Grace doesn’t mean the hard season gets easier.
What Grace Actually Looks Like in Hard Seasons. It doesn’t mean trial will be easy to go through but already promised; you will experience His presence in a way you never could if you were strong enough to handle it yourself. This is what it means to Find Strength In God
Grace is waking up on a morning you don’t think you can face and finding that your next breath comes anyway. That your feet hit the floor. That you make it to the kitchen. That somehow, without knowing how, you’re moving forward.
As important as it is grace is praying the same desperate prayer for the hundredth time and instead of feeling foolish, feeling heard. Feeling like maybe God isn’t annoyed by your repetition but moved by your dependence.
It is the friend who texts at the exact moment you’re falling apart. The Scripture that suddenly makes sense after months of reading it numb. The worship song that breaks through when you’ve felt nothing for weeks. Therefore grace is supernatural peace in circumstances that should destroy you.
It’s Unexplainable Endurance when you’ve reached the end of yourself. It’s the ability to forgive when every human instinct screams for revenge. It’s hope when logic says there’s no reason to hope. Paul describes it as being “hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed” (2 Corinthians 4:8-9).
That’s not strength. That’s grace. Strength would prevent you from being hard pressed. Grace sustains you while you are.
The Wilderness Seasons
The Israelites spent 40 years in the wilderness. Forty years of wandering, waiting, wondering if God had forgotten them. And every single day, manna appeared on the ground.
Not a year’s supply. Not even a week’s worth. Just enough for that day. Every morning, a fresh provision. Every evening, the same dependence (Exodus 16:4).
God could have dropped a year’s worth of manna on day one. He could have given them the strength and resources to be self-sufficient. But He didn’t. Why?
“He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD” (Deuteronomy 8:3).
The wilderness was never about teaching them to be strong. It was about teaching them to be dependent. To trust that God would show up today even though they couldn’t see tomorrow’s provision yet.
Your wilderness season is doing the same thing. It’s not breaking you—it’s revealing what you’ve been building your life on. If you’ve been building on your own strength, your own strategies, your own ability to figure it out, the wilderness will dismantle that. Not to punish you, but to rebuild you on the only foundation that won’t crumble when the storms come.
Jesus is that foundation. Not Jesus plus your strength. Not Jesus helping you be strong. Just Jesus. His grace. His power. His sufficiency.
