No Way!

Honor the Lord! You are his special people. No one who honors the Lord will ever be in need.

Psalm 34:9 (CEV)

Ever feel like nothing is going right, and nothing ever will? Like there’s no way your impossible dreams will ever come true?

Amanda Berry Smith must have felt discouragement many times in her life. Born a slave in 1837, her family was separated from her dad on another plantation. However, with her grandmother’s prayers and father’s hard work, they earned their freedom. Still, they were poor. Amanda married a soldier and had a baby, but then he died in the Civil War. Talk about hard times!

Amanda kept believing in a mighty God. Eventually she became a traveling Bible teacher telling people in America about Jesus. An opportunity came to go to England, and within a week she was on a ship headed there. She preached in England for over a year when a door opened for her to go to India... and then Africa! This former slave and poor widow had no way to make these things happen. But God did! She honored him, and he took care of her.

When you feel like there’s no hope, you can pray to the same God as Amanda. Are you going to give up, or keep asking and watching for how the Lord will work? Where there is no way, God can make a way!

SPIRITUAL FITNESS TRAINING

Grab a piece of paper and make up a doodle-code for each key word or phrase in our verse, such as a cross shape for Lord. Then write today’s verse in doodles.

• honor =
• you =
• people =
• need =
• Lord =
• special =
• no one =

PRAY

All-powerful God, thank you for taking care of me. When things seem hopeless, please show me the way.

KEEP IT GOING

Related passages: These additional verses will help you expand Scriptural knowledge and put on the armor of God’s Word to tackle each day. Tap to read the passages today.

Psalm 23:1

Isaiah 58:11

2 Corinthians 9:8

Philippians 4:19