Why Did Job Suffer? Understanding God’s Purpose Through Trials and Faith
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in the only mention of job in the New Testament almighty God gives us a clue as to God’s purpose for job’s suffering in James 5 11 you read these words indeed we count them blessed who endure you have heard of the perseverance of job and seeing the end intended by the Lord that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful this verse indicates that Satan’s purpose was to try to get job to be impatient and to give up job became impatient with himself later on he becomes a little impatient with his critical friends but he never lost
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faith in his God though he did not know what God was doing he did not know what he could do about what God was doing he did know that he could trust God in essence especially to his wife job mirrored the compassion and the mercy of his God how many of you know that when you’re going through tough times one of the things you really need more anything else is patience when you’re under pressure and you feel the weight of the pressure if you’re not careful you’re flying off in every direction and you’re ending up
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acting in a way that you don’t normally Act by the way did you know that the only way you can learn patience is through going through trials I didn’t make that up over in the Book of James chapter 1 verses two and three it says it just as clearly as it can be said listen to this my brethren count it all joy when you fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience so here’s some advice from your pastor don’t pray for patience because if you do you will get tribulation that’s how
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God gives patience to his people Horatio spafford was a very prosperous senior partner of a successful law practice prosperous and successful that is until the Great Chicago Fire which destroyed much of his wealth along with most of the city of Chicago Horatio remained in Chicago after the fire to finish a case that was pending and his family set out for Paris he was to join them later on November the 21st 1873 the luxury ocean liner taking Anna spafford and their four daughters to Europe was rammed by another vessel and
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Pam Lively - 2026-01-24 02:00:21
I’m 56 years old. On 8/9/25 I fell and broke my left hip. Had replacement the next day. Everything went great. Did all my physical therapy all the pain finally went away. Three months ago I bent over the shopping cart to put my groceries on the belt. It threw my back out. I’m now back in physical therapy. I can not stand up straight and the pain is constant. I seem to not be getting any better. Please pray for healing and the pain to go away. I miss not being able to sit through our church services. My daughter and I sing the specials. I miss my church family and praising the Lord . In his house.