Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desperate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.
There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
We will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.
Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!
Contentment has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.
The truth of the matter is, Satan and God may want the exact same event to take place but for different reasons. Satan's motive in Jesus' crucifixion was rebellion; God's motive was love and mercy. Satan was a secondary cause behind the Crucifixion, but it was God who ultimately wanted it, willed it, and allowed Satan to carry it out. And the same holds true for disease.
AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.
[Joni Eareckson Tada]
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