God Will Use This for Good Quotes

“Let me be clear. You are a version of Joesph in your generation. You represent a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something this world needs- wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“You’ll get through this. It won’t be painless. It won’t be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don’t be foolish or naive. But don’t despair either. With God’s help you will get through this.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“Sometimes God takes his time:”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“Nothing in his story glosses over the presence of evil. Quite the contrary. Bloodstains, tearstains are everywhere. Joseph’s heart was rubbed raw against the rocks of disloyalty and miscarried justice. Yet time and time again God redeemed the pain. The torn robe became a royal one. The pit became a palace. The broken family grew old together. The very acts intended to destroy God’s servant turned out to strengthen him.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“Remember, God is in this crisis. Ask him to give you an index card–sized plan, two or three steps you can take today.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“God gets us through stuff. Through the Red Sea onto dry ground (Ex. 14:22), through the wilderness (Deut. 29:5), through the valley of the shadow of death (Ps. 23:4), and through the deep sea (Ps. 77:19). Through is a favorite word of God’s: When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. (Isa. 43:2)1”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“Bloodstains, tearstains are everywhere. Joseph’s heart was rubbed raw against the rocks of disloyalty and miscarried justice. Yet time and time again God redeemed the pain. The torn robe became a royal one. The pit became a palace. The broken family grew old together. The very acts intended to destroy God’s servant turned out to strengthen him.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“You are a version of Joseph in your generation. You represent a challenge to Satan’s plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs—wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. (Genesis 50:20 NASB)”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“There is no fine print. A second shoe is not going to drop. God’s promise has no hidden language. Let grace happen, for heaven’s sake. Of all the things you must earn in life, God’s unending affection is not one of them. You have it. Stretch yourself out in the hammock of grace.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. (Isa. 43:2)1”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“God is in this crisis. Ask him to give you an index card–sized plan, two or three steps you can take today. Seek counsel from someone who has faced a similar challenge. Ask friends to pray. Look for resources. Reach out to a support group. Most importantly, make a plan.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“What Satan intends for evil, God, the Master Weaver and Master Builder, redeems for good.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“Of all the things you must earn in life, God’s unending affection is not one of them. You have it. Stretch yourself out in the hammock of grace.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“Sometimes God takes his time: One hundred twenty years to prepare Noah for the flood, eighty years to prepare Moses for his work. God called young David to be king but returned him to the sheep pasture. He called Paul to be an apostle and then isolated him in Arabia for perhaps three years. Jesus was on the earth for three decades before he built anything more than a kitchen table. How long will God take with you? He may take his time. His history is redeemed not in minutes but in lifetimes.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“Management guru Jim Collins has some good words here. He and Morten T. Hansen studied leadership in turbulent times. They looked at more than twenty thousand companies, sifting through data in search of an answer to this question: Why in uncertain times do some companies thrive while others do not? They concluded, “[Successful leaders] are not more creative. They’re not more visionary. They’re not more charismatic. They’re not more ambitious. They’re not more blessed by luck. They’re not more risk-seeking. They’re not more heroic. And they’re not more prone to making big, bold moves.” Then what sets them apart? “They all led their teams with a surprising method of self-control in an out-of-control world.”2”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“In the days leading up to the war with Germany, the British government commissioned a series of posters. The idea was to capture encouraging slogans on paper and distribute them about the country. Capital letters in a distinct typeface were used, and a simple two-color format was selected. The only graphic was the crown of King George VI. The first poster was distributed in September of 1939: YOUR COURAGE YOUR CHEERFULNESS YOUR RESOLUTION WILL BRING US VICTORY Soon thereafter a second poster was produced: FREEDOM IS IN PERIL DEFEND IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT These two posters appeared up and down the British countryside. On railroad platforms and in pubs, stores, and restaurants. They were everywhere. A third poster was created yet never distributed. More than 2.5 million copies were printed yet never seen until nearly sixty years later when a bookstore owner in northeast England discovered one in a box of old books he had purchased at an auction. It read: KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON The poster bore the same crown and style of the first two posters. It was never released to the public, however, but was held in reserve for an extreme crisis, such as invasion by Germany. The bookstore owner framed it and hung it on the wall. It became so popular that the bookstore began producing identical images of the original design on coffee mugs, postcards, and posters. Everyone, it seems, appreciated the reminder from another generation to keep calm and carry on.1”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don’t be foolish or naive. But don’t despair either. With God’s help you will get through this.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“You can’t control the weather. You aren’t in charge of the economy. You can’t undo the tsunami or unwreck the car, but you can map out a strategy. Remember, God is in this crisis. Ask him to give you an index card–sized plan, two or three steps you can take today.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“Let me be clear. You are a version of Joseph in your generation. You represent a challenge to Satan’s plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs—wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted. MATTHEW 5:4”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach. Every king, despot, weather pattern, and molecule are at his command. He passes the shuttle back and forth across the generations, and as he does, a design emerges. Satan weaves; God reweaves.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“In the end it’s not the flashy and flamboyant who survive. It is those with steady hands and sober minds.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“By giving us stories like Joseph’s, God allows us to study his plans.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“In God’s hands intended evil becomes eventual good. That’s the message of Genesis 50:20 and the heart of Joseph’s story.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“How would that look on a résumé? Joseph Son of Jacob Graduate with honors from the University of Hard Knocks Director of Global Effort to Save Humanity Succeeded”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life

“So did yours. Joseph’s pit came in the form of a cistern. Maybe yours came in the form of a diagnosis, a foster home, or a traumatic injury. Joseph was thrown in a hole and despised. And you? Thrown in an unemployment line and forgotten. Thrown into a divorce and abandoned, into a bed and abused. The pit. A kind of death, waterless and austere. Some people never recover. Life is reduced to one quest: get out and never be hurt again. Not simply done. Pits have no easy exits.”
― Max Lucado, God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of Life