{"id":2457,"date":"2021-03-03T13:56:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingstonesministries.org\/help4families\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:20:41","slug":"how-much-can-one-person-endure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingstonesministries.org\/help4families\/how-much-can-one-person-endure\/","title":{"rendered":"How much can one person endure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-ca5ff7a6 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div style=\"font-size:24px\" class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color adobe-reg-italic wp-elements-85a8a21107b8ee66b96e773a6aa630b7 wp-block-post-date has-text-color has-web-light-green-color\"><time datetime=\"2021-03-03T13:56:24+00:00\">March 3, 2021<\/time><\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"color:#ffffff;font-size:45px;font-style:normal;font-weight:600;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:4px\" class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color proxima-font wp-elements-8489a226fd32958d683121eb2fa02d00 wp-block-post-title has-text-color\">How much can one person endure<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-3fbbe129 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8aad077f1bd8885ccb3244d5615024aa wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">How much can one person endure? That thought may have crossed Horatio Spafford\u2019s mind when he crossed the Atlantic on his way to reunite with his wife in England and passed the very spot where his four precious daughters had drowned. If he did ponder that question, he must have prayed and found solace, for it was on that voyage that he wrote the famous hymn titled \u201cIt Is Well with My Soul.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9a4683e8408fb5cbc3e6ccffad565287 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-213a27ecaeff025edeee07459d1f1bc5 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">When sorrows like sea billows roll;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ad09b7b779db6cdca5886b7ef4b24499 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9c3722aed182a6ad9f92ef22717a83ec wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">It is well, it is well with my soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-998546f4b53b9d805f83b78beebf8c3e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">It is well (it is well),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-927b3d4afb4172c16695c856b47b4d08 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">with my soul (with my soul),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9c3722aed182a6ad9f92ef22717a83ec wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">It is well, it is well with my soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7bd1229a9f4beba33b0c6f9de0106d51 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-863a86bafe5d6d96ea52d59dd2b195f6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">Let this blest assurance control,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5e3ca4b7e9f9432dc7443491226eb21d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5c22e47be84b6db8cef27733cd568584 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">And hath shed His own blood for my soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0a01d6ef62fad990690ea5e9d0382e3c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1bbeaaf54fb976afae2ac8872246a1d0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">My sin, not in part but the whole,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c51865d415173110e547e03f569443da wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">Is nailed to His cross, and I bear it no more,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0ffb07c3a9015ec5af822856a6e81063 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0e0f608b6a74e68de379f8034fdfd5f0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-384b909b803c69aab39d4c232e222ac2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">If Jordan above me shall roll,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1dc9e821f7ca53b60bea1f2e37cd3d06 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">No pain shall be mine, for in death as in life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-037895a7851403b5c817d788c186c328 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b9b0663cffb496c1df5aa6440fbd1d40 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">And Lord haste the day, when the faith shall be sight,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d69cc62e01c69932b1c86e860fd6c85f wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-50915761e5232c68d59fd8a203e8aed8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a3a89e3d0fa25c889db2275aeaebcbc8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">Even so, it is well with my soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8c3eb9837b337dbd3dbc9351cbc12988 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">The lyrics of this hymn have crossed my mind repeatedly over the years as I\u2019ve struggled through many trials and as I\u2019ve heard the tragic stories of so many others since the birthing of Help 4 Families. \u201cHow,\u201d I\u2019ve asked God, \u201ccan it be well with my soul while I\u2014and so many others\u2014face so many heartbreaks?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e05381cd02ca74f792edc7188b6b5b80 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">I want that Horatio Spafford kind of faith. I want a faith that sees past the plentiful trials to the glory beyond where it is well with my soul. How can I get there? How can you get there? How can it be well with our souls in the midst of any kind of trouble?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"adobe-reg blog-link has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9c3d8127af1880de01306062dce5a99d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#1a1a1ab3;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0px\">Wherever you are on your interval between birth and death, will you join me in looking to Jesus, the one knows all the troubles we\u2019ve seen? With God in us, beside us and before us, we\u2019ll discover how we can enjoy the interval. May we know God\u2019s peace deep down in our souls\u2014a peace that transcends trials.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1614779784\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"How much can one person endure\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/livingstonesministries.org\/help4families\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much can one person endure? That thought may have crossed Horatio Spafford\u2019s mind when he crossed the Atlantic on his way to reunite with his wife in England and passed the very spot where his four precious daughters had drowned. 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