Tag: suffering
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God Is With Us When We Suffer
And the water in the skin was used up, and she placed the boy under one of the shrubs. Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; for she said to herself, “Let me not see the death of the boy.” So she sat opposite him, and…
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The Purposes Of Suffering- Part 3
And Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near to me.” So they came near. Then he said: “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life. For these…
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The Purposes Of Suffering- Part 2
I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, and He answered me. Jonah 2:2a Last week I brought up a common question: if God is good why does He allow good people to suffer? God allows suffering as the natural consequence of sin. But we saw from the Old Testament account of the…
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The Purposes Of Suffering- Part 1
What if we could give God a victory over Satan? He certainly doesn’t need our help in order to be victorious, but perhaps in our suffering God invites us to participate in the great spiritual battle that goes on unseen by human eyes. What if, like the blind man whose eyes were opened by Jesus,…
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