Guided by God's Promises

Listening to God with Love, Trust, and Obedience

Elisabeth Elliot

• Publisher: Revell
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780800729141
• eBook ISBN: 9781493434626
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Life offers us a series of trials and hardships, and how we react to these tribulations depends on what we take into them. When we face trials with anxiety, fear, or bitterness, we will find that they only change us for the worse. But when we carry along God's promises of provision, protection, and peace, our life's trials can change us for the better.

In Guided by God's Promises, beloved writer Elisabeth Elliot shows readers how to gird themselves with the comfort and assurance of God's love and promises as they enter the conflict. With God at our side, she says, we can weather all of life's storms with faith and soul intact.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• The Music of His Promises
• At Every Stage of the Journey
• The Eye of the Needle
• Recognition
• Give and Give and Give
• The Way Appointed
• What Is Trust?
• Unimaginable Solutions
• Looking at Graves
• Too Rich to Follow Him
• Too Strong to Be Crucified
• Too Proud for the Low Gate
• Too Busy to Be Quiet
• No Wagons Provided
• Power and Love
• Move toward the Light
• Our Daily Bread
• False Conclusions
• Bearing Others’ Burdens
• The Rejection of Sacrifice
• Unconditional Self-Abandonment
• Life and Peace
• The Price of Life
• We Have Bargained for a Cross
• Where Faith Falls Short
• Wet Shoes and Cold Feet
• Go Quietly on Your Way
• Nothing but Crosses?
• No Death Wish
• When the Heat Comes
• The Same Old Routine
• A Powerful Advocate
• Prayer Unites the Heart to God
• Choose to Be Strong and Resolute
• Vague Prayers
• Be Resolute
• Your Plans, Lord, Not Mine
• Troubles That Never Happen
• Worry Is Meddling
• Not by Mere Strength
• Even in Temptation
• Having Done All, Stand
• Jealousy
• Find Joy
• Your Life—His Own Treasure
• The Cross—Day After Day
• An Infinite Majesty in the Hands of Men
• Prayer Is a Signature
• Israel, Poor Louse!
• God’s Delays
• He Stood His Ground
• The Christian’s Stand
• A Heart with Skill to Listen
• What Will Happen?
• Permanent Fence-Sitters
• Frame Your Heart to the Burden
• Sit Quietly
• Choose the Better
• A Continual Transformation
• Why Doesn’t He Intervene?
• Radiant with Hope
• The Secret of Understanding
• Something Much Smaller
• Visible Threats, Invisible Protection
• “I Cannot Act by Myself”
• No Home, No Love, No Welcome
• “But I Don’t Feel Very Loving”
• Divine Healing and Miracles
• Divine Healing and God’s Glory
• Might and Joy
• He Will Find a Place
• Plunged into Grief ... for Your Good
• Faith Leads to Certainty
• God’s Hands or Men’s?
• Make Me a Servant
• Don’t Let Your Courage Fail
• Not Your Battle
• Our Sennacheribs
• Small Change
• All We Need to Know
• A Salt Land
• Thy Shining-Place
• He Shall Sit as a Refiner
• Rich Enough for the Need
• Rescued through Suffering
• Dwell in Christ, Dwell in Love
• The Prerequisite for Discernment
• Unwitting Sins
• Defend and Deliver Me, Lord
• Incense
• I Am Your Salvation
• What Else Do You Need?
• This Moment’s Need
• Two Things You Can Always Do
• God’s Message or Satan’s
• Impossible Situations
• The Rough Road to Freedom
• Two Sides of a Coin
• Strength for Anything
• Where Is Your Mind?
• Mercy Even There
• Thy Mighty Deeds
• Clouds and Mist
• I Can’t Take It!
• When We Are Wronged
• So High and So Low
• “The Powers That Be”
• What Will People Say?
• No Reservations
• Fiery Ordeals
• Exert Yourself
• Intention
• I Will Bring You to Safety
• A Good Beating
• The Accuser’s Overthrow
• The Sense of Injured Merit
• Love—The Master Spring
• Where to Begin
• Lifestyle
• Such Cowards
• The Cross Is the Test of Love
• Speaking the Truth in Love
• Divine Dispossession
• The Helplessness of God’s Servants
• The Supreme Act of Will
• There Is No Other Way
• Follow the Sign
• Don’t Get It Backwards
• The Fire of His Grace
• Your Outward Life
• Fellow-Servants
• God Will Stop at Nothing
• Bend Your Necks to My Yoke
• The Test of Relinquishment
• Hidden Happenings
• This Ordinary Loneliness
• How to Measure a Life
• A Hard Way and an Easy Yoke
• Action as Opposed to Feeling
• Godliness with Contentment
• Other Plans
• Take Up the Cross
• Why This Sinking?
• The Way of the Cross Leads to the Cross
• How Much Is Enough?
• Useless Weeping
• Holy in Every Part
• Dying We Still Live On
• Stay Awake One Hour
• Willing to Be Walked On
• Strength for What’s Coming
• Impossible Places
• The Greed of Doing
• The Greed of Being
• The Greed of Having
• What About Him, Lord?
• A No Is a Mercy
• The Heart of Our Need
• More Important than Happiness
• Gifts We Never Thought of Asking For
• As the Need Arises Day by Day
• Love Takes Authority
• Misgivings
• Something to Give Back
• God’s Curriculum
• How to Go On
• All That Comes to Me
• Reckoned among Transgressors
• Convenient Obstacles
• Heaven-Sent Obstacles
• Trouble Is Only a Gateway
• Equality—Something to Be Coveted?
• Seek Things That Last
• Do I Love My Neighbor?
• Look for the Ancient Paths
• Sudden Change
• Scriptural Weight Lifting
• Very Thoroughly Initiated
• A Castle Besieged
• The Power, the Glory, and the Humbling
• What We Do Not Want
• Who—Me, Lord?
• The Mightiest Act
• Relinquish Everything
• Deal First with God
• The Strength of the Lamb
• In a Desperate Position
• What Thanks Do We Expect?
• No Visible Results?
• A Short Bed
• Housecleaning
• Cared for in the Wilderness
• Remember This in the Dark Place
• This Is My Classroom
• The Glory of Sacrifice
• A Spiritual Conceit
• Jesus Was Never Busy
• The Father’s Answer
• Only a Child May Enter
• No Question about the Supernatural
• When Things Come to Nothing
• The Long Leisure of Eternity
• On Planks or Pieces of the Ship
• Do Not Try to Save Yourself
• Blessed Inconveniences
• All Things Serve Thee
• The Devil’s Schemes
• Reason for Conflict
• A Simple Statement Suffices
• Nevertheless We Must Run Aground
• God Tangles Himself in My Need
• The Lifeline
• Perseverance
• Envy Blinds
• Creative Love
• The Exceptional Case
• The Acceptance of Suffering
• Stripped
• Glory in Common Things
• Stress, Discipline, and Choice
• Let God Choose the Curriculum
• How to Prepare to Hear God
• Hurt Yet Peaceful
• The Work of God Displayed
• The Facets of Redemption
• Self-Disgust
• The Holy Paradox
• His Peace and Ours
• Proof of the Fear of the Lord
• My Work—or His?
• The Long Way Around
• He Knows the Truth
• Not My Prerogative
• This We Know
• Bad Moods
• Forgiveness Is an Act of Faith
• The Weapon of Forgiveness
• How to Help People
• The Fear of Loss
• Guilt
• Tradition
• Instant Obedience
• Let God Rescue Him
• God’s Arm—Too Short?
• Burning and Tender Love
• Better to Be Maimed
• Both Hands, Both Feet, Both Eyes
• Take the Word to Heart
• About the Author
• Back Ad
• Back Cover