Category: Pain and Hurt
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Remember
Remember? If you’re going through a relationship crises, remembering may be a painful thing. Seeing an old photo or driving by a location may cause you to remember a time when things were better in your relationship. Remembering even these good times can be a painful experience in the light of your current crises. And then…
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Hot on your Heels
What’s coming up fast chasing you? Monsters? Your past failures? Bill collectors? Family members? Well, if you’re in Christ, the Word of God makes it clear something very Good is coming up fast behind you. Isaiah 51:11 Those the LORD has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their…
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Focus in the Right Place – Audio Message
David’s Psalm 38 teaches us some big lessons about how we can get ourselves into a worried, depressed state by where we focus our mind on. Take a two minute break and listen to this short message: Focus On God (MP3 Audio)
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Immanuel – Christ is with us during divorce pain at Christmas
Are you hurting due to divorce, separation, or estrangement from your spouse during the holidays? Greg Laurie’s message “Immanuel” speaks the truth that Christ is with us and knows first hand the pain and loneliness of estrangement. Listen to Immanuel (MP3) > Greg-Laurie-God-Is-With-Divorced-and-Lonely-People
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On Empty? You’re ready for God to use.
God uses us when we are on empty and at our wits end. This has been the pattern for millennia. Take for example the prophet Elijah, who after a great victory ran from overwhelming troubles against overwhelming odds. Elijah thought he was alone, but he learned “one plus God is a majority.” Are your feeling…
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A Word of Encouragement
Are you low? Does this statement resonate with you? “For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws close unto the grave.” Psalm 88 begins with this statement, and it clearly written by someone pouring out their heart to God in a time of deep despair and affliction. But there is a word…
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Your pain is part of a bigger picture
We are often so focused on our own family and relationship problems, that we only see them in our own personal terms and hurts. But God sees marriage rejection and splits as part of a bigger picture. This picture is very big, and involves His relationship with humankind. For this reason a man will leave his father…
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Don’t take the easy way out
The Lord spoke a strong word tonight via a sermon he directed me to. David Wilkerson’s “Standing Steadfast in Christ” spoke about not seeking the easy way out. As the Lord shows us in scripture through nature, those who choose to avoid conflict, people and the inevitable fires of life will suffer spiritual apathy. It’s…
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Mourning the Loss of Eden – Looking Forward to Something Better
Songwriter Brandon Heath’s 2011 album Leaving Eden describes a very real thing all of us go through who have suffered the loss of our hopes and dreams at the hand of our own sin and that of others. We tend to look upon our own losses, such as divorce and separation, as “our own thing”…
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God Will Restore All Your Wasted Years by David Wilkerson
You have wasted years. These may be years spent with the pain and regrets of broken relationships, years wasted in drugs or alcohol, or years wasted where you were far from God and not the husband or wife you should have been. Within these wasted years your life was eaten up by worms of sin,…