Have you ever asked these questions?
“Where is God?”
“Why doesn’t God do something about that?”
Me too. In the middle of your meantime, you are NOT alone
14-16 …We don’t have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He’s been through weakness and testing, experienced it all… —Hebrews 4:14-16 MSG
Maybe God isn’t trying to change your
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” —John 16:33 NIV
Last week, we looked at this verse…
Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. —2 Corinthians 12:7 NIV
Back at the beginning of 2 Corinthians, Paul writes…
3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. —2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NIV
Comfort: to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to.
Do you pray for comfort?
You can pray for, and count on, the
In your meantime, you are uniquely qulaified to
God comforts us to comfort…
Why does God comfort you?
To uniquely qualify you to comfort others.
“Fellowship of suffering”
For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. —2 Corinthians 1:5 NIV
Our capacity to
Comforting others brings
6If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
8We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. 9Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, —2 Corinthians 1:6-10 NIV
Pain to Purpose:
Seeing hope for your future is hard when you’re letting the pain of your past hold you back! Listen—there’s a better way! In the Pain to Purpose course we’ll learn how to heal, rebuild, and make a plan for the future together!
Are you ready to finally recover from your trauma, repair the broken pieces left in its wake, and re-ignite your purpose? Then join us for the Pain to Purpose Course. It’s a 12-week journey that will help you begin to partner with God to take back your story. The course will take place on Wednesday evenings at 6:30pm, and will run from October 6 to December 22. There is a small cost of $20 per person to cover your course materials. We will meet in Room 116 at Victory. Each week’s session will be about 90 minutes.
Sign up for Pain to purpose here: https://victorycc.life/page/991?EventOccurrenceId=181
Would you allow God to bring life-giving purpose to your life?