Heaven Rules: When Suffering and Sovereignty Collide 

I’m at my absolute lowest after 20 years of constant pain from several chronic conditions. My heart believes He is what He says He is, but the pain, the absolute bone-shattering fatigue is just too much. I don’t want to fail Him! I just want to be able to rest. I just want to be with Him.

I’m thanking God for this message today! To God be the glory! Lord please bless and encourage Joni today! Amen

Praising God through my tears for the way He has used Joni to show His faithfulness to me and to SO many others through the years. What a GIFT she is to this weary world! And what a beautiful, raw message about our suffering and the real spiritual warfare in which we are engaged. PRAYING for you, Joni, and giving God glory for your empathy for the suffering and the much-needed encouragement you have given to us to continue to test God's promises in our sorrows and pain ~ He is SO faithful. You are absolutely radiant with His love and a JOY to listen to ~ may the Lord bless you and keep you.

You always lift me up, Joni. I thank God for you. ❤ This is an incredible message.

So real, so practical, so deep. Thank you Joni for showing us how to WALK by faith! Love you!❤

Joni never ceases to inspire me to continue to strive for God's glory in the midst of my pain. If she can do it in Christ's strength, then so can I!

Joni, you are such an amazing human being.

A life filled with pain is saturated with GOD’S Promises , oh what a answer to piercing pains ! Glory to God 🎉 ! A life demonstrating victory in Christ Jesus !

Joni Eareckson Tada possesses a diverse range of skills that have contributed to her remarkable journey as an advocate, artist, writer, and disability ministry leader. She taught me a course in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2009. I will never forget the impact her teaching and the course had on my life.🙏🙏🙏

Amazing words of encouragement!❤️

Hallelujah!!! What a testimony. So many have been encouraged through Joni’s story! Thank you, Revive our hearts! Keep shining and sharing His truth courageously! 🙏👏❤️

Wow I needed to hear this today! My mobile home burned down a year and a half ago and set off financial crisis. I have a very real diagnosis of depression, anxiety and PTSD and take medication. I also have chronic pain and digestive problems from a complicated gallbladder removal surgery 6 years ago. I’m trying to build a new career in the Mental Health field here in MD but I have to start slow. I make $1750 a month disability and supporting myself and my 40 year old seriously mentally ill son. My only option was to live off the insurance money for rent. It’s now gone and I have nothing to pay my rent with. My life is one big panic attack daily. Yet I’m blessed and grateful and continue to do good when I can. Thank you for inspiring me to get more in the word and really believe! God Bless you dear Joni!

Amen! What a powerful testimony.

Most amazing message ever!!!’ Thank u Joni. You are an amazing witnesse and u just dont know how much ur messages has helped me for the last year. ❤️🌹🙋🏼‍♀️🙏🏻💐

Inspiring, edifying, a true blessing and example is our beloved Sister Joni.

I just want to give Joni a big hug

What a special person she is, I have such respect and admiration for her! She had her accident the year I was born, and I got her book when I was a kid, I just love her 😊💕💕🙏🙏🙏

Why do I cry every time I watch Joni. My heart breaks in a million pieces.

What a fantastic message! The Lord has spoken to my heart. Thank you so much, dear sister.

Thanks so much for your encouragement. God bless you❤

I love you so much! You are so encouraging!

Thanks Joni you will never know how much I appreciate your testimonies. It takes me to the presence of GOD. ❤ you!!!

Blessings and greetings from Belgium...what a testimony..thank jou so much Joni.

I am not suffering the way Joni has/is suffering, but I want to learn to live on what God says - just as she does!!

I admire you so much, Joni. You and your husband are such an inspiration to me!! You show the light of the Lord in your life ❣️

I cried out for help once again in my affliction and God provided your video. You will never know how I needed to hear your hard but comforting words about God's sovereignty and my attitude in suffering. I am so sorry you have suffered so much, but I hope it blesses you that your life blesses others who are desperate for God in their affliction. Thank you and may God continually bless you.

Blessings and greetings from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Joni's story is a real reminder about God's sovereignty in the midst of our suffering in a fallen world.

Thank you Joni ‼️❤ thank you for being vulnerable and sharing your suffering in His sovereignty. I needed to hear THIS TODAY. Papa GOD has answered my prayer, by leading me to remember to stand my ❤ on HIS PROMISES ‼️‼️🥰

YES YES YES AMEN!!! Someone understands, GOD UNDERSTANDS ❤❤❤❤❤

Wonderful, thankyou so much for this , will get memorising those promises!

Joni you and Billy Graham have done more winning souls for God thank you , your words are beautiful, so are you also your hair is so pretty.

Thank you. It shows me that my disability and my struggles and sins don't control my daily walk .i need Lord Jesus Christ every year,day,minute, and second of my life 🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️

Oh how I appreciate this message thank you. Pain slows me down which has allowed me to spend more time to listen to messages like this

Joni what a testimony! Praise God for all your experiences. Shouting may have awakened her with the low volume on her monitor. Thank you for the reminder of YahWeh’s promises. Thank you for keeping a relationship with your father Joni. Thank you for transforming the mind to think like Jesus. Love the carryon baggage example. Thank you!!

You are such an inspiration. Thank God for you!

Beautiful lady🎉🎉🎉 thanks for describing so well and how to endure well.

I keep listening to so many of your videos Joni to get hope in Jesus through my chronic pain. Thanks tons!!!

Oh Joni!! Every time I hear you you amazing me by your deep faith, love and Trust in our God. You are paving the way bravely living out a life built on God’s promises and showing the rest of us how it’s done. I said to my sister just yesterday- “ He says his burden is light and his yoke easy and that he is always with us but what does that actually look like? How is the burden light when the trouble or pain remains?” And then this video shows up today. THAT is how he lightens my burden- He heard my honest question and saw in my heart I didn’t understand and sends me this video. And bc of it my burden is lightened bc I have been encouraged and given new tools to fight back despair discouragement sorrow and self pity. Bible promises. Looking to those who have marched through the trenches before me in great trust. You are being so mightily used by our Lord. Thank you so much! I will be saving this video and replaying it whenever I need to be encouraged and reminded of how God lightens our burdens.

Hallelujah!

❤❤ so sweet to see and hear from you not just what you said but to remember my sweet husband who also loved you, you were his mentor, who also lived as a quadriplegic! Like I’m hearing him again.

I love you JONI JESUSLIVES!!

Everytime I get discouraged then the Lord reminds me that we have a Blessed Hope. Our hope of being caught up with Jesus before the Tribulation starts because of what is written. It wouldnt be a Blessed Hope if we had to go through the Great Tribulation. The devil would like us to forget all these promises. But then the Lord reminds us! HalleluYah!! Thank you Jesus!

Thanks Joni

Ah sweet Joni❤️ Thank You!!!

Hallelujah and AMEN ❤

Thank You Sister in Christ Jesus 🙏. I Needed that word so much. I shared it with my daughter also!

Wow!!!

To God, be the Glory. God bless you all

I AM overwhelmed by physical pain. I am human i am not God. I cannot handle this.

EXCELLENCE!!!

I have been struggling to put your suffering for so long in a place where I can grasp the fact that not one miracle happens to you. This video or talk for the first time put my heart at ease because I came to the point where I understand what Jesus said to his followers you only believe because of what you see! The miracles he did made them believe but in your statement I now realized I still did not believe or trust God completely I kept in my utter unbelief that I will only commit to Him if I see you healed! Dear God I have been hearing and reading Your Word but stayed blind and deaf for what You really trying to say through Joni for so long. Please forgive me for my sin of not believing that You are 100 % incontrol no matter what. God I pray that You break this wall for my family as well 🙏 We are in terrible shape with You, in this world we are oppressed but not crushed because of You. Give me the courage to stand whilst things are crumbling around us. In your hands I leave my life so that You can use it for the good of Your Glorious Name. I will cry for those around me and pray for them until they find Your peace far beyond the understanding of mankind. Praise God He reigns forever

Pray for me. Have suffered a lot these last 4 years. No words. In fact a lot through my life. Joni, if you read this… we met at John MacArthurs church in 1988. I asked you if you knew Vicki Burdwell whom I took care of in OKC. You said you did. I read your book in high school. I pray I can be changed in a good way from my siffering

Thankyou. Hebrews 5:11 before me as i listen to you. "We have much to sayabout this, but it is hard to make it clear to you, because you no longer tey to understand" To acquaint myself with Jesus Christ, the Teacher of righteousness, whi is the Bread of Life. He is my "solid food, 5:14, " with Jesus, i am trained to distinguish good frim evil. Holy Holy Holy, He has provided Himself for Life eternal, persevering and abiding in the overcoming One

You are my source of encouragement. I tell myself that if you can endure ALL you go through, then surely I can with God's help.❤

HELP!!! I’m calling out for help Lord!!! I’m screaming yet no one hears.

Whom shall I fear? Being alone on earth with chronic ulnar nerve pain. No one to help. No people who truly love me on earth. It’s horrible, lonely.

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They should make a bed that has a timer so once you fall asleep it moves ever so slowly left to right and right to left so there is some movement while one sleeps. I don't know was just a thought. Love you Joni. Amazing lady you are.

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I want to love the Lord yet it’s hard to love someone I have not met in real life. He isn’t here holding me.

I need God to force me to trust him. I can’t do it on my own. I’m unable to choose to trust Him. I want to so bad yet seem unable to.

Revive our Hearts, Would you please credit the name of the music at the beginning of this lovely and glorifying testimony by Joni? Thank you.

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What if my brain has issues from malaria and I have a very hard time memorizing any verses, even small ones? It makes me feel very insignificant and like I can't be a true follower of Christ.

☹️ you should never be left alone, at least no more than a shout. If I was a caregiver I'd have doors open. This was so hard to hear.

What if u hv no friends