How have you personally experienced God allowing tragedy to bring about good?
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elisau on June 1, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Yes, my sister just underwent open heart surgery. (She is only 37 years old!) After years of going from doctor to doctor complaining that she just didn’t feel right for over 3-years she was diagnosed with a cogential heart defect. She was born with this yet it went undiagnosed all her life!
My sister is a definite type-A personality. She is a working mother of twins and thinks she can do it all.
I believe that God is going to continue to work in her life to bring her to complete dependence upon Him! And I look forward to watching her transformation unfold everyday of her (longer & healthier) life!
compassion1 on June 2, 2010 at 6:53 am
AMEN SISTER, BELIEVING GOD FOR HER CONTINUED HEALING EVEN AS HER SOUL PROSPERS, HER STRENGTH, AND A NORMAL BEAUTIFUL HEALTHY PRODUCTIVE LIFE WITH HER BABIES. SHE IS BLESSED TO HAVE A SISTER WHO HAS LOVE, CONCERN AND CARE FOR HER. GOD BLESS THE BOTH OF YOU AND HEDGE YOU IN UNDER HIS PROTECTION. MAY HIS FAVOR REST UPON YOU IN EVERY AREA OF YOUR LIVES, IN JESUS NAME, AND IT IS SO!
tom felten on June 1, 2010 at 2:08 pm
elisau, thanks for telling us about your sister. She will be in my prayers. I’ve experienced a similar time of physical challenge in my life when God seemed to be telling me, “Be still, and know that I am God.” Hope your sister comes to deeply love and depend on Him!
jenni on June 1, 2010 at 3:05 pm
A couple of years ago my (now ex) husband decided out of the blue that he was leaving me. I felt like my world had just crumbled and fallen apart. It was devastating to me at the time. The turn around came a little more than a year ago. I’d been searching for a church for my daughter and I to start going to and through His grace we found one. We are both now members at our church and have grown closer to one another, strengthened our relationship as mother and daughter as well as our relationship with God. I never anticipated being divorced, but my daughter and I have learned a whole new appreciation for life, in love, and in God through the whole experience.
Through God all things are possible!
compassion1 on June 2, 2010 at 6:58 am
Jenni, so true, so true. With GOD all things are possible. Keep holding on to HIS unchanging hand.
JESUS will work it out everytime. GOD’s blessings and favor be multiplied unto you and your daughter.
jenni on June 2, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Compassion1~
Thank you so much for your kind words.
I read your story and it is not so different from my own. It is a terrible thing to experience. The physical pain that came with the knowledge that my husband had cheated on me along with the fact that he was leaving me for her was devastating to me. I had a very difficult time afterwards but I’ve come through it a much stronger person. My dad always told me that which does not kill you only makes you stronger. I do believe that. I also believe that throughout my life God has made it abundantly clear that it is His plan, not mine and he will always provide, one way or another. My faith has not always been so strong, I’ve questioned a lot, but it seems to me that when I give my problems to God and let go of them myself they are taken care of.
Delight yourself in the lord and he will give you the desires of your heart 🙂
bmi1965 on June 2, 2010 at 1:43 am
“How have you personally experienced God allowing tragedy to bring about good?”….We are still in the process of one to see just what and/or how much good God will bring about through it. In November 2007 our home was destroyed in a wild fire. In March 2008 I was laid off from my job of 6 years. God has provided for our needs along the way, at times miraculously. The “Good” I see so far is seeing how He is helping us to learn to depend totally on Him and see Him provide. At times it is easier to see the good more than others. There are many others hurtles before us that are extremely difficult and yet to be revealed what the outcome will be. Yet I do see a strength being developed in us to trust in Him and not run ahead. Learning to wait on him….right now that is the good I see.
compassion1 on June 2, 2010 at 6:39 am
My second marriage turned out to be a tragedy for the two of us especially me because I tried for years to hold it together but then it came to the point where I wanted out. However, before GOD released me I had to be absolutely sure that I had done everyting in my power as a wife on my part. Boy that was a hard blow. Even when I knew about his cheating, had seen with my own eyes and confronted them both (hallelujah, but GOD). That within itself opened up the door for satan to enter and oppress me. A Believer nonetheless, I chose to follow the flesh instead of the Holy Spirits leading. I knew that someting was up one night and as I passed by his place of business as clear as day I heard,”He’s in there”, I drove past the place turned car around, pulled up and what there he was and her car was hidden by his van. No other workers so I walked in went back out, asked him a question, did not believe him, went back in, (by now I feel the rage coming on), locked him out, walked back in the room where I surprised her the first time since it was he she was expecting to come back through the door. I looked at her, but I did not jump her, my flesh was saying stomp her into the floor. Her excuses were as lame as his, but my point is that I took my anger out on items, as I was venting and yelling at her, throwing some items he thought I was tagging her. No my beef was not with her but him. Remember I had locked him out, after I said what I had to say to her I turned and open the door. I was IN control of the setting this time. I stopped him at the door and she had hemmed herself up in a corner. I gave him his chance to speak, cut him off and told her to speak, cut her off and before I knew it I had dashed up in his face and right when I was about to tag him the Holy Spirit settled right in between me and him and I tell you the rage lifted, I was in great pain but GOD at that very moment gave me such an inward peace. HE seen the end of the confrontation before the beginning. It could have been fatal for us all, who really know what could have happened on that night. I did not go home, I wanted to go to my pastor’s house but it was late so I ended up at a sister in Christ home. She said that when she swa me fear gripped her and she began to pray because as I came up her sidewalk the vision she saw was me dark and holding a knife in my hand. And she came out and we got into her car and talked and rode around until I was able to go home.
When I got home, my son was asleep and he was asleep in the spare room. I walked in the room stood over him, could have got him in his sleep, had many opportunities but I was not going to allow the devil to destroy my life, my son’s or his daddy’s. I was not going to jail or prison because someone could not keep his pants up, no that was not the destiny nor purpose that GOD has for my life. I learned that even in the most heated circumstance that we still have a will, we can overcome the flesh, resist the devil and come out Victoriously whaen we let GOD deal with the problem and not override the HOLY SPIRIT. These things happened in 2005, I got my deliverance from the brokeness, anger and resentmen and bitterness. GOD did somethings back then ifor me, in me, and through me. HE opened up some doors and closed some others. If I had a choice to do it over again I would. Why? Because all the hell and hurt I went through then got me to where I am now. Peace of mind is Everythig. Walking into your home without thickness is a blessing and then more importantly, for my son to come up in a home of love without tention and lack of communication is far more healthier. In relationships some people are placed in your life for a season and others for a life time. I just thank GOD for placing me in a ministry where HIS Spirit dwells and Apostle hears directly from HIM. He and his wife has been instrumental in my
compassion1 on June 2, 2010 at 6:46 am
Don’t know what happenned, but the ending to my last statement is: He and his wife has been instrumental in my spiritual growth. They have been there for me and my son and I thank GOD for them and my church family. Above all I thank GOD for JESUS. HE WORKED IT OUT IN MY FAVOR. And I forgave them both, don’t have a problem with either one. WHAT GOD HAS FOR ME IS FOR ME. IN THE END I WIN!
tom felten on June 2, 2010 at 7:40 am
compassion1, it’s so evident that you have a God-given gift of compassion! Thanks so much for your kind and helpful comments to others who have posted to this page. I’m grateful that you shared your story. It saddens me that you had to deal with so much sin and pain, but the fact that you continue to praise God in the storm reflects your strong faith in Him. It sounds like He has brought some special people into your life, providing you with spiritual encouragement. Praise Him! May you and your son continue to experience a home marked by God’s love and peace. Praying for you.
lyndygayle on June 2, 2010 at 9:18 am
Wow Compassion1 what an amazing story. May I have your permission to share it in therapy? I believe it could be very helpful to people struggling with the same things. You are allowing God to use you to help others when you share your struggle and how God helped you in the middle of such raw hurt and pain. I praise God that you allowed the Holy Spirit to speak to you!
iamhealed3 on June 3, 2010 at 3:00 am
I am waiting to see with very watchful & praying eyes what God is going to do about a ugly situation in my family- the past. I want to know & see what good can come from it. I am waiting to see how God will work all of this out for the good……… I just wish, of course, that I knew exactly what He was up to in the process of things. LOL. I have no clue howGod is going to handle this, but I know He is in complete control.
Please keep the prayer’s up for my mother….Tanna
myallforhim on June 4, 2010 at 7:26 am
As with iamhealded3….I am waiting. My story is still unfolding. It is the common story of a woman, who loved her husband, was blessed enough to be married a long time, then lost him. He is now with the Lord. I would say one of the most profound things to come out of this is finding the love of God in a new way. Finding His love through the support of many people, be it friends, co-workers, strangers, and family. But more recently…seeing His great love through new eyes, as people tend to back away as time goes on…because life goes on..that I find He is always there. I am finding out what I am made of in HIM, how deep my roots are in Him, who I truly am in HIM. Though I still grieve and am crying every day more recently, He is still my all in all, I can go to Him each moment, each hour, day by day and He neve tires of me. I am changed and He is changing me..stronger, the sass in me comes out..in a good way..joy comes still, heartache comes, death still comes, but life does, too. I see I must be careful for through my eyes, life is short…especially when it comes to people in our lives..we must count them as precious, our days precious with them. I must be careful not too be too quick to tell others..Hey, if you like her…go get her!! Tell her. I suppose everyone is at different stages of their lives. But for me I see..you may not have tomorrow. Wherever you are at: this is all I know. God loves you….and that we must commit to love others. You will never go wrong to love hard; to love as Christ loves us.
Jesica on June 5, 2010 at 10:17 am
My husband and I had tried to get pregnant for 3 years, and finally got pregnant. He deployed 4 months into my pregnancy. We ended up loosing our son when I was 35 weeks pregnant. We were both soo soo soo angry at God for letting us go through all of our unsuccessful attempts just to let us get pregnant and then take our son. We fought so much after loosing our son. When he got home from Iraq we started seeing a therapist who is very christian based in her treatments and finally we are getting along better than before we even got pregnant. We are finally going to church again and are feeling a great peace in our hearts finally. We know our son is where he is needed and loved and waiting to meet us when our time is right.
maryanneb47 on June 5, 2010 at 11:06 am
In 2002 my life got turned upside down with my husband of 33 years died to his disabilities he had for 12 years. My daughter stayed with me and a couple of years later my youngest son moved back with us. I felt that this was where God wanted me to be to turn my family to believer’s of Christ which changed my life. Prior to my husband’s death I commited a lot of atrocities in my life and felt alone and hated by my family. With God in my heart and with my children and grandchildren in my life I can show them the way to eternal life.
Unsure on June 5, 2010 at 6:43 pm
This may seem simple to some but I believe that the problems we face are perhaps lessons that God wants us to learn and skills he would want us to have. When faced with pain I often ask what would Christ do and can I do the same or similar. Trying to remember this in the heat of the moment when we are so caught up in trying to solve or react to an issue is hard. I have failed Him many times in this respect but the thing is to keep trying.
tom felten on June 2, 2010 at 7:22 am
Ted, thanks so much for sharing your story. It’s evident that God graciously provided for you in the past . . . and He will again today. Please know that we are praying for you and your wife. My hope is that you will both be able to get some godly counsel, providing you with some clear steps to a restored marriage. Most of all, I pray that God will heal your relationship and give you joy in serving Him together. Philippians 4:19