115: Peace in the Midst of the Storm – Vona Johnson, Christian Retirement Coach

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Sometimes God’s answer to prayer isn’t what we expect or want. No one knows this better than this week’s guest of Longing for More, Dorenthea Nemeth.

She prayed God would deepen her husband’s faith but was not prepared for how that would happen. Her husband was arrested, tried, and convicted of a crime and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. But this story isn’t about that.

It’s about how God carried Dorenthea through this storm and gave her a peace that surpasses all understanding. And then He gave her a platform to help her encourage and inspire others to trust God no matter what storm they encounter.

You will be blessed by her courage and her faith, I promise!

Main Points From the Show

Dorenthea Nemeth is a wife, a mother, a conference speaker, and author. She shares about how her life was turned upside down when her husband was arrested and sentenced to 16 years in prison. She shares that everything she went through God used for good.

Throughout her husband’s incarceration, she trusted God. Even though she lost her home, her car, and had to live with her parents for five years, she trusted God.

She shares her story to encourage women to trust in God. To trust in his timing and to know that His timing is perfect and his love is perfect.

She shares how it is the enemy’s job to wear us down. He wants us to feel that God doesn’t love us, but when we know the character of God, we know that He is always walking with us.

Quotes from the Show

“We pray for God to take us out of it when it is actually his will for us to go through it.”

“Faith doesn’t deny reality, but faith believes God in spite of it.”

Favorite Verse or Saying

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Deuteronomy 31:6 NIV