How many times have you had an idea in your mind and you could see the vision of it in your head, but, then when you start to put it together, things start to change and don't go the way that you planned? I see this happen too often when we are believing for the Lord to do something in our life, answer a prayer or open a door. We have the faith that we need for God to do it, but we have a different picture of what it should look like when it happens. I struggle with this more than I'm happy to admit. As I am growing in this area, I'm learning that the Lord has His own blueprints that He has drawn up and how He wants things to look. I've also learned that, with His plans comes lessons and accountability. And of course, our plans have omitted those 2 things because, let's just be honest, we don't want to travel the hard road and go through the wilderness. And the Lord doesn't take us that way to punish us, it is on those paths where we draw closer to Him
"For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift - 9 not from works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are HIS workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do." Ephesians 2:8-10