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Article on Prayer by my fiancé Andrew Hess: http://www.
Matt Chandler's Interview on Marriage and Working Through Tough Times by Andrew Hess: http://www.
Paul Tripp's Interview on How Awe Changes Everything by Andrew Hess: http://www.
Quotes on Waiting and Truth:
"You are waiting because there is a plan. You are waiting because your life is under the control of One who is wise and good. You can rest, not because you know what is happening, but because you know the One who is in control of what is happening right now." - Paul Tripp
"It is through the most difficult trials that God often brings the sweetest discoveries of Himself." ~ Streams in the Desert
"God's purposes are good and He is at work doing a thousand things that no one can see but Him. All the perplexing turns in my life lead somewhere good. God is plotting for my joy in all of the seeming setbacks of my life." - John Piper
"When we don't receive what we pray for or desire, it doesn't mean that God isn't acting on our behalf. Rather, he's weaving his story. Paul tells us to "continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving" (Colossians 4:2). Thanksgiving helps us to be grace-centered, seeing all of life as a gift. It looks at how God's blessings impact our lives. Watchfulness alerts us to the unfolding drama in the present. It looks for God's presence working as it unfolds into future grace." - A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World by Paul E. Miller
"In one way or another, every problem we have in this world is the fruit of deception - the result of believing something that simply isn't true." - Lies Women Believe by Nancy Leigh Demoss
"...there is nothing more crucial than what we believe about God. As Hannah Whitall Smith points out in her spiritual autobiography, The Unselfishness of God, "Everything in your spiritual life depends on the sort of God you worship. Because the character of the worshiper will always be molded by the character of what he worships: If it is a cruel and revengeful God, the worshiper will be the same, but if it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be transformed slowly, wonderfully, into this likeness."
"When prayer teams up with gratitude, when we open our eyes wide enough to see God's mercies even in the midst of our pain, and when we exercise faith and give him thanks even when we can't see those mercies, he meets us with his indescribable peace. It's a promise...Are you facing one or more chaotic, unsettled situations? Is your soul weary? There is peace, my friend, God's peace, waiting for you just beyond the doors of deliberate gratitude." - Choose Gratitude by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
"We must not suffer Satan to shake our confidence in the God of truth by pointing to our unanswered prayers. Unanswered petitions are not unheard. God keeps a file for our prayers - they are treasured in the King's archives. This is a registry in the court of heaven wherein every prayer is recorded. Tried believer, thy Lord hath a tear-bottle in which the costly drops of sacred grief are put away, and a book in which thy holy groan ins are numbered. By and by, thy suit shall prevail. Canst thous not be content to wait a little? Will not thy Lord's time be better than thy time? By and by he will appear, to thy soul's joy, and make thee put away the sackcloth and ashes of long waiting, and put on the scarlet and fine linen of full fruition." - Spurgeon
Books:
One of my all time favorites!! - Lies Women Believe and the Truth That Sets Them Free by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Always True: God's Promises When Life is Hard by James Macdonald
