The enemy counted on your collapse. It didn't account for what God would build in you through the very battle that was meant to break you.
You know the moment. A betrayal you did not deserve. A diagnosis that upends your future. A financial blow. A family fracture. A public failure. A private grief. Something came for your peace, teeth bared, and you knew the moment was no inconvenience. This was a fight.
Ask the question heaven has been waiting for you to ask.
What happens when the thing sent to destroy you meets something within you it did not expect?
Not denial. Not shallow positivity. It acknowledges the lion’s presence.
It meets faith that has learned to stand. It meets discernment. It meets a mind renewed by truth. It meets resilience that is forged in God’s presence. It meets a person who has stopped fighting alone.
The enemy came expecting prey.
Instead, it met a Cape buffalo.
The Lion and the Buffalo
Among Africa’s Big Five, the lion is the celebrated predator. The Cape buffalo stands…
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