{"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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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\" 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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