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Duane:
Please be assured that God's plan for you takes you in and out of your comfort zone.  It is important to remember that
"ALL (not some) but "ALL is of God"!  God tests US by placing US in difficult circumstances and look for US to lean (by FAITH) on HIM!  If we fail to learn the lesson--we get it all over again--until we do!

I had it "all figured out--just work two jobs for 6 months and we would be debt free!!"  Being Type A -Mr. Goal oriented--nothing will stop me--blah, blah.  Well, two months with lots of goals, little sleep and an aggressive weight-lifting program to start the day--BAM!  One massive stroke that paralyzed the whole left side of my body and a few other things and GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO MY WELL PLANNED GOALS??!  tWO JOBS TO no jobs AND NO WAY TO KEEP THE HOUSE WE WERE LIVING IN--AND THERE I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL BEING ROLLED ONTO TARPS AND LIFTED FROM PLACE TO PLACE LIKE A BEACHED WHALE! 

I said "O.K. God--YOU have my undivided attention!"  All those goals, toys and status stuff meant ZERO!  Then God, and a lot of hard work and therapy got me out in three months with only paralysis in my lower left leg.  BUT--my whole life and out-look changed!!  My wife and step-son stuck with me, we got a cute little house in the "city" and my whole religious views changed with introduction to B-T.

So I haven't worked in 11 years except for a few little lawn jobs but God has used my eduction to study, read, write and be a help to people like you who need encouragement.  God WILL re-direct you -if your original plans failed!  :-)
In Christ, Duane

acomplishedartis:
Wow Duane. I didn't know all those details of your story.  By the way, I love that saying that you posted on the anoother tread:
"God allows DIFFERENT trials, of DIFFERENT durations, to DIFFERENT people, for DIFFERENT purposes, producing DIFFERENT results --many times the REASONS are known ONLY to Him." --Duane Gevert

This morning I was having a hard time while fixing something on the house. It reminds this tread and many documentaries from people going trough what seems very harsh things from my perspective. All together along with reminding me past experiences; and, another unexpected situation that came out of my present small trial, made me come out with a soft curse and the next phrase:

'las cosas SIEMPRE se pueden poner peor. Aun mas aya de lo que nos podamos siquiera imaginar...' which means:

'things ALWAYS can get worst. Even more that we could ever imagine...'

I don't know if these will help to the present problems of 'jase' but atleast, hopefully it can make you see our present trials from a different perspective. Atleast until enough time pass by and then you can easily realize the beauty of watching the picture as a whole. Just like  Duane can do now.

ez2u:
I sure can relate to this.  The day i wrote that reply was the day i heard about an grave injustice and a young man sentence to 70 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.  please pray for Tim

dogoftwohead:
Yes, failure is part of the plan. there has to be failure and there has to be success. Some of us are destined to fail while others are destined to succeed. Speaking from personal experience I don't think God likes me very much; in fact sometimes I think He hates me. When I look back at life I often wonder what He is playing at. I gave up praying years ago because He never answers. Never. Which leads me to believe I am worthless in the eyes of God. Yes it isn't fair. If you want to know about failure I could write a book. But that's life. As for yourself, fellow believer, maybe God has a special plan for you. I hope He does and I hope everything works out for the better. take care.

Joel:
These verses of scripture came to mind.
Hebrews 12:25-29
25:See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven.
26:Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

27:And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28:Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29:For our God is a consuming fire.

Joel

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