God is our refuge and protector even in the fiercest trial.

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

When we turn our eyes upon Jesus, beholding him, he takes the veil away. 

The rule of God's immeasurably-more-than-all-we-ask-or-imagine-according-to-his-power-that-is-at-work—is done within us.

When our quest shifts from trying to know the plans to seeking the one who says "I know," we discover the one who holds the plans is the plan. 

If we forget who we are and who we belong to, we will quickly lose our way in the wilderness of this world.

GRACE IS WORKING FOR ME!

If you feel powerless today, or that the purposes of God are somehow being thwarted in the world, then take heart. God is in control of human history.

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Pruning is the long, slow, steady path by which we learn the way to do our work through his working.