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Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts (Discussion Guide) is unavailable, but you can change that!

All of us experience adversity at different times in our lives. It comes in many forms—sudden pain, traumatic experiences, devastating losses—and we seldom understand what's happening at the time. That's why learning to trust God can be such a slow and difficult process. When everything we're going through suggests that God can't help us or doesn't care, it seems unwise to place our confidence in...

Perhaps the clearest biblical statement that God does sovereignly influence the decisions of people is found in Proverbs 21:1: “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases.” The stubborn will of the most powerful monarch on earth is directed by God as easily as the farmer directs the flow of water in his irrigation canals. The argument, then, is from the greater to the lesser—if God controls the king’s heart, surely He controls everyone else’s.
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