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Pastor Rick Warrens Faith was being tested...He quote: "Grieving is hard. Grieving as public figures, harder. Grieving while haters celebrate your pain, hardest. Your notes sustained us."-Pastor Rick Warren
Yes, sometimes bad things happen to people who seem undeserving of them. But God allows things to happen for His reasons, whether or not we understand them. Above all, however, we must remember that God is good, just, loving, and merciful. Often things happen to us that we simply cannot understand. However, instead of doubting God's goodness, our reaction should be to trust Him. ”Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
I don't have to know why everything happens since I know God is Good, he loves me, and life on earth isn't the whole story.
Listen to God's opinion. He says that you have the mind of Christ, that you are full of wisdom, that you can fulfill your destiny.
Psalm 71:20
Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.
"The point of the storm isn't to prove your faith, it's to prove His faithfulness."
Pastor Rick Warren
Every time my heart shatters I take the pieces to Jesus for repair.
Psalm 34:19 The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all;
Listen to God's opinion. He says that you have the mind of Christ, that you are full of wisdom, that you can fulfill your destiny.
Pastor Rick Warren
I don't have to know why everything happens since I know God is Good, he loves me, and life on earth isn't the whole story.
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">[video=youtube;xGPS8sa-bRQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGPS8sa-bRQ[/video]
2 Corinthians 12:19 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening.
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary5:6-11 Most of mankind do not consider the things of another world at all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them aright, because they sleep and dream. Our moderation as to all earthly things should be known to all men. Shall Christians, who have the light of the blessed gospel shining in their faces, be careless about their souls, and unmindful of another world? We need the spiritual armour, or the three Christian graces, faith, love, and hope. Faith; if we believe that the eye of God is always upon us, that there is another world to prepare for, we shall see reason to watch and be sober. True and fervent love to God, and the things of God, will keep us watchful and sober. If we have hope of salvation, let us take heed of any thing that would shake our trust in the Lord. We have ground on which to build unshaken hope, when we consider, that salvation is by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, to atone for our sins and to ransom our souls. We should join in prayer and praise one with another. We should set a good example one before another, and this is the best means to answer the end of society. Thus we shall learn how to live to Him, with whom we hope to live for ever.
A Christian looks at their issues and knows God is part of the solution.
Mark Brown
Yes, sometimes bad things happen to people who seem undeserving of them. But God allows things to happen for His reasons, whether or not we understand them. Above all, however, we must remember that God is good, just, loving, and merciful. Often things happen to us that we simply cannot understand. However, instead of doubting God's goodness, our reaction should be to trust Him. ”Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
I don't have to know why everything happens since I know God is Good, he loves me, and life on earth isn't the whole story.
Listen to God's opinion. He says that you have the mind of Christ, that you are full of wisdom, that you can fulfill your destiny.
Psalm 71:20
Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.
"The point of the storm isn't to prove your faith, it's to prove His faithfulness."
Pastor Rick Warren
Every time my heart shatters I take the pieces to Jesus for repair.
Psalm 34:19 The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all;
Listen to God's opinion. He says that you have the mind of Christ, that you are full of wisdom, that you can fulfill your destiny.
Pastor Rick Warren
I don't have to know why everything happens since I know God is Good, he loves me, and life on earth isn't the whole story.
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">[video=youtube;xGPS8sa-bRQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGPS8sa-bRQ[/video]
2 Corinthians 12:19 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening.
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary5:6-11 Most of mankind do not consider the things of another world at all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them aright, because they sleep and dream. Our moderation as to all earthly things should be known to all men. Shall Christians, who have the light of the blessed gospel shining in their faces, be careless about their souls, and unmindful of another world? We need the spiritual armour, or the three Christian graces, faith, love, and hope. Faith; if we believe that the eye of God is always upon us, that there is another world to prepare for, we shall see reason to watch and be sober. True and fervent love to God, and the things of God, will keep us watchful and sober. If we have hope of salvation, let us take heed of any thing that would shake our trust in the Lord. We have ground on which to build unshaken hope, when we consider, that salvation is by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, to atone for our sins and to ransom our souls. We should join in prayer and praise one with another. We should set a good example one before another, and this is the best means to answer the end of society. Thus we shall learn how to live to Him, with whom we hope to live for ever.
A Christian looks at their issues and knows God is part of the solution.
Mark Brown