Lord...You prevail. You always have. You always will. I can rest in that knowledge. I can cling to Your promises and listen to your voice, and walk in Your ways. I can trust You whatever the world may say or do. Someday my time will come, and however it does, I know you will not lose me. You will bring me safely home.

Jonathan closed his eyes. Oh, God, it's not the way I had things planned. But then, what of real, lasting value ever is?

It will all work out as it should.

Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. PROVERBS 19 : 21

Kathryn didn't know it, but Matthias had, months before, made the same list she gave him. The minute she started rattling in off in panic to keep him at bay, he knew they thought ale. Everyone in town knew what Calvada lacked. It was still lite more than a rough-and-tumble mining camp, but he had a vision of what it could become. City had lit the fire. Kathryns arrival fanned the flame.

You have whatever strength God has given you, and it will be enough to carry out his good purpose. Trust in him.

Man planned, but God prevailed.

Man strives to do things his own way, and yet, it is always Your will that prevails.

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. ROMANS 8:28

There's no mystery about a human life. It's not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.

When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place.