
Why?
Because God has a habit of allowing people to discover that they are not as powerful as they thought.
The deeper revelation is this: God is never threatened by a plan.
We are.
God is not.
A plan only creates fear when it is greater than the person opposing it. But no plan has ever been greater than God.
No conspiracy has ever surprised Him.
No betrayal has ever caught Him off guard.
No meeting has ever happened without His knowledge.
No phone call has ever been made that He did not hear.
No document has ever been signed that He did not already know about.
Before they planned it, He knew it.
While they were planning it, He knew it.
After they planned it, He knew how it would end.
That is why God can afford to be patient while we are panicking.
He knows the ending before the beginning has even started.
And sometimes, He waits until the very last moment to intervene. Not because He enjoys watching you suffer, but because there are dimensions of His glory that only appear when a situation becomes impossible.
When Lazarus died, Jesus could have come immediately.
Instead, He waited.
Not because He was powerless.
Not because He was late.
But because resurrection glory cannot be revealed where there is only sickness. Something had to die for resurrection power to be displayed.
There are situations where God allows the story to become impossible because He has already decided that the ending will reveal Him.
That is why you must never panic when people are planning.
Let them plan.
Let them strategize.
Because there is a God in heaven who can wait until the last page of the story, pick up the pen, and rewrite the conclusion.
And when He does, all the planning of men becomes a testimony of the sovereignty of God.
For God has never lost control of a situation. He has never needed advice. He has never needed permission. He has never encountered a problem too complicated for Him. He is God all by Himself.
And when He decides that something shall stand, no devil can bring it down. And when He decides that something shall fall, no man can hold it up.
Job 5:12; He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Proverbs 19:21; There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.
Psalm 33:10; The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Isaiah 8:10; Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
