Tag: Resolute Resilience

Romans 12:12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.” — Corrie ten Boom. The mark of maturity is not the number of years you have been...

2 Samuel 16:7-8  As he cursed, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you murderer, you scoundrel! The Lord has repaid you for all the blood you shed in the household of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The Lord has given the kingdom into the hands of your son Absalom. You have come to...

Malachi 3:3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. There are various methods and techniques to purify gold and silver. These methodologies use acid, fire, or electricity...

Psalm 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. The valley of the shadow of death referred in Psalm 23 is normally purported to be between Jerusalem and Jericho. This could be the place referred...

Genesis 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life. There are few important rules while pruning a tree. Examine the tree and remove the dead and dry leaves and the water suckers. (Water sucker branches are shoots that...

Job 19:25-26 I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. Pruning is painful but pruning makes us more fruitful. Patient endurance will turn the agonizing experiences into profound divine encounters. Pruning...

Matthew 7:25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. Problems are God’s pruning scissors. Our perspective of adversity will turn a problem into a pruning knife or a punishing rod. Pruning makes us...