NB We have much to consider!

I have been blessed studying His-Story. I have been blessed by this share and in studying The Word, by God’s AWESOME grace share it. Reasons prevail – God DOES NOT/NEVER changes!

https://everydayservant.com/top-13-bible-verses-god-never-changes/

Whom in the Word of God do we look up to?

Just a quick preamble – Moses had a temper but God used him. It is NOT what you have/don’t have. It is that you are chosen!

https://discoveryseries.org/courses/moses/lessons/moses-moments-of-anger/

Elijah was suicidal.

https://wordsbymatthew.com/blog/7-lessons-depression-elijah-suicidal-prophet

Job wished he was never born.

https://slideplayer.com/amp/13040408/

David was depressed.

David, a Warrior after God’s Own Heart: Depressed?

https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/7-bible-figures-who-struggled-with-depression.html

Hannah was barren.

Because The LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-life/did-god-really-know-me-before-i-was-born.html?amp=1

https://slideplayer.com/amp/12994072/

Paul was in prison.

https://www.gotquestions.org/why-was-Paul-in-prison.html

Jacob was a cheater.

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-bible-says-what-jacob-was-a-liar-and-cheat-but-we-still-revere-him/

Peter had a temper.

Fired Up For God: Peter’s Passion & Anger

David had an affair and planned for the murder of the husband.

https://www.theologyofwork.org/old-testament/samuel-kings-chronicles-and-work/the-golden-age-of-the-monarchy-2-samuel-1-24-1-kings-1-11-1-chronicles-21-2/davids-successes-and-failures-as-king-2-samuel-1-24/davids-rape-of-bathsheba-and-murder-of-uriah-2-samuel-11-12

Noah got drunk.

https://www.gotquestions.org/Noah-drunk.html

Jonah ran away from God.

https://groundworkonline.com/episodes/jonah-running-away-from-god#:~:text=But%20Jonah%20ran%20away%20from,run%20away%20from%20Mom’s%20love.

Paul was a murderer.

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/why-did-god-let-paul-become-a-murderer

Gideon was insecure.

https://www.insightforliving.ca/read/articles/gideon-and-conquering-insecurity

Miriam was a gossip.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.templebaptch.com/NEW%2520WEB%2520FILES/Printed%2520Sermons/Series/Life%2520of%2520Moses/16%2520-%2520The%2520Danger%2520of%2520Gossip.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj__NPJ1Nb-AhUtkokEHRheBTYQFnoECBEQBg&usg=AOvVaw3cmYmw9P7_wafjZ6S_MIfo

Miriam and Aaron were the older sister and older brother of Moses. Moses was the baby of the family. Miriam was the leader of this criticism and gossip.

Martha was a nervous wreck.

Martha is often characterized as the worrywart, the busybody, the one who harbors a touch of resentment against her sister and who complains to Jesus about her workload.

Thomas was a doubter.

https://www.gotquestions.org/doubting-Thomas.html

Sarah was impatient.

Sarah struggled with unbelief because her eyes were fixed on Abraham and on herself. Abraham was nearly 100 years old, and Sarah was just ten years behind him. So the promise of God seemed impossible.

https://openthebible.org/article/god-restored-sarahs-faith-same-you/#:~:text=Sarah%20struggled%20with%20unbelief%20because,promise%20of%20God%20seemed%20impossible.

Moses had a speech impediment.

https://www.gotquestions.org/did-Moses-stutter.html

Zaccheus was short.

A Lukan story that many Christian readers are familiar with is that of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10), a rich chief tax-collector who is described as being “short in stature” (19:3).

Abraham was old.

https://tulsaworld.com/father-abraham-had-many-sons/article_5e966919-2f0c-53ee-8cda-c076b93be689.html#:~:text=Our%20Father%20Abraham%20had%20eight,slave%20of%20Sarah%2C%20Abraham’s%20wife.

Lazarus was dead.

Lazarus of Bethany (Latinised from Lazar, ultimately from Hebrew Eleazar, “God helped”), also venerated as Righteous Lazarus, the Four-Days Dead in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the subject of a sign of Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death.

But God set them free!!!

He used their struggles and turned them into testimonies.

God can and will turn your worst seasons around when you choose to worship Him in the middle of the storm.

Turn your eyes upon Jesus and away from darkness. Choose life over death.

Worship is a choice.
You have to choose to worship despite feeling hopeless.
You have to choose to see God as bigger than your suffering.
Your worship magnifies God far above your present situation.

https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/i-will-magnify-god-with-thanksgiving

God does not call the qualified. He qualifies the called.”