5 results for tag: His Faithfulness Endures
God’s Faithfulness Endures Forever
“Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol Him, all peoples!
For great is His steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of
the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord!”
Psalm 117
I have been asked how I can proclaim God’s faithfulness after experiencing the loss of a child. I ask, “How can I not?”
I grew up singing the words from a hymn, “Great is Thy faithfulness... Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed Thy hands have provided. Great is Thy faithfulness Lord unto me.”
Having these words etched in my heart helped me when I hit my faith-barrier—the thing in life that challenges our faith in the Lord. We all eventu...
God is Faithful in the Yearning
Written in bold letters next to Psalm 42 in my Bible is the word yearning. What a powerful word of desperation and neediness! I wrote that word during the first year of trying for a baby, because I would often cling to that Psalm for comfort. I related to the Psalmist’s sorrow being so powerful that it clouded his memory of the Lord. He felt forgotten, and I did too each time another announcement of a friend’s pregnancy surfaced.
I memorized verse 11: “Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him…” writing next to the word hope in bold letters: sure expectation! In the ...
God is Faithful in the Waiting
“The Lord of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain;
A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow,
And refined, aged wine.
And on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples,
Even the veil which is stretched over all nations.
He will swallow up death for all time,
And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.
And it will be said in that day,
“Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
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God is Faithful in the “Yes”
I have grieved the loss of my daughter because I love her. And at times, this has tempted me to believe that my grief and love are coextensive. But actually, my love for my daughter goes far beyond my grief.
The Freedom to Grieve or Not Grieve
As the intensity and frequency of my grief experiences have lessened, love has continued to persist. In love, I am set on my daughter’s good—and because of heavenly glory, I have the unshakeable hope she already has all good. Remaining here, because I do not equate grief and love, I now have no conflict of love when experiencing new joys in this life.
God has been faithful to lead me forward. For none ...
God is Faithful in the “No”
Head hung low, I left our anatomy scan appointment stunned and heartbroken. Expecting to discover if our little one was a boy or a girl, we instead learned our baby was gone. Two weeks prior there was the sound of a flourishing heartbeat, but that day, silence.
I would be admitted to the hospital and induced in a little over forty-eight hours. While I knew with every ounce of my logical being that my baby was lifeless on that monitor, I began to pray for the miracle. I began to pray life over our little one. I petitioned the Father with every ounce of my being that this was some mistake—that the beat of my child’s heart would resume in my ...
