Wisdom for the Trials of Life - Part 2

Welcome to the intense podcast for tile Stanley for Friday, April 1 that hardship can be well hard to get a fresh perspective on how God uses suffering and pain to accomplish good.

Here's part two of wisdom for the trials of life, not only what you place a good life.

Some of you will place the extremely difficult and painful. Seemingly almost impossible things but one thing I know for certain what I want to share with in this message is the truth trod, tested. This is the true and if you listen carefully and be wise enough to jot down some of the things that I want to share with you.

You'll make the next trial at least a little easier, better understood and you will be looking for God's goodness right in the middle of the most painful part.

We give you will be getting in James chapter 1 he says consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing this in this. I can only count it all joy when I know something knowing that the testing of your faith is producing something profitable in you endurance the capacity to hang in there, no matter what. Listen and let endurance have its perfect result of all it brings the maturity our Christian experience and so he says.

Knowing these things if I from going to know them.

I gotta stop and assess myself the question God, what is your purpose and he has some very definite purposes for allowing you and me to go through the trials of our life solicited to see what some of these purposes are and the first one here is very evident this what he says consider it all joy, my brother, when you encounter various trials, no way that the testing of your faith. One of the primary purposes for which God allows trials in our life is to test our faith. God wants our faith to be strong and he wants of a lesson he wants to possibility and the potential of demonstrating in your strong faith what your God is able to see you through enable you to walk through it to work through and to survive and to come out victorious and to be blessed.

On the other side. God gets Gloria and some of the primary reasons that he allows these tests and trials in our life is simply because he is in the process of testing FA. A second reason second purpose for trials is to test our devotion to Jesus Christ. Now once in a while you think I'm doing fine and then God sends a trial in your life you think God how can I have compromised is how could I have drifted so far God has my mind been raised on bidding. All this you know what he's doing trial helped you to understand the relies and brought the surface that you devotion to him is weaker than you thought it was.

There's 1/3 reason.

If you notice that he test his nets. This he allows trials in a lie in order to purify our life. He allows trials like the purifiers that is often times things would be moving along in some trial hit your life and whatever you cry out to God, you get on your face and you begin to cry out to God large. What's going on in my life.

One of the things he will do, he will point to something that you've ignored point to something that you refuse to deal with point to something that you've kept for yourself point to some air of your life that you cannot surrender something you haven't yielded to. So what does he do trials have a way of putting pressure on his way down inside that surface sends an ally or habits. An ally all those areas of neglect in their life that God knows must be surfaced and dealt with it with to become mature. That's what this is all about. Notice what he said. He said, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance, and endurance have its perfect result that is when these tests come so that you may be perfect, all mature and complete, lacking in nothing that is listed there is no peace in anyone's heart when the heart is not pure and there is no power in that person's life when their life is not pure. You know how impurity and awesome dynamic Holy Ghost power. You don't have peace in your heart when sin is rampant or sin is enthroned in your life. It just doesn't happen to be was there. I just want peace in my God, I will please please please.

Well good you start with purity.

So if you going to something you can't figure out why things don't get better, maybe look on the inside say God is there something in your word that I need to see that I'm single one of the reasons he allows these trials is because these trials give him an opportunity to demonstrate his sustaining power for his children in tough times and so the unbeliever watches you go through some tranches I don't understand how that can happen. How can they be so strong.

How can they go through this and somehow have a sense of peace and contentment in the midst of terrible difficult, then we can certainly say without a doubt one of the primary purposes for which he allows these trials is to produce in those Christlike character, Christlike character that our conversation and our conduct in our character Christlike. That is, these trials help us to see that we cannot live the Christian life apart from him that it is Jesus Christ living on the inside of us listen when you say Christ is my life what you mean by that.

What you must Mima that is this that I have surrendered my will to him I want him to have his way in every single aspect of my life so that it is no longer than live but it's Christ living inside this body I surrendered my mind my heart my soul my spirit my will everything to him, so that now he can live in your life and live out through your life.

The life that he would live if he were living today in your circumstances. This is how he would live it. Christlike character is not something that you and pile up over long time period of time doing good, but it is the allowance of the spirit of God, the Lord Jesus Christ himself to live it out through us. That is an act of faith that isn't something that just comes sudden like that.

We have to be wise enough to understand first of all, we can't live this life apart from him. He never intended. We do it. Christlike character listen is our expressing through our conversation, our conduct and our character.

The very life of Christ himself. And so that's one of the reasons that he's in Strauss. What's he doing. He's standing and sifting and sculpturing and doing whatever is necessary. Polishing is not it what it is that he said he predestined you and me to be conformed to the likeness of his son. So what's he doing. He wants us looking like him, but in our character sounding like him. In our conversation acting like him in our condo. So what happens when trials come, God uses those things to do just that. And then one more reason he sends trials in a like this is nonsense. All of one of the reasons is that trials equip us and make us usable in the kingdom of God for the sake of others. Trials equip us make as usable in the kingdom of God for the sake of others knowing you turned a second drink is for a moment and look in this first chapter, and Paul makes is so very very clear of what was happening in his own life, and this is what he says. He says you know he is the reason God allowed these trials and certainly if anybody went through trials and the like. The apostle Paul did, and in the second reading chapter 1 list of what he says. He says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies and the God of all comfort. I watch this. Who was God who comforts us in our affliction, so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. He says it would concept in my life. God's allowing these trials in my life comforting me in the process. Teaching me these principles in order that I will be able to comfort and strengthen someone else. So you hear people say what you know what I just want to be used by God has to tell me what can I do to be used by God. Usually people thinking in terms of some place of service THC acquire plan or to that issue is you want to be used by God. You don't start with an action. You start with an attitude.

If you want to be used by God, get read to suffer, given the hurt. What did he say he said God has allowed these things in my life in order that I will be equipped and capable of comforting others. For example, you want to be used by God as he set the question how much they want to be used by God will be mightily used by God and get read to suffer mightily and that's not pleasant.

You know what, look at Jesus the apostle Paul laid all the saints in the past and all the saints through history, men and women who made the greatest impact upon humanity have been many women who have suffered the greatest and we live in a world that we wanted. Now we will be Christlike. Now we won't ease, comfort and pleasure we want to be sanctified. Now we want to be holy. Now we want all this now now now you know what, let me just say now now now is not going to happen hurt, pain, suffering trials, but what do they do they strengthen us, they equip us so that God has some very specific reason and this is what he said look, he said considered knowledge of the work consider here is a financial term that means it evaluated. Evaluate your circumstances and act wisely.

Wisdom is seeing things from God's perspective.

If I see things from God's perspective and I applied the principles of Scripture. I'm gonna come out right. Every single time.

If I don't consider the source. If I don't consider the purpose and I face them all without concern. The fact that God has a purpose in all this.

You know what I'm going to come out negative and I'm gonna lose my opportunity to be greatly blessed. Now if the end results are to be right and on to view these things properly, I must be convinced and persuaded of the following 10 things if you really come out as ivory persuaded of these things is not a work so maybe Emma number one number one I must be persuaded that God is in control of the timing and the intensity of my trial. It may last a day a week a year 10 years. I am first of all on persuaded that God is in control of the timing and the intensity of my trial. That means he has it all under his control.

That gives me a great sense of comfort run up front he's in control number two God has a specific purpose for allowing this trial in my life is all I wait a minute. Yes, because every single one of us was a believer. We are his children and he's taking care of us. If you got a believer. Sorry, but every single child of God is a child of God in the family of God in the kingdom of God. He's watching over us and so there is a specific purpose for this trial that you and are facing in life. Number three. This trial is designed to meet a specific need.

God sees in my life this trial that God has allowed is designed to meet a specific need that I have. We may not know what that made is more than likely we won't discover what that date is probably till it's all over.

We look back in a life in several Lord I never saw that in my life. Number four. This trial is going to be is not approved to be for my good. If I respond in faith. This trial is no turnout for my good. Is it can be profitable to me if I will respond in faith that is trusting God through it can be profitable to me. Number five.

This trial can strengthen my faith, making it stronger than it's ever been. This is my opportunity to prove that I can trust God strengthen my faith God will approve of my response and indeterminate faith is strengthened. We got to come out when number six this trial is an opportunity for God to demonstrate his power to sustain me under great pressure. God is demonstrating to me and to others his power to sustain me under great pressure. This is a wonderful opportunity for God as well as myself. This is not to not have to demonstrate before those around me that my God is sufficient. No matter what the strengthen me through all of these things. Number seven. This trial is in the process of creating and developing Christlike character in me. I understand this regards up to ease up to creating ease up to developing my character he's up to.

Developing Christlike character in me. Number eight. This trial will help me measure my spiritual growth is single. How can a trial help you measure spiritual growth will tell you how. For example, let's say that the trial that you facing today. If Uniface did five years ago three years ago maybe two, maybe a year ago could be six months ago. At that point you look back in your life and thank God I could never have handled this out in the world I would've done. But today you feel strong enough in the Lord. Having learned the trusting you know in your heart that you have grown in your spiritual legacy.

If your faith is no stronger today than it was 10 years ago something wrong. Let me put it this way, although not things in your Christian life that the day don't even faze you that years ago was just absolute wiped you out and I can look back and see my own like I live long enough been through enough things in my life that things years ago that used just trouble me and just frustrate me and make me angry. One of my but you know what same stuff comes along the line I go in that not even worth considering. You know why because of had enough failures and enough successes to know that my God sees that is nothing he has it under control. Why should I worry about something he's controlling over here.

You can measure your spiritual growth by your response to your trials and I think that's one thing you need to remember because he is an opportunity for us to measure as spiritual growth, then number nine. One thing I need to know and be convinced that God will walk with me through every single step of this trial. Not one moment will be without him.

Not one step will be without him.

He says I'll never leave you nor forsake you.

If you think about wisdom point of view. What is it that you can't stand with Jesus Christ by your side with his omniscience is unconditional love. Listen, and his unwavering compassion you can stand anything Satan throws at you. Anything God allows in your life as long as you know, listen he's with you every moment and every step of the way and then listen the 10 things that I think we have to be convinced of, and fully convinced of meds. This led by his grace and the enabling power of the Holy Spirit. We will not only survive, we will come out conqueror over this trial by his grace and the enabling power of the Holy Spirit who lives within us. We will conquer this no matter what. Let me ask a question how would you ever understand how good God is, until you come to the bottom rung of the ladder in your life how how would you ever understand what great things personal things intimate things God is willing to do for you in your life personally until you get to the place that only he and he alone is all you have the depend upon standalone and hold onto. You won't, it's when we go through the fire and God sustains us and brings us out, and there's not even smell of smoke. You can look to him and say God you are air rib bit by God. You say you are the God, the Bible testified you to be. Now the God I know you to be you know what, then this intimate personal relationship takes a great leap forward and you'll be grateful for the day.

You trusted Christ as your Savior inside his woman say to you if you are one of his and you apply these principles something is going to happen in your life that it can happen this day.

It can happen when this message is over and you finish listening God would do something dynamic in your life but you gotta be willing and if you willing he is sitting on right. Thank you for listening to part 211 with them for the trials of life if you like to know more about child families for intense ministry intense.org.

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