This week, the blog is sponsored by Moody Publishers and is adapted from Platform to Pillars: Trading the Burden of Performance for the Freedom of God’s Presence by Mark Sayers.
A week after I preached my Platforms to Pillars sermon in London, I was leaving a speaking event, feeling exhausted after a brutal season of conflict, betrayal, and discouragement. On this trip, I had the privilege of catching up with other friends who had gone through similar journeys and still longed for God to move. The last few days of my trip filled me with hope, and I prayed that these past days would signal that the long and challenging period I had been walking through would be over.
As I entered St James’s Park tube station, I stood on the platform and rang my wife, Trudi, back home in Australia. Instantly, I could tell that something was wrong. She told me she had gone for a test on a lump in her breast and was called back to the doctor a few days later. “They have done a biopsy on the lump, and it is cancerous.”
I had
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