See Clearly This is who I am This is who you are Troubles Tests v 4 8 We are hard pressed on every side but not crushed perplexed but not in despair 9 persecuted but not abandoned struck down but not destroyed ID: 467723
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…Face Difficult DaysSlide2
See Clearly
This is who I am
This is who you areSlide3
Troubles – Tests v 4Slide4
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We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
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persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.’
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Cor
4:7-9Slide5
Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
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Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea,
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I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers.
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I have laboured and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.
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Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
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Cor
11:24-28Slide6
For when we came into Macedonia, we had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn –
conflicts on the
outside,
fears within.
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Cor
7:5Slide7
Take Away
Relax:
Troubles are not a sign that God has left youSlide8Slide9
Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
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Cor
4:16Slide10
‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’
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Cor
12:9Slide11
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But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
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and not only by his coming but also by the comfort you had given him.
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Cor
7:6-7Slide12
Take Away
Relax:
Troubles are not a sign that God has left you
Watch:
God helps directly and indirectlySlide13
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who comforts us in all our troubles,
so that
we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. ….
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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.Slide14
Take Away
Relax:
Troubles are not a sign that God has left you
Watch:
God helps directly and indirectly
Persevere:
Pressure is not Pointless