God's Plans will be Fulfilled

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." (NIV, Is 55:10-11).

This isn't about sending a scripture passage on a piece of paper in a lunch box. It says that "God’s word is as sure of fulfillment as are the rain and the snow that water the land and make cultivation possible." (John D. W. Watts, Word Biblical Commentary: Isaiah 34-66). In this passage, it concerns God's announcement of his plans to appoint Darius but it applies to all of God's plans and purposes.

Our Experience of Abba

Jesus teaches that when we pray, we are to pray to Abba - to the God who is leaning over us like the most tender of parents. According to Jesus' teaching, God's relationship to us is characterized by immense and continuous concern, care and tenderness, and by an all-inclusive forgiveness that extends to everything in our lives, from the moment of our conception until our death. (Taken from Manifesting God by Thomas Keating.)