Would You Boast about Weakness?
You face chronic illness. A spouse leaves. You lose a job. Why, God? Learn from pastor Greg Laurie, who lost an adult son. Then share with us what suffering has taught you!
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Nancy, What a wonderful story. Thank you so much for sharing this. Someimes we must continue to fall until one day the miraculous hand of Christ will pick us up and let us know that everything is okay. Faith.....the faith of a child will lead us back home......to God.
God Bless and thank you for serving. The whole family serves when in the Military, I spent 20 years myself as my forfathers, it can be hard on all of us, but we must remember that with Christ and the faith of a child everything works out in God's
Devine Nature and the Dwelling within starting with our brother Christ.
Gina
I am a disabled widow of an Air Force vet. I lost my husband in 2009 and moved to another state in 2010. I was on so many drugs for pain I didn't know my own name. After trying to handle the grief of his passing and no doctor would give me the drugs to my pain, I truly saw how Jesus brought me out of Egypt!
I honestly will never be able to thank Jesus enough for loving, comforting me and taking my pain from my heart! I realized after looking back over my life, with a clearer mind, for the first time how Jesus was with me every step of the way. I owe my life to Jesus and his name will be on my dying breath!
Praise God from whom all blessings and hope flow, Jesus is the bread of life.
God Bless All!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also lost an adult son and the most important thing I learned was I personally have no power, my power is in the Lord. It has been five years and as bad as it is God has blessed me and is with me always
I love reading these testimonials. My life has been a huge testimony to God. Now that I am a senior I can look back at my life and know the many times GOD carried me and always walked with me. I am here because of his love for me.
Don't you wonder how people manage to get through their life without him? It must be terrible and yet so unnecessary!
Pray for all.
Above all...count your blessings every day. This will keep your mind well occupied with such good thoughts and feelings of thankfulness. May GOD continue to bless you, Joan and Patricia.
Thank you GODfruits for this opportunity to testify for our savior.
Hello Christine I too have been healed from various obstacles in my life as well. Just last year I was healed and set-free of unforgiveness toward the family members who sexual abuse me as a child. Although I'm still healing from the hurt, pain, and betrayal as I tell my story to others and even shed tears my testimony strengthens me because I know it was the test God allow me to go through so I may be able to help other women who have encounter and going through the same thing. I tell you when you are at your weakest and think you can't make it God will show up and show out on your behalf. I love talking to people about God and how good He is because if it wasn't for Him I would have taken my own life, jail, lost my mind, and who knows what else. Glory to God he has His hands on my and let me know that He has more for me in this life. I know if I keep sharing my stories and testimonies with hurting and abuse women God is going to use me in a MIGHTY way to draw others to HIM!
Charmine you are so right. I know first hand being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse by three family members, rejection from my mom, low self-esteem, three years of domestic abuse, death of a husband, and then I remarried again in 2010 and my husband walk out and left me Sept. of last year. So I know through my suffering and pain God has shown me I got your back. It's like the poem Footprints in the Sand. Through my life there were two sets of footprints but there was times when I only saw one set and that was the times when God carried me through.
I used to have a pity party about the things I went through but as my faith got stronger in God it made me realize that how can I have a testimony if I haven't been through a test. So my hurts, pains, obstacles, etc. are all God's way of letting me share my testimonies with others to let them know that if God did it for me He will do it for them too. He helps the unjust as well as the just. When I going through I go to the ROCK which is Christ Jesus.
Hello Joan, it is amazing of what people go through in this life. However, I believe when we overcome obstacles, trials, hardships, and disappointments then that's when God gets the glory. I know first hand what it is like to be an overcomer of childhood sexual abuse, rejection of my own mother because I got pregnant at the age of 16, three years of domestic abuse, and told I would never amount to anything. Thank you Jesus I can say I'm still here by the grace and mercy of God. I know through many things I been through I could have lost my mind, went to prison, want to commit suicide, but God have something better for me. Yes God's grace is sufficent in our weakness because there where I founded out I am strong I can make it, that NO weapon formed against me shall prosper because I'm a child of the KING!
I will tell anyone God is the BEST thing that ever happen to me. When I think I can't go on He gives me the strength to do so, when I'm feeling down He helps me to encourage myself, He's there for me in the midnight hour, He makes ways out of No way, He's my provider, my protector, my comforter, my help in a time of trouble. When my husband walked off and left me a year ago it was God who comfort me, took care of me, and remind me that He haven't left me, but just hold on everything is going to be alright.
It is truly amazing what some people go through in life and are so strong. I feel that they are asking God for His help and carry on. When they establish talking and praying to God on an ongoing basis then God responds and they hear Him and the graces that God gives them lighten their burdens.
Joan Vachon
When my 16 yr old only child was killed in a car accident, I turned my back on God - even though I trusted Him completely and KNEW He held me in His Hands, I 'did it my own way' for a number of years. Through divorces and abuse, I finally allowed Him to reenter my daily life. He gave me new insights into people and how they are the way they are, why they do the things they do. We CAN break the bonds if we just look up and let God. NOTHING is as important as He is. And He WILL give you the desires of your heart when you trust in Him first.
i'm a survivor and been healed of different types of abuse within domestic violence. I can thank God that I have had that experience because now God is using me as a vessel to be there for others who are in or been through similar expriences, praying with and for them and leading some to Him through Christ Jesus in prayer when the opportunity arises. Glory to God.
WHAT A WONDERFUL LORD WE HAVE, AND HE NEVER LEAVES US..HE US ALWAYS RIGHT HERE BY US..WE ARE NEVER ALONE. WE MAY FEEL AT TIMES THAT WE HAVE NO ONE..JUST LOOK UP TO HIM THAT IS OUR ALL IN ALL AND THINGS WILL WORK FOR US.
Suffering is an experience to feel the need for God, if we dont experience the up's and down's in life we wouldnt know what pain ia all about...suffering is a way of life another way for God to strengthen us and console us...giving us the courage to pick up the pieces and start our journey never giving up,so that we can console those who are in pain, by giving them courage and strength...God reminds us that we are never self sufficient, we nee him all through our life...
When my husband was killed in a car accident aged 34 and my children were 7 and nearly 5 I was asked by my Bible study group after several months if I would talk to a group of ladies on how God was helping me. I said to God I would not prepare any notes and would be His megaphone. I spoke for one hour. A year later a lady came up to me in Church and said: "You do not know me and I want to thank you, I came to hear you speak after your husband's accident and because of what I heard I am now a Christian". It wasn't me but God had spoken to that lady. I am convinced that God can use any disaster to bring glory to His wonderful Name.
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