The author and speaker talks about the pain that has shaped her life and the re-shaping God continues to do for her. Original air date November 6, 2018.
I have gone through living hell the last 3 years. My relationships, ministry and family. Alot of us do not have the platform to share our stories but I have stayed faithful and trusted God. What I have learned from Lysa story thats its,ok to be vulnerable.
Our greatest fears will come upon us. Like Job. We need to rebuke and cast out our fears and trust God. But when it does come upon us, our God is GOoD and works all things together for our GOoD. He will turn all the evil out for our GOoD. #MyStory2
My life has been so hard the last few years. I am dust. I am terrified and so incredibly hopeless. But even though I sometimes say I am giving up on God because He has giving up on me, I never really do give up. I know he’s here. I know he’s going to eventually turn my heartache into something valuable. I do hope it’s sooner rather than later because I am weak and I am defeated but i am also so amazingly blessed. To see those mothers crying over the loss of their children smacked me right in my face. Maybe my suffering is a sacrifice I make so one of these moms don’t lose a child? I’ll take this suffering and storm everyday if it means a child will not be the one suffering. I donated and prayed. I wish I could go on a mission trip to these places. It’s on my bucket list. 💜
Cheated by a best friend...it doesn’t happen over night...this is exactly why I purpose NOT to connect with a married man...EVER. Same thing happened to my sisters marriage with her best friend. She was “counseling” my sisters husband. (Pastor)The womans son came home early from school and caught his pastor coming out of the shower with his mother. Can you imagine the lasting impression on her son. Evil evil evil
Yup! In a different interview she had, she went through over 72 hours of counseling with him over two years, and through those 2 years he was still in the affair behind her back. Its so incredibly sad
She separated with her husband after she found out for 3 years, if you haven't read her book "it's not suppose to be this way", it's amazing. I am going through the same thing she did and her book is so good
Why are you talking about this? Why is not your husband by your side speaking with you? I held my 5 year old grandson's hand while it stopped beating due to brain cancer. He endured one year of treatment only to die. You, strong and faithful, makes me want to give up because took your husband back.
I held my daughter as she went to heaven. She went through 3 open heart surgeries and many other procedures. I am so sorry for your loss. I remember being at her grave asking God if He knew how much pain I felt and in a quiet voice he whispered to me, "Yes, I watched my Son die.". In addition, we had to let go of a little girl we were going to adopt back to her birthmom due to a fraudulent adoption agency, I had to identify my grandma after a horrific accident with my mom - both grandmas and aunt, I've come close to dying over 300x (no exaggeration - born with rare congenital complications), etc... I wrote a book titled The Raindrops on the Windshield Sound Like Popcorn. I could not have made it without God's grace. Please know I am praying for you! I understand that pain that cuts like a knife. 2 Corinthians 4 & 5. One more moment closer to seeing our loved ones.
Have you ever done anything wrong and continued to do it even though you knew it was wrong? Did what you did ever hurt anyone else? Did they forgive you? The answer is YES to all of those questions. We ALL have. And without God's forgiveness, we would ALL be lost in hopelessness and sin. But the GOOD news is, we don't have to be that way. You see, He gives us a choice. Every day, we can either choose to love Him unconditionally just as He loves us or to put conditions on that love and try to control God. Tell me, which do you think will work better for your life? God's ways are not our ways and there is a reason for everything He does. Everything that happens to us has the power to strengthen us or weaken us. It is our choice what we allow it to do. God is the source of the strength. Satan is the one that wants you weak in your faith. Who do you want to stand with? Who do you want to spend eternity with? It's YOUR choice. What you do with your pain is also your choice. You can either turn it over to God and let Him heal your broken pieces or you can run from Him and never find the peace you need. I pray for you to look to God for healing for your broken heart, instead of running away from Him. Think of it this way, if it had been your child that sinned this way, would you have forgiven them or held it against them? Would you have wanted them forgiven and restored or would you want them to remain broken? Maybe that will help you to be able to see just why Lysa made the choice she did. God bless you.
@@alid6060 really really helpful thank you I am really struggling at the moment due to 25 years of chronic illness which affects my every moment and severely limits my ability to function. It's so hard to keep hoping when the situation doesn't change at all. I'm grateful that I know that it is totally ok for me to be honest with God especially since he knows exactly what I'm thinking and feeling anyway. Every so often I have a bit of a hissy fit and get really cross with God but then I snuggle back into him. These times of overwhelming frustration are explosive and increasingly frequent at the moment really hard to manage
@@le2584, do you use your strength to try to get it done or do you use God's? We can ask God why and we can be mad at Him, but what good does that do us? It just separates us from Him. Leaning into Him when we struggle is what brings us closer. The closer we are, the less we rely on ourselves to handle what we've been given. When we can tell God that we trust Him in any situation and let Him lead, then we realize how much He cares for us. He allows some struggle because it builds our character and He uses it to give us the opportunity to draw near to Him. Do you take advantage of your stuggles to draw near or do you push Him away and try to deal with it yourself? The more you draw near, the less the struggles will overwhelm you. Because you deal with it through His strength and not your own. God bless.
