But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. Love this site. I feel Indicted and for good reason. Oh help me and pray for me. Don, I just read your comment and want you to know I have prayed for you! God knows our ways and has sent you here to recognize the need to get back on the right path.
We all have at times in life lost our footing, but thank the good Lord and this website we are all back and searching for the right answers! Welcome back brother in Christ! I just want to say that I loved reading your article. It really relates to me. I got to know and understand what God has been working on in my life. I often get confused on what God is doing. This article was truly a relief and it sums up the importance of God.
Absolutely beautiful. I am a devout Christian, and I am facing a trial, and googled why God gives us such trials, and this article summed it up so nicely. More grace on you guys…. This article has really helped me to understand many things about God and going through trials.
Just lost my job. I am a Christian mum sitting here in the middle of the night with an unsettled baby, and 2 more unwell children in another bedroom. Your scriptures have blessed me and picked me up in no small way. May the Lord continue to use you and increase your wisdom. You have touched me and given me renewed hope. May God continue to increase you in wisdom and understanding, I have been blessed tremendously.
Keep it up. God bless you. God made everything to happen for a reason. May they be my daily bread and Fill me and be able to apply them to my daily challenges. Thank God! For you all for sharing a great topic on trials and tribulations. Thank God for his Rich Word that helps us. God Bless you all. Reading these scriptures and the passages have helped me stay on track and encouraged me to keep trusting. Thank you!
I have faced a lot of challenges since I gave my life to Christ and I have been asking myself is it because of sin? Pls help me in prayer. This message is really for me and now I feel so blessed by His comfort.
God is Great. I am really thankful to God and ypu my brother in christ foe such an encouraging spiritual message. May GOD richly bless you. The Scriptures are very helpful. Many people think that because you go through Trials and Tribulations, your situation is going to stay the same. But it only makes you wiser and stronger.
This is a life lifting site, i stumbled on this site with a heavy heart, after going through the topics here I became lighten. May God bless whoever that is sharing these words, your depth of wisdom and revelation in Christ will never go down. I am gladdened in my soul for this awesome messages about the trials and to tribulations we face. It now teaches me to persevere in the times of temptation, so I can learn from my mistakes and finally come out in victory!
This devotional was exactly what I needed today. I have become discouraged because I am disabled and now my husband is also disabled. Thank you so much, and may God bless and continue to use you for His Glory! Thank you Fritz for this article and for helping me to comprehend more about the trials I am facing as a christian. Please pray for me. Thank you very much for your biblical revelations of your article.
I really enjoy it and fully understand it. I understand why he is doing that. I read a series of other scriptures having to do with loved ones moving away. I am hopeful about being able to go there to visit him and I will certainly try, God willing. Trusting God to help me through the emotions and other impacts this will have, and for my son to have strength to go forward. Thank you so much for eveyone that is running this website. So much of valuable knowledge and encouragement with quoted scripture.
It covers a vast area of each topic that is listed. Great work. But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. And my soul is greatly dismayed; But You, O Lord — how long? For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? Lord, how long will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, My only life from the lions. Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire? These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;.
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded. To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless;. Are they servants of Christ? Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart,. Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.
Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. Therefore I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations on your behalf, for they are your glory. In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the angel of His presence saved them; In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. This is my comfort in my affliction, That Your word has revived me. You have fed them with the bread of tears, And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.
Therefore his people return to this place, And waters of abundance are drunk by them. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me. For the choir director; according to Shoshannim. This is one trial that I will never forget because of the impact it has on my life every day. My mom was long boarding one summer evening and was heading down a large hill in Alpine, she came to a T in the road and decided to jump off the board because she was going too fast and was afraid of losing control of her board.
Instead she was left with a broken neck and now is a quadriplegic. Not only did this affect my mom personally, but it affects everyone that is close to her: family, friends, and neighbors. This has been one of the most difficult trials I have ever been through in my life, and I would never wish this upon anyone. Things will never be the same, my mom probably will never walk again, but I learn to live with that and I grow because of it.
But everything that we have been through, has been together, and we have drawn so much closer because of it. My mom is one of my very best friends and she always will be.
If I have to talk to anyone about something personal, boys, the questions you want to ask but never know who to ask them to, the first person I go to is my mom. I have had so many trials of my very own and most I have looked at as opportunities to grow. Refreshing reminder! Beautiful Bill! You speak of a hope that only comes through Christ in us, our hope of glory!
Thanks for liking my recent post. May the Lord continue to strengthen your inner man as you share the hope of the gospel with others! Jesus Reigns! I am happy to hear that you have regained some strength. I am even happier to hear that your faith is deepened, because that is so important. Your messages always encourage me so much, dear brother Bill! You and your family remain in my prayers.
I am sorry to hear that you have been ill. May our Heavenly Father send you rivers of healing mercies and make you healthy, strong, and sound in every way above and beyond what you were before your illness this winter. God corrects those He loves, this is why so many of His precious saints suffer.
His dear children are His beautiful masterpieces that He is chiseling, refining to become glorious cathedrals of His praise. His refining process can cause great pain but because He is within us He suffers alongside of us. Every tear we shed, He is silently weeping with us as a parent weeps in distress over their child who is suffering great distress. Our Lord cherishes us. As Paul writes in Romans, if we want to reign with Christ, we must also suffer with him.
One day He will complete us. And He will show us off in triumph as glorious trophies of His amazing grace. Glory to our awesome Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! God Bless you more and more, dear brother! Thank you, Suzanne. I agree with you, many people are physically healthy, but inwardly as disabled as I am outwardly. Thanks for the encouraging message.
Your post overflows with your vibrant faith and outlook on life. I pray your days ahead are sweet. Thank you, Elouise, for your encouraging comments and for your prayers. Yes, she did have pneumonia. It was a dreadful experience—hospitalized. She asked me to come, thinking it would be the end. That was in December She survived it and was with us until February Warmly, Elouise.
I got Pneumonia about 15 years ago 3 years after being diagnosed and it was horrible! Even with my breathing machine on it was difficult to breathe. Thank you again for your comments and prayers…. I love the C. Lewis quote. So true. I love the book of Acts and the healing of the lame man at the Temple gate is my favorite part of that book.
Your wisdom and maturity, not to mention your courage, never fail to inspire us, Bill. Thank you! That must have been very frustrating and discouraging! Could there ever be more of an understatement?? But excellent post. Thank you, Jennifer. It is extremely frustrating for an ALS patient or any wheelchair-bound person to have something like the flu; probably more frustrating for the caregivers.
Lovely post and poignant reminder Bill! Thank you for sharing and I pray you continue to feel better! Great post, Bill. Thank you, Wendy. Most people with ALS die of respiratory failure brought on by the flu or Pneumonia. As you unfortunately know, the flu is a killer of those that are already weakened by other health conditions. His belief was a result of spiritual blindness. But perhaps he had a last minute conversion like one of the thieves at the crucifixion?
God can see the heart. Hi Bill, how lovely to read your post and to know that you are recovering from the flu and feeling better again. A rough month for you, so sorry. As always, you are spot on, and your personal message and the scriptures have blessed and encouraged me greatly. Love the C. Thank you, Sherri. I really like that CS Lewis quote too. Thinking about heaven keeps us hopeful and motivates us to do good in this life. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
As I got to the end of your post Bill, all I could picture was the joy when you get to heaven. No more pain, fatigue, inability to do the many things you would like to do etc etc.
I hope we meet up in that day, I want to celebrate with you. Thanks for another thought provoking post. We all have much to be thankful for. I do not think we really grasp just how much. There are so many who have lost their homes and have had to flee for their very lives in the middle east.
There are children with no one to care for them, no place to lay their head. We are blessed indeed. The world is a needy place for many. Thank you, Leslie. So very sorry to hear that you have not been well but you return strong and steadfast as ever — you are a precious one! I found your topic interesting because in the past I have purposefully stayed away from quotes and mentions of those in the darkness.
My thinking was that I did not want to shed light on their works in the same vein as my Savior. But lately I have been considering how God is Good and how he has so many times used evil for his Good. And he said, No, but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. I just loved that — he is neither for nor against — he is for the Lord.
It is clear that you speak about what God has shown you in your own life and, for me, it is always very touching to read your posts, knowing that God gave you a huge burden to bear in this life.
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