God Doesn't Care
I Want To Believe, But...
Pastor Nick Stanislowski

4 Reasons You Can Believe God Cares:

1. God is

responsible for your

The Bible in 4 Words:
1.

2.

12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned— —Romans 5:12 (NIV)

3.

4.

God’s entire plan is to

what destroyed

2. There is a

for your

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. —James 1:2-4 (NIV)

2 Purposes for Your Pain:
1. To

you

2. To

you

God allows you to

to make you

3. God is always

in your

18The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. —Psalm 34:18 (NIV)

1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea…” —Psalm 46:1-2 (NIV)

Instead of answering all of your

, God just wants to be your

4. He

for

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. —2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NIV)

The

is proof that God is

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