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PREACHING NOTES

JAMES 1:2-4 Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.

 

EVERY STRUGGLE

IS SIGNIFICANT!

 

1 PETER 1:6-7 At present you maybe temporarily harassed by all kinds of trials. This is no accident. It happens to prove your faith.  

JAMES 1:2 Be very happy when you are tested in different ways.

 

HOW DO YOU

GET THROUGH THE TRIAL?

 

LIVE by the PROMISES

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FULFILL the COMMANDS.

 

2 CORINTHIANS 1:20a For no matter how many promises God has made, they are all “Yes” in Christ!

 

START TO SEE

GOD’S DELAYS

AS DEVELOPMENT.

 

GALATIANS 6:7 you are going to harvest what you sow.

COLOSSIANS 1:27 Christ in you the hope of glory…

2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 anyone in Christ is a new creation, the old life is gone and a new life has begun.

MARK 4:26-27 Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is like someone who plants seed in the ground. Night and day, whether the person is asleep or awake, the seed still grows, but the person does not know how it grows.”

GALATIANS 6:9 Let us not get tired of doing what is right, for after a while we WILL reap a harvest of blessing IF we don’t get discouraged and give up.