It's coming and I have no plan. I don't know what to do.

Having no plan feels like the thing you must hide. Jehoshaphat said it out loud, in front of everyone, with three armies closing in — and then added the six words that turned it. Not knowing was never the problem. Facing the wrong way was.

The conversation

The child: “Daddy God, it's coming and I have no plan. I don't know what to do.”

God: “Jehoshaphat said that exact sentence with three armies marching at him.”

The child: “He admitted he had no plan?”

God: “Out loud. In front of everyone. 'Neither know we what to do.'”

God: “Then six words that changed the day: 'but our eyes are upon thee.'”

The child: “That's the whole strategy?”

God: “That was all of it. Not knowing, while looking at Me.”

God: “He didn't pretend to be confident. He faced the right direction.”

The child: “What happened to the armies?”

God: “He sent singers out first. It was over before they arrived.”

The child: “I still don't have a plan.”

God: “You don't need one yet. You need your eyes in the right place.”

The child: “Then my eyes are on You.”

God: “That's the whole of it.”

"O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee." 2 Chronicles 20:12, KJV