15 Reasons Why Things Happen: Navigating the Adversities and Conflicts of Life

By Darril Deaton

Adversity and conflict are unavoidable. Knowing the reasons why things happen, and responding Gods way, will help us navigate through the trials of life. Its possible to discover Gods purpose for the difficulties we experience. Its also possible to respond in ways that bring Gods power to bear on our circumstances.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Oct 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781512755626

Darril Deaton

Darril Deaton has served as a pastor and worship leader for over four decades and has experienced trials and adversities like everyone else. Through the experiences of life, with all its conflicts and difficulties, he has sought to know why things happen the way they do. His personal journey, along with seeking Biblical reasons for adversity, has resulted in this concise, easy to understand, answer book of the reasons why good and bad things happen to Christians, and how to respond. The author holds a degree in history from Regents College and a Doctor of Ministries degree from Trinity Theological Seminary. His greatest lessons, however, were learned by living the difficulties of life and seeking God’s revealed Word for how to respond.

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Part 1

Where Do Bad Things Come From?

P eople often ask, Why is this happening to me? or What did I ever do to deserve this? Joy and sorrow, victory and defeat, fulfillment and disappointment—why do these things happen? There is a divine purpose in the blessings we receive, but there is also this purpose in our heartaches. This is reflected in Paul’s letter to the church at Corinth.

To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:7–10