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Background on The Benefits of Suffering
Last week, I recorded Episode 6: Waiting on God for the Impossible. When we live long enough, we know that this becomes inevitable at some point in our lives. How we handle waiting, and what we do during the process of waiting is the key. If you want to catch last week’s episode, you can check it out here.
This week’s episode is “The Benefits of Suffering”.
Podcast Outline
- Introduction
- The Truth
- The Benefits
- Presence with Joseph
- God’s Presence with Me
- God’s Comfort
- Living Wholehearted Lives
- Perseverance From Suffering
- Comforting Others With God’s Comfort
- How I Find Comfort in Suffering
- Bible Verses to Meditate On:
- Poem to Meditate On:
Midnight Furnace
I called you and you answered.
Right during my night of pain.
You pulled me out of the fire.
Then the fire turned to rain.
Not knowing that I’d survive this.
I prayed for you to deliver.
You told me to keep closed fists,
Bended knees with all considered.
I feel your Spirit run through me.
A song comes into my head.
“My child, you are protected.
Rest easy and go back to bed.”
2 Corinthians 1: 3-11
- 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
- 8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters,a]about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.
2 Corinthians 12: 6-10
6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 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.
Have a blessed night!
SO GOOD! 2 Corinthians 1: 3-11 is such a good verse and reminder. In the suffering and pain I went through at the first of the year, I had to lean on God more than ever before, He brought me before and I am stronger than ever!
I am glad that your heart was blessed. To God be the glory!