K. Howard Joslin

“Can I really take God at his word?”

“What if God doesn’t keep his promises?”

“We don’t know why God chose to deliver Peter from death and James through death. The text doesn’t say.”

“Quite frankly we are both tired of the race we have been asked to run.”

“Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation.”

“I needed to decide if I would still worship God if he allowed Matt to lose his eye.”

“I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.”

“Ann: What if there is no God? What if the Bible isn’t true?”

“We are all tired of the stress.”

“Keith: Sometimes God grants us sustenance. But God also grants us deliverance. It’s only a matter of time.”

“We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.”

“Their prayers impacted the outcome of the fight.”

“I shared what we were learning, so that others might grow in their faith through the testing of ours.”

“I kept hoping because she couldn’t afford to lose hope. I kept my faith so she wouldn’t lose hers.”

“God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.”

“God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.”

“DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.”

“Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.”

“Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann’s constant concern was, What if I have cancer?”

“Don’t ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.”

“I’d encourage Ann to cling to God’s character in spite of what her circumstances screamed.”

“Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.”

“Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?”

“Ann: If we know God, we do not need to know why He allows us to experience what we do.”

“Ann: I feel like I should read verses and be comforted. But it doesn’t happen.”

“Ann: How my heart has ached. How empty I have felt. How I’ve ached to hold my two babies.”

“Joseph’s trials were unjust, inexplicable and heartrending. Yet Joseph knew God, and he knew that God had a plan.”

“That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness.”

“Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.”