{"id":8434,"date":"2022-02-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2022-02-10T11:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:49:12","slug":"its-what-god-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/its-what-god-does\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s What God Does!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"It\u2019s What God Does! 2\/18\/22\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=6vs55-11a30d3-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;font-color=&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Each one of us has our own perception of what God is like and how God should act in various situations.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look at what happens when we are sick. We ask God to help make us well. This is fine and dandy.&nbsp;<em>But our sickness may be the very way that we draw close to God.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of years ago my urologist and prostate cancer surgeon had a benefit dinner. One of his patients at the dinner said to me:\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cIt took my operation and radiation to get me back to going to church.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>  I turned and said to him,\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cAnd it took my prostate cancer to change the direction of my life. I now am very involved in helping the materially poor in Haiti.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You and I expect God to help us when we are sick and when we have difficulties. And God does help us in a whole variety of ways.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>But sometimes it is our illness or our problems that God uses to help us to focus on what is really important in our lives<\/em><\/strong><em>. When we expect God to act in a certain way, we can become blind to what God is really trying to accomplish in our lives.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE WORLD IS FULL OF MIRACLES FOR THE EYES THAT SEE!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did God use an illness or a problem to help YOU to focus on what is really important in YOUR life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FROM GOD\u2019S HAND, TO MY HEAD, TO YOUR HEART!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each one of us has our own perception of what God is like and how God should act in various situations.&nbsp; Look at what happens when we are sick. We ask God to help make us well. This is fine and dandy.&nbsp;But our sickness may be the very way that we draw close to God. 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