Crisis!
Published on Aug 10, 2016
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Crisis!
Destructive tornado, a great wind, murderous thieves, loss of ten children loss of wealth, job, finances, debilitating agonizing illness, tired, sleepless nights, nightmares if he slept at all, loss of social support, falsely accused, and shocking lack of spiritual support from his wife, who instructs him to curse God and die......2:9-10
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A crisis is a major tragedy in a person's life requiring of them to make major life changing decisions and adaptations - some within days, weeks, and years
A crisis is a divine knife that exposes our soul to its need for God
Is your hope more in God or in the thing you lost?
You have no idea what I could do if I didn't have..
_________
You are right. Do you have any idea how much I can do through you?
Just because you want to know does not mean you need to know
Job's Stairway Down
- Grief and acceptance
- Hopeless and suicidal
- Bitter view of God
- Fear and self-pity
Photo by Rafael Edwards
Faithless Responses
- anxiety
- guilt
- anger
- despair
- self pity
- escapism
- neglect
The disciplined practice of regularly setting Jesus before you
I have set the Lord always before me;
because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.
Psalm 16:8
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
trouble
hardship
persecution
famine
nakedness
danger
sword
death
life
angels
demons
the present
the future
powers
height
depth
anything else in all creation
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
trouble
hardship
persecution
famine
nakedness
danger
sword?
36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
trouble
hardship
persecution
famine
nakedness
danger
sword?
36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
your heart will go where your meditations have already been
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