True North Church
How Can I Benefit From My Pain (Part 2: Finding God When It Hurts)
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Fairbanks Campus
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Ecclesiastes 2:22-23
So what do people get for all their hard work and struggles on Earth? Their lives are filled with pain and their work is filled with grief. Even at night, their minds don't rest. It doesn't make sense at all."
Pain = a warning light that something is wrong.
So what do people get for all their hard work and struggles on Earth? Their lives are filled with pain and their work is filled with grief. Even at night, their minds don't rest. It doesn't make sense at all."
Pain = a warning light that something is wrong.
Five ways I can leverage my pain for Growth.
1. I can leverage my pain to draw closer to God and worship.
We were crushed and overwhelmed...and saw how powerless we were to help ourselves; but that was good, for then we put everything into the hands of God, who alone could save us…and he did help us!
2 Corinthians 1:8-10 (LB)
I'm glad not because it hurts you, but because the pain turns you to God.
2 Corinthians 7:9
1. I can leverage my pain to draw closer to God and worship.
We were crushed and overwhelmed...and saw how powerless we were to help ourselves; but that was good, for then we put everything into the hands of God, who alone could save us…and he did help us!
2 Corinthians 1:8-10 (LB)
I'm glad not because it hurts you, but because the pain turns you to God.
2 Corinthians 7:9
2. I can leverage my pain to draw closer to others in fellowship.
“By helping each other with your troubles, you truly obey the law of Christ.”
Galatians 6:2 (NCV)
“By helping each other with your troubles, you truly obey the law of Christ.”
Galatians 6:2 (NCV)
3. I can leverage my pain to grow more like Jesus in discipleship.
"Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways."
Proverbs 20:30 (TEV)
“Now, isn’t it wonderful all the ways in which this distress has goaded you closer to God? You’re more alive, more concerned, more sensitive, more reverent, more human, more passionate, more responsible. Looked at from any angle, you’ve come out of this with purity of heart.”
2 Corinthians 7:11 (MSG)
I've been put in jail more often, been whipped times without number. I've faced death again and again. Five different times I was whipped with 39 lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned with stones. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once, I spent a whole day and a night adrift at sea. I faced dangers from flooded rivers, and dangers from robbers, and dangers from angry mobs, that I face dangers in the cities and in the deserts and on stormy seas, and I face dangers from people who claim to be Christians, but are not. I've lived with weariness and pain and sleepless nights. I've often been hungry and thirsty and gone without food. I've often shivered with cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm, and besides all that, I've got the daily burden of all the churches that I've started.
2 Corinthians 11:23-28
We're pressed on every side by troubles, but we're not crushed and broken. Pressed but not broken. We're perplexed, but we don't give up and quit. We're hunted down, but God never abandons us,vWe get knocked down, but we get up again, we keep going. Through suffering, these bodies of ours constantly share in the death of Christ of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies.
2 Corinthians 4:8-10
"Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways."
Proverbs 20:30 (TEV)
“Now, isn’t it wonderful all the ways in which this distress has goaded you closer to God? You’re more alive, more concerned, more sensitive, more reverent, more human, more passionate, more responsible. Looked at from any angle, you’ve come out of this with purity of heart.”
2 Corinthians 7:11 (MSG)
I've been put in jail more often, been whipped times without number. I've faced death again and again. Five different times I was whipped with 39 lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned with stones. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once, I spent a whole day and a night adrift at sea. I faced dangers from flooded rivers, and dangers from robbers, and dangers from angry mobs, that I face dangers in the cities and in the deserts and on stormy seas, and I face dangers from people who claim to be Christians, but are not. I've lived with weariness and pain and sleepless nights. I've often been hungry and thirsty and gone without food. I've often shivered with cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm, and besides all that, I've got the daily burden of all the churches that I've started.
2 Corinthians 11:23-28
We're pressed on every side by troubles, but we're not crushed and broken. Pressed but not broken. We're perplexed, but we don't give up and quit. We're hunted down, but God never abandons us,vWe get knocked down, but we get up again, we keep going. Through suffering, these bodies of ours constantly share in the death of Christ of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies.
2 Corinthians 4:8-10
4. I can leverage my pain to be more sensitive in serving others.
God comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. Then, when others are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort that God has given us. You can be sure, that the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with His comfort through Christ, so that when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your benefit and salvation. For when God comforts us, it's so that we, in turn, can be an encouragement to you and then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer.
2 Corinthians 1:4-6 NLT
God comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. Then, when others are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort that God has given us. You can be sure, that the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with His comfort through Christ, so that when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your benefit and salvation. For when God comforts us, it's so that we, in turn, can be an encouragement to you and then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer.
2 Corinthians 1:4-6 NLT
5. We can leverage our to witness to the world.
I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News.
Philippians 1:12
In everything we do, we try to show that we're true servants of Jesus. We patiently endure suffering, We patiently endure suffering and hardship and trouble of every kind.
2 Corinthians 6:4
I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News.
Philippians 1:12
In everything we do, we try to show that we're true servants of Jesus. We patiently endure suffering, We patiently endure suffering and hardship and trouble of every kind.
2 Corinthians 6:4