If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
Interpretation
When faced with challenging situations, we are equipped with the strength and resources needed to overcome them.
This quote by Corrie Ten Boom suggests that the difficulties and challenges we encounter in life are not given to us without the means to handle them. It implies that every struggle also comes with the tools or strengths we need to navigate through them, emphasizing a belief in divine support and personal resilience.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
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
I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set
How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN.
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure.
Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.
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