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Donna R Wittlif
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Our Stronghold in Prayer: A Women's Class Book and Prayer Journal
Religion & Spirituality
Author Insight
False Beliefs about Troubles
Perhaps in the past, you had serious problems. A loved one died. A friend hugged you and said, "God needed another angel in heaven." You were not comforted. Maybe you or someone you love was very ill. Or you lost your job. Your friends gathered around you and tried to comfort you. They said, "Everything happens for a reason." What reason could God have for sending you such troubles? In Chapter 8, you will learn nine things that people say or believe when you are sad and hurting that are not true. See why they should not say them and you should not believe them. See how God's Word can strengthen your faith and help you through your problems.
Book Excerpt
Our Stronghold in Prayer: A Women's Class Book and Prayer Journal
Job’s friends believed that Job had sinned, and that was the reason for his horrific losses and suffering. By the time Jesus walked in Galilee and performed miracles, the people should have known that “the soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son” (Ezekiel 18:20). Yet before Jesus healed the man who was born blind, His disciples asked Him, “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
Jesus must have known the hearts of the people when they asked Him about the Galileans whom Pilate killed when they were sacrificing (Luke 13:1-4). Evidently, those people believed that the Galileans were punished for their sins, but Jesus firmly refuted that idea. People hear and believe things about God that are not true. These sayings and beliefs about God and how He acts have no foundation in scripture, but people say them because of their ignorance of God and how He works in our lives. Here are some of those sayings:
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