{"product_id":"finding-hope-after-divorce-isbn-9781601425584","title":"Finding Hope After Divorce","description":"\u003cb\u003eDivorce is painful. Take comfort in God as healer and counselor. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith divorce comes many questions, pain, and frustration. \u003ci\u003eWhat am I going to do? How will I survive? What about the children? What will people think of me? What does God think of me?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSo how can you get through this? Live with it?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThrough this six-week study you’ll discover solid, biblical insights to help you or a loved one recover from the grief over the end of a marriage. Find practical advice and encouragement, as well as reassurance of God's love and redemptive power at work in even the most difficult situations as you move forward with a godly perspective on your new reality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e40 minutes a week could change your life!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 40-Minute Bible Studies series from the teaching team at Precepts Ministries International tackles the topics that matter to you. These inductive study guides, designed to be completed in just six 40-minutes lessons with no homework required, help you discover for yourself what God says and how it applies to your life today. With the leader’s note and Bible passages included right in the book, each self-contained study is a powerful resource for personal growth and small-group discussion.\u003cb\u003ePRECEPT MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL\u003c\/b\u003e, founded in 1970 by Jack and Kay Arthur, has trained millions of people to discover God’s truth for themselves. The \u003ci\u003ePrecepts for Life\u003c\/i\u003e radio and television programs, hosted by Kay Arthur, reach a worldwide viewing audience of over 94 million. In addition to inductive study training workshops and thousands of small-group studies across America, PMI reaches nearly 150 countries with inductive Bible studies translated into nearly 70 languages.“I want a divorce.” \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e You may have heard it. You may have said it. Either way, \u003cbr\u003e the words speak of failure—and failure is hard to bear, hard to excuse, hard\u003cbr\u003e to accept, and hard to get over. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Some people say those words—“I want a divorce”—are more \u003cbr\u003edevastating than learning of a mate’s death. Death \u003cbr\u003e brings marriage to an end; there’s no recourse, no reversal. \u003cbr\u003e But in divorce, you both still live. And you have to live with that!\u003cbr\u003e If the words came from your mate, then more than likely you feel \u003cbr\u003e faulted, rejected, scorned, cast away. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Questions flood your mind: \u003ci\u003eWhat am I going to\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003edo? How will\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e I survive? Who will take care of me? What\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eabout the children? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhose side will they take? What will\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003epeople think of me? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat does God think of me?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e When you try to look ahead to the future, all you\u003cbr\u003e can see are more questions: \u003ci\u003eAm I doomed to be alone forever? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDamaged goods?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWill God ever again use me in ministry, or will I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ealways wear a scarlet D in Christian circles? What will people \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ein the church think? How will they treat me? And what about our friends?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhose friends will they be? Will aloneness define my life?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We could fill pages with question upon question—some rational, some irrational. \u003cbr\u003e Questions that keep you awake, that won’t go away, that keep you\u003cbr\u003e wondering how you will ever get out of bed and do life in the morning.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e So how can you get through this? Live with it? First and foremost, \u003cbr\u003e you need to know that if you are a child of God, believe it or not, \u003cbr\u003e you are beloved of God. He says it over and over again in His book, the Bible.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e And if you’re not His child yet, then the reason you have this book in \u003cbr\u003e your hands is because God wants to lavish His love on you. He wants\u003cbr\u003e  to call you \u003ci\u003ebeloved,\u003c\/i\u003e even though you may feel there is nothing lovable about you.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Second, you need to know that divorce does not take God by surprise. \u003cbr\u003e Because God is God, because He is omniscient—all knowing—He knew your divorce\u003cbr\u003e was coming. And although He does not like divorce because of the pain\u003cbr\u003e and damage it brings to our lives, God knows that, because of the hardness \u003cbr\u003e of our hearts, some will choose the path of divorce.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e However, with God, that’s not the end. God describes Himself in the Bible \u003cbr\u003e as the divine Potter, the One who is able to reshape your life into a vessel of\u003cbr\u003e beauty. He’ll put you back on His potter’s wheel, rewet your clay with the \u003cbr\u003e water of His Word, and shape you into a man, a woman of praise, \u003cbr\u003e renown, and glory if you will become putty in His hands.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In Psalm 107:20, God offers to send His Word and heal us, to deliver us \u003cbr\u003e from our destructions if we will listen to what He says, believe Him, \u003cbr\u003e trust Him, obey Him. He is a redeemer, the God of all hope.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Having experienced personally the devastating effects of divorce and \u003cbr\u003e an immoral lifestyle, I can assure you that your life is not over. \u003cbr\u003e Damaged, yes, but not ruined if you will take God at His word \u003cbr\u003e and cling to Him.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The question is, are you willing to give it a try? 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