QUOTES

Written by: Frank George Moore

I thank God that He upholds us with His grace, and allows us to release our "humanness" through our tears.

We sought God's will and found it, we prayed God's will and received it.

The God of the present seems to be the God of the distance.

The God who was always within reach seemed to be so far away.

The God who has given communion, insight and peace, seems to allow distance, sickness and confusion.

The God who allows the trial, quickly becomes the God who can deliver.

The God of the impossible becomes the God of the possible.

The God who knows the feeble becomes the God of those that gives strength.

God has a way of reducing one to where there is nothing left but hope I Pe 1:1-9,13

We want deliverance, God may want refinement.

We may want relief from our anxiety, God may want a deeper communion with Him.

The essence of our faith, should not, does not depend upon a supernatural deliverance from suffering, but a supernatural use for it.

There is no question that God has heard our prayers, our cries, our longings and pleadings, but we must now allow Him to work in the sovereignty of His timing. (Ps 18:1-6) 

So often we want God to hear us by the intensity of our pleads and longings, but He acts in His sovereign and gracious care and He decides the timing of His interventions.

We must take pity upon the Christian (one-self) who's knowledge of God is based upon the intellect, and not upon the soul.

So often we talk from the intellect and not from the heart. (Job 36:15)

At times it is hard to allow our faith to interpret our experiences (circumstances).

We must remember, that at the darkest, deepest crevice in the valley of painful experience, there is Jesus standing with us. For He too wondered, as we do, "My God, my God". Mk 15:34

We can only take comfort in knowing that Jesus has taken our questions and made them His own.

So often we quickly dispair because our knowledge of God conflicts with our understanding of God's ways.

Jesus learned obedience from His suffering.

The grace of God enables one to live with their questions.

Just as the suffering servant Job, we too may view our suffering as strategies of heaven, to not only bring the sufferer into a fuller view of God, but also to show God's created beings, the glory of His sovereign directions. Job 1:12

It is of greatest comfort to the sufferer, knowing that they are "right" before God. Consequently what God has in store for them, though painful and void of their full understanding, they can rest in knowing as Job did the blessedness of God. Job 1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. (KJV)

God may take your knowledge of Him and test it and purify it in the fiery crucible of enlightenment. Job 42:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. (KJV)

God answers directed prayer that is centered upon His will.

Plead with God that He will make clear His will.

When calamities come, seek God's leading as to your prayers and if so prompted, pray for divine intervention.

During your trial, pray that God would teach and show you principles to implement into your life, no matter what the outcome.

When you have received God's direction, exercise faith that God will bring it to pass.

Give God all the glory.