Fire Of Delayed Answers
, by Sorge, Bob
- ISBN: 9780962118531 | 0962118532
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/30/1998
This book helps clarify why the answers to our prayers may be delayed and gives practical advise for walking in faith and hope until God's release comes.
Bob Sorge and his wife Marci reside in Kansas City, Missouri, along with their three children
| Introduction | p. 8 |
| The Furnace Of Affliction | |
| Refiner's Fire | p. 13 |
| God is a fire | |
| God is a refiner | |
| God's purifying fire | |
| Buying gold | |
| God's initiative | |
| The value of buying | |
| Is infirmity from God? | |
| Why infirmity and affliction? | |
| Salted with fire | |
| Aflame for Jesus | |
| The last days' fire | |
| The Perseverance Of Job | p. 23 |
| Holy man and prophet | |
| Job's three friends | |
| Stop and listen | |
| Theological crisis | |
| My own theological struggles | |
| Noah, Daniel, and Job | |
| Notes on Job | |
| Elihu | |
| The turning point | |
| The Creator God | |
| Judgment begins at God's house | |
| Sharing Christ's afflictions | |
| Deciphering God's will | |
| Why did Job suffer? | |
| How God changed Job | |
| Greater fruitfulness | |
| Prison Theology | p. 45 |
| Satanic bondage | |
| A divine prison | |
| The church at Smyrna | |
| Imprisoned with a purpose | |
| Paul the prisoner | |
| Cut off from the mainstream | |
| Joseph's jail | |
| Imprisoned for obedience | |
| The word of the Lord tested him | |
| Wisdom is fruitful | |
| Joseph's wisdom | |
| Fruitfulness | |
| Breaking off the yoke | |
| A prisoner of hope | |
| The source of hope | |
| Character produces hope | |
| David's Cave | p. 61 |
| David's delay | |
| David's depression | |
| David's loneliness | |
| Ministry hiatus | |
| A sense of significance | |
| The purpose of the wilderness | |
| A broken faith | |
| Balancing brokenness and faith | |
| The Lord's deliverance | |
| David and Achish | |
| Return to Ziklag | |
| Why so much pain? | |
| David and Solomon | |
| Teaching Versus Training | |
| David and Doeg | |
| When The Lights Go Out | p. 77 |
| Walking through the valley | |
| The valley's purpose | |
| Learning to listen | |
| Five phases of the valley journey | |
| Through the valley with the Psalms | |
| Double-minded? | |
| Assurances for those in darkness | |
| Morning light | |
| Jesus' Teachings On Delay | p. 87 |
| Delay during Jesus' ministry | |
| Lazarus | |
| Washing Peter's feet | |
| Jesus' teachings on delay | |
| To be found watching | |
| The unjust judge | |
| Parable of the ten virgins | |
| Wise servant/evil servant | |
| Comfort For The Afflicted | p. 99 |
| There must be more | |
| Precious insight | |
| Sometimes God uses affliction to: | |
| Bring us back to obedience | |
| Bring us to a greater knowledge of Christ | |
| Strengthen our faith | |
| Bring us to greater spiritual maturity | |
| Bring us to a place of greater dependence and brokenness | |
| Catapult us into another dimension in God | |
| Reveal His love for us | |
| Give us a greater sense of compassion for others | |
| Encourage others | |
| Remove judgmentalism | |
| Restore real Christianity | |
| Produce an appetite for heaven | |
| Establish a sign of kingdom visitation | |
| Birth in us a radical willingness to obey | |
| Reveal His glory | |
| The certainty of God's work being completed | |
| Brokenness | p. 117 |
| Weeping | |
| Emptying | |
| How Jesus cultivates brokenness | |
| The testings of God | |
| The prodigal's older brother | |
| Unbroken strength | |
| The Lord's mercy | |
| Childlike dependence | |
| Strength perfected in weakness | |
| Man's strength constricts | |
| Strengthen your brethren | |
| Desperate Dependence and Heart Enlargement | p. 131 |
| Four kinds of dependence | |
| King Hezekiah | |
| The furnace of affliction | |
| Here comes the test | |
| Knowing the heart | |
| Spiritual pride | |
| A second dynamic: An enlarged heart | |
| What is an enlarged heart? | |
| How God enlarges our hearts | |
| Some principles regarding heart enlargement | |
| Back to Hezekiah | |
| A heart for the next generation | |
| Why the angioplasty was unsuccessful | |
| Manasseh | |
| Persevering to completion | |
| Quietness And Confidence (Isaiah 30:15) | |
| The Assyrians Are Coming! | p. 149 |
| Background to Isaiah 30:15 | |
| Looking to Egypt | |
| Quietness and confidence | |
| Torn between the two | |
| God can wait | |
| Cease from anger | |
| Discerning the source | |
| Dance Of The Two Camps | p. 161 |
| Dance of the two camps | |
| The quietness camp | |
| Pros and cons | |
| Does God want us infirm? | |
| The confidence camp | |
| Divine healing and God's will | |
| Limited maturity | |
| The dance | |
| When God increases the pressure | |
| Embracing both camps | |
| Concluding journal entry | |
| Waiting For Delayed Answers | p. 175 |
| The middle squish | |
| Psalm 34:19 | |
| Jesus on quietness/confidence | |
| A quick work | |
| How God prepared Moses | |
| Connecting verses 15 and 18 | |
| How God is exalted | |
| A God of justice | |
| Succumbing to unbelief | |
| Demanding immediate relief | |
| The blessing: When God speaks | |
| Two observations | |
| Abraham | |
| David | |
| Learning to wait | |
| Samuel and Saul | |
| Elijah and the famine | |
| Quieted By His Love | p. 195 |
| Quietness | |
| He will quiet you | |
| Quieted with His love | |
| Perfected love | |
| Offended by God | |
| The love test | |
| "Do you love Me?" | |
| Peter's love test | |
| He loves me! | |
| A longing to know His love | |
| Confidence In His Ways | p. 207 |
| Under seige | |
| Restoration | |
| God's ways | |
| Knowing God | |
| Hurt, then healed | |
| Jacob | |
| The straight ways of the Lord | |
| Paul's thorn | |
| Strength perfected in weakness | |
| Was the thorn removed? | |
| Why do some prayers remain unanswered? | |
| A testimony! | |
| My parents' testimony | |
| Martha theology | |
| Don't Cast Away Your Confidence! | p. 221 |
| After God | |
| Maintain your purity! | |
| The Psalm One man | |
| Marks of godliness | |
| Zacharias and Elizabeth | |
| Barren | |
| Blameless | |
| Pursue God! | |
| Mustard seed faith | |
| "I believed, therefore I spoke" | |
| Don't cast away your confidence | |
| Order Form | p. 233 |
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