Often, the hardest part of pursuing something meaningful is getting through “the dip”—the season when progress stalls, and quitting feels like the easiest option.
But what if the breakthrough you’re praying for, working toward, or hoping to see in your relationships, faith, or projects is just on the other side of that dip?
In this episode of Jesus Smart X, we explore the truth that the dip isn’t a dead end. It’s a refining process, preparing us to hold and experience what’s on the other side.
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Every Vision Will Be Challenged: Here’s What to Do (Jesus Smart article)
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Scripture
The inspired Scriptures stand above all other literature and writing. They are full of the life and Spirit of God. To read, meditate, proclaim, and pray the Scriptures releases the potential of God in our personal world and the world we influence.
Then he said to his servant, “Go and look out toward the sea.” The servant went and looked, then returned to Elijah and said, “I didn’t see anything.” Seven times Elijah told him to go and look. Finally the seventh time, his servant told him, “I saw a little cloud about the size of a man’s hand rising from the sea.” Then Elijah shouted, “Hurry to Ahab and tell him, ‘Climb into your chariot and go back home. If you don’t hurry, the rain will stop you!’ ” (1 Kings 18.43-44 NLT)
And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. (Hebrews 11.11 NIV)
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1.2-4 NASB)