![]() 1 Peter 5:9-10 Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.ĩ. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. James 1:2-4 Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. Rejoice in hope be patient in affliction be persistent in prayer.Ĩ. Romans 12:11-12 Do not lack diligence be fervent in spirit serve the Lord. 2 Corinthians 12:10 That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”Ħ. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. John 16:33 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. No power in the sky above or in the earth below-indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.ĥ. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow- not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. Romans 8:35-39 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day we are being slaughtered like sheep.” No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. A nd I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. “You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial – but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.” - Charles F. “Every hardship you are facing each day is a reminder that you are one of those strongest soldiers of God. Suffering and hardship joyfully accepted in the path of obedience to Christ show the supremacy of Christ more than all our faithfulness in fair day.” John Piper But happiness in suffering signals the value of God. Sunshine happiness signals the value of sunshine. ![]() “Joy in God in the midst of suffering makes the worth of God – the all-satisfying glory of God – shine more brightly than it would through our joy at any other time. Jesus is in the happiness business.” John Hagee But it is founded on the solid rock of old fashioned happiness. “Christianity certainly involves hardship and discipline. “Trials teach us what we are they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.” Charles Spurgeon “ Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” C.S. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.“ “ When something bad happens you have three choices. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.” Harry Emerson Fosdick He who faces no calamity will need no courage. “He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. ![]() “Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.” A. ![]()
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