You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack Quotes

“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 naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“You’ll get through this. You fear you won’t. We all do. We fear that the depression will never lift, the yelling will never stop, the pain will never leave. Here in the pits, surrounded by steep walls and angry brothers, we wonder, Will this gray sky ever brighten? This load ever lighten? We feel stuck, trapped, locked in. Predestined for failure. Will we ever exit this pit?”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“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)”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“You’ll get through this. You fear you won’t. We all do. We fear that the depression will never lift, the yelling will never stop, the pain will never leave. Here in the pits, surrounded by steep walls and angry brothers, we wonder, Will this gray sky ever brighten? This load ever lighten? We feel stuck, trapped, locked in. Predestined for failure. Will we ever exit this pit? Yes! Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“But God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test, and teach the future prime minister. We see a prison; God sees a kiln. We see famine; God sees the relocation of his chosen lineage. We call it Egypt; God calls it protective custody, where the sons of Jacob can escape barbaric Canaan and multiply abundantly in peace. We see Satan’s tricks and ploys. God sees Satan tripped and foiled.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“Rather than ask God to change your circumstances, ask him to use your circumstances to change you. Life is a required course. Might as well do your best to pass it.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you’ll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest incidents take on significance.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“Repeat it to yourself over and over until it trumps the voices of fear and angst. "The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in your, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over your with singing" (Zeph. 3:17 NIV)”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“The difficulties have taken much away. I get that. But there is one gift your trouble cannot touch: your destiny.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“This season in which you find yourself may puzzle you, but it does not bewilder God. He can and will use it for his purpose.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks that he gets as much as he deserves.”1 The grateful heart, on the other hand, sees each day as a gift.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“Money gone. Expectations dashed. Friends vanished. Who's left? God is.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“Like Joseph, you've been dumped into the pit. And, like Joseph, you choose to heed the call of God on your life. It's not easy. You're tempted to get even. But you choose instead to ponder your destiny.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“Think you have lost it all? You haven't. "God's gifts and God's call are under full warranty--never canceled, never rescinded" (Rom. 11:29 MSG).”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“Don’t see your struggle as an interruption to life but as preparation for life. No one said the road would be easy or painless. But God will use this mess for something good. “This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training, the normal experience of children . . . God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God’s holy best” (Heb. 12:8, 10 MSG).”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“The story of Joseph is in the Bible for this reason: to teach you to trust God to trump evil. What Satan intends for evil, God, the Master Weaver and Master Builder, redeems for good.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“In God’s hands intended evil becomes eventual good.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“Thank you, God. For the jam on our toast and the milk on our cereal. For the blanket that calms us and the joke that delights us and the warm sun that reminds us of God’s love.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“Lay claim to the nearness of God. "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you" (Heb. 13.5 NIV).”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“David knew what mattered most. The presence of God. He begged God for it.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“When he finally confessed his immorality, he made only one request of God: "Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me" (Ps. 51:11).”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“But for me, I am anot afraid, because the worst thing that could happen is getting to see "my Father eye to eye.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, disease for the lepers, doubt for Thomas, the grave for Lazarus, and the shackles for Paul. God gets us through stuff.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“You meant evil against me," Joseph told his brothers, using a Hebrew verb that traces its meaning to "weave" or "plait." "You wove evil," he was saying, "but God rewove it together for good."

God, the Master Weaver.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado

“In changing times lay hold of the unchanging character of God.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“Pits have no easy exits.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

“Chapter 14:

God doesn't manufacture pain, but He certainly puts it to use.

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Remember, God is in this crisis. Ask him to give you an index card-sized plan, two or three steps you can take today.

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You'd prefer a miracle for your crisis? You'd rather see the bread multiplied or the stormy sea turned glassy calm in a finger snap? God may do this. Then again, He may tell you, 'I'm with you. I can use this for good. Now lets make a plan.' Trust him to help you.

God's sovereignty doesn't negate our responsibility. Just the opposite. It empowers it. When we trust God, we think more clearly and react more decisively.
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Trust and act.
Trust God to do what you cannot.
Obey God
And do what you can.”
― Max Lucado, You'll Get Through This Study Guide with DVD Pack: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times by Max Lucado