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  • Vera Hughes avatar

    Going To The Next Level

    Contributed by Vera Hughes on Dec 2, 2005
    based on 37 ratings
     | 83,264 views

    This message gives you fundamental truths to help you get to your next level in your walk with God. Remember how Little Red Robin Hood had to go through adversities to finally get to her grandmother? Today, you will find that there are rivers and there

    Turn with me to Deuteronomy 1:5-8 Many of us are comfortable with our daily lives. We have nice cars, nice homes, nice kids, right jobs, right clothes, and the right church. You are relaxed in your current situation so why would you want to change anything? I would like to say to you: it’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    A Powerful Display Of God's Plan Series

    Contributed by Billy Ricks on May 10, 2013
     | 6,343 views

    Difficulties are not designed to destroy us. God's plan is to glorify Himself. Whether that includes suffering or success or significance is up to God. It is up to us as how we respond to what we face.

    Intro: When Trouble Strikes (Our Daily Bread) Dave Dravecky had pitched with remarkable success for the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants baseball teams. But his pitching arm developed an unusual soreness. Medical tests identified the problem--cancer. Surgery and months of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    When The Bottom Falls Out! Series

    Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Mar 30, 2006
    based on 31 ratings
     | 15,076 views

    In this sermon from Daniel 2:1-18 we see how Daniel responded when the bottom dropped out of his life, when he faced a crisis.

    Scripture All of us watched with horror and sadness the incredible destruction this past August of the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina. Much of the region was flooded by storm surge and broken levees. Homes and businesses washed away and collapsed into a heap of ruins. About a thousand people were ...read more

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    Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

  • Paul Fritz avatar

    Praise God For Working All Things Together For Good

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 13, 2003
    based on 27 ratings
     | 3,608 views

    Praise God for His omnipotent ability to work ALL things together for good for those who love God and all are called according to His purposes. Sometimes when we doubt that the Lord can work good out of adversity we need to remember

    Praise God for Working all Things Together for Good (Rom. 8:28,29) Praise God for His omnipotent ability to work ALL things together for good for those who love God and all are called according to His purposes. Illustration: The employers were also asked to list the "most unusual" questions ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    God Can And Will Do It Again!

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Dec 14, 2017
    based on 4 ratings
     | 51,467 views

    Have you ever faced a situation that you wondered whether anything could be done to fix it? God tells Ezekiel what to do about the condition of his nation. God stirs his faith for action. Ezekiel responds. How would God direct us to respond to our impossi

    Intro I want to begin with a question God asked Ezekiel, in Ezekiel 37:3: "Son of man, can these bones live?"i Have you ever faced a situation that you wondered whether anything could be done to fix it? Have you ever had a financial debt that that looked like an insurmountable mountain? Sometimes ...read more

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    Denomination: Charismatic

  • Jamie Wright avatar

    In The Middle Of It

    Contributed by Jamie Wright on Apr 27, 2004
    based on 55 ratings
     | 11,246 views

    Many Christians quit when faced with adversity. Jesus promised that He is in our midst. Looking through the Scriptures one can find that in the middle of a crisis God is right In the middle of It with them. He is in the middle of the Firery Furnace, He

    In the Middle of It Pastor Jamie Wright * Maranatha Fellowship * 04-18-04 How many times have you found your self in the middle of something? I would love to that but, I am in the middle of doing something right now. I would like to pay my tithes but I’m In the middle of a financial crisis I ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    They Ceased Not

    Contributed by Greg Irby on Feb 28, 2009
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,481 views

    It’s never easy to live under constant stress and adversity. When our lives are finished, may it be said of us that “they ceased not.” Faithfulness to God is not a novel thing; it’s to be our normal practice.

    THEY CEASED NOT ACTS 5:34-42 Text: Acts 5:42 Acts 5:42 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ. Introduction: We see the spirit of the Sanhedrin in Acts 5:32. As we read this verse we are reminded of the constant adversity the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    The Sweet Fruit Of Bitter Times

    Contributed by Major Gerardo Balmori on Apr 2, 2011
    based on 14 ratings
     | 5,288 views

    What are trials? 1. The term is used to speak of afflictions and adversities that we encounter in life. 2. These trials are of various kinds. It could be illness, financial reverses, problems at work, persecution for our faith, etc. They come in all sh

    Mayor Gerardo Balmori The Salvation Army I. A Proper Attitude Toward Trials (v. 2). A. What are trials? 1. The term is used to speak of afflictions and adversities that we encounter in life. 2. These trials are of various kinds. It could be illness, financial reverses, problems at ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

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    Your Emotion Especially Anger Series

    Contributed by Andrew Dixon on May 23, 2021
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,765 views

    Researchers have concluded that the major cause of diseases that harm mankind are not so much from bacteria or virus, but rather because of the state of one’s mind. The adverse stress and disturbances to the mind leads to break-down in our health.

    Psalm 91 - Study 27 - Your emotions especially anger! We read in Psalm 91:9-10, “You, O LORD, are my refuge! You have made the Most High your home. No harm will come to you. No sickness will come near your house.” (GW) As we continue to meditate on Psalm 91, we have realized that the word of God ...read more

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    Denomination: Other

  • Larry Grant avatar

    You Are Mine

    Contributed by Larry Grant on May 19, 2024
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,060 views

    Going through waters of hardship, rivers of difficulty, or the fires of adversity will either cause you to live in fear or force you to grow stronger. If you invite the Lord to go with you, He will because He said that You are Mine!

    Isaiah 43:1-7 (NKJV) You Are Mine May 19, 2024 Before the kingdom was overthrown by Assyria, then by Babylon and then by Persia the children of God had stopped calling upon the LORD. The Israelites had grown weary of Him (verse 22). Their worship may have been lavish but was often only outward and ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Doug Warren avatar

    Responses To God's Grace Series

    Contributed by Doug Warren on Jan 14, 2001
    based on 219 ratings
     | 6,878 views

    God’s Grace (unmerited favor) toward us demands that we respond. What should be our responses to His Grace?

    Intro: Grace has been defined in many ways, (unmerited favor, God’s Riches at Christ’s Expense, full and underserved pardon and forgiveness) but whatever the definition, the Grace God extends to us demands that we respond. What should be our responses to God’s Grace? I. RECEIVE HIS GRACE (V. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Larry Norman avatar

    What To Do When The Bottom Falls Out

    Contributed by Larry Norman on Apr 18, 2002
    based on 27 ratings
     | 10,400 views

    How does the beleiver respond when it seems like the bottom has fallen out in his life spiritually, financially or emotionally?

    What to Do When the Bottom Falls Out Isaiah 35:3-4 Intro: Share story of falling into the man hole. Sometimes we feel that way  Financially  Physically  Emotionally.  Spiritually Job is certainly a prime example of this. I was reading in the book of Isaiah this week ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Marilyn Murphree avatar

    "A Place Of Prayer" Series

    Contributed by Marilyn Murphree on Mar 18, 2005
    based on 17 ratings
     | 4,178 views

    Creating a house of prayer often brings disruption and disturbance to a lifestyle that is unacceptable to the Lord. How do we respond to or resist Him?

    Holy Week Service Church of the Atonement March 21, 2005 “A Place of Prayer” Matthew 21:10-17 INTRODUCTION: The next day after the trimphal entry into Jerusalem, Jesus went to the temple. What he found there was anything but a house of prayer. Picture in your mind the confusion with all the ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Facing The Facts About Failure - Part One

    Contributed by Keith Linkous on Sep 15, 2001
    based on 194 ratings
     | 14,520 views

    Everyone fails, but not everyone responds to failure the same way. Here are some biblical truths to help people recover from failure.

    “All of us have failed, falling way short of fulfilling the beauty of God‘s plan, that which God intended us to be.”(paraphrase of Romans 3:23) Americans have very little patience for losers. A team starts having a losing season, ticket sales plummet. A certain sports star, who has the ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    The Solution To All Our Problems

    Contributed by John White on Dec 25, 2006
    based on 6 ratings
     | 5,806 views

    An appeal for God’s people to turn to Christ as the first and most effective responder to help and heal the trials, troubles and tribulations of life.

    The Solution For All Our Problems I Cor. 10:1-13 "Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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