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As you might guess, God’s favor is very different from the world’s. For one, it isn’t only on us when things are going great. The opposite can be true, in fact. Sometimes when life is at its hardest, God shows us his greatest favor. How does that work, especially when our trials cause us incredible suffering and sometimes life-long pain? In this chapter, Gary explores how God's favor touches us even in our darkest hours. (Read by Jason Staples)

No matter how long we've walked with God, we've all face times when we desperately needed a miraculous breakthrough. Every overwhelming issue has the potential to carry us to a point where we have nothing more we can do. We need God to intervene. When that stage arrives, we have two specific ways that we can approach the Lord in our crisis, and they are both equally vital to our Christian walk. (Read by Jason Staples)

God has a plan behind all the blessings he gives us. God’s favor is never meant to end with us. We’re to share these blessings with the world to bring him glory. We're to have lives marked by looking for opportunities to demonstrate God's amazing favor in our marriage, with our children, with our brothers and sisters in Christ and to the world around us. So what exactly does it look like to show God’s favor to others? (Read by Jason Staples)

Paul points to a great, faith-sustaining truth in Romans 8:28. “We know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” This amazing verse has brought hope to tens of millions, but it has also troubled just as many. We can be tempted to think God blesses only a certain type of Christian, mainly those whose faith seems greater than ours. When God seems absent and we wrestle with lingering doubts, how do we renew our faith in God's goodness? (Read by Jason Staples)