Category: Pain and Suffering
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Finding True Comfort in Times of Affliction
In 2 Corinthians, Paul asserts his apostolic authority to guide the Corinthian church, emphasizing the importance of relying on God’s comfort in times of affliction. He highlights that true comfort comes from God alone, particularly for believers facing suffering, and encourages sharing this comfort with others, fostering hope and community.
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Suffering brings us closer.
Suffering is a somber reality. It does not matter if it is relational or a difficult circumstance, we all are suffering to a degree. It is not enough to experience it, but we also have to deal with it. We have two options: Turn Bitter. Embrace brokenness. Bitterness is caused…
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Adversity: He refines us by fire
We can use a cloth to wipe the dust off of gold, but before that gold can ever be used it, must be refined. Refining go,d is the process of heating the gold up to a point that all the impurities in the gold are bubbled to the top. The…
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Connection with God: the most effective way to live
Knowing Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior radically rearranges all our priorities, alters our perspectives and influences our relationships and decisions. When our focus becomes Christ, He becomes the center of our lives. His presence in our lives gives us an indescribable peace, no matter what is going on,…
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perseverance.
Perseverance and endurance. What are they? Perseverance is persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. Endurance is the fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way. Endurance is experiencing or surviving the pain. Perseverance, however, is not merely experiencing pain or hardships in life…
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the most insidious net
Can I ask you an honest question? If your entire life story, ALL of it, your secrets and all, was played out on a big screen for the entire world to see, how would that make you feel? What was your response just now? I believe it was either a…
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no.
The other day I wrote something that has even stuck with me. Judas sold Jesus for a very small amount of money. He traded a life of living for death. He sold Jesus for money. Man I can not tell you the things I have sold Jesus for in my…
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prisons wounds and scars.
Everyone knows a little bit of something about the Apostle Paul. Every person, good or bad, in the Bible is there to show us and teach us something about ourselves. The intent and purpose of God’s Word is to show us who we are on the inside. To help us…
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