Suffering as a gift - Hope pt2 -

Suffering as a gift - Hope pt2 -Series: Healing Through SufferingPreacher: Jonny GrantDate: 3rd March 2019-------------------Suffering as a gift – Hope (Part 2)\r\n\r\n All things for Good\r\n\r\n We pray for blessings\r\n\r\nWe pray for peace\r\n\r\nComfort for family, protection while we sleep\r\n\r\nWe pray for healing, for prosperity\r\n\r\nWe pray for your mighty hand to ease our suffering\r\n\r\nAnd all the while, You hear each spoken need\r\n\r\nYet love is way too much to give us lesser things…\r\n\r\n Embracing Suffering as a gift:\r\n\r\nProduces a Christ-like beauty - James 1v2-3\r\n\r\n‘Suffering is an opportunity to gain the most valuable thing on earth; a faith that is complete and lacking nothing; maturity and depth in our relationship with God.’ Alberry\r\n\r\n Results in an assured future - 1 Peter 1v6-7\r\n \r\nEnables us to comfort others - 2 Corinthians \r\n1v3-4\r\n\r\n Leads to the salvation of others - 2 Corinthians 4v10-12\r\n\r\n‘Oftentimes, while passing through the perils and defeats of my first four years on the mission field, I wondered…why God had permitted such things. But on looking back now, I already clearly perceive that the work never could have been accomplished but for the sufferings…’ Paton\r\n\r\n Displays the glory of God – 2 Corinthians 4v15