Count It All Joy Quotes

“Adversity promotes the progress of the gospel. 2. Adversity provides opportunities to witness. 3. Adversity produces courage in our fellow believers. 4. Adversity proves the character of our friendships. 5. Adversity provokes growth in our lives. 6. Adversity purifies our motives. 7. Adversity prepares us to see life and death in perspective.”
― David Jeremiah, Count It All Joy: Discover a Happiness That Circumstances Cannot Change

“Quite often the Lord uses the adversity in our lives as a lens through which He can be seen! In the process of it all, He is developing our character so that we can be worthy reflectors of His glory. Paul teaches us that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trials and suffering can the soul be strengthened.”
― David Jeremiah, Count It All Joy: Discover a Happiness That Circumstances Cannot Change

“Like the many others who have suffered after him, Paul allowed his adversity to become a platform for the gospel. What the Enemy hoped would thwart the gospel actually advanced it. If for no other reason than this, we should think twice before we complain about our difficult situations. It just might be that God is up to something eternal!”
― David Jeremiah, Count It All Joy: Discover a Happiness That Circumstances Cannot Change

“When Paul talked about his present situation, he did not discuss his personal discomfort. He was not occupied with the inconvenience that imprisonment had caused him. His concern was for the gospel and its advance.”
― David Jeremiah, Count It All Joy: Discover a Happiness That Circumstances Cannot Change

“The prisons of our lives can often become places of great opportunity and ministry.”
― David Jeremiah, Count It All Joy: Discover a Happiness That Circumstances Cannot Change

“You may search the Word of God but you will never find peace first—it is always “grace and peace” never “peace and grace.” They are the Siamese twins of the Bible. You cannot have peace until you first have had grace. A man may search and seek until the end of his life, but until he receives grace through Christ, he can never have peace.”
― David Jeremiah, Count It All Joy: Discover a Happiness That Circumstances Cannot Change

“Our attitudes are important! In fact, they are more important than our actions, because they are the foundation upon which our actions are built.”
― David Jeremiah, Count It All Joy: Discover a Happiness That Circumstances Cannot Change