great but trashed

but our trials are not to be treated with comparison

but with compassion

Peter is not going to compare his trials with theirs...

Whether you have had it easier or harder that doesn't matter

If any believer is facing any trial

we are to love them like Christ

now there is a difference between a person that can relate with the issue

because they literally faced it

and comparing.

Those that relate have compassion. Because they have gone through the same thing.

Those that compare are dont know what they are going through

When your world has flipped upside down

you dont need

With our God He has an ability to do something special within us to where the times you cried in private God will bless in public.

thats why

when you ask for strength God gives difficulties to make you strong

you ask for wisdom god gives problems to solve

I ask for courage and god gave me dangers to over come

I ask for love and God gave me troubled people to help

my prayers were answered.

2 Corinthians 4:16 NKJV

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him

when life is easy pray

when life is tough pray

when life i challenging pray

when life is confusing pray

when life is smooth pray

when life is a wreck pray

when life is awesome pray

well these trils defintely test out our faith

i had to make a decion am I going to hate God

am I going to run away fromGod because this happened?

so may we not focus on what happens to us

but what happens in us,

Hospitals are full of people having the best day of their life the worst day of their life the first day of their life and the last day of their life

thats why I think the church belongs their.

Like an olive press where they would make annoinitng oil to . There is no annoting without crushing.

what i love abut crying now is that

its a way for the eyes to speak when your mouth cant explain how broken your heart is

Im not a very fancy guy

I dont think I ever have placed a reservation for myself or my family.

but I have placed a reservation in Heaven

but our reservation to heaven. doesnt mean we wont face hard times...

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Based on this section I give Peter a nickname:

Preposition Peter.

His use of prepositions (11) shows how much God has done for us and how little we do:

your past doesnt disqualify you your past prepares you.

a few bad or tough chapters does not mean your story is over

When your heart is in pain, when your suffering

when you have been shaken....

hope is the greatest gift.

Remember the Devil is not afraid of people going to church

heis afraid of people looking like Christ

dont leave here without being more christ like.

If i never got sick i wouldnt know God is a healer

if never got attacked i would know God is a defender

If i never got afraid i would never know He is a protector

If never messed up i would never know God was a forgiver

If i never got uncomfortable Im would never know God is a comforter

so there is no way we can live and out give Jesus .

so Great news!

You’re going to die!

If your treasure on earth

then that doesnt sound good

but if your treasure is in Heaven

then its great news

Either death is taking you from your home or to your home

in many ways

you can use words.

but actions are far better.

you dont need to give reason to the problem

you dont need to answer the questions

you dont need to tell them what you would do.

Represent God’s love to them.

Cry with someone crying

hug that person

sit there in silence

just show Gods love to them

Showing someone God’s love

effects so much greater than words

actions really do speak louder then words.

and boy do they.....

One of the hardest parts of trials, and suffering is the why game

God Why is this happening

God why are you not stopping this.

You wish God would sit you down

and open up the scolls

that show His perfect plan

and you points to my life

and shows me why.

We dont get that.

Instead we get verses like:

Deuteronomy 31:8 NKJV

8 And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.”

like we talked about earlier

were not promised heaven on earth rn

we will face hard times and

God may or may not remove the trial.

but what we do know is...

Instead we get that God is good

that He is love

that He has a perfect plan

that He is with us...

and you have to either have faith and trust God

or not

that is why here it says that in various trials our faith is tested by fire

you know with fire it either destroys or purifies.

When a big trial comes will your faith be purified or destroyed?

trust me I know exactly what this is like!

I have felt the fire!

and just when I was almost burned

Pain now … healing later

Suffering now … Blessing later

Poverty now… inheritance later.

because I am strong ? heck noo

because my strength comes from God

which just so happens to be the meaning of my son in Heaven, Heaven Hezekiahs names

With Nehemiah I saw God work a miracle

With Hezeziah I saw God allow him to die.

and because of God:

Suffering wont stay

Loss will become a gain

With God My pain has purpose 220..............

For some of you maybe it clicked that

its not going to be all bad, dead end, down hill.

The gates of Heaven are just on the other side.

and as you walk that painful path

Jesus is right besides you.

Using your

through the fire I have learned that pain is a microphone.

its creates an oppotunity to be used like never before

and you know what happens when people in the fire

realize that their greatest problem is solved, and have hope, and have chosen to trust and love God?

they start rejoicing

verse 8 says rejoice with inexpressible joy

verse 6 says greatly rejoice

You know God is there

when their is joy in the hospital room

when their is joy in the midst of suffering

when their is joy when to any outsider their shouldnt be

I have walked into a hospital room with a baby that had just had open heart surgery.

and had to be recicited back to life… and his life was still on the line

and that room was filled with the holy Spirit

and the parents filled with joy

and it blew the nurses and doctors away

Lamentations 3:20–24 NKJV

20 My soul still remembers And sinks within me. 21 This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. 22 Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. 24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!”

So when you face trials… because you will...

there is three things we were told to do:

What we do:

Bless(v.3)

Have faith (v.5)

Rejoice (v.6)

Love God (v.8)

Because God solved our greatest problem and saved us

because God gives us hope

because God will use our trials.

so I rejoice with you all

because of I have been called by God as verse 2 said

and so I have purpose and hope because of Jesus as verse 3 shows

God like with Shadrach Meshac and Adbendigo

Appeared with me in the fire...

Isaiah 43:2 (NKJV)

2 ....When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.

What a difference of the person I used to be.

some how being broken down in the hands of God has made me stronger

God takes the weak and make them stronger then ever before!

I have seen people run from God and do the opposite and because of their trials

hate, disrespect, and take credit from God.

God can use your trials in a way that one day

as verse 7 said we will praise honor, and give glory to God