God can and does heal people. But If God chooses not to heal, then what to do? Is God finished with you, or your loved one? Can you understand all that is going on? Maybe, maybe not, but you can choose to develop a perspective to strengthen you and or the suffering one in the midst of the “furnace of affliction.” Some principles below to encourage you or a loved one…
1. REALIZING OUR BODY IS FOR THE LORD– { 1 Cor 6:13}
2. FOR OTHERS BENEFIT – OUR OPPORTUNITIES TO COMFORT OTHERS WHO ARE CRUSHED-{2 Cor 1:4}
3. MAGNIFY JESUS CHRIST WITH OUR BODY WHETHER BY LIFE OR BY DEATH.-{Phil 1:20}
4. SUFFERING ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD.{1 Peter 4:19}
5. FOR THE GLORY OF GOD -{1 Cor 10:31}
6. SUFFICIENT GRACE -{2 Cor 12:8-10}
7. COMMIT YOURSELF TO GOD AND CONTINUE TO DO GOOD– { 1 Peter 4:19}
PRACTICE COMPASSION; You do not wish to be a “Job friend,” who when he needed kindness from them they offered none {Job 6:14}. We need to choose to be compassionate, which is not merely to feel sorry which moves the emotions but compassion moves to action. Compassion adopts the other person’s circumstances as if it is your own, and seeks to meet the needs! It is to be intimately and compassionately involved! Be a Jesus Friend, who CHOOSES to help one of His who is in the furnace of affliction to know there is HOPE IN HIM… to “MAGNIFY CHRIST, whether by life or by death in my body.” Above are some verses to help to Focus on How this can be done and Why it CAN BE DONE amidst suffering and or illness… with an ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE…
APPLICATION;
PRINT OUT THE VERSES,references above… READ, RE READ, THINK ON THEM, MEMORIZE THEM, FOR THE DAY WILL COME WHEN YOU WILL NEED THEM TO COMFORT, STRENGTHEN OTHERS.
Hide His Word of Hope In Your Heart.Perspective In Pain