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In Speak to My Heart, God, bestselling author Kay Arthur looks with warm honesty at the trials we face and the unconditional love of God that sustains us.More than a devotional, this book offers compassionate advice and biblical direction for believers' troubles and longings. They will find solace in times: when they wonder if life has any purpose when they're tempted not to share the gospel when their heart aches when they must forgive when the future is uncertainWith very personal examples from her own life, Kay speaks directly to the broken, wounded, and hurting. Through times of disappointment as well as times of renewal and rejoicing, she shows readers how to let the pressures of life press them into the likeness of Christ.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 mai 2002
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736935050
Langue	English

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Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New American Standard Bible , 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
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SPEAK TO MY HEART, GOD
(Formerly titled His Imprint, My Expression)
Copyright 1993 by Kay Arthur
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon, 97402
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Arthur, Kay, 1933-
[His imprint, my expression]
Speak to my heart, God / Kay Arthur.
p.cm.
Originally published: His imprint, my expression, 1993.
ISBN 0-7369-0773-4
1. Meditations. I. Title
BV4832.3 .A78 2002
242-dc21 2001051702
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America.
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To my firstborn who was the hidden sorrow, the seed of many if onlys, but who now belongs to the Lord and warms my heart with his care and love

The story of your salvation is in these pages May it bring hope to many who wonder if their prodigal will ever come home
Contents
Words of Faith
When You Wonder If Life Has Any Purpose
When You Feel Out of Focus
When You re Suddenly Shaken
When You re Dealing with What Ifs
When You re Wondering If God Is Enough
When God Is Silent
When Pressures Build Up
When Life Is Bitter
When Your Failures Haunt You
When You Think You Can Tolerate Sin in Your Life
When You re Tempted to Settle for the Temporal
When Things Go Wrong
When Skeptics Question Your God
When You Want to Call It Quits
When You re Looking for Evidence of Genuine Faith
When You re Rejected or Laughed At
Words of Obedience
When You re Disappointed, Discouraged, Defeated
When You re Locked in a Prison of Difficult Circumstances
When Joy Is Shattered
When Your Joy Is Clouded Over
When You re Worried or Anxious
When the World Looks Appealing
When You re Tempted
When You Face Trials
When You Lack Joy
When a Day of Adversity Comes
When It Seems Nothing Will Ever Change
When Divorce Seems Like an Option
When You re Tempted to Tolerate Evil
When You Are Tempted to Complacency
When You re Tempted Not to Share the Gospel
When You Watch Our Foundations Crumble
When Life Doesn t Follow Your Plan
Words of Trust
When Your Heart Aches
When the Forecast Is Bleak
When You Find It Difficult to Trust God
When You Must Stand Against the Tide
When You Feel Threatened
When You Feel You Can t Go On
When You Are Gripped by Fear
When the Future Is Uncertain
When All You See Is Devastation
When Your Expectations Aren t in Him
When You Are Unable to Cope
When You Are Offered a Crown Without the Cross
When You Don t Know Where to Run
When You Get Weary Following the Lord
When You Are Confronted by Giants
When You Feel Far Away from God
Words of Grace
When You ve Failed
When You Must Forgive
When Intimacy with God Seems Impossible
When Troubles and Disappointments Come
When Hope Is Gone
When You Wonder If People Can Tell You Are His
When Fear Strikes
When You Are Worn, Weak from Waiting
When You re Concerned for a Loved One
When You Feel Like a Failure
When People Ask for Your Advice
When You Question God s Faithfulness
When People Need Love and Understanding
When You Wonder If Jesus Will Ever Come
When You re Tempted to Please Others
When Your Faith Is Tested
Harvest House Books by Kay Arthur
W e know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
R OMANS 8:28-30
Words of FAITH
When You Wonder If Life Has Any Purpose

Why was I born? What is the purpose of my existence? What am I worth to God?

H ave you ever asked yourself these questions? I have. In fact, I was considering all this just the other day as I sat in my big old chair (where I often pray), worshiping our Father by rehearsing aloud all that He is and has done. As I did, my mind went to the amazing truths of Ephesians 1. I thought of the magnificence and power of our Father in creating the world and in forming man from the dust of the earth. Then I thought of Ephesians 1:4:
He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world!
Awesome, isn t it? To think that even before God created the heavens and the earth, He knew you and me, and He chose us!
Following this, my mind went to the fact that God has the course of history all planned out. God s plan wasn t broadsided by Satan in the Garden when that evil deceiver tempted Adam and Eve to sin. Everything was already in place, for Jesus was already the Lamb of God, slain before the foundation of the world. And so I began to thank our Father for making known to us the mystery of His will, and for the administration of the mystery hidden in God for all these ages (Ephesians 1:9-10; 3:9-10).
God has a plan, and neither man nor the devil can thwart it.
Then my mind went on to Ephesians 2:10 where He tells us that before the foundation of the world our Father prepared the good works that we are to walk in! Talk about understanding our worth! Talk about knowing that our lives have a purpose!
Do you know this truth, my friend? And are you living in the light of it?
Do you realize how absolutely precious you are to God? Do you realize the significance of your life? It has a purpose. A specific purpose! As Ephesians 1:11 says, we live according to His purpose -and His purpose is always the very best!
You are not an accident! You are not useless. You are not worthless. You are not unredeemable. Your worth and purpose in this life do not depend on who you are, on what you have done, or on what has been done to you. Your worth and purpose do not depend on where you have been, even if you have been to the very precipice of hell.
Your worth and purpose depend on God and God alone-His will, His calling, His choosing, His love.
He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will (Ephesians 1:4-5).
God paid the dearest of prices to redeem you from your life of sin and independence from Him. You were dead in your trespasses and sins; you were condemned to death row for all eternity. And justly so because of your sin. Yet the Father gave His Son to die in your place by the most brutal of deaths. He did this when you were still walking your own way, not even realizing the price He was paying. And had you known it, you probably wouldn t even have cared! That s how lost you were!
God loved you when you were His enemy. When you were a sinner, ungodly, and without hope, He loved you, pursued you, and wooed you. And He did not let go until you gave in and succumbed to His desire to be your Father, your God, your Lord, your Master, your Redeemer (read Romans 5).
Have you begun to comprehend the breadth, length, height, and depth of Christ s love for you, a love that surpasses knowledge (Ephesians 3:14-21)? Or are you walking around, lost in the maze of the enemy s lies? Are you blocked at every turn by thoughts and feelings that lead you down dead-end paths? Are you confused, not knowing where to go, where to turn, or what to do because you are being led by your own emotions, your own feelings, your own suppositions? Or are you living by the evaluations, the opinions, the counsel of others rather than by the absolute truth of God s inerrant Word?
Our peace, our happiness, our well-being, our soundness of mind, our effectiveness all go back to what we believe-and whom we believe.
It does not matter what you experience, what you feel, what you think or hear. If it does not agree with the Word of God, then it is a lie and has its origin with the great deceiver, the father of lies (John 8:44).
Don t miss the knowledge of your worth and your purpose in this life by believing his lies. Choose to believe God, no matter what.
Ultimately, then, it comes down to: Where will you put your faith? In the character of God, in the Word of God, or in a lie? You alone can decide that. It s up to you. This is the choice God gives you. And no one can decide for you.
Everything you are going through, all that you are dealing with, has one ultimate purpose: that you may know the love of God and live in the light of His extravagant and more-than-adequate grace, which has been poured out on you. That is what you were born for: an intimate relationship with God. That is the purpose of your existence. That is what you are worth to Him.
But this intimate relationship requires two things: First, that you set aside time so your heavenly Father can communic