You see in all the difficulty, God's purpose,

and you thank Him, and you thank Him

for the available power you know is there,

and you thank Him for the promises

which He never will violate instead of questioning God.

He says, in everything, when you pray

and supplicate and request to God

in the process of doing that, do it with thanksgiving.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

In recent years, maybe you've watched a fellow Christian

lose a job, maybe lose his or her house,

or endure the kind of deep sorrow

that comes only when a precious loved one dies.

Yet through all the heartbreak,

this person never stopped obeying Christ,

never doubted the goodness of God.

The question is, how do you make that sort of

unwavering faith your faith?

When your job is uncertain,

when you don't know how you're going to pay your bills,

when your spouse or your child,

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