You are Strong

    You are strong. Strength is not measured by the number of times that you fall, only the number of times that you decided to get back up again.

Faith is not numbered by what you have accomplished, but by what you believe in your heart

You are one of the strongest people your friends know, and if you need a minute to lay down on the ground, then let them lay there beside you and tell you that your strength is found in Christ alone. That nothing in this world can stand against Him, and that the battle of the kingdom of heaven is what we are all fighting.

That's how it goes. When the lightning flashes, the thunder isn't far behind, and the rains are gonna pour down, cause that's the way of things. But what's the promise?

What promise comes after that storm? It is the promise of hope and a future. It is the promise of provision from God, and it is the promise that you may fall, and suffer, and be betrayed, but there is One who will never leave your side. There is One who calls you worthy. There is One who wipes away your tears, and does not let you wander the night alone

And He is the One! He is the One that will make your heart sing

He is the One who will make every suffering worth it

He is the One who has called you His own, despite every shortcoming, and has loved you enough to die so that you may live.

He is perfection, can you imagine how hard it must have been to live on this earth among such sin and darkness? How it must have broken His heart? He was scorned, and He was beaten in the most horrible ways, and He was hung on a cross and died. He did it for you. You were once the unworthy scum of the earth, but the day that God Himself declared you His? That is the day that He made you worthy! He gave you a crown, and a worth that nothing in all the universe can ever take away.

He is God! And He chose you! He loves you! He died for you! He is always beside you, and He will never abandon you.

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me, Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me." ~Psalm 23:4

"Whither shall I go from Thy spirit?

Whither shall I flee from Thy presence?

If I ascend into heaven, You are there.

If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

If I take on the wings of the morning, or dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea even there Thy hand shall lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.

If I say, 'Surely the darkness shall cover me!' even the night shall be light about me. 
Yea the darkness hideth not from Thee, but the night shineth as the day.
The light and dark are both alike to Thee." ~Psalm 139:7-12

                                                ~Katie Stone~