Living Life Above the Rubble Series by Rev' Wayne Cordeiro

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Living Life Above the RubbleSeries by Rev. Wayne
Cordeiro

• Why Does God Let Us Struggle?
• Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful
  trial you are suffering, as though something
  strange were happening to you. 1 Peter 412

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Be Willing to Experience_________/________
Struggle
Suffering

• For the Sake of Growth!

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Three Foundational Facts

• 1.God always works for our good.
• If God is for us, who can be against us?
  Romans 831
• God is love. 1 John 48
• For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone
  whom He loves Hebrews 126
• But Jesus replied to them, You are wrong because
  you know neither the Scriptures nor God's power.
  Matt. 2229

Driving Motivation
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Three Foundational Facts

• 2. Repentance is GOOD NEWS!

• Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins
  may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may
  come from the Lord! Acts 319
• The devil works to keep us from repenting.
  (deception!)

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Three Foundational Facts

• 3. God will never waste a ________

Hurt

• And we know that in all things God works for the
  good of those who love him,who have been called
  according to his purpose. Romans 828
• But as for you, you meant evil against me, but
  God meant it for good Gen. 5020
• He is the One who wonderfully comforts and
  strengthens us in our hardships so that we might
  pass on the same help and comfort to others that
  God has given us. 2 Corinthians 13,4 LB

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Impress vs. Impact
Teaching and ministering to others from the scars
- with the comfort we received from the Lord, in
and through them.
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Three Lessons

• 1. OUR FAITH MUST BE TESTED BEFORE GOD WILL
  BUILD ON IT
• Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you
  face trials of many kinds, because you know that
  the testing of your faith develops perseverance
  James 12, 3
• Remember how the LORD your God led you all the
  way in the desert these forty years, to humble
  you and to test you in order to know what was in
  your heart, whether or not you would keep his
  commands. Deut. 82

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Three Lessons

• 2. STRUGGLES PROMPT US TO CHANGE.
• Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make
  us change our ways. Prov. 2030 (paraphrased)
• Rise up! Why is it that you have fallen on your
  face? Israel has sinnedtherefore the sons of
  Israel cannot stand before their enemies until
  you destroy the things under the ban from your
  midst. Joshua 710

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Three Lessons

• 3. STRUGGLES DEVELOP PROVEN CHARACTER.
• Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from
  the things which He suffered. Hebrews 58
• do not lose heart, though our outer man is
  decaying, our inner man is being renewed day by
  day. For momentary, light affliction is
  producing for us an eternal weight of glory far
  beyond all comparison. 2 Corinthians 416, 17

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Simple Definition of Character
The ability to keep a commitment long after the
emotion that prompted it has wanned.