{"id":2944,"date":"2012-02-09T13:58:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T18:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.convergingzone.com\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2012-02-09T13:58:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T18:58:20","slug":"god-transforms-wounds-into-life-by-robert-ricciardelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/robertricciardelli\/ricciardelli\/god-transforms-wounds-into-life-by-robert-ricciardelli\/","title":{"rendered":"God Transforms Wounds Into Life by Robert Ricciardelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><strong>Give God your weakness, brokenness, and failures, and He will make a life out of it. The promises of God and His divine patterns for transformation are hope for humanity. God sees our wounds, and He sees them not as blemishes but as virtues He uses to mold us into His image. If we understand the mind of God and His eternal purposes, we might eventually thank God for our very weaknesses and failures. We all have wounds, and it is from the place of our greatest suffering that we can see the amazing glory of God lift us into Himself. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you realized how God has used painful experiences in your life for you to learn and grow?<\/p>\n<p>Are you living in the comfort in knowing that God takes the burden of sin and weakness from you and puts it on Himself in His love for you?<\/p>\n<p>It is the glory and power of God in your life that is your strength. Are you living in your own strength, or in His? <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give God your weakness, brokenness, and failures, and He will make a life out of it. 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