Cultivate Church Notes:
September 4, 2022

Good Suffering
Proper Perspective

12 Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. 13 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

His Point of View:

I. God uses pain to

me.
My suffering was good for me, for it taught me to pay attention to
your decrees. Psalm 119:71

II. God uses pain to

me.
Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our
ways. Proverbs 20:30 GNB

III. God uses pain to

me.
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come
at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life
is forced into the open and shows its true colors.
James 1:2-3 MSG

IV. God uses pain to

me.
You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good.
Genesis 50:20

V. God uses pain to

me.
3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has
a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is
fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing
nothing. James 1:3-4

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