Tag: <span>crisis</span>

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Calamities can leave us off balance and confused. Consider the crisis of Joseph’s generation as recorded  in Genesis 47. “Now there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.” Joseph faced a calamity on a global scale. Joseph told his brothers, “God sent me before you to preserve life. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. And God sent me before you.” Joseph began and ended his crisis with God. God preceded the famine. God would outlive the famine.

How would you describe your crisis? Do you recite your woes more naturally than you do heaven’s strength? You are assuming God isn’t in the crisis. He is. Even a famine was fair game for God’s purpose!

By Max Lucado
From: You’ll Get Through This

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Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.”
Psalm 62:5

Author Carol Kent lived by her Day-Timer!  You might say she was “just a bit driven!” classic workaholic.  In fact, her sense of accomplishment came only when she checked off the things on her ever-present “to-do” list!

But she tells of the day when a major crisis in her life left her totally heartbroken.  And there was nothing on her “list” that could fix it!  She says, “I discovered when you’re at the bottom emotionally and spiritually and all your resources have been used up, Jesus is enough!”

Now Carol calls herself a “recovering workaholic.”  She deeply feels the pain of others, weeps with those in despair… understands their hurt and their brokenness.

My dear friend, someone in your life needs you.  Today, put reaching out to that one friend right at the top of your “to do” list.  Show her Jesus!

By Vonette Bright
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