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Our culture is full of who’s-who and who knows whom, who’s wearing what brands. More and more, though, our younger generations are becoming sick of it. They want something authentic.

“In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory” (Ephesians 1:11-12, NKJV, my emphasis).

We have been predestined to a certain purpose. Yet what exactly is “destiny”? In simple terms, it is God’s appointed or ordained future for you. Destiny is what God has predetermined you to be and become in his divine will. 

In times of darkness, it’s easy to forget God is always at work in mighty ways. Right now, as things seem hopeless, he is calling his people to live zealously.

If we understand that we’re born into a battle, as the Bible shows, we’ll accept that we’re engaged in warfare and that it has a purpose. Without this understanding, we won’t see the victories that are a part of God’s plan for us.

You’re going to face your own Jordan River. God wants to part those waters for you.

You’ve heard it said that God is more than enough to deliver us from our difficulties. He doesn’t lack power or authority and has more than enough wisdom, mercy and grace for our needs. God simply has no insufficiency. So if he is more than enough to deliver us, do we believe he can deliver the lukewarm church? Can he deliver our troubled nation?

It is one thing to suffer through times of darkness when we bring it on ourselves through a lifestyle of sinful behaviors. In that case, we should expect arrows to come. For the upright in heart, however, endlessly suffering in the dark is troubling to the soul.

If you’ve been a Christian for some time, you have known Jesus’s healing and restoring power through your griefs and losses. When you faced the end of your world as you knew it, Jesus opened your eyes to a new world beginning, and it blessed you.