Hardship

“we're talking about how we are unshaken in hardship. And hardship is such a big part of life for all of us, all kinds of heartaches and hardships we encounter in life. And so in chapters one through four, we're talking about being unshaken and hardship. Then in chapters five through seven, we're talking about being unshaken and our calling. To be a part of the church of God is to be a part of a called community. We are called out from the world, called together to”

“world but as you step into man and womanhood all of a sudden you begin to feel the weight you face the hardship you face the disappointment and you're thinking man if i can just get out of this season the next one will be better if i can just get to a certain place financially or in my personal life this hardship will be over and then you get there and you realize nope it starts all over again but in the midst of that reality of life in the midst of the hardship the resurrection”

“So providence is powerful. Providence is painful. The final thing I want us to understand is that providence is what gives us hope. Providence is what gives us hope. Without giving you the full story, Joseph in the Old Testament, I love his story because part of Joseph's story is he faced hardship after hardship after hardship. He was beaten by his brothers, sold into slavery, goes to Egypt, gets to be the right hand of Potiphar, kind of ruling and reigning. He gets misaccused of kind of doing something with Potiphar's wife that he didn't do.”

“conducts his affairs with justice. He doesn't use his hardship as an excuse to sin. Hardship makes him even more righteous and just. He's a man that even in his lack, he is generous. Why? Because he knows he's not limited to what he can see. He knows that he has the wealth of all of heaven because of who his father is. You ever known those people? I had an uncle that was that way.”

“struggles and our hardships we're not afraid to boast we're not afraid to put ourself on a platform or pedestal when need be, right? But when hardship comes, we typically remain silent. Add on top of that, just the satanic assaults of life. Something that my dad taught me at a very young age. He would always say, Zach, if you're doing anything of eternal significance, then all”

“honey, do we do anything in secret anymore?" And the Holy Spirit convicted him in a moment when he said, "Yeah, we do." Sin, it's the only thing that we stay silent about. The only thing we stay silent about is our struggles and our hardships. We're not afraid to boast. We're not afraid to put oursel on a platform or pedestal when need be. Right? But when hardship comes,”

“Why can I not see you right now in my life? God, why does it feel like you've forgotten me because of this hardship that I'm going through right now? If you've never felt this way before, you might one day, because of what I was explaining earlier, we live in a fallen world. We live in a world that's broken, where things don't go the way that God designed them to go. And we deal with things like sickness. We deal with things like sorrow, with hardships, and even death in life.”

“will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. You know, a first response many of us have to hardship is prayer. And naturally, we just want to get out of whatever hardship we're facing. We're like, God, I'm done with this. I don't want to face this anymore. But if we pray like this passage tells us to pray, that phrase with thanksgiving, it changes our whole perspective of the prayer. If you take the thanksgiving out of the prayer, it becomes a prayer that's focused on you”