The Spiritual Side of Suffering

From 1 Peter 4:12-19

Who will you trust when suffering comes your way?

Reasons we can rejoice in our suffering:

1. We know that is being added to .

📖 1 Peter 4:12 ESV Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

2. The will rest upon .

📖 1 Peter 4:14 ESV If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

What the Holy Spirit gives us in our time of suffering and trials:

1. He gives .

📖 John 16:13 ESV When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future.

2. He gives you the to .

📖 Matthew 10:19-20 ESV When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. 20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

3. He gives to .

📖 Ephesians 1:17 ESV that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

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