God Has Not Forsaken You: Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?

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God Has Not Forsaken You! | Dr. David Jeremiah

God is faithful! In this message, Dr. David Jeremiah reminds us that God can be trusted—always trusted, eternally trusted. And His faithfulness can make a profound difference in our lives.

This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. Lamentations 3: 21-23 (NKJV)

I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. Colossians 1: 17 (NIV)

“. . . Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens.” Psalm 89:2 (NKJV)

While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.” Genesis 8: 22 (NKJV)

Righteousness shall be the belt of his loins, and faithfulness the belt of His waist. Isaiah 11:5 (NKJV)

“God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” Numbers 23: 19 (NKJV)

. . . His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. Lamentations 3: 22-23 (NKJV)

For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. 2 Corinthians 1: 20 (NKJV)

God’s Faithfulness Precludes Worry

. . . He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23 (NKJV)

. . . Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead . . . Revelation 1:5 (NKJV)

. . . These words are faithful and true.” . . . Revelation 22:6 (NKJV)

Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven. Your faithfulness endures to all generations, . . . Psalm 119: 89-90 (NKJV)

God’s Faithfulness Promises Answers

Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief. Psalm 143: 1 (NIV)

“‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'” Jeremiah 33:3 (NKJV)

God’s Faithfulness Protects From Evil

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one. 2 Thessalonians 3:3 (NKJV)

God’s Faithfulness Promotes Praise

I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever; with my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 89:1 (NKJV)

And the heavens will praise Your wonders, O Lord; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the saints. Psalm 89:5 (NKJV)

O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty like you, O Lord? YOur faithfulness also surrounds You. Psalm 89:8 (NKJV)

. . . with the lute I will praise You–and Your faithfulness, O my God! To You I will sing with the harp, O Holy One of Israel. Psalm 71:22 (NKJV)

It is good to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare YOur lovingkindness in the morning, and Your Faithfulness every night, Psalm 92: 1-2 (NKJV)

God’s Faithfulness Provides Encouragement

He has broken my teeth with gravel, and covered me with ashes. You have moved my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity. Lamentations 3: 16-18 (NKJV)

This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. Lamentations 3: 21-23 (NKJV)

“The Worlds Best Love Story” ~ Excerpt from Haddon Robinson ~ Preaching Today

Clovis Chappell was a noted preacher of the last century, and he told of a young man who lived here in Chicago who went down to the bluegrass regions of Kentucky where he met and wooed and won a young woman who ultimately he brought back to Chicago as his bride. They enjoyed three lovely years of marriage, and then one day in the midst of a sickness in a seizure of pain the young woman lost her mind. I mean when she was at her best she was a bit demented. At her worst she would scream and neighbors complained because the screams cut the air and it was hard to live with. And so the young businessman left his home in the middle of Chicago, went out to one of the western suburbs, built a house, determined that there he would try to nurse his wife back to health and sanity again. One day the family physician suggested that perhaps if he were to take his wife back to her Kentucky home that something in those familiar surroundings would help her restore her sanity, and so they went back to the old homestead. Hand in hand they walked through the old house where memories hung on every corner. They went down to the garden and walked down by the riverside where the first cowslips and violets were in bloom. But after several days nothing seemed to happen.

So, defeated and discouraged, the young man put his wife back in the car, and they headed back to Chicago. When they got close to the house he looked over and discovered that his wife was asleep. It was the first deep, restful sleep she had had in many weeks. When he got to the house he lifted her from the car, took her inside, placed her on the bed and realized she wanted to sleep some more. So he placed a cover over her and then just sat by her side and watched her through the midnight hour, watched her until the first rays of the sun reached through the curtain and touched her face. The young woman awoke, and she saw her husband seated by her side. She said, “I seem to have been on a long journey. Where have you been?” And that man, speaking out of days and weeks and months of patient waiting and watching said, “My sweetheart, I’ve been right here waiting for you all this time.”

And if you ask me where is God the answer is very much the same. He’s right here.

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02:23 – Dr. Jeremiah’s message – “God Has Not Forsaken You!”
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