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  GOD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: As a child of God, you travel an appointed way chosen by God,
and true faith can protect you from misfortune.

Topics: "Faith in Adversity", "Divine Providence"
Scripture References: Psalm 37:23, Proverbs 16:9, Isaiah 55:8, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Ephesians 1:11

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A.W. Tozer emphasizes that for the child of God, there are no accidents,
as their path is divinely appointed by God even before their existence.
While misfortunes may appear to occur, they are merely illusions due to
our inability to understand God's hidden providence. True faith dispels
the notions of chance, affirming that those born of the Spirit are under
God's special care. Although believers may face the same earthly
challenges as others, they are spiritually protected and hidden with
Christ in God. Tozer reassures that God's purposes are at work, even
when circumstances seem unfavorable.

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To the child of God, there is no such thing as accident. He travels an
appointed way. The path he treads was chosen for him when as yet he was
not, when as yet he had existence only in the mind of God.

Accidents may indeed appear to befall him and misfortune stalk his way;
but these evils will be so in appearance only and will seem evils only
because we cannot read the secret script of God's hidden providence and
so cannot discover the ends at which He aims.

When true faith enters, chance and mischance go out for good. They have
no jurisdiction over them that are born of the Spirit, for such as these
are sons of the new creation and special charges of the Most High God.

While sojourning here below, these children of the eternal covenant may
pay token tribute to nature; sickness, old age and death may levy upon
them, and to the undiscerning eye, they may seem to be as other men.
Here, as in all its other judgments upon Christianity, the world is
completely fooled by appearances, for it cannot see that these believing
ones are hid with Christ in God.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/god-moves-in-mysterious-ways/
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