When God Allows Suffering (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Joni explores the question of why God doesn’t heal every disease and every pain we suffer. She shares her struggles with deep depression after being paralyzed at age 17, and her ardent pursuit of healing from the Lord. After much disappointment, Joni’s perspective changed for the better when she realized that God was more concerned about healing her soul than healing her body. She also reveals the problems that her disability has caused in her marriage to her husband Ken, and how the Lord helped them through those difficult years. As a bonus on day one, we share a brief conversation between Jim Daly and Ken Tada about his deep love for Joni, and the Lord, and how having an attitude of service has helped him cope as the husband of a quadriplegic. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | I always thought physical healing had been the big deal, but as far as God was |
| 0:06.3 | concerned, my soul was the bigger deal. |
| 0:10.3 | Hmm, isn't that quite a perspective? |
| 0:13.8 | That's Johnny Eric Centata, and today she'll continue a very helpful message on how to deal |
| 0:19.2 | with suffering. |
| 0:20.7 | This is focused on the family with Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller. |
| 0:24.0 | John I am so looking forward to hearing from Johnny today because I know that sooner or later |
| 0:29.0 | I'm going to go through a time of suffering either physical or emotional and I'm going to need |
| 0:34.5 | Johnny's insight on how to deal with it. She is such an example for all of us and |
| 0:39.3 | you're going to need it to at some point because suffering comes to each one of us. |
| 0:44.8 | It's just part of life and man how to deal with that biblically is the key. |
| 0:50.4 | If you miss the first half of Johnny's presentation yesterday, |
| 0:54.0 | please get in touch with us. |
| 0:55.0 | We're offering the complete message as part of a free |
| 0:58.0 | audio collection called Enduring the Challenges of Life |
| 1:02.0 | featuring wisdom from Dr. Tim Keller, Dr Larry |
| 1:05.3 | Crabb, and Duane Miller a pastor whose miraculous healing was caught on tape. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, it's really a remarkable collection and we've got the details for you in the show |
| 1:15.2 | notes. |
| 1:16.5 | If you need help finding that, give us a call. |
| 1:18.6 | Our number is 800A family. |
| 1:21.6 | All right, here's Johnny Eric Santata, speaking at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention |
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