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As for God, His way is perfect.
Psalm 18:30




“Christ sent me to preach the gospel and He will look after the results.” 
-Mary Slessor

Be 100% wherever you are.


Elisabeth Elliot wrote that “waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.”

The woman who is clothed with strength and who rejoices, does so – not because everything is sunny and the coffers are full – but because she knows that both in this moment, and in all future moments, God is faithful.
(http://setapartgirl.com/devotional/02-17-16/garment-praise)



She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
Prov 31:25

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through... The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
1 Thess 5:23, 24

"...to bestow on them a crown of beauty
    instead of ashes,
the oil of joy
    instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
    instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
    a planting of the Lord
    for the display of his splendor."
Is 61:3

The gentle and quiet spirit is an "adornment" (v. 4–5). It can be observed. And this is the kind of publicity that "in God's sight is very precious." Publicity like this has a missional effect. 

If we may but be a crystallizing point from which God can work, it matters nothing how insignificant that starting point.

Take the very hardest thing in your life—the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into bloom!

Faith is the link which joins our uttermost weakness to God's almighty strength.

I am full of hope that when God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.


"And the results need not end with our earthly days. . . . God may use, by reason of the wonderful solidarity of His Church, the things that He has wrought in us, for the blessing of souls unknown to us: God only knows the endless possibilities that lie folded in each one of us!"

(Lilias Trotter)



anything we do for God has a life that goes beyond who or where we are and, in His way and His time, will be used for eternity.




Redeeming the Time in a Season of “Ugh”:
https://www.reviveourhearts.com/true-woman/blog/redeeming-time-season-ugh/


https://www.reviveourhearts.com/true-woman/blog/how-caring-children-changes-world/



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