13 results for tag: Yet I Will Praise You

Yet I Will Praise You: Hannah

History bears witness to the many men and women who have gone before us in choosing to praise God in spite of the great suffering they endured. We can learn much from their testimonies of faithfulness and perseverance in the midst of grief and pain. In this series, we share about the trials others have endured, and of their commitment to praise God from the valley. As mothers, we have a vision for our children's future. It involves happiness and prosperity, all in close proximity to ourselves. We want to control their destiny. We want a guarantee that no harm will come to them. But that isn’t ever the case. We don’t know what ...

Yet I Will Praise You: Corrie Ten Boom

History bears witness to the many men and women who have gone before us in choosing to praise God in spite of the great suffering they endured. We can learn much from their testimonies of faithfulness and perseverance in the midst of grief and pain. In this series, we share about the trials others have endured, and of their commitment to praise God from the valley. In 1944, during WWII, Corrie Ten Boom and her sister, Betsie, endured ten months of unimaginable suffering while imprisoned by the Nazis for their resistance work in aiding and hiding Jews. Betsie would never leave prison alive. She died in the infamous German concent...

Yet I Will Praise You: The Life of Daniel

History bears witness to the many men and women who have gone before us in choosing to praise God in spite of the great suffering they endured. We can learn much from their testimonies of faithfulness and perseverance in the midst of grief and pain. In this series, we share about the trials others have endured, and of their commitment to praise God from the valley. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had besieged Jerusalem and taken captive Israel’s most skilled, accomplished, and brilliant inhabitants—youth of the royal and noble families—to be taught to serve within his courts. Among those deported to Babylon was a young man ...

Yet I Will Praise You: The Life of Moses

History bears witness to the many men and women who have gone before us in choosing to praise God in spite of the great suffering they endured. We can learn much from their testimonies of faithfulness and perseverance in the midst of grief and pain. In this series, we share about the trials others have endured, and of their commitment to praise God from the valley. Moses’ life was in danger from the moment he was born. The people of Israel had been living as slaves in Egypt for hundreds of years, and Pharaoh had ordered that every newborn Hebrew boy be put to death. However, instead of obeying Pharaoh’s edict, Moses’ mother ...

Yet I Will Praise You: A Psalm of Asaph

History bears witness to the many men and women who have gone before us in choosing to praise God in spite of the great suffering they endured. We can learn much from their testimonies of faithfulness and perseverance in the midst of grief and pain. In this series, we share about the trials others have endured, and of their commitment to praise God from the valley. “I cry aloud to God,aloud to God, and He will hear me.In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying;my soul refuses to be comforted.When I remember God, I moan;when I meditate, my spirit faints.You hold my eyelids open;I ...

Yet I Will Praise You: The Life of Abraham

History bears witness to the many men and women who have gone before us in choosing to praise God in spite of the great suffering they endured. We can learn much from their testimonies of faithfulness and perseverance in the midst of grief and pain. In this series, we share about the trials others have endured, and of their commitment to praise God from the valley. “By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac ...

Yet I Will Praise You: The Life of Peter

History bears witness to the many men and women who have gone before us in choosing to praise God in spite of the great suffering they endured. We can learn much from their testimonies of faithfulness and perseverance in the midst of grief and pain. In this series, we share about the trials others have endured, and of their commitment to praise God from the valley. One of the most difficult aspects of losing a child for me has been watching so many of those dear to me experience the same sorrow. Now that I am familiar with the devastating ache of having to say goodbye to two of my children on this side of eternity, those wounds seem ...

Yet I Will Praise You: The Life of Job

Why do bad things happen to good people? This is a question I think everyone has struggled with at some point. Suffering just doesn't make sense. You try so hard to live a good life, and you are rewarded with heartache. We deserve more. We deserve better. Don't we? Let's take a look at a man who could relate to injustice. Job is described as "blameless and upright; [he] feared God and shunned evil" (Job 1:1).  He was "the greatest man among all the people of the East" (1:3).  Here we have a good guy, a great guy—the greatest guy. Job lived a prosperous life, but he was humble and put God first. Satan went before God, and God ...

Yet I Will Praise You: The Weeping Prophet

History bears witness to the many men and women who have gone before us in choosing to praise God in spite of the great suffering they endured. We can learn much from their testimonies of faithfulness and perseverance in the midst of grief and pain. In this series, we share about the trials others have endured, and of their commitment to praise God from the valley. The moment my husband and I found out we were expecting our fourth child, my mind instantly began to imagine what life as a family of six would look like. Baby names began to run circles in my mind, prayers for this precious life were whispered often throughout the day, and ...

Yet I Will Praise You: The Life of Paul

History bears witness to the many men and women who have gone before us in choosing to praise God in spite of the great suffering they endured. We can learn much from their testimonies of faithfulness and perseverance in the midst of grief and pain. In this series, we share about the trials others have endured, and of their commitment to praise God from the valley. If anyone understands what it is like to walk through suffering, it would be Paul. His life as a believer was anything but easy. In fact, shortly after he became a follower of Christ, the Lord revealed to Ananias (the disciple that was sent to restore Paul’s sight after ...