Although you cannot see Me, My Presence with you is rock-solid reality. Find hope in Me, beloved, for I am taking care of you. Focus on enjoying Me and all that I am to you—even though your circumstances scream for resolution. Refuse to obsess about your problems and how you are going to fix them. Instead, affirm your trust in Me; wait hopefully in My Presence, and watch to see what I will do.

The rest of this story is recorded in Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories.

The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.