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That’s what it is like relating to someone who has inner pain. Emotional wounds are invisible. You can never be certain who is hurting, nor what well-meaning words will send them reeling in pain.   Still to this day he is reeling in pain because of a child abuse too horrific for almost any of us to What pain would be spared if only we could hold our tongue and restrain our urge to act like know-alls them into a sculptor’s chisel so that what for years seem painful, useless and devastating, result in

He really knew God.   The apostle Paul’s interaction with God makes the spiritual experience of this world’s geniuses shrivel ’s love and suffering (1 Corinthians 13). And he discovered that the reality of suffering cannot diminish the infinitude of God’s powerful love Intense experience, prayer, and intimacy with God is a common price.   Back

While some mental patients have delusions of grandeur, we suffer the opposite psychosis. Just to be sure, we’ll imagine he is blind and suffers severe mental retardation. Prominence in the church – even God-ordained prominence – does not imply prominence in the heart of God Though you suffer in isolation and apparent futility, the depths of your trial known to no one on earth It is human to suffer irrational feelings but only the hopelessly insane are compelled to  believe  those

Until we learn to forgive others we will most likely suffer serious problems believing that God has forgiven Our calling – God’s mind-blowing invitation – is to rise from living like beasts to living like God. By wanting someone to suffer as he or she deserves, we are refusing to live in the realm of grace. It simply allows God to do what he longs to do – to lift us to a higher level in which we are judged If you have reached that point, I believe God can forgive you, though you will still suffer much anguish

As certain as it is that, like Jesus himself, his true followers will suffer temptation, so none of us can be a true Christian for long without suffering condemnation, feeling unforgivable, being hounded You deserve the delight of knowing that God’s approving smile upon you. and with the heart of God. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

1 Corinthians 4:4 My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Return to the webpage God will use to set you free!

What you suffered when you were young crushed your self-esteem, causing you to underestimate how capable stress of a traumatic childhood by keeping parts of you ignorant about the full extent of what you have suffered explaining things about yourself that have always puzzled you, accepting a correct diagnosis will finally allow (Boy does that sound crazy!) What these voices say could seem a little strange – as might be expected from someone who has suffered

pieces, but your divine Lover treasures every fragment, even those life experiences you have suffered Will God really turn our sin into something that glorifies him? Yes. That’s how significant to God is Paul’s sinful background. or to give you ministry and witnessing opportunities by increasing your empathy for others who have suffered But our sufferings move God far too deeply for him to let them be wasted.  

Give God a break!   You can’t earn God’s approval, you can only delight in it.   It’s in the painful times that you develop spiritually, just like it’s in the pain of physical exercise And if you really looked like that to God, you’d have every reason to want to shrink from God and the You are beautiful to God.

Even writers of not some mere spiritual masterpiece but the very Word of God freely confessed that God But that does not make it impossible for the next sentence to be straight from Satan. I will be judged for any error I live or propagate and for every time I settle for a half-truth or allow The Christian superstar mentality, however, does enormous damage to the body of Christ. Either God could move the world through YOU or he isn’t God!

The presence of obvious physical reasons for our problems does not reduce the likelihood that they are Nevertheless, I wondered if in addition to the natural, there might also be a demonic element to what I suffered God. resolved to fight, if necessary to death, against the united armies of the whole nation, rather than allow At Calvary, God’s Son is dead.   How I thank God for the Bible!

“Vengeance is mine; I will repay,” says the Lord (Romans 12:19, NKJV) God is just: He will pay back trouble We will explore these mysteries, plunging deep into the heart of God and gaining new insight into the ourselves into thinking we are better than that person, and yet even if he didn’t specifically want us to suffer and it was more a side effect of his actions, we, with premeditated deliberation, want him to suffer If being hit does not teach us not to hit but only inflames our desire to hit back, why do we suppose