O WHAT IS THE POWER OF ADVERSITY, WHAT IS THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS, WHAT IS THE POWER OF PRAISE, AND WHAT IS THE POWER OF PRAYER, NO MATTER WHAT. IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH CHAPTER 1 VERSE 5 IT SAYS; BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE BELLY I KNEW YOU AND BEFORE YOU CAME FORTH OUT OF THE WOMB I SANCTIFIED YOU AND ORDAINED YOU A PROPHET UNTO THE NATIONS. WHAT IS THIS SAYING GOD SEES THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF EVERY SITUATION AND CIRCUMSTANCE THAT WE FACE. LETS LOOK AT THE BOOK OF RUTH IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. THE BOOK CENTERS ON TWO WOMEN WHO HAD A BOND THAT WAS UNBREAKABLE. RUTH WAS A MOABITES, WHO LOST HER HUSBAND. NAOMI LOST BOTH HER SONS AND HUSBAND. NAOMI DECIDED TO GO BACK TO ISRAEL, HER NATIVE LAND AND TOLD RUTH TO GO BACK TO HER FAMILY. RUTH SAID SOMETHING SO PROFOUND. IN RUTH CHAPTER 1, VERSE 16 READ CAREFULLY RUTH SAYS; "INTREAT ME NOT TO LEAVE YOU, OR RETURN FROM FOLLOWING AFTER YOU FOR WHERE YOU GO, I WILL GO, AND WHERE YOU LODGE, I WILL LODGE, YOUR PEOPLE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND YOUR GOD MY GOD. WHAT AMAZING WOMEN, GOD DELIVERED RUTH FROM PAGAN PRACTICES IN MOAB. LOOK HOW GOD RESTORED EVERYTHING. RUTH AND NAOMI DID NOT SEE THE END RESULT, BUT GOD DID. O WHAT GREAT CHARACTER WAS FORMED IN BOTH WOMEN IN THEIR ADVERSITY. THEY GOT TO KNOW GOD AS THERE HEALER AND DELIVERER. "HE IS THE RESTORER OF THE BREACH." THIS BOOK IS ABOUT TWO WOMEN WHO HAD A BOND THAT EVEN THE STORMS OF LIFE COULD NOT PUT ASUNDER. IT DREW THEM CLOSER TO GOD. WHAT THE DEVIL MEANT FOR EVIL, GOD IS TURNING IT AROUND FOR YOUR GOOD.
