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FROM PAIN TO GLORY

INTRODUCTION

THE PROCESS TO GLORY YOU MUST EXPERIENCE SOME PAIN. PAIN PRODUCES PATIENCE AND SOME OF US RATHER ABORT THE PROCESS INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH THE PAIN. WHEN THAT HAPPEN WE CANNOT LEARN FROM IT OR MATURE IN IT. YOU CANNOT PARTAKE IN GOD’S GLORY WITHOUT PARTAKING IN HIS PAIN.

IF THERE WAS NO PAIN YOU WOULD NOT BE WILLING TO GO THE DISTANCE WITH GOD, BECAUSE YOU WOULD BELIEVE THAT YOU’RE ALRIGHT. SOMETIMES IN ORDER FOR THE LORD TO GET THE GLORY OUT OF YOU HE HAVE TO TAKE YOU THROUGH SOMETHINGS.

ROMANS 8:17 AND IF CHILDREN, THEN HEIRS, HEIRS OF GOD, AND JOINT HEIRS WITH CHRIST; IF SO BE THAT WE SUFFER WITH HIM, THAT WE MAY BE ALSO GLORIFIED TOGETHER.

HEIRS: A PERSON INHERITING AND CONTINUING THE LEGACY OF A PREDECESSOR.

CHRISTIANS PREDECESSOR IS CHRIST JESUS. WE ARE GOD’S CHILDREN AND IF JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED WE ALSO WILL SUFFER WITH HIM. WHEN YOU LIVE FOR CHRIST YOU WILL SUFFER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE. BUT THANK GOD FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO LIVES IN US WHO WILL CARRY US THROUGH IT, SO THAT WE MAY EXPERIENCE GOD’S GLORY.

PHILIPPIANS 1:29 FOR UNTO YOU IT IS GIVEN IN THE BEHALF OF CHRIST, NOT ONLY TO BELIEVE ON HIM, BUT ALSO TO SUFFER FOR HIS SAKE;

CHRIST JESUS WAS WILLING TO SHARE HIS OWN INHERITANCE WITH THOSE WHO GOD HAS GIVEN TO HIM.

JOHN 17:22 AND THE GLORY WHICH THOU GAVEST ME I HAVE GIVEN THEM; THAT THEY MAY BE ONE, EVEN AS WE ARE ONE:

WHEN WE FOCUS TOO MUCH ON THE PAIN WE MISS THE GLORY. THE DEVIL WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO PUT MORE FOCUS ON YOUR CONDITION INSTEAD OF KEEPING YOUR MIND ON THE LORD.

ROMANS 8:18 FOR I RECKON THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE COMPARED WITH THE GLORY WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US.

THE WORD RECKON IS THE ACTION OF THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING IN A LOGICAL OR SENSIBLE WAY.

WHEN YOU WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND IT FROM A SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE.

WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH NOW DON’T MEAN IT’S HERE TO STAY. JUST KNOW THIS THAT WHILE YOU ARE GOING THROUGH IT, IT CAN’T COMPARE WHAT YOU BE WHEN YOU COME OUT OF IT. GOD IS WORKING FOR YOUR GOOD SO HE CAN GET THE GLORY OUT OF YOU.

THE PROBLEM WITH MANY CHRISTIANS THEY BELIEVE THAT ONCE THEY GOT SAVED THAT THERE WILL BE NO MORE TROUBLES THAT COME INTO THERE LIVES. I FOUND OUT THAT THE CLOSER YOU GET TO GOD THE GREATER THE SUFFERINGS YOU WILL FACE.

WHEN PAUL HAD TO FACE KING AGRIPPA , PAUL TOLD HIM , HE WAS NOT DISOBEDIENT TO THE HEAVENLY VISION. WE MUST FOCUS ON THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE, SO THAT WE DO NOT STAY STUCK IN OUR PAIN.

ROMANS 8:22 FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH AND TRAVAILETH IN PAIN TOGETHER UNTIL NOW.

BECAUSE WE ARE IN A WORLD FULL OF PAIN WE GROANETH WITHIN, AND WE ARE CONFIDENT, I SAY, AND WILLING RATHER TO BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY, AND TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD.