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July 12 Seeing Adversity from God’s Viewpoint When adversity hits you like a ton of bricks, it could easily throw you into a pit of discouragement and despair. Although you may consider difficulties as setbacks, the Lord sees them as times for great advancement. His purpose for allowing them is not to destroy you but to stimulate your spiritual growth. In His great wisdom, the Lord knows how to take an awful situation and use it to transform you into the image of Christ and equip you to carry out His will. Every adversity that comes into your life is sifted through God’s permissive will. That doesn’t mean the difficulty itself is His perfect will, but He’s allowed the trial to touch you so that He can use it to accomplish His wonderful purposes for your life. Although some of the suffering we see and experience seems senseless or blatantly evil, we must recognize that we have a very limited perspective and cannot always understand what the Lord is doing. Our heavenly Father sees every aspect of life, but our view is restricted to what is right before us. His plans include not only you but all of His creation, and they reach from the beginning of time to eternity future. Though we’ll never grasp the infinite mind of God, we can know His faithfulness and love. When you can’t understand God’s ways, focus on His perfect knowledge, wisdom, and power rather than the magnitude of your sorrow. Remember, He sees the entire picture and loves you more than you can imagine. This is a time to walk by faith, as perfect understanding comes only in heaven. For more biblical teaching and resources from Dr. Charles Stanley, please visit www.intouch.org. Used with permission from In Touch Ministries, Inc. © 2009 All Rights Reserved.
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Thank you for sharing!
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you are welcome
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I needed this.
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so do i. i have really struggled yesterday and it is continuing in to today also. i can’t put my finger on it, but i feel restless with my life, who i am, and where i am going. i would prefer to have no responsibilities today, but do
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AMEN Great posting…. In Touch is a wonderful ministry that honrs and glorifies God. Thank you for positng some of their stuff. Lord bless.
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thank you. i always look forward to reading your blogs and his web pages
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Thank you for sharing this, Angel Terry! God bless you!
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you are so welcome my friend
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Dr. Charles Stanley is one of my favorite devotional writers, along with Max Lucado and a few others. I get this in my eamil daily.
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me too. he and Joyce Meyers are mine
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Thank you for posting this. Much needed.
God bless you.
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we needed it together, friend………….
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Good solid teaching. Thank you for sharing, Terry.
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so glad you enjoyed it!
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