Count it…

 Count it…

Was reading this passage this morning…when you add the other passages…just think about it…the promises…

Jesus said…

John 15:18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’

John 16:1 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, 

James later wrote…

James 1: 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 

Paul later wrote…

Romans 8:28 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. 

“We should consider our personal trials and sorrows joy because of what they allow God to do in us…if we let our trials break us, God can’t use us…but if we go into those trials knowing that God is going to do something great with us, something for which he has to strengthen us in advance, it all comes into perspective.”

Terri Blackstock…

What a comfort in trials…something good will come, perseverance, maturity…completeness…

Thank YOU…

Count it all joy…

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