“Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” Romans 3:4 I remember the first time I fell in love. I must have been 12 years old. My brother had a best friend named Corey and I really felt love for …
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The True Rock
This is a guest post from a very special and good friend of mine, Myndi Orr, author of “Don’t Waste Your Pain.” She has selflessly come alongside me and has walked with me from the beginning of my injury. She is a woman of great faith and courage who, by God’s help, has fought her own battle of pain and …
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There is Another in the Fire
“Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?”…“Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” …
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God’s Glory, My Good
Jesus is precious to me. I love Him with all my being. 17 years ago, He took this terrible sinner and gave me a new heart and eternal hope. He took my ashes and made them beautiful. He took my brokenness and made me whole again. He walked beside me through great storms and helped me overcome tremendous obstacles. And …
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Pysch Drug Damage and the God of Hope
“I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope.” Psalm 130:5 Have you ever needed a big God? I do now more than ever. I don’t have time for a limited, impotent God who doesn’t have the power to move mountains and save. The God I need has to be so infinitely powerful that the psyche …
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God is Good but Suffering Sucks!
“For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison.” 2 Corinthians 4:17 In the span of the eternal, earthly suffering is nothing. Anyone who is with Jesus now is at final rest and peace and no longer bound to the suffering they faced on the earth. In the earthly understanding of time, …
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Entrust Your Soul to God
“Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.” I have come to realize that each trial of suffering requires a new position of surrender and training. Your last trial can equip you somewhat for the future but each new trial brings its own learning curve and discipline that you …
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“How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord His God.”
I am in a lot of pain today. With my injury, the pain comes in waves. Like all waves, there’s a crest. The crest in my affliction is quite painful but today is day one of the wave beginning, they can last for two weeks. I am already in agony and I am not even close to the crest. It …
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The Faithfulness of God
The Faithfulness of God I am coming up to the fourth-month post-injury. I have still a lot of recovery ahead and still a great deal of uncertainty. But this is what I am learning – while I do not like my circumstances and I struggle every single day, I can honestly say that the Lord has continued to show His …
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Shall we not accept adversity from God?
“So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes. Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast …