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God is giving us daily sufficient grace as we suffer

Abba Father, You promise: Suffering removes so much of our self-sufficiency. In my case, it’s my ability to do what I once could. Suffering makes us needy and weary. But Your daily grace is sufficient because, in this very experience, we see…we can keep going only by Your power. Your Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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It Will Be Worth It All, When We See Jesus!

On a recent trip, my husband and I kept reminding one another that the challenges traveling brings, primarily with increased chronic pain symptoms, are #worthit. Making memories and seeing loved ones face-to-face have far outweighed the discomforts of travel.  Beloved in Christ, seeing Jesus as He is, face-to-face (1 Jn. Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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God promises to give me endurance and strength! Abundant life!

Holy God and loving Father, this is one of Your most lavish promises to me as I suffer: This is Your promised abundant life, Your promised endurance and strength! When Jesus tells us He came so that we might have abundant life (Jn. 10:10),  I realize that Your promise to Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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What’s our song? A sovereign Protector I have

I’m dancing and leaping and praising God as I humbly thank Him for His healing, compassionate mercy. Another cancer scare ended today as the incredulous doctor twinkled, “It’s gone! It was there…and it’s gone!” A few days prior, I’d felt a warm compression on that very area, like someone pushing Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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What can we sing when we fear more suffering?

David was afraid. Of course! Running for his life, leaving his loved ones and home behind, living off the land, he hid in fear of attack and death at the hands of his enemy. For 20 years, scholars say. Vulnerable. Humbled. Lonely. Living in darkness. Dependent on God’s grace. For Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Compassionate care of Jesus in our suffering

I’ll never forget the compassionate care of the medical helper. She quietly entered my hospital room and touched my arm. “I’d like to give you a sponge bath.” After multiple nights of sweating through agonizing and intractable pain, after one of the most pain-full surgeries one can endure, her hushed Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Our Homegoing: Unchanging Hope in Anticipatory Grief

This week, I share a guest post from a subscriber to Singing Christ’s Hope. She wrote this beautiful poem in her anticipatory grief of a beloved friend preparing to meet Jesus face to face. She wrote about our homegoing, our unchanging hope in Christ in every loss we experience in Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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The blessings of God’s unchanging favor, anchored sure

The post reflects on the courage and faith of Christians who also sacrificed their lives for their country, emphasizing the comfort of Jesus’s love and grace amid suffering. It encourages believers to sing praises and find hope in their relationship with Christ, despite trials, while affirming eternal salvation through His righteousness and unchanging favor.

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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Romans 8 “Love Divine,” as we both suffer

Love Divine, all loves excelling, As I pray for my suffering sisters in Christ, Your Romans 8 love songs fill my heart.  Your love is far stronger than our tribulation. It continues steadfast when our own weakens, in our constant distress, with every ache in this fallen world of sin.  Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago
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The blessing of Jesus Himself, within the suffering

Begone, unbelief, my Savior is near… (“Begone, Unbelief, My Savior is Near,” Newton, J., p. d. Sing to the tune of “O, Worship the King!”) Into my fears. Into the tempter’s sneer that You aren’t with me, Emmanuel. That this suffering must mean You’re not pleased with me.  And for Read more

By Lauri Hogle, ago

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