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Sep 10, 2021 · The prophets had to learn and grow. And in the uncertainty, God made that happen. Knowing the future sounds wonderful, but it would ruin the present. The future is only God’s to behold (compare Ecclesiastes 8:7). THE GROWTH WE DESIRE. Growth often means pain. And growth without pain is an oxymoron. Suffering is often how God shows us himself.
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Oct 31, 2023 · 2 Corinthians 1:4, 6 (NLT) Your pain often reveals God’s purpose for you. God never wastes a hurt! If you’ve gone through a hurt, God wants you to help other people going through that same hurt. He can use the problems in your life to give you a ministry to others. In fact, the very thing that you’re most ashamed of or that you resent the ...
Apr 24, 2022 · 2 Corinthians 1:6 -7 (TLB) God expects you to use your pain to help others. Whatever mistake, failure, trouble, trial, or bad decision you’ve experienced, God says, “I’ll still use it for good in your life. And I expect you to use it to help others.”. This is called redemptive suffering. “In our trouble God has comforted us—and this ...
Jun 1, 2017 · Published Jun 01, 2017. Our Pain Has a Greater Purpose. I believe there is a side to suffering we miss when we focus solely on our pain rather than on God’s greater purpose. If you can see the ...
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Anytime something painful happens in your life, you have a choice. You can run to God or you can run from God. As a pastor, I’ve been involved in relief efforts after natural disasters in many countries. From those experiences I’ve noticed that in a crisis, typically about half the people run toward God with their pain and about half run awayfrom G...
We typically think we will attract others by impressing them with our successes, victories, and accomplishments. But talking about those things can create jealousy, competition, and distance between people. In contrast, sharing our weaknesses, failures, and grief creates a common bond. Pain is the great equalizer because it is indiscriminate. Pain ...
God’s goal is for us to become more like Christ. That leads to two questions. First, what is Jesus really like? Galatians says, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (Gal. 5:22–23). That’s a portrait of Jesus, and to become Christlike is to have these qualities in ...
Paul speaks of pain in connection with ministry in 2 Corinthians: [God] comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. Even when we are weighed down w...
Our pain may be the most powerful tool for bringing others to Christ and fulfilling his “Great Commission” to make disciples of all people. It may also be the least utilized tool. I have five hundred books on evangelism in my library, yet I don’t remember reading anything about using pain as our greatest witness. There are a number of reasons I bel...
Dec 10, 2021 · Here are 3 ways I see God using the pain in my life for His glory, so that “His work may be displayed in my life.”. Photo Credit: ©Getty Images/dragana991. 1. God uses pain in my life for ...
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Jun 14, 2023 · 6. To teach us to pray “Your will be done.”. “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:10) “ [Job] said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. May the name of the Lord be blessed!’” (Job 1:20–21) 7. To give us hope in Him.
