In Proverbs, chapter sixteen, verse one, “The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.” Humans may make plans, but the ability to articulate and carry them out comes from God. “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps,” as in verse nine of the theme chapter.
Whatever plans we have for our lives, the Lord knows the direction and the outcome. If a believer decides to do it their way without including the Son of God, Jesus also knows the result of that.
The theme title, “The answer of the tongue,” is the guidance and provision that will come from God in whatever plan a believer may have who commits their way to Him. The Lord will know the path and the people the faithful will encounter along the journey of their plans, and to avoid the pitfalls from those whom the enemy would bring to stop it from happening.
Nehemiah chapter two is an example of a believer’s intention to do something good for God and others. However, during the process, the servant of God encounters opposition from the beginning, as in verse nineteen, “But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? Will ye rebel against the king?”
At the beginning of Genesis eighteen, verse fourteen, “Is anything too hard for the LORD?” In Jeremiah thirty-two, verse seventeen, “Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.” These two verses should be the starter of a believer’s prayer to the Lord.