Wednesday Feb 11

Lord, your plans for my life don't look like I expected. I thought following you meant clear direction and obvious blessing, but I'm experiencing confusion and what feels like failure. I'm in the prison phase, not the palace phase, and I don't know how long this will last or if rescue is e

I'm working everything together for your good - even the painful parts, even the confusing parts, even the parts that seem wasted. Nothing is outside My ability to redeem and repurpose. What looks like a detour might be the direct route. What feels like loss might be preparation for gain.

Moses spent forty years as a prince in Egypt, then forty years as a shepherd in Midian before God called him at age eighty to lead Israel out of Egypt (Acts 7:23, 30). Eighty years of preparation for forty years of ministry. From a productivity standpoint, this seems wildly inefficient. Co