Quotes of Note about God’s Healing, Part 7
Note: The following Quotes of Note are excerpted with permission from Chapter 6 of God’s Healing for Life’s Losses.
“Spiritual emergencies can produce spiritual emergence.”
“Faith looks back to the past recalling God’s mighty works. Hope looks ahead remembering God’s coming reward.”
“In Christ, loss is never final. Christ’s resurrection is the first-fruit of every resurrection.”
“Biblical hope is so heavenly minded that it is of great practical earthly good.”
“When we wait on God, we cling to God’s rope of hope, even when we can’t see it.”
“Hope waits. Hope is the refusal to demand heaven now.”
“Waiting is trusting God’s future provision without working to provide for myself.”
“Waiting is refusing to take over while refusing to give up. Waiting refuses self-rescue.”
“In biblical waiting, we neither numb our longings nor illegitimately fulfill them.”
“Healing says, “God is good—He’s good all the time.”
“In healing, God rolls the stone away. We celebrate the resurrection. We trust in our God who raises the dead.”
“I choose to embrace Christ’s healing hope. I choose to embrace the biblical truth that ‘it’s possible to hope and supernatural to grow.’”
“In suffering, instead of turning back, look back with eyes of faith to recall how God has rescued you in the past.”
“In suffering, instead of trusting in yourself, trust in God and look ahead with eyes of hope to remember the future God beckons you toward.”
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