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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Breaking the Cycle of Pain - #5223
Someone has wisely pointed out that sin always takes you farther than you ever thought you'd go, it keeps you longer than you ever thought you'd stay, and it costs you more than you ever thought you'd pay. We really do become slaves to our sinning; whether it's a pattern of lying, of lusting, of losing it when we're angry, of living for ourselves. And there's no freedom until you first admit you're hooked; you're powerless to stop the sinning and the compounding pain that's coming from it.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Breaking-the-Cycle-of-Pain-5223

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Escaping the Stalker of Your Soul - #5236
The devil's plan is simple: to keep you busy with anything but Jesus. He doesn't care if it's pleasure, or religion, or work, or education, or family, or people-pleasing. All he needs to do is keep you from trusting Jesus. All he wants to do is keep you from Jesus until you breathe your last breath. Then, he'll have you where he wants you forever.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Escaping-the-Stalker-of-Your-Soul...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Positive Pain - #3815
Now if the relatively short-lived pain of an inoculation keeps our little guy from major illness later on, he'll be really grateful that his parents loved him enough to let him have that little pain someday. Of course, it isn't just babies who experience pain without an explanation. Sometimes it's us big people, too. In fact, you may be going through a hurtful time right now - and, just like my grandson, if your Heavenly Father tried to explain it to you, there's no way you could understand the good He's trying to accomplish.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Positive-Pain-3815

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Dispelling the Fog - #3850
n Job 2:10, he asks, "Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?" And in chapter 13, verse 15, Job says, "Though He slay me, yet I will I hope in Him." Stubborn faith that still believes that the sun is shining even when you can't see it for the fog. The kind of faith that looks for things to praise God for at a time when it hurts so bad.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Dispelling-the-Fog-3850

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - No Postponements, No Cancellations - #3869
In our word for today from the Word of God, God announces an appointment I have - and you have. Hebrews 9:27, "Man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." God makes it very clear: we have an appointment with our Creator--or, as the old-timers used to say, to "meet our Maker."
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/No-Postponements-No-Cancellations...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - When Our Towers Came Crashing Down - #3874
Even without the disturbing events in the news, we all know the feeling of having things we had counted on suddenly gone - a person we love, our job, the collapse of a marriage, a bad report from the doctor. In times like these, we're hungry for something we can anchor to -- for something to sustain us when the bad news is more than we can bear -- for something that will make us feel really safe.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/When-Our-Towers-Came-Crashing-Dow...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Renewing Fire - #5407
What kind of new life does God bring out the flames? For one thing, He helps us focus the rest of our life on the things that really matter. Everything in our lives goes in one of two columns - the stuff that matters and the stuff that doesn't. And a lot of times we get those confused, don't we? The times of struggle and loss help us get everything in the right columns. So many people emerge from the fire more committed to the eternal than they ever were before.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Renewing-Fire-5407

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Hope For Banged-Up Lives - #5476
You've been treated poorly, you've been made to feel that you never measure up, that you're a loser, people have undervalued you, passed you by, and maybe you've ended up pretty hard and angry inside. But there is someone who has never thrown away a banged up life, who sees beyond what's on the outside to the wounds on the inside and the potential He built into you when He made you. Jesus is your hope of a new beginning where the future doesn’t have to be just an extension of a broken past.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Hope-For-Banged-Up-Lives-5476

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Fighting for Life - #5485
A baby is the unique, handmade creation of God, "fearfully and wonderfully made" the Bible says. The circumstances of conception have nothing to do with the value of the life God made. And we have no right to take into our hands the decision as to when our life ends or when any other life ends. God has ordained the number of our days before we even lived our first day. Who are we to interfere with that sovereign choice?
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Fighting-for-Life-5485

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Three Little Words Through the Silence - #5544
Don't let the wait, don't let the silence of God cause you to drift into doubt or bitterness. Letting this hurt drive you from God will only increase your hurt and decrease your hope. Let it drive you to God instead. Remember, never doubt in the darkness, what God has told you in the light
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Three-Little-Words-Through-the-Si...