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OUR COMMON RESPONSE WHEN WE GET

HURT:

▫ We react
▫ We get stressed
▫ We get angry
▫ We might say things we don’t intend to say

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“EVEN WHEN
IT HURTS”
 2 CORINTHIANS 12:7

“So to keep me from becoming conceited because of

the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn
was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to
harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.”

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 1.
REST IN GOD’S
SUFFICIENT
GRACE
 2 CORINTHIANS 12:9-10
8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from
me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for
my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will
boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that
Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s
sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in
persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am
strong.

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 “FOR CHRIST’S SAKE…”

▫ It is for Christ’s sake that we can be glad in our

difficulties and rejoice in our distress.
▫ It is for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord that we can
be content in persecution and pain.
▫ It is for Christ’s sake that we can be content in our
weaknesses for when we are weak, then we are
strong.

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 2.
TUST, EVEN IF
YOU DON’T
UNDERSTAND.

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 ECCLESIASTES 11:5

“As you do not know the path of the wind, or how

the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you
cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of
all things.”

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Moses asked, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant?”
Numbers 11:11
David asked, “Oh Lord why do you stand far off? Why do you
hide yourself in times of trouble?” Psalm 10:1
▫ Job asked, “Why have you made me your target?” Job 7:20
▫ The disciples asked, “Why was this man born blind?” John
9:2
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Blue Red
“SEEK TO KNOW WHAT
Is the colour of the Is the color of
clear sky and the CAN BE KNOWN, PRAISE blood, and because
deep sea. It is GOD & TRUST HIM FOR of this it has
located between THE THINGS THAT historically been
violet and green on CANNOT (BE KNOWN)” associated with
the optical sacrifice, danger
spectrum. and courage.
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 Isaiah 55: 8-9

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are

your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “As the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.”
 3.
ENDURE

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HEBREWS 12:6-8
‘“Because the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He
chastens everyone He accepts as His son.” 7 Endure
hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children.
For what children are not disciplined by their father? 8 If
you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline
—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at
all.”
“We should see God’s
discipline- HIS
TRAINING, as a sign
that He is engaged in
our life.”

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 CONCLUSION:

ROMANS 8:18

“For I consider that the SUFFERING of this present

time are not worth comparing with the GLORY

THAT IS TO BE REVEALED TO US.”

Even when it hurts... it will not last forever.

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Even when it hurts… REST IN GOD’S SUFFICIENT GRACE

Even when it hurts… TRUST- EVEN IF YOU DON’T

UNDERSTAND.

Even when it hurts… ENDURE.

CHALLENGE:

ARE YOU WILLING TO DO THESE THREE THINGS FOR

GOD’S SAKE?

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