You Can Trust God to Write Your Story Quotes

“you are loved—deeply loved, with the steadfast love of the Lord, a love that never fails. Perhaps you long to be held by someone who truly cares for you and is committed to your well-being. The everlasting arms of God are supporting and surrounding you, carrying and caring for you. Do you long for a friend who knows and desires you? In Christ, you have the dearest Friend a soul could have, one who walks with you today and will be yours for all of eternity.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“now that I am married, I know that Christ—not my husband, precious as he is—is my highest good, my unfailing hope, and that I can trust Him with whatever this chapter of my life may hold.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“events on this earth are never determined by chance. As the nineteenth-century hymn writer Maltbie Babcock put it: This is my Father’s world. O let me ne’er forget That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.3”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“He is working behind the scenes, making arrangements, putting everything in place. And in time, He will be the means of upending our enemy’s objectives and fulfilling God’s holy purpose for our lives.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“not only can you trust God to write your story; you can also be sure that, in the end, He will right your story!”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“When God puts us in the furnace, He always keeps His eye on the clock and His hand on the thermostat”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Getting a right perspective is critical—lifting our eyes upward to God rather than outward to our circumstances or inward to ourselves. Counseling our hearts according to truth. Realigning our thoughts and emotions according to His Story.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“What has God permitted to be a part of your story that seems inconsistent with His goodness and love? Might He be allowing that “thing” He hates in order to accomplish that which He loves?”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Pebble people remain the same no matter what happens to and around them. They are not particularly interesting. More important, in God’s Story, pebble people tend to be resistant to what He wants to do with their lives. But putty people say to God, “You are the Potter; I am the clay (see Jer. 18:1–6). Change me, mold me, and if necessary break and remake me … into the person you created me to be.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Like all good stories, it is about transformation. Steven James explains: Plot is the journey toward transformation…. At its most basic level, a story is a transformation unveiled—either the transformation of a situation or, most commonly, the transformation of a character”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“You do not have a story until something goes wrong.” Master storyteller and bestselling novelist Steven James’s pithy advice for would-be writers also applies to the story God is writing in our lives. As James puts it: At its heart, a story is about a person dealing with tension, and tension is created by unfulfilled desire. Without forces of antagonism, without setbacks, without a crisis event that initiates the action, you have no story.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“we want the outcome—sparkling, precious gems—without the process.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Our spiritual ancestors ran their race; now it’s time for us to run ours. And that takes perseverance, staying power, steadfastness. How do we develop those qualities? Through trials, testing, tribulation. No exceptions. No shortcuts.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“but we really do care about your story. And even more, we believe that God cares about it—about the story He’s in the process of shaping through your life.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Your story is a biography of wisdom and grace written by another. Every turn he writes into your story is right. Every twist of the plot is for the best. Every new character or unexpected event is a tool of his grace. Each new chapter advances his purpose. PAUL TRIPP”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“right now, we are living in a transition between Paradise Lost and Paradise Restored.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“So it is with God’s Story. The Bible has a beginning, a middle, and an end. This story line makes sense of our world and explains how we fit into God’s eternal plan. It gives us a context, a grid through which to process hard things that come into our lives.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“The Bible is your Playbill tonight. It’s your behind-the-scenes guide to a Story that was written before time began, when the stage was set for the grand Production. It tells us what we need to know about the Designer, the players, and the story line unfolding, both on the stage of human history and in heaven above.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“the face of the utterly unanticipated upheaval in her own plans, Mary worshiped. She exalted the character of God.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“We tend to think that David has gone from the land of the living to the land of the dead; but the truth is that he has gone from the land of the dying to the land of the living.” Do you believe that? If you do, the death of a believer takes on a whole different perspective.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“when she said, “I’m not afraid of death, but I’m anxious about dying.” And we can certainly relate to some trepidation about how it will all go down. Will there be pain? Will we be alone? Will we be afraid?”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Barely five feet tall, Gladys was a tower of resolve and strength.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. TIM KELLER”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Death is real … as is the grief that is always its companion.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Perhaps from where you sit today, you can see only miscellaneous, frayed, disconnected strands that make no sense at all, no matter how hard you try to figure it all out. All you can see is injustice and pain.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“More times than I (Nancy) can count, I have shared with others something unforgettable I heard pastor John Piper say many years ago: In every situation you face, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“In the meantime we walk by faith, trusting His presence and grace to sustain us each day in the here and now, and assured that in the end He will right all wrongs and vindicate those who are His own.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“We still live in a broken, fallen world where sin makes messes and its consequences are sometimes felt for generations.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“Yet as you will see in the stories that follow and as Scripture attests, our faithful, loving God has the power to redeem the unredeemable and to turn ashes to beauty, not just in spite of the injuries we have suffered, but actually through those very wounds.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence

“As we’ve seen, it’s hard enough to trust God when the unwanted diagnosis has your name on it. But it can be even more difficult when it applies to those you love—when you have to trust Him to write their story.”
― Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, You Can Trust God to Write Your Story: Embracing the Mysteries of Providence