Welcome to Daily Growth Point, I’m Pastor John Bingham.

Charles Spurgeon had a powerful and effective ministry that began while he was still a teenager. There is no question that his incredible gifts and the enormous growth the church that he pastored were testimony to the work that God did in and through his life.

Yet for most of his ministry, Spurgeon suffered greatly from enormous physical pain. He could allowed that pain to drive him to question and doubt God, but instead it led Spurgeon to trust Him more. He said, “I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.”

While hardship, affliction, and suffering are not pleasant, they are often the necessary tools God uses to shape us into the men and women He needs us to be for His Work. Each trial offers us an opportunity to learn more of God’s grace and depend more fully on Him for our needs to be met.