Finding Purpose in Pain // Jeremiah Curran

God never wastes a hurt. He is able to use our stresses, struggles, and suffering to do something both in us and through us.  TIMESTAMPS0:00 WELCOME0:44 DAVE INTRODUCES JEREMIAH1:48 WEEKLY TALKSTAY CONNECTED Great Lakes Church Website: greatlakeschurch.comGreat Lakes Church Instagram: instagram.com/greatlakeschurchGreat Lakes Church Facebook: facebook.com/greatlakeschurchGreat Lakes Church YouTube: youtube.com/greatlakeschurchGreat Lakes Church TikTok: tiktok.com/@greatlakeschurchGreat Lakes Church Twitter: twitter.com/glchurch  *** Lessons from Suffering: Big Idea:  Followers of Jesus learn to patiently ENDURE. Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.  For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.  So let is grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.  James 1:2-4 1.  When something bad is happening TO YOU, something good can be happening IN YOU. Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.  Instead, be very glad – for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.  1 Peter 4:12-13 2.  Growth often follows a new PERSPECTIVE. God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers.  Be happy about it!  Be very glad!  Matthew 5:11-12 3.  An eternal perspective produces ENDURANCE. I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed IN US.  Romans 8:18