How to Handle Adversity: You Can Have Victory in Christ

By Charles F. Stanley

Book Overview

You lost your job. Your son ran away. A loved one just died from cancer. Your best friend is getting a divorce. The list is endless.

Adversity is a reality that no one can avoid. Everyone asks why when adversity strikes. Yet Dr. Stanley contends, "As much as we all want to know the answer to the why question, it is really not the most significant question. The real question each of us needs to ask is, 'How should I respond?'"

How to Handle Adversity helps you learn to

Ask the right questions about adversityBecome a comfort to othersRediscover the faithfulness of GodDeal with pride and weaknessLook at adversity from God's perspectiveGlorify God in your adversity

If you are a child of God whose heart's desire is to see God glorified through you, adversity will not put you down for the count. There will be those initial moments of shock and confusion. But the man or woman who has God's perspective on this life and the life to come will always emerge victorious ?Charles Stanley

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785264183
• ISBN13: 9780785264187
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Life Changing

This book opened my eyes in ways I didn’t expect. It didn’t just offer encouragement; it quietly dismantled a lens I didn’t realize I had been living behind. For so long, I had viewed adversity narrowly, as something to endure or escape, rather than something God might be actively using to shape, refine, and draw me closer to Himself. Through these pages, that perspective shifted. What struck me most was the enduring clarity of Charles F. Stanley’s voice. Even now, his work continues to do our Heavenly Father’s good work, guiding hearts toward trust, surrender, and deeper understanding. The wisdom carried here feels timeless, anchored not in circumstance but in truth. It reminded me that God is never absent in hardship, never wasteful with pain, and never distant from those who seek Him. This book didn’t just change how I think about adversity; it changed how I meet it. With more faith. With more patience. And with a renewed confidence that even the hardest seasons are held firmly within the purposes of a loving God.

Excellent book!

Another excellent book by Charles Stanley. Wonderful faith filled advice that is so encouraging. I recommend this book.

arnold turner

I have read this book three times, each at a point of pain and difficulty. This is a great book and a mighty tool that God has used to change my life. We cannot choose what trials come into our life but our choices will determine what it will do to us. This book will equipt you to choose wisely. I recommend it to everyone, for adversity will come to all, sooner or later.

"Written from the heart of God...."

Everyone seems to know how to tell us the best way to handle troubles these days. Charles Stanley knows how to tell us the Scriptural way, and truly writes from the heart of God.Frankly, this book is only matched by the Joseph story in learning how God wants us to handle adversity. "With Joseph in the University of Adversity" is one of the best on this.Both this, and the Joseph book speak to us from the heart, and not from the lofty heights of pedantic scholarship. Dr. Stanley is loved by nearly everyone. His unique in insight into surviving adversity will only add to his followers!HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

A TRULY AWESOME BOOK!

This book says it all. It has really helped me during my times of adversity. It really gives you a perspective of just how temporary everything in this world is, and that one day JUSTICE will finally be served to all who have been avenged. Some day the temporary "party" will finally come to an end, and wicked people will ultimately be punished.

In dark times this book is helpful.

You will find all the answers to why things happen in our lives for a reason. If you are going through adversity in your life, you may find this book helpful.

The book is the most beneficial book I've read to date!

The book shows you how important it is to really trust in God - how to understand God's purpose in one's life - and that situations we experience in our life can be a lasting benefit for us here on earth. One of the points that I discovered in the book was the ability to be a comforter. A comforter by definition of Charles Stanley is someome who has experienced and through that episode is able to offer true compassion and understanding by virtue of one's own identical experience. This book really gave me an opportunity to realise that all adversity is not necessarily 'bad', but infact a life building and beneficial experience. Therefore, one should rejoice during periods of adversity knowing God is in control and His master plan never fails!