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Prayer Answered by Crosses
I read this poem probably five years ago and have come back to it many times. It’s easy to see the love and care of God when He answers our prayers for our own lives and the lives of others the way that we desire them to be answered. Sometimes we pray “Your will be ...
What I’ve Learned Lately Through Suffering: Speaking Openly and Honestly From The Heart
My greatest, and most overriding desire in all forms of trials I face, is no longer that they would be removed but rather that they would not be wasted. If God would be pleased to use suffering to make me more like my Lord Jesus Christ, and if He would refine me in the fiery ...
A Purpose For Suffering
When I was off work this summer, experiencing a lot of pain with my fibromyalgia, I was working on an article entitled “Purposes In Suffering.” Purpose number seven was “that we may primarily seek Christ as our refuge above anything or anyone else.” That we may primarily seek Christ as our refuge above anything or ...
In The Midst Of Trials
I think I wrote this poem around the same time last year, when I was going through very difficult times. I thought I’d post it as I haven’t had time to work on anything new lately. I hope that it may encourage someone who is in the midst of trials to perservere in their ...