How to be encouraged!
English: Marshall Ney supporting the Rear Guard During the Retreat from Moscow, on exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Have I not commanded you, “Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you.” (Joshua 1:9, AMP) Napoleon called Marshall Ney the bravest man he’d ever known. Yet, one morning before a battle, the Marshall’s knees trembled so badly that he had difficulty mounting his horse. When he was finally in the saddle, he shouted down at his limbs, “Shake away, knees. You would shake worse, if you knew where I was taking you!” Courage is not the absence of fear; it’s the conquest of it! It’s Gideon with 300 soldiers going to fight an army of Midianites as big as the ocean, because God said, “Surely I will be with thee.” (See Judges 6:16.) It’s Peter stepping out of the boat in the middle of a storm to walk on the water. It’s doing what you’ve never done before, in orde...