Embracing Suffering: Finding Strength in Community and Faith

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"Our responsibility amidst the suffering of life we have to keep moving keep putting one step in front of the other you're depressed get up get a shower get dressed keep moving keep a schedule don't wallow don't sit in shame keep moving the spirit lives in you you've got community keep moving don't allow Calamity crisis to stop you keep going." #!!01:08:09!!#

"I think the posture of the believer is to find ways instead of dodging suffering that's a horrible way to live perhaps our responsibility is to embrace suffering asking God to get Glory out of it that's what makes us different from the rest of the world what makes us different from the rest of the world is not an end to our suffering but better ways to embrace it." #!!56:06!!#

"Prayer is your biggest opportunity to change your situation you want to know why because if God can't fix it it cannot be fixed Jesus shows us in the Garden of Gethsemane in Luke chapter 22 what it's like to pray amidst suffering you see Jesus did not in his flesh want to endure all of the pain all of the suffering that came with the cross so his words are father if you are willing take this cup from me yet not my will but yours be done the Bible says he prayed it again knowing he would get the same answer because prayer doesn't always change your circumstance it changes." #!!58:28!!#

"You cannot walk through this life alone, isolated, hiding from the truth. When you are suffering, suffer with someone who cares, suffer with someone who understands Christ, suffer with someone who understands that your suffering is not you." (#!!01:04:38!!#)

"I think the danger sometimes with suffering is spending all of our time all of our energy on trying to rid ourselves of the suffering instead of trying to figure out about exactly what God wants from us amidst the suffering." #!!44:55!!#

"In following Jesus we have this Balancing Act constantly of both pursuing Christ likeness and His glory in our suffering and also trying to figure out how to embrace and navigate suffering in this life because guess what we don't just accept suffering as it comes right but we also balance that out with fighting suffering so how do we live in the tension of both embracing the suffering in our lives and the tension of trying to rid the world of suffering for ourselves and other people because both are required of the believer because he tells us to do good he makes it his case that he's come to free the oppress however we constantly have this thing of suffer here's what I'd say I'd say in life in this life we must understand the purpose of pain for us when Roman five tries to outline suffering for us Roman five says that suffering produces something in The Believer so when we go through suffering or pain or Christ in our life how many of us the first thing is God take it away go ahead that that's my prayer what if the call of christlikeness is a call to say God teach me what you're doing through my suffering suffering will always be here" #!!53:55!!#

"If you hope or anchor your Hope on What God Says and how God has declared the story will end, you can have hope no matter what's happening around you." #!!47:38!!#

"Prayer doesn't always make the pain stop, it changes how you look at the pain...so pray unceasingly." (#!!59:58!!#)

"The biggest lessons I've learned have been in my suffering...the most times I'm willing to surrender to God's plan is when I've done all that I can and I feel like I can't do anything else." (#!!01:01:58!!#)
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