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Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Joni Eareckson Tada
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 15
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True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.
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I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.
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Believers are never told to become one we already are one and are expected to act like it.
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Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.
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The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.
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Thats what I love about serving God. In His eyes, there are no little people...because there are no big people. We are all on the same playing field
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God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.
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We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.
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Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.
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...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.
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God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
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There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
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God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
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God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.
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Even at the cross, God permitted what he hated - the unjust and agonizing death of his own precious Son - in order to accomplish something he prized above his own Son's cruel death that is, salvation for a world of sinners. So the world's worst murder becomes the world's only salvation.
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If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.
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Christianity isn't all that complicated ... it's Jesus.
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God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.
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When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words he gives us the Word the Word made flesh who is intimately acquainted with our grief and suffering. That's what helps the most.
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My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.
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