Over many years of physical suffering, Kristen Weatherell has come to this conclusion.

Suffering and pain isn't actually our biggest problem.

Sinfulness is my greatest problem.

That's what God is saying to us here that your suffering is light momentary in that you have a greater problem that I've come to take care of through

the sacrifice of my son. You are a sinner, and I've come to heal you from this great disease.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walcommon, author of Choosing Gratitude

for November 22, 2017.

Today, two young women will give us some powerful perspective on suffering.

Here's Sarah Walton.

Oh Lord, for years I have prayed for answers,

healing and understanding in this suffering that you have allowed.

Yet they've seemed not to come.

Many have prayed to you on our behalf as we have longed

for the restoration of what's been lost.

By your grace, we have persevered through trial after trial,

trusting that you would uphold us and bring forth good from all of our pain.

But many answers we've hoped for haven't come in the ways we desire.

The world's solutions to our pain have left us discouraged,

confused, and fighting hopelessness, while the

trials, burdens, questions, and uncertainties remain the same. Lord, I have longed for, cried,

and pleaded for you to bring us out from under the pain and heaviness of these trials into a place

of abundance. I have asked you to lift these crushing burdens and carry us through the

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