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    Bringing Us Through the Storm
    Bringing Us Through the Storm
    Bringing Us Through the Storm
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    Bringing Us Through the Storm

    By Martha L. Thurston

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    We all have faced trials and storms within our lives. Have you ever wondered why God would allow us to endure certain trials and tribulations in our life? This book takes a deep look into the purpose of those storms in our lives along with how we can best cope and endure. Through first hand testimonies of trials and victories, the reader is able to understand the connection between growth and God's grace in our lives. This book is meant to be both uplifting and inspirational.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartha L. Thurston
    Release dateAug 1, 2013
    ISBN9781301751228
    Bringing Us Through the Storm
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    Martha L. Thurston

    Martha L. Thurston is a graduate of Southern Wesleyan University where she obtained a B.A. in Secondary English Education. She has always been an avid reader and enjoys teaching, as well as writing. She grew up in a small southern town in the Upstate of South Carolina within view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It has always been her dream to become and writer and she is happy that she has been able to achieve that dream, by doing so, she has encouraged not only her two sons to chase after their dreams, but her students, as well.

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      Bringing Us Through the Storm - Martha L. Thurston

      Introduction

      How we wish that bringing us through our storms would be easy! But, in fact, it is merely the opposite. At times you may find yourself moving farther back instead of forging straight through. But we need to know that we have so much more to accomplish before we will ever see the other side of our storms.

      Our trials and tribulations, if you will, are simply God’s plans to grow us up in our faith. Unfortunately, even as God is strengthening us, Satan is always there to test that strength and faith, much like he did with Job. He wants us to become discouraged—to doubt what God can do in our lives.

      The sad part is that we don’t even need Satan there to place that doubt. How often is it that we turn our backs on God when things are going well, only to run back into His safe refuge when disaster strikes?

      It is strange how, when faced with adversity, our faith crumbles. We give up instead of holding on. We start to condemn ourselves, and by doing so, we allow fear, doubt, and unbelief to settle into our way of thinking.

      There are times when we, too, are cast out to sea in a storm of turmoil and strife, and just like the disciples, we forget that He is with us. Peter put faith in the Lord when he stepped out on the stormy waters, but because the world had placed doubt in his head, he grew scared. He could not accept the fact that even though he had seen Jesus cross the lake on the water, that he could do the same.

      Just as Jesus chastised his disciples for having such little faith, so he chastises us. We are to have confidence and faith in the Lord to deliver us from our adversities. Even Paul took his infirmities in stride knowing that through them his Lord was made stronger.

      But sometimes we have difficulty acknowledging that our Lord can accomplish anything. Just like Peter on the water, we find that our heart is in the right place, but our head has a hard time processing what it is given. Peter knew that Jesus had called him out of the boat, but he was filled with doubt once he saw the waves. We, too, are filled with such doubts. Though we have a book filled with God’s promises for our life, we cannot fully comprehend that it pertains to us as well. We try to rationalize those promises. We agree that God did those things, but we think, for some reason, that God cannot do now what He did then.

      We have to learn to change our thought processes from the negative to the positive to rationalize much differently. We cannot allow ourselves the recourse of guilt and self-pity that comes from a lack of faith.

      God is the same today as He was yesterday. So what has changed? If He brought you through a tight spot three years ago, why do you doubt what He can do today?

      So often we find ourselves in a position of doubt and negativity. We fail to realize that those thought patterns are what cause us to fail at the start. How can we ever hope to break through the storm if we continue to doubt, not only ourselves, but God as well?

      But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. James 1:6

      We cannot doubt and

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