It was the Place of Hope.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the place where, after His resurrection and just before His ascension, He would speak to His disciples one last time.\u00c2\u00a0 On that occasion, with the authority of a man who had just conquered death, Jesus would say, “Soon you will receive power, power to be My witnesses.”<\/p>\n
He would promise them not <\/em>the power to avoid trouble, but the power to live the only life worth living.\u00c2\u00a0 He would promise them the same power that was keeping Him on course while His own worst nightmare came true.\u00c2\u00a0 He knew these words would strike a chord, that they would thrill His disciples and fill them with hope.<\/p>\n “Soon you will have that power,” Jesus would say.\u00c2\u00a0 “You will be able to remain faithful to Me no matter what happens in your life.\u00c2\u00a0 If your spouse leaves you, you will be empowered to reveal My character.\u00c2\u00a0 If your son is in jail, you will be able to go on loving him.\u00c2\u00a0 That <\/em>is your hope till I return.\u00c2\u00a0 Never lose it!”<\/p>\n — Larry Crabb, Shattered Dreams:\u00c2\u00a0 God’s Unexpected Pathway to Joy, <\/em>p. 42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was the Place of Hope.\u00c2\u00a0 It was the place where, after His resurrection and just before His ascension, He would speak to His disciples one last time.\u00c2\u00a0 On that occasion, with the authority of a man who had just conquered death, Jesus would say, “Soon you will receive power, power to be My witnesses.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-life","category-obedience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}