Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
Interpretation
Life is filled with challenges, and while struggle is expected, maintaining hope for extraordinary outcomes is essential.
This quote by Corrie Ten Boom emphasizes the inevitability of facing obstacles in life. It encourages individuals to prepare for difficulties while simultaneously fostering a sense of hope and faith that remarkable and positive changes, or 'miracles', can occur despite the hardships encountered.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity, one might quote this to emphasize resilience.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in Godβs work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
Never lose heart in the power of the gospel.
They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
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