* Your purpose is only found through the valley of pain.

* God uses pain to prepare you for your purpose.

* Backstory - Jews sand Psalm 118 every Passover.

* Jesus probably sang it the night He was betrayed.

* Vs 5 - He knew the pain was coming.

* “When I was distressed…” Distressed means “tight spot.”

* David was in a tight spot but God brought him into a spacious place.

* The tight spot prepared him for the spacious place.

* EX: birth.

* Genesis 14:13-14 - God put His descendants in a tight spot to prepare them for a spacious place.

* EX: diff between endorphins and adrenaline.

* Adrenaline - happens quick, fight or flight.

* Endorphins - takes time, only comes after pain (runner’s high).

* EX: Joseph.

* We have to go through PAIN to find and fulfill our PURPOSE.