HURT. HELP. HEAL pt. 2 // Sunday, January 16, 2022 // Pastor Jeff Hines

Sunday — January 16, 2022

Ecclesiastes 2: 22 & 23 (NLT)

   So what do people get in this life for all their hard work and anxiety? 23 Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night their minds cannot rest. It is all meaningless.

Romans 8: 28 (NLT)

   We know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

Galatians 3: 4 (ESV)

   Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

How can I benefit from my hurts…

1.               Use my hurts to draw closer to God. 

2 Corinthians 1: 8 - 10 (NLT)

   We think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. 9 In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead. 10 And he did rescue us from mortal danger, and he will rescue us again. We have placed our confidence in him, and he will continue to rescue us.

2 Corinthians 7: 9 (NLT)

   I am glad I sent it, not because it hurt you, but because the pain caused you to repent and change your ways. It was the kind of sorrow God wants his people to have, so you were not harmed by us in any way.

2.               Use my hurts to draw closer to others.

Galatians 6: 2 (NLT)

   Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.

3.               Use my hurts to become more like Jesus.

Proverbs 20: 30 (NLT)

Physical punishment cleanses away evil; such discipline purifies the heart.

Proverbs 20:30 (TEV)

   Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways.

Hebrews 5: 8 (NLT)

   Even though Jesus was God’s Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered.

2 Corinthians 7: 11 (NLT)

   Just see what this godly sorrow produced in you! Such earnestness, such concern to clear yourselves, such indignation, such alarm, such longing to see me, such zeal, and such a readiness to punish wrong. You showed that you have done everything necessary to make things right.

2 Corinthians 4: 11 & 12 (NLT)

Yes, we live under constant danger of death because we serve Jesus, so that the life of Jesus will be evident in our dying bodies. 12 So we live in the face of death, but this has resulted in eternal life for you.

4.               Use my pain to become more compassionate.

2 Corinthians 1: 4 - 6 (NLT)

   He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. 5 For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. 6 Even when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation! For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer.

5.               Use my hurts to be a witness.

Philippians 1:12 (NLT)

     I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News.

2 Corinthians 6: 3 - 10 (NLT)

   We live in such a way that no one will stumble because of us, and no one will find fault with our ministry. 

     4 In everything we do, we show that we are true ministers of God.

    We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind. 

   5 We have been beaten, been put in prison, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and gone without food. 

    6 We prove ourselves by our purity, our understanding, our patience,

   our kindness, by the Holy Spirit within us, and by our sincere love. 

    7 We faithfully preach the truth. God’s power is working in us.

   We use the weapons of righteousness in the right hand for attack and the left hand for defense. 

   8 We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they slander us or praise us.

We are honest, but they call us impostors. 

   9 We are ignored, even though we are well known.

    We live close to death, but we are still alive.

    We have been beaten, but we have not been killed. 

   10 Our hearts ache, but we always have joy.

    We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others.

   We own nothing, and yet we have everything.