God Has Designed My Suffering

God Has Designed My SufferingSeries: Healing Through SufferingPreacher: Jonny GrantDate: 3rd February 2019-------------------Healing through Suffering\r\nGod has designed my suffering – Trust\r\n\r\n Flight, Fight or Faith\r\n\r\n Joseph – ‘In the place of God’\r\n\r\n Job – ‘No purpose of yours can be thwarted’\r\n\r\n‘It will not do to say that God only uses our suffering but does not design it. What God permits, he permits for a reason. And that reason is his design. If God foresees suffering, he can stop it, or not. If he does not, he has a purpose. Since he is infinitely wise, it is right to call this purpose a design.’ Piper\r\n\r\n Jeremiah – ‘Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD.’\r\n \r\nJesus - ‘What your power and will had decided should happen’\r\n\r\n‘The lash on his back, the thorns on his head, the spit on his cheek, the bruises on his face, the nails in his hands, the spear in his side, the scorn of rulers, the betrayal of his friends, the desertion by his disciples – these were all the result of sin, and all designed by God to destroy the power of sin.’ Piper