When the Plan Changes: Trusting God's Story Over Our Own

What if a broken plan isn't the end of the story?

We treat our plans like promises, as if praying hard enough and doing everything right guarantees the outcome. But Scripture tells a different story: God's plan stands even when ours fall apart. When the Plan Changes: Trusting God's Story Over Our Own gathers testimonies from women who learned this in classrooms and sickrooms, broken marriages and hospital hallways. Each chapter shows what it actually looks like to keep trusting God when life stops following the script. Inside, you'll find stories that teach:

* Surrender Over Control: How surrender stops being a strategy for getting the outcome you want and becomes trust in the One who holds the outcome.
* Pain With a Purpose: Why the hardest seasons are often where faith takes root, and how God wastes nothing, not even our brokenness.
* Help in Unexpected Places: How asking God for help sometimes means receiving it through people and provision you never would have chosen.
* The Final Word: What it means to believe what God says about you over every cruel word, diagnosis, or disappointment.

With chapters written by Ashley Boswell, Hannah Louise Cox, D'Toya Dove, Liza A. Porterfield, Joyce Prutz, Crystal Lynn Manion, Dawn Reavis Martin, and Lisa Williamson, When the Plan Changes is a hope*books collaboration that brings Proverbs 19:21 (ESV) to life: "Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand."

This isn't a book about losing your plans. It's a book about finding God's story waiting on the other side of them.