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Rene:
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We always tend to think of thanksgiving as giving thanks for the good things, but we need to give thanks in EVERY thing. I need to thank God for my debts (and other problems), and you need to thank God for the thorn in your side. And in the midst of your suffering, I hope you can Rejoice in the knowledge that it will not always be there. :)
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Excellent reminder Jesse.
Even in our sufferings and uncomfortable situations, we can benefit spiritually. We can learn patience, obedience, and ultimately, righteousness. Keep your eye on the prize. :)
Heb. 5:8 - "Even though he was a son, yet learned, from what things he suffered, obedience"
dogcombat:
Jeff,
I related a similar thread a few years back.
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,3218.0.html
Ches
Kat:
Hi Jeff, just wanted to mention something that might encourage you. It seems that God in preparing us by bringing us through certain trials that gives us the experience He will need us to have... each one with their own set of difficulties, making us into what He wants us to be. So I think that though you may be experiencing some great difficulty God is certainly with you to get you through it "...God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able..." (1 Cor 10:13). And just think, you will be uniquely qualified to help with that in the next age.
2Cor 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
v. 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
v. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal (eonian) weight of glory,
v. 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal (eonian).
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Terry:
Hello Jeff i think Kat is spot on,
Hi Jeff, just wanted to mention something that might encourage you. It seems that God in preparing us by bringing us through certain trials that gives us the experience He will need us to have... each one with their own set of difficulties, making us into what He wants us to be. So I think that though you may be experiencing some great difficulty God is certainly with you to get you through it "...God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able..." (1 Cor 10:13). And just think, you will be uniquely qualified to help with that in the next age
15 years ago because of thyroid problems my body shut down i was so sick i can't tell you, i went from a bull to an old man over night,i would pray for God to take me every night and wake up in the morning and sit on the side of the bed and cry knowing i had to face another day,so after a few yrs. can't really remember how long, i started thinking where the teaching of hell come from and ended up here BT,i read 6 to 8 hrs. a day for months non stop, i think God put me where i needed to be at that time and with all that has happened i'm so thankful now,i'm not the same person i was,i've learned love,i love my wife as i never knew how before,i text my girls often and tell them i love them and to tell my grandboys i love them and to hug them for me,i under stand pain and suffering better now,it breaks my heart to see people hurting now,i feel CJ's pain,Judy's pain, i feel your pain,i pray for Alex,this wasn't me a few yrs. ago,my daughter ask her mom awhile back,whats going on with dad he's never had this kind of affection, she told her hes different now, thank God for that, i've got a long way to go i know, but now i don't want to die,i want to live ,i want to love,to me love is everything,i don't know you or CJ or Judy never met Alex or any one else here,but i can tell you this, i love you all,being sick has helped me to understand others pain and suffering,i'm still sick but not like before, i think it helps keep me humble,i know now i'm where God wants me to be for now,i think most of us are hurting one way or the other, but it will make us strong later,hang in there Brother God will see you through,i know because he said he would,you can take that to the bank.
Terry
judy:
Jeff, good replys, very good. Slow it way down, way down. it sounds like you are being beat up constantly and i know that feeling. I want so much for everything to be good but that's an illusion. Today i forced and will continue to force myself to believe God is working in all that matters to me. There is no other choice i can make. It helps to believe this and if it doesn't come naturally, swallow it like bad medicine and get through one day at a time. When you panic it is worse, pain, suffering, sadness. Easy does it and believe for the good eventually. It will come, maybe just in little ways but it is there. I feel your distress as if it was mine. You are loved even though it doesn't look like love. Be brave and when you can't holler at us!!! judy
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