My Story of Sickness - Paul David Tripp

[@joshuamcdonald936]

Looking at this I realize it was published in 2018 during the worst trauma my family had ever been through. Thanks for speaking truthfully about pain.

[@CaptainCrunchOwns]

"Those hammers on me were hammers of an artist, changing the shape of my heart, so that I would believe in a more deeper, fuller way, what I had preached to others for years." Wow. Amen.

[@christinat.7171]

I went through a similar process. It's a death and rebirth. Very hard to go through that transition. Glad you made it and shared your story.

[@nanaaw5395]

I was given the gift of your devotional, New Morning Mercies by my dear friend. Thank you for writing that, it ministers to me daily. God has given you a powerful gift. God bless you, and I will be praying for you.

[@charityharley614]

Thank you for this. I showed this to my 9 year old son who has Type 1 diabetes and struggles with why God let him have it. I pray it will be teachable moment for him so he can see God as He is.

[@jamesonell5177]

Hello Paul, I recently went through a study of yours at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. I learned great insight about myself and those around me. I wanted to thank toy for that. I am a Nurse in So Cal, I see many sufferings. I wanted to thank you for your video post that, I just came across. I have witnessed the suffering of my father and father in law that revealed Christ in them. I am at times afraid to go to work. I appreciate you giving me the ability to focus on the Lord.

[@FaithfulTrueJesus]

Thank you!

[@leahfmarkus]

True faith is born is suffering.. count it all joy..

[@23Pioro]

Praise be to God for your recovery! Thankful for your ministry!

[@ntldssytan]

God bless you mr tripp thank you f your service

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Great sermon sir. I am so, glad I was lead to your video and Wednesday messages. Thank you for helping us in your own way. (:

[@Follower_Jesus]

Oh Jesus my Savior I really love you ❣️

[@priscillapetrofsky2642]

I had carbon monoxide poisoning during Jan/Feb. 1999 ... my neighbor told me to let her take me to the hospital ... I wouldn't let her ... and then, one night I couldn't breathe ... I called her ... she had to keep me awake in her car ... asking me questions and I yelled at her to leave me alone ... when I got to the hospital, I could hardly walk to the emergency room ... I was completely white and almost completely out of it ... they rushed me into a room on a bed and rushed an x-ray machine over me ... and gave me oxygen ... within 15 min. I felt and smelled smoke coming from my nostrils (I had been near and working with a woodstove, also) ... my neighbor was with me ... she watched color come back to my face ... after an hour, the emergency room doctor asked me about my furnace ... I told him that we had gotten a new/used furnace ... he told me to check it and discharged me ... I went home and opened all the doors in the basement but still, 4 days later, someone came with a monoxide tester and found it still above extreme danger zone in the basement ... I had been the one going down in the basement ... the new/used furnace kept stopping, so I reconnected the propane furnace by hand and filled the woodstove ... the furnace people came and tried to fix it 3 times ... finally they fixed it ... this was a process over 6 weeks ... so, then, every time I got wood for the woodstove, the basement was even worse with monoxide ... I called a different furnace repairman and he took the furnace apart and found a certain piece in the furnace had a break in it ... almost a cut into it taken out and he repaired it ... I thank God every day for my neighbor ... she saved my life ... soon after I got home from the hospital ... a friend called out of the blue ... God ordained her call ... I told her what happened as she had also had carbon monoxide poisoning ... she told me to call and get into a decompression chamber immediately ... that it would not show up right away ... but in a few months ... things would start to happen ... I was there alone taking care of my children ... I was not the type of person to push my way with demands on the medical people ... how could I leave my children alone ... was there even a decompression chamber where I lived ... I let it go ... and yes ... by the time summer came ... I was having delusions that my Inn guests were trying to kill me ... it got worse ... my friend had called me in the meantime and asked me if I had any ringing in my ears ... I told her yes, it just started ... she was not happy but it was too late ... This was the beginning of years and years of hell on earth for me ... I was in and out of the hospital ... my brain was injured ... I was put on medication and given electric shock treatments ... which I still receive ... I did many embarrassing things ... putting me into the hospital again and again ... I had one good year ... my precious mother-in-law bought me a vitamin called SeaVegg ... I had seen the ad on tv ... and also a brain vitamin called Lucidal ... I had one wonderful year of real health ... but, I had another massive breakdown and the nurse told me it was because of the SeaVegg and refused to let me take it anymore ... In all of this ... through my precious father-in-law, who brought me to Mass back in 2000 ... and I saw the candle flame of the Presence of Christ ... I had to ask what it was ... and when I was told ... a part of me that had been almost dead inside my heart ... broke into Joyful Praises ... I was filled with the beauty of the reality that Jesus Is Real ... He does Exsit ... and from that day I wanted to become a Catholic ... it took 6 years ... but it finally happened ... I met a priest who was willing to help me learn about the Church ... I had already been reading the Catechism book ... and Rome Sweet Home by Dr. Scott Hahn ... he gave me more books ... he didn't ask me to go through a 2 year RCIA program because he knew my brain was not capable of that ... It has been a very difficult time ... but, I learned so much in that time ... and am still learning ... more things than I want to share with here ... I had to make very painful decisions about my life ... I had to make decisions that hurt my children ... that has been so difficult ... so painful ... but God has revealed to me so much about Himself ... my Father God has become my true Father and Jesus Christ has become closer to me than ever before ... and the power of the Holy Spirit is True ... He leads us into all truth ... if we let Him ... I am not crazy, although I have been called that ... I am not demon possessed, although I have been called that ... I am grateful so much to God for giving me this new life within ... I had been saved 3 weeks in a row when I was 8 years old ... going forward each time until my father, who was a minister, told me that Jesus heard me the first time ... but in my illness ... all feeling of faith that I had had in my heart left me ... it had never left me in all of those years ... and seeing the Candle Flame of the Presence of Christ brought it all back ... I didn't even know it then ... but the candle is not even lit unless there is Host in the little sanctuary where the candle stands ... The Eucharist ... Jesus actual body and blood ... in that Host ... in that sanctuary ... in that Catholic Church where I was brought by my precious father-in-law ... that Host ... the real Body and Blood of Jesus Christ ... was in that sanctuary ... and when I found out ... Joy flooded me and it has never left me ... I became a member of the Catholic Church and was confirmed in November of 2007 ... I still receive His Eucharist at every Mass ... and at every Mass ... I am so thankful!!! The first Eucharist I received ... I was on my way home ... and this smile ... this joy ... began in my stomach ... and rose upward through to my mouth and I could not stop smiling for 3 hours ... Jesus is Joy ... and the Joy of the Lord is my strength ... and I depend and thank God for the verse ... that His grace is made perfect in my weakness ... I will never be the healthy person I was ... but, as Mother Theresa said ... doing small things with great love ... that is how I live ... I can only do small things ... but I can do them with great love ... God's love in me can do them for others ... one at a time ... Great is His faithfulness!!! Priscilla

[@judymendezmartinez176]

So true

[@CynthiaLindstedt]

Brings to mind the following poem: When God wants to drill a man And thrill a man And skill a man, When God wants to mold a man To play the noblest part; When He yearns with all His heart To create so great and bold a man That all the world shall be amazed, Watch His methods, watch His ways! How He ruthlessly perfects Whom He royally elects! How He hammers him and hurts him, And with mighty blows converts him Into trial shapes of clay which Only God understands; While his tortured heart is crying And he lifts beseeching hands! How He bends but never breaks When his good He undertakes; How He uses whom He chooses And with every purpose fuses him; By every act induces him To try His splendor out - God knows what He’s about! -- Author Unknown (from J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership)

[@ksedillo2233]

Suffering this morning and I am so grateful for your comment.

[@susanlaramore8996]

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