What To Do When Life Hurts
Sermon from cong readings in 1 Chron 6-10,
Aug 5, 2007 – bk@kluth.org
Our ministry theme this year is Reaching beyond generations & walls
Living examples that life can hurt
1 Chron 6:15
Jehozadak was deported when the LORD sent
1 Chron 9:1-2
The people of
1 Chron 7:21-24 Ezer and Elead were killed…Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days, and his relatives came to comfort him. Then he lay with his wife again, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah, because there had been misfortune (=adversity, affliction, bad times, grief, hurt, sorrow, misery) in his family.
1 Chron 8:8-9
Sons were born to Shaharaim in
1 Chron 10:6-7 Saul and his three sons died, and all his house died together. When all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.
1 - Learn God’s Word
Ps 119:71, 92 It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees…If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
2 – Love God and lean on His sovereignty
Rom 8:28 We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Ps 139:16 All the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
Phil 1:12 I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me (imprisonment) has really served to advance the gospel.
3 - Locate and unload any sin in your life
Ps 119:67, 71, 92 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word.
Heb
12:1-2 Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so
easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter
of our faith.
4 - Leave your burdens with God
Ps 56:8 You have seen me tossing and turning through the night. You have collected all my tears and preserved them in your bottle! You have recorded every one in your book.TLB
1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
1 Sam 1:10 Hannah was in distress of soul, praying to the Lord and weeping bitterly.
5 - Live one day at a time
Ps 118:24 This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Matt 6:33-34 Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
What is God prompting me to do in
response to this message?
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DAILY BIBLE READINGS for this week, read 1 Chron 11-15, Ps 59-60