CLS Job 1_21 Living Through Calamity Insert

Church Life Series - Living Through Calamities Job 1:21

1. Ask for wisdom… Be a fountain of life!

2. Feel and express empathy… weep with those who weep.

3. Feel and express compassion… loss is personal in its magnitude.

4. Take time to touch… minister to the wounded body and soul.

5. Offer God’s promise to heal and sustain… trust in God’s capacity.

6. Affirm the depths of Christ’s suffering… and his role as sympathetic mediator

7. God permits sin…

8. Satan is a massive reality… yet God is in control

9. Godless people serve evil… not trusting, believing in, living for God.

10. Rebellion is evil… in activities and in our hearts

Church Life Series - Living Through Calamities Job 1:21

1. Ask for wisdom… Be a fountain of life!

2. Feel and express empathy… weep with those who weep.

3. Feel and express compassion… loss is personal in its magnitude.

4. Take time to touch… minister to the wounded body and soul.

5. Offer God’s promise to heal and sustain… trust in God’s capacity.

6. Affirm the depths of Christ’s suffering… and his role as sympathetic mediator

7. God permits sin…

8. Satan is a massive reality… yet God is in control

9. Godless people serve evil… not trusting, believing in, living for God.

10. Rebellion is evil… in activities and in our hearts

11. Remember to repent… les sin over take us.

12. Believer’s face bodily harm… even though their soul is protected.

13. Balance weeping and trust… genuinely experience the hurt and the presence of God

14. Trust in God… to bring good out of bad.

15. Remember the mystery… a good God ordains things which He disapproves and forbids.

16. Cherish your Sovereign God… acknowledge human impossibilities

17. Count on God… your only lasting treasure.

18. To Live for Christ…. And to die to self

19. Be Open to the Word… be satisfied with God

20. Freedom to suffer… for the glory of Christ.