2013-11-08T06:00:03-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/pain/ http://faithgateway.com/god-still/ 2013-11-08T06:00:03-05:00 A wilderness is defined as an uncultivated, uninhabited, inhospitable region. At least that’s the definition I was given when I googled it. I would also describe a wilderness as dry, barren, lonely, and rocky. And it was in a spiritual wilderness that I found myself several years ago. Because it was a time in my life that was […] http://faithgateway.com/jesus-weeps-over-our-sorrows/ 2013-10-04T14:53:49-05:00 Jesus wept. — John 11:35 We now come to the shortest verse in all the Bible. Without question, it is the easiest to memorize. It contains only two words, three syllables. However, these two words offer incredible insight into the heart of our Lord. In the small village of Bethany, we find Jesus weeping at […] http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/painful-directions-6812 2013-02-19T10:35:26-05:00 Here's a good rule of life. If you're going to get the pain, get the point. See, God loves you enough to pull on you even if it hurts when you're headed for something that is going to hurt you. Listen to Him. Listen to His Word. Listen to the gentle Spirit impulses on the inside. Do what He's telling you to do. http://hutchcraft.com/blogs/ron-hutchcrafts-blogs/what-the-storm-left-behind?utm_source=Ron+Hutchcraft+Ministries%2C+Inc.&utm_campaign=8735845fab-AWWY+6737&utm_medium=email 2012-11-06T09:14:34-05:00 It is in those powerless moments that we realize, "I'm not enough. I can't do this." And we reach for the nail-pierced hand of the Man who took all the storm of the judgment for my sin - so I could go to His heaven. Jesus is the One who can finally calm the lifelong storm in a restless soul. With His stormproof peace. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/waiting-for-the-baby-6675 2012-08-13T09:55:41-05:00 Sometimes it even has to get worse before it gets better. Just ask any woman who has been through labor. The process is difficult but right on schedule. And when that baby comes, well it will make the process worth it all. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-filter-that-makes-the-difference-6651 2012-07-09T09:36:55-05:00 Look for the Lord and look for the lesson in that tough time you're going through. And if you're going to get the pain, get the point. Your Father loves you very deeply; He's allowed that to come into your life. Don't say, "Is this from the devil or is this from the Lord?" I don't think we'll ever figure that out. But you can say, "How can God use this?" Because He wouldn't have sent it if He couldn't use it. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/spectacle-in-the-sky-6611 2012-05-15T10:26:21-05:00 The much-hammered Apostle Paul put the troubles and the payoff on the scale and he weighed it this way: "Our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed..." (Romans 8:18). I guess we should learn something from the way we all come into the world. Labor - baby. Painful process - beautiful result. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/more-powerful-than-politics-6592 2012-04-17T09:26:09-05:00 Walls go down, hearts open up when you speak from the unarguable platform of your pain. Showing folks a Savior who makes you a conqueror in your crisis does something that, well, your words could never do. http://faithaliveresources.org/Products/156005/150.aspx 2012-04-03T14:50:09-05:00 Explore the psalms through the human experiences of joy, anger, pain, fear, and love as Kevin Adams tells the stories of real people crying out to God. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-downhill-thrill-and-the-uphill-bill-6550 2012-02-17T11:20:34-05:00 Oh, you have the good feeling right now that sin gives, maybe you don't have the consequences yet, and it's easy just to go with what you can see now. But the thrill is not worth the price tag. This moment won't last. The loss, oh it will last. The pain, the consequences? Just ask King David. They last a lifetime.