Time To Be Comfortable

2 Corinthians 1:3–7 CSB

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are afflicted, 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 that we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.

Opening Prayer

Have you ever been struggling to find peace?

Felt like everything that you do everyone is always after you?

That you can never do anything right?

Have you ever been:

Depressed

Felt Alone

Feels like something is missing

Not Loved

Not understand

Useless

If you have every felt one of these or are feeling these right now this bible passage is for you.

See this passage is for every time we start to feel pain or we feel alone. In reality it is the truth of the matter we will always be comforted by God.

First lets talk about the kind of affliction that we face as Christians.

Afflictions

An Affliction is a cause of great suffering and distress.

Any time you are in a time where you feel like you are suffering or you feel like you are distressed to the point where you cannot take it anymore that's the time of affliction that is being talked about.

weather that feeling is with your parents, your friends, boyfriends/Girlfriends, Coworkers,peers.

you will at some point in your life feel like the world is against you.

If you want to see what types of affliction that God will test us with look at the whole book of Job.

They take away his live stock, his family, his estates, even to the point where it start to affect his health.

This relates to us so much how many times do we have to deal with things in our lives being taken away beyond our control.

whether it is our family, our friends, our technology, we are removed from our school or our jobs. we have all been afflicted.

But God has given us a way to focus on us and let us know that he is here for us.

He Comforts us.

Comforts

this passage talks about one of the most fundamental things that could be talk about is that our God comforts us in our time of need and of pain.

2 Corinthians 1:3–7 CSB

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are afflicted, 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 that we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.

Focus on the part in the second half of verse 4 what does it say he comforts us to be able to comfort everyone that is going through the same thing. For us to do that we are called to trust him in everything especially the bad times.

Watch the next part now we are afflicted for our comfort and salvation. when we are hurt or we are scared we tend to run to the thing that makes us feel safe. That is what God does for us is make us feel safe.

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Run to the Father

Everyone got a piece of paper coming in now is the time to write the afflictions that you are facing .

After you are done now is the time to run to the father for the comfort that you are longing for wither that is praying by yourself or it is praying with someone.

Maybe you are not being afflicted it might be time to go and comfort someone that is afflicted just are God tells us to.