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Surviving the Storms of Life.

Many of you have had some devastating circumstances that have felt like the heart was being torn out of your chest during this past year. How do people withstand the storms that has sunk the ship and also threatened to sink the lifeboat that they depended on for their survival? The wind, the waves of adversity, the surges of heartbreak one after another. How do they survive? How can they be so strong at their extreme weakest? Somewhere in the middle of their storm, God's voice was telling them that He provides sufficient grace for this trial, and when you am weak He is always and still very strong. "Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me... For when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Corinthians 12:9-10). Well, here I am - present and accounted for. It's the hard times and the unhealthy times and the hurting times that reveal my weaknesses. And it's also during those times that God shows up