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Finding Peace in Life's Storms
Charles H. Spurgeon unwraps God’s gift of hope as he presents us with strong encouragement and a powerful tool for surviving daily struggles and temptations. This book will renew and strengthen your walk with Christ as you discover how to…
*Weather difficult personal storms
*Experience God’s secure protection
*Receive daily strength and encouragement
*Turn painful memories into blessings
*Build a solid foundation of faith and trust
*Receive the outpouring of God’s love
*Replace fear and doubt with peace
*Know that Jesus will never let you go
*Be assured of your salvation
No case is too desperate for God. There is no problem He cannot overcome. Hope in God can see you through your greatest difficulties and meet every longing of your heart.
*Weather difficult personal storms
*Experience God’s secure protection
*Receive daily strength and encouragement
*Turn painful memories into blessings
*Build a solid foundation of faith and trust
*Receive the outpouring of God’s love
*Replace fear and doubt with peace
*Know that Jesus will never let you go
*Be assured of your salvation
No case is too desperate for God. There is no problem He cannot overcome. Hope in God can see you through your greatest difficulties and meet every longing of your heart.
153 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1997
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
5,989 books1,623 followersCharles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian, John Gill). The congregation quickly outgrew their building, moved to Exeter Hall, then to Surrey Music Hall. In these venues, Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000—all in the days before electronic amplification. In 1861, the congregation moved permanently to the newly constructed Metropolitan Tabernacle.
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May 28, 2011
Sterling - as Spurgeon always is.
December 11, 2025
I couldn’t quite pinpoint whether this was originally intended to be a book by Spurgeon or if this is a compilation of some of his sermons, but it seems likely it’s the latter from the way each section starts with a different passage. Regardless, these writings on hope were so encouraging and convicting!
February 8, 2025
Spurgeon truly understands suffering from his personal experiences and knows how to convey this as a message of hope! A suffering christian who is brought to the end of themselves, surrenders all to Christ and is then led into a blessed hope of glory; Christ in us, the hope of glory.
Final Rating: 5.0
Final Rating: 5.0
May 28, 2023
Book four of “Spurgeon on Prayer and Spiritual Warfare,” an Anthology. 3 stars. The first half was great, the second half was repetitive.
December 15, 2009
A book that gave me a good perspective on my life when I was going through some really bad times.
April 19, 2022
Many chapters were a providential blessing and encouragement to my heart in particular times of need for renewed strength.
February 18, 2020
I would read this again someday, which is my measure of a 5-star book, particularly if I were in crisis, especially if I had some terminal illness. At this reading, I am not in crisis, but read it because it was next on my Spurgeon list. And it's never a bad thing to have sustenance for such times already absorbed within us.
Saved in Hope: I thought Spurgeon's description apt of how the human body affects our emotions and our service. I also liked all the Biblical promises of hope in the life to come. I imagine someone protesting that this chapter doesn't talk much about hopes here and now, or even that Spurgeon doesn't have enough faith for temporal hopes for this life. But I find Spurgeon's list of hopes realistic and, well, hopeful. We all will die one day.
The Anchor of Your Soul: I loved this chapter on the hope in Jesus being an anchor for our souls. (As a sidenote, it troubles me whenever people shorten this verse to leave out what the hope is in. Not just any old hope in anything will do for an anchor. False hope certainly can't. Only one hope is steadfast. I've seen "Hope is an anchor of the soul" both online and on t-shirts. Spurgeon did take the verse in context.)
Songs in the Night: I loved that Spurgeon detailed what all it meant for God to be our God in "God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us." - Psalm 67:6-7
The Gift of Memory: Spurgeon sounded less Calvinistic in this section than he sometimes did in other books, even arguing against a few of its more extreme tenets and stating, "Remember that it is not a matter of opinion as to what you like or do not like, as to what you think or do not think. You must turn to the Bible, and if you find it there, you must believe it." He tried balancing one verse against another, telling, "Now you may say, 'I cannot reconcile the two.' There are a great many other things that you cannot do. God knows where these two things meet, even though you do not, and I hope you do not intent to wait until you are a philosopher before you will be saved. If you do, it is likely that while you are trying to be wise by persistently remaining a virtual fool, you will find yourself in hell, where your wisdom will not do you any good."
When All Looks Hopeless: I actually know someone that Spurgeon's "desperate disease" described well, in all its strangeness. "Only Jesus Christ Himself can deal with them. It is a good thing to add that He has special skill in dealing with desperate diseases and finds delight in healing those whom all others have left for lost... Praise God that He has brought help through One who is mighty, who can make the deaf hear, causing His voice to resound with sweet encouragement in the deathlike stillness of the dungeons of despair... Appeal to God to give them the hope of the great Healer; pray that He would come and deliver them, for their plight is past the ability of men."
Christ in You: I loved this chapter's study on patience. It came just after a few moments of impatience for me.
Favorite quotes:
"We expect to see the glory of Christ and to share in it, as much as we expect to see tomorrow morning. Actually, we may not live to see the sun tomorrow morning, but we will certainly see the King in His beauty in the land that is far away."
"This is a hope worth having, for it is grounded on the Word of God, the faithfulness of God, and His power to carry out His own promise."
"My most comfortable prospect about this life is that it will melt away into eternal life."
"A person who believes God gains strength for work, patience for suffering, wholeheartedness for love, earnestness for obedience, and zealousness for service... Far from being opposed to good works, faith is the ever flowing fountain from which they proceed."
"We need an anchor to hold us so that we may remain peaceful and find rest for our souls."
"Instead, when you are under temptation or when your spirit is depressed, when you are under trial and affliction, you will not only hold your hope, which is your duty, but your hope will hold you, which is your privilege."
"Blessed is he who believes against his feelings, yes, and hopes against hope. It is a strange thing to hope against hope, to believe in things that are impossible, to see things that are invisible. He who can do that has learned the art of faith."
"He is 'our own God': ours to trust, ours to love, ours to run to in every dark and troublesome night, ours to commune with in every bright and sunny day, ours to be our guide in life. He is our help in death and our glory in immortality. He is 'our own God' by providing us His wisdom to guide our path, His power to sustain our steps, His love to comfort our lives, His every attribute to enrich us with more than royal wealth."
"Fear stays with some people as if she were an ongoing guest and is entertained as though she were a dear, familiar friend."
"He has helped His church in the past. Why not now? Is she undeserving? She has always been so. Has she backslidden? She has done so many times before, yet He has visited her and restored her. Why not now?"
"We are few, too few for this great work, but God will bless us, and therefore we are enough."
"Should I sit down and cry because my candle has been extinguished? No, not while the sun shines."
"Why should I cry out when the sun of my prosperity goes down, if in the darkness of my adversity I will be better able to count the starry promises with which my faithful God has been pleased to gem the sky?"
"Many a promise is written in invisible ink, which you cannot read until the fire of trouble brings out the letters."
"Our Lord's transfiguration did not disqualify Him from casting out demons, nor did it make Him feel too sublime and spiritual to grapple with human ills."
"There is a mighty effectiveness in these two gospel ordinances of prayer and fasting. The first links us to heaven; the second separates us from earth. Prayer takes up the banqueting table of God; fasting overturns the indulgent tables of earth."
"How is it that Satan has the impudence to make men despair? Surely it is a piece of infernal impertinence that he dares to do it. Despair, when you have an omnipotent God to help you? Despair, when the precious blood of the Son of God has been given for sinners? Despair,when God delights in mercy? Despair, when the silver bell of hope rings, 'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest' (Matt. 11:28)? Despair, while life lasts, while mercy's gate stands wide open, while the messengers of mercy call to you to come? Despair, when you have God's word, 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; thought they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.' (Isa. 1:18)?
"Patience is a pearl that is found only in the deep seas of affliction; and only grace can find it there, bring it to the surface, and adorn the neck of faith with it."
Speaking of "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope; and hope maketh not ashamed..." Rom 5:3-5
"Then patience provides us with personal experience in learning the character of God. In other words, the more we endure and the more we test the faithfulness of God, the more we prove His love and the more we perceive His wisdom."
"How can we see Jesus in His full power unless there is a storm for Him to calm?"
"We bow in patience, and then we rise in the joyful experience of heavenly support."
"I do not trust my love for God, only God's love for me."
"'God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son' (John 3:16). We cannot measure such love. We become affected by it; we are filled with wonder and admiration. Its greatness, its uniqueness, its distinction, its infinity all these amaze us. It is poured out into our hearts."
"Let us especially tell those who seem most likely to laugh at us for I have learned by experience that some of these are most likely to be affected."
Saved in Hope: I thought Spurgeon's description apt of how the human body affects our emotions and our service. I also liked all the Biblical promises of hope in the life to come. I imagine someone protesting that this chapter doesn't talk much about hopes here and now, or even that Spurgeon doesn't have enough faith for temporal hopes for this life. But I find Spurgeon's list of hopes realistic and, well, hopeful. We all will die one day.
The Anchor of Your Soul: I loved this chapter on the hope in Jesus being an anchor for our souls. (As a sidenote, it troubles me whenever people shorten this verse to leave out what the hope is in. Not just any old hope in anything will do for an anchor. False hope certainly can't. Only one hope is steadfast. I've seen "Hope is an anchor of the soul" both online and on t-shirts. Spurgeon did take the verse in context.)
Songs in the Night: I loved that Spurgeon detailed what all it meant for God to be our God in "God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us." - Psalm 67:6-7
The Gift of Memory: Spurgeon sounded less Calvinistic in this section than he sometimes did in other books, even arguing against a few of its more extreme tenets and stating, "Remember that it is not a matter of opinion as to what you like or do not like, as to what you think or do not think. You must turn to the Bible, and if you find it there, you must believe it." He tried balancing one verse against another, telling, "Now you may say, 'I cannot reconcile the two.' There are a great many other things that you cannot do. God knows where these two things meet, even though you do not, and I hope you do not intent to wait until you are a philosopher before you will be saved. If you do, it is likely that while you are trying to be wise by persistently remaining a virtual fool, you will find yourself in hell, where your wisdom will not do you any good."
When All Looks Hopeless: I actually know someone that Spurgeon's "desperate disease" described well, in all its strangeness. "Only Jesus Christ Himself can deal with them. It is a good thing to add that He has special skill in dealing with desperate diseases and finds delight in healing those whom all others have left for lost... Praise God that He has brought help through One who is mighty, who can make the deaf hear, causing His voice to resound with sweet encouragement in the deathlike stillness of the dungeons of despair... Appeal to God to give them the hope of the great Healer; pray that He would come and deliver them, for their plight is past the ability of men."
Christ in You: I loved this chapter's study on patience. It came just after a few moments of impatience for me.
Favorite quotes:
"We expect to see the glory of Christ and to share in it, as much as we expect to see tomorrow morning. Actually, we may not live to see the sun tomorrow morning, but we will certainly see the King in His beauty in the land that is far away."
"This is a hope worth having, for it is grounded on the Word of God, the faithfulness of God, and His power to carry out His own promise."
"My most comfortable prospect about this life is that it will melt away into eternal life."
"A person who believes God gains strength for work, patience for suffering, wholeheartedness for love, earnestness for obedience, and zealousness for service... Far from being opposed to good works, faith is the ever flowing fountain from which they proceed."
"We need an anchor to hold us so that we may remain peaceful and find rest for our souls."
"Instead, when you are under temptation or when your spirit is depressed, when you are under trial and affliction, you will not only hold your hope, which is your duty, but your hope will hold you, which is your privilege."
"Blessed is he who believes against his feelings, yes, and hopes against hope. It is a strange thing to hope against hope, to believe in things that are impossible, to see things that are invisible. He who can do that has learned the art of faith."
"He is 'our own God': ours to trust, ours to love, ours to run to in every dark and troublesome night, ours to commune with in every bright and sunny day, ours to be our guide in life. He is our help in death and our glory in immortality. He is 'our own God' by providing us His wisdom to guide our path, His power to sustain our steps, His love to comfort our lives, His every attribute to enrich us with more than royal wealth."
"Fear stays with some people as if she were an ongoing guest and is entertained as though she were a dear, familiar friend."
"He has helped His church in the past. Why not now? Is she undeserving? She has always been so. Has she backslidden? She has done so many times before, yet He has visited her and restored her. Why not now?"
"We are few, too few for this great work, but God will bless us, and therefore we are enough."
"Should I sit down and cry because my candle has been extinguished? No, not while the sun shines."
"Why should I cry out when the sun of my prosperity goes down, if in the darkness of my adversity I will be better able to count the starry promises with which my faithful God has been pleased to gem the sky?"
"Many a promise is written in invisible ink, which you cannot read until the fire of trouble brings out the letters."
"Our Lord's transfiguration did not disqualify Him from casting out demons, nor did it make Him feel too sublime and spiritual to grapple with human ills."
"There is a mighty effectiveness in these two gospel ordinances of prayer and fasting. The first links us to heaven; the second separates us from earth. Prayer takes up the banqueting table of God; fasting overturns the indulgent tables of earth."
"How is it that Satan has the impudence to make men despair? Surely it is a piece of infernal impertinence that he dares to do it. Despair, when you have an omnipotent God to help you? Despair, when the precious blood of the Son of God has been given for sinners? Despair,when God delights in mercy? Despair, when the silver bell of hope rings, 'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest' (Matt. 11:28)? Despair, while life lasts, while mercy's gate stands wide open, while the messengers of mercy call to you to come? Despair, when you have God's word, 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; thought they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.' (Isa. 1:18)?
"Patience is a pearl that is found only in the deep seas of affliction; and only grace can find it there, bring it to the surface, and adorn the neck of faith with it."
Speaking of "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience, experience, and experience, hope; and hope maketh not ashamed..." Rom 5:3-5
"Then patience provides us with personal experience in learning the character of God. In other words, the more we endure and the more we test the faithfulness of God, the more we prove His love and the more we perceive His wisdom."
"How can we see Jesus in His full power unless there is a storm for Him to calm?"
"We bow in patience, and then we rise in the joyful experience of heavenly support."
"I do not trust my love for God, only God's love for me."
"'God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son' (John 3:16). We cannot measure such love. We become affected by it; we are filled with wonder and admiration. Its greatness, its uniqueness, its distinction, its infinity all these amaze us. It is poured out into our hearts."
"Let us especially tell those who seem most likely to laugh at us for I have learned by experience that some of these are most likely to be affected."
October 10, 2015
All of Spurgeons books can get only a high rating. This was an indepth teaching on the title according to God Word as are all his books. It amazes me how he could've written so many books. He of course had to've been full to overflowing of The Holy Spirit. One very remarkable man. I have read this book off and on for years.
June 6, 2008
We read this book for our women's bible study at church. It's a good collection of sermons and I agree with most of Spurgeon's theology. However, sometimes he stresses what we need to DO more than who we need to believe in...Very good illustrations and stories to prove his point(s).
April 27, 2020
Okay I will admit that Spurgeon is one of my favorites. I enjoy the older messages, and he is among my favorites. Also my family has been going through an extremely challenging times of late, and this collection of messages spoke so much comfort to my hurting heart. I recommend this to those that are in need of some solid, truthful reminders of the biblical teachings of a christian walk. We were never promised an easy road, but we were definitely promised that our loving God would never leave us in the trials. Yes I recommend this for those looking for comfort and truth.
December 24, 2025
Peace. The promise of Christmas. Yet, how it seems to elude us. But Christ! He has given us a promise stronger than any trial we will ever face. Peace with and from God! What a promise!
In each chapter, Spurgeon points us to one specific thing that God has given us to bring us peace. I found chapter 4 especially beautiful. Have you ever considered how God uses memories to bring us peace? I hadn't. You should read the book for every chapter, but I especially recommend that one.
In each chapter, Spurgeon points us to one specific thing that God has given us to bring us peace. I found chapter 4 especially beautiful. Have you ever considered how God uses memories to bring us peace? I hadn't. You should read the book for every chapter, but I especially recommend that one.
August 11, 2023
I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to give Spurgeon less than five stars. His joy, brilliance, and concern for the oppressed Christian shines through every page. I will cherish the encouragements, analogies, arguments, and exegesis that I’ve learned through him until my dying day. Soli Deo Gloria
June 16, 2025
I love Spurgeon, but I think I’ll stick with his sermons. Spurgeon is many wonderful things, but “concise” is not one of them. Nevertheless, I appreciated a number of his analogies and inspiring expositions here.
July 30, 2025
Spurgeon offers a look at the Christian life throughout different seasons, reminding the Christian of the hope they find in Jesus regardless of their present situation. What has stuck with me after finishing this book was the question "Where is my hope?" as well as the discussion on predestination.
August 16, 2025
Heavenly encouragement in spades.. a full hand of Aces.
October 27, 2021
One of Spurgeons most underrated books in my opinions.
Definitely a thought provoking and humbling call/reminder that we are to trust God in the midst of our biggest storms.
Definitely a thought provoking and humbling call/reminder that we are to trust God in the midst of our biggest storms.
May 31, 2010
A wonderful book by the "Prince of Preachers"!
December 30, 2013
excellent it is of course Spurgeon
May 5, 2016
Spurgeon reveals, in breath taking clarity and theological soundness the splendor of Gods Sovereignty, even and maybe more so in the trials of life, where we will always find his greater purpose.
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