They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the Lord, to deliver you.” - Jeremiah 1:19
How willing would you be to accept an assignment that came with a guarantee of trouble and failure? Not many of us would be eager to embrace a task or invest time and energy in a project we knew would not go well.
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