Every time we face anything that causes us to cry out to God, let’s declare that this hard time will be a holy time, a close-to-God time. And if the people you love are going through a hard time, I want you to declare this same thing for them. This hard time will be a holy time! A close-to-God time! These disappointments we all go through are actually divine appointments to see God do a new thing. Pouring us out of the old wine jars that have kept us in stale thinking and into the new jars of minds transformed by Christ’s perspective. Isaiah 43:18–19 reminds us, “Forget the former things; do
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