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That irregardless of what you're going through, God sees you, he knows you, he cares about you, he's got a good plan for your life, and God is not the source of your problems.

I do what I do because I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you. The key to everything is

found in God's word. I'm Joyce Meyer and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

This afternoon I want to get into some of the reasons why we suffer, although we cannot always figure it out.

There are some things that we can learn.

But first I want to say that you're never going to trust anybody if you don't believe that they're trustworthy.

And so in order to trust God, we need to know more about God's character. Studying the character of God is a very good thing to do and

it's actually something that I really love to preach on. One of the main things about God is that God is good. You know, if you can't figure

anything else out, the devil's bad and God is good. Amen. We can do that and God

said I set before you life and death good and evil. K life that you and your descendants might live.

Now, God is of course sovereign and he can do anything he wants to anytime he wants to.

But when God gave man free choice,

he opened up the door for sin to come into the world through making wrong choices.

God did not want a bunch of robots that loved him and obeyed him because they had to.

He wanted us to make right choices.

And so we want to get into the question this afternoon that so many people have and especially people that

maybe are on the friends, they're kind of looking for a reason not to believe in God. They're looking for a reason not to serve God.

But also this can get into the hearts and minds of believers and that is, well if God is good and he can be trusted then why do we have so much

suffering in the world today why do bad things happen to good godly people?

Joyce does God cause suffering?

I get asked these questions.

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