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    America Looks Up: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope and Healing
    America Looks Up: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope and Healing
    America Looks Up: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope and Healing
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    America Looks Up: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope and Healing

    By Max Lucado

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    When tragedy strikes, people desperately search for answers. On September 11, 2001, our Nation began that desperate search. There wasn't a city, a family, or a single person that survived unaffected by the horrific events of that infamous day. Best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado points to the only real answer: Prayer. Derived from Max's prayer for the Nation in response to the attacks, America Looks Up explores how we should pray in these uncertain and confusing days.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateDec 15, 2001
    ISBN9781418534592
    America Looks Up: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope and Healing
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    Max Lucado

    Since entering the ministry in 1978, Max Lucado has served churches in Miami, Florida; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and San Antonio, Texas. He currently serves as the teaching minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. He is the recipient of the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award for his outstanding contribution to the publishing industry and society at large. He is America's bestselling inspirational author with more than 150 million products in print. Visit his website at MaxLucado.com Facebook.com/MaxLucado Instagram.com/MaxLucado Twitter.com/MaxLucado Youtube.com/MaxLucadoOfficial The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast

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      America Looks Up - Max Lucado

      AMERICA LOOKS UP

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      America Looks Up

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      Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope and Healing

      Max Lucado

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      AMERICA LOOKS UP

      Copyright © 2001 Max Lucado

      Edited by Karen Hill.

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Published by W Publishing Group, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., P.O. Box 141000, Nashville, Tennessee 37214.

      Author royalties from this book will go toward relief organizations to help victims of the 911 disaster.

      Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, New Century Version (NCV), copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Word Publishing, Nashville, TN 37214. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV ®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (MSG) are from The Message. Copyright © by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. Scripture quotations marked (NASB) are from the New American Standard Bible ®. © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org). Scripture quotations marked (TLB) are taken from The Living Bible copyright © 1971. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (JB) are from The Jerusalem Bible © 1966, 1967, 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd. and Doubleday. Scripture quotations marked (KJV) are taken from the King James Version.

      Some of the material for this book has been adapted from The Great House of God, In the Grip of Grace, and When Christ Comes.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available

      Printed in the United States of America

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      For Doug Kostowski, who loves cities

      CONTENTS

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      Introduction

      When All That Is Good Falls Apart

      Chapter One

      Where Is God?

      Chapter Two

      God’s Great Love

      Chapter Three

      Eyes on the Father

      Chapter Four

      Good Triumphant

      Chapter Five

      The Bitter Taste of Revenge

      Chapter Six

      In the Silence, God Speaks

      Chapter Seven

      In the Storm, We Pray

      Chapter Eight

      From God’s Perspective

      Do It Again, Lord:

      A Prayer for Troubled Times

      Notes

      About the Author

      INTRODUCTION

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      When All That Is Good Falls Apart

      "When all that is good falls apart,

      what can good people do?"

      The LORD is in his holy temple;

      the LORD sits on his throne in heaven.

      —Psalm 11:3–4

      ISN’T DAVID’S QUESTION OURS? When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do? When planes pierce strong towers, when flames crown our fortress, when cities shake and people plunge, what are we to do?

      When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do? Curiously, David doesn’t answer his question with an answer. He answers it with a declaration: The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD sits on his throne in heaven.

      His point is unmistakable: God is unaltered by our storms. He is undeterred by our problems. He is unfrightened by these problems. He is in his holy temple. He is on his throne in heaven.

      Buildings have fallen, but God has not. Wreckage and rubble have never discouraged him. God has always turned tragedy into triumph.

      Did he not do so with Joseph? Look at Joseph in the

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