Faith on Trial Part 2
For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
James 1:3 NLT
We are shaped for God Glory....
1. What we know makes it easier for us to face our trials.
2. Faith will and is always tested.
(Hebrews 11:7 , Genesis 22)
3. Job confidence
(Job 23:10)
4. Test works for us and not against us.
(1 Peter 1:7)
5. God will never give what you can't bear.
(1 Cor 10:13)
Trials work for the believer not against us.
(Romans 8:28, Cor 4:17)
" Trials teach us what we are ,the dig up the soil and make us see what we made of" Spurgeon
6. We must learn from those who went before us and obtained the blessings.
(Hebrews 6:12 , Hebrews 10:36)
Isaiah 28:16
Impatience is a sign of immaturity.
1. Abraham messed up because of impatience with Hagar as his life was filled with problems.
2. Moses killed a man and had to wait 40years for God to teach him patience.
3. King Saul lost everything because of impatience. (1 Samuel 13:8-14)
Parience can only come through test and trials.
Studying the Bible helps us grow in Patience.
(Romans 15:4)