“What if the interruptions in your life are not evidence that God’s plan has failed but proof that His greater purpose is prevailing?”

I see this reality at work in Acts 16. From repeated holy disruption came the first church in Europe, hosted and advanced by praying women, a force for unity, generosity, and mission — fruit no man would…

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Thank you, Ben. Acts 16 is an excellent example. One nuance that especially gripped me while writing was that God’s purpose wasn’t rescued by the interruptions – it was never threatened by them. The interruptions themselves were already within His settled counsel (ʿetsah). That’s what has been ministering so deeply to me.