Where is God when you're suffering with Amanda Jenkins
Susie Larson Live
Faith Radio
4.8 • 836 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We see it over and over again in the Bible: God brings good things out of bad things for the sake of His people and for His glory. But truth be told, when we personally experience suffering, we have a difficult time actually believing it. Amanda Jenkins shares from her Bible study, "God's Goodness for the Chosen: An Interactive Bible Study Season 4."
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Susie Larson Live. |
| 0:24.8 | Always honored to get to spend this time with you. |
| 0:27.8 | In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that inspire you in |
| 0:32.7 | your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's word, and that heightens your |
| 0:37.4 | awareness of his very real |
| 0:39.4 | presence in your life. Are you experiencing grief, maybe some questions about the things you're |
| 0:45.1 | struggling with, maybe heartbreak? Maybe are you suffering in this particular season? |
| 0:51.1 | If so, are you feeling alone? I want to remind you that God's with you. He's near to the |
| 0:57.2 | brokenhearted. Scripture says he saves those who are crushed in spirit. But we can experience |
| 1:03.0 | grief that's eclipsed by praise. Questions that are eclipsed by this resolve and heartbreak |
| 1:10.6 | eclipsed by love. Amanda Jenkins is joining |
| 1:14.1 | me today to talk about her book, God's goodness for the chosen. We're going to talk about how God |
| 1:20.1 | uses suffering to bring about good in the lives of his dear children because he loves us so much. |
| 1:30.5 | Suffering is hard and it's a heavy conversation. |
| 1:35.3 | So we're going to get to that conversation with Amanda Jenkins after the break. But first, |
| 1:40.5 | I want you to listen to part of a conversation that I had with Dr. Kurt Thompson about suffering. |
| 1:46.1 | He's going to remind us where God is when we suffer and the impact of relationships on our suffering. We're picking up this conversation with his response to a listener talking about |
| 1:52.0 | that her husband had left her. Let's listen to that part of our conversation. What we would say |
| 1:58.0 | to that is a large part of what we address in this book is that what God says to us in our suffering in so many respects first and foremost is that he he joins us in our suffering and he both in his physical presence, his voiced presence is saying, I'm here and this is really awful. I'm here and this is hard and |
| 2:21.1 | I'm not leading the room. There are a lot of things that happened to us, Susie, for which we don't |
| 2:27.4 | have any agency to change or stop. I couldn't stop the cancer that took any or all three of my brothers. I couldn't stop the cancer that took any or all three of my brothers. |
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