God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.
– WT Purkiser –
Trials
Affliction brings sweet solace – Ichabod Spencer
Some of our sweetest solaces never could have been known but for the afflictions which bring them. What tender friendships gather around us when we are sick! What hearts beat for us and sympathize with us, and would, if they could, take themselves the pain that racks us! We should never know what tenderness and pity and kindness there is in the world, if our trials did not bring them out. Many of our calamities attach us more to our fellow-men, and make us think better of the world than we did before.
– Ichabod Spencer –
Prayer triumphs over perils – Charles Spurgeon
All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Our disappointments are God’s appointments – AW Pink
Yes, give thanks for “all things” for, as it has been well said, “Our disappointments are but His appointments.”
– AW Pink –
Thank God for all He does – Billy Graham
Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us which we do not deserve.
– Billy Graham –
How true joy is formed – Francis Chan
The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
– Francis Chan –
Believing God – Charles Spurgeon
If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
– Charles Spurgeon –
God’s Most Effective Tool in Our Lives – Charles Stanley
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God’s most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.
– Charles Stanley –
Believe God – Charles Spurgeon
If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
– Charles Spurgeon –