This was from my morning devotional book and I thought I would share it.  It is a good thing to remember! May God bless you today and work miracles in your life.

The story is told of a diamond prospector in Venezuela named Rafael Solano. He was one of many impoverished natives and fortune seekers who came to sift through the rocks of a dried-up riverbed reputed to have diamonds.  No one, however, had had any luck for some time in finding any diamonds in the sand and pebbles. One by one, those who came left the site - their dreams shattered  and their bodies drained.

Discouraged and exhausted, Solano had just about decided it was time for him to give up too. He had nothing to show for months of hard work.

Then Solano stooped down one last time and scooped up a handful of pebbels, if only so he could say he had personally inspected every pebble in his claim. From the pebbles in his hand, he pulled out one that seemed a little different. He weighed it in his other hand. It seemed heavy. He measured it and weighed it on a scale. Could it be?

Sure enough, Solano had found a diamond in the rough! New York jewelry dealer Harry Winston paid Solano $200,000 for that stone. When it was cut and polished, it became known as the Liberator, and it is considered the largest and purest unmined diamond in the world. 

You may have been plugging away at a project for weeks, even months or years, without seeing much progress. Today may be the day. Don't give up!

The Scriptures are filled with examples of men and women who, on the verge of disaster or failure, experienced God's creative work in their lives. Remind yourself.

God's Word is true.

God can part the sea.

God can heal the incurable.

God can provide water from a rock and manna in the wilderness.

God can conquer your enemies.

God can still deliver from the fiery furnace and the lion's den.

Perservere in what He has asked you to do today, because your rewards will be more than you can think or imagine.

-From Breakfast with God