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    For The Tough Times: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope
    For The Tough Times: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope
    For The Tough Times: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope
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    For The Tough Times: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope

    By Max Lucado

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    When we feel that life is out of control, He is in control.

    When tragedy strikes, people desperately search for answers. Believers and unbelievers alike find themselves turning to God. Best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado points to the only real answer to tragedy and crisis: Prayer. In For the Tough Times, Lucado helps us understand how to pray despite our doubt and fear.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateDec 28, 2008
    ISBN9781418578626
    For The Tough Times: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope
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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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      For These Tough Times is a short book of about 80 pages by Max Lucado. The book is a helpful reminder for Christians when everything that is good seems to fall apart. It reminds one to remember that even when something bad happens God is still in control. God has not deserted us and He is working everything for good. The book also points to the love of God and the fact that we need to turn our eyes to Him when we are hurting. We need to take our focus off of ourselves. We also need to remember what seems troublesome to us, is nothing for God to handle. There will be times to pray and times to be silent. In the end, we know that good is triumphant.In our world today, this book is an excellent resource. With the economy, wars, sickness and natural disasters, many are in a constant state of worry. Where do we turn when we lose a job, a home or a child? This book will give Godly yet practical advice. God is working in all of these situations. This book, like most of Lucado’s, is encouraging and easy to read. If you are looking for something meaty and deep, this is not the book. However, this is the book for you if you are wanting a quick reminder of God’s presence in bad times.
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      This book was very comforting & reassuring for me during the most difficult season of my life. It helped me find hope in the midst of my grief.

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    For The Tough Times - Max Lucado

    For these

    Tough

    Times

    Reaching toward

        heaven for hope

    & healing

    MAX LUCADO

    1

    FOR THESE TOUGH TIMES

    Copyright © 2006 by Max Lucado

    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 written permission of the publisher.

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

    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. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version® 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, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. Scripture quotations marked (NASB) are from the New American Standard Bible® Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked (TLB) are taken from The Living Bible, copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (JB) are from The Jerusalem Bible. Copyright © 1966, 1967, 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd. and Doubleday. Scripture quotations marked (KJV) are from the King James Version of the Bible.

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

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Lucado, Max.

          For these tough times : reaching toward heaven for hope and healing / Max Lucado.

              p. cm.

    Includes bibliographical references.

          ISBN 0-8499-0170-7

    1. Consolation. 2. Spiritual life—Christianity. 3. Prayer—Christianity. I. Title.

          BV4905.3.L84 2006

          248.8'6—dc22

    006020559

    Printed in the United States of America

    06 07 08 09 10 WOR 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

    For Doug Kostowski,

    who cares

    Contents

    Introduction

    When All That Is Good Falls Apart

    1 Where Is God?

    2 God’s Great Love

    3 Eyes on the Father

    4 Good Triumphant

    5 The Bitter Taste of Revenge

    6 In the Silence, God Speaks

    7 In the Storm, We Pray

    8 From God’s Perspective

    Do It Again, Lord

    A Prayer for Troubled Times

    Notes

    About the Author

    Introduction

    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 illness invades, marriages fail, children suffer, and death strikes, what are we to 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 may fall, careers may crumble, but God does not. Wreckage and rubble have never discouraged him. God has always turned

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