Happy Friday! Here’s a new collection of quotes from an upcoming book from The Good Book Company, 5 Things To Pray for a Suffering Friend authored by Helen Thorne. If you like what you read, get your copy by following this link.
“Look up! That is the key to perseverance. Not looking in—to our pain. Not looking down—in despair. But up—up to the King, the Lord, the Saviour, the one who has gone before us and who will use hard things to make our faith complete.“
“How precious it is to be a child of God. And that is what we are! Loved beyond measure, lavished with grace, blessed with every heavenly blessing. He could not love his children more.”
“The weight of sin is heavy, but those who are in Christ know the joy of having that weight removed. We do not face punishment but receive mercy. Even on the hardest of days, that wonderful liberation is worthy of our praise.”
“Waiting is hard. Sometimes waiting feels impossible. However, waiting is part of God’s good design. Pray that both they and you will develop patience as you wait for him to bring change. There is good ahead; it is worth waiting for.”
“It is not primarily the absence of bad things that is going to make the new heavens and new earth so wonderful—it is the presence of Christ. In eternity, he will be at the centre and being with him will be our ultimate joy.”
“Sometimes we might wish God would appear to us in some kind of physical way—we think that might give us more strength to persevere. But we can love him even while we cannot see him face to face. We have the privilege of living in a time after Jesus has walked on earth in physical form, where we can read about the wonderful nature of his words and deeds in the Gospels.”
“God is not a distant God in a casual relationship with us. He is a covenant God—one who has promised to be our heavenly Father.”
“In the pain of life there are hidden treasures. God does not call us to be masochists who enjoy suffering, but he does call us to be grace-hunters—people who see glimpses of his glory in the mess of life and let our hearts sing.”
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Delighting Grace 
Amen.
“The weight of sin is heavy, but those who are in Christ know the joy of having that weight removed. We do not face punishment but receive mercy. Even on the hardest of days, that wonderful liberation is worthy of our praise.”