Sometimes your promotion comes after rejection. Sometimes your elevation happens in the very place where people tried to bury you. Sometimes God’s promotion bypasses all the people who overlooked you, doubted you, or even opposed you—and sets you in a position no one can explain except by saying, “Surely, the Lord did this.”

Every believer will eventually face a furnace moment. Not necessarily a literal fire, but a test so heated that it forces you to choose: Will I bow or will I stand?