Through it all...

Through it all....

There is an old praise song, "through it all" written by Andrae Crouch, released in 1993...25 years ago...we sang it, hummed it, wandered through the words as life happened...at times, wondering if we were going to make it ...through it all...taking one day at a time...relishing the life at times and despairing as well when it seemed like the darkness was going to overtake us ...

Events, high or low, built into our  lives a deeper faith if we chose or weariness of going on...our choice...bitter or better...

Saints through ages had the same choices, enduring hardships or giving up...

There have been times, when we were knocked to the ground or lifted to the heights...just as former saints...some wrote about it that we might have hope to carry on...

Thank YOU that these words have endured through the generations...Your Word to us, encouraging in the rough times, as well as the good...You are life ...

At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. 

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” 

In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

Job 1:20-22 

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Psalm 23:1-6 

“See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness —

Habakkuk 2:4 

Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. 

The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.

Habakkuk 3:17-19

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. 

Christ Jesus who died —more than that, who was raised to life —is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 

As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31-39 

And, “But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.”

Hebrews 10:38

Hebrews 11

Hebrews 12:3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart...

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Psalm 100:5 

ANDRAE CROUCH

Through It All Lyrics

I've had many tears and sorrows,

I've had questions for tomorrow,

there's been times I didn't know right from wrong.

But in every situation,

God gave me blessed consolation,

that my trials come to only make me strong.

Chorus:

Through it all,

through it all,

I've learned to trust in Jesus,

I've learned to trust in God

Chorus2:

Through it all,

through it all,

I've learned to depend upon His Word.

Verse 2:

I've been to lots of places,

I've seen a lot of faces,

there's been times I felt so all alone.

But in my lonely hours,

yes, those precious lonely hours,

Jesus lets me know that I was His own!

Chorus

Verse 3:

I thank God for the mountains,

and I thank Him for the valleys,

I thank Him for the storms He brought me through.

For if I'd never had a problem,

I wouldn't know that he could solve them,

I'd never know what faith in God could do.

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