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I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Joni Eareckson Tada
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 15
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My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.
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When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.
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God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
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If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.
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The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.
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Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.
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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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Now, most people who suffer realize that the Bible contains answers for their plight they just don't know where to look.
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Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
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One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there’s always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.
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The Bible isn't quick to give answers it mainly gives the Answer.
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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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Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
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Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.
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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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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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God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.
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