The Sharing Choice

  • Pastor Duane Cross
  • Nov 22, 2009
  • Series: Life's Healing Choices

LIFE’S HEALING CHOICES

“The Sharing Choice”

  Pastor Duane Cross | 11.22.09           

 

“Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God,   listen to his voice, and hold fast to him.”                                              (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)

 

1.  The Reality Choice 

2.  The Hope Choice

3.  The Commitment Choice

4.  The House Cleaning Choice

5.  The Transformation Choice

6.  The Relationship Choice

7.  The Growth Choice

8.  The Sharing Choice

I.  Why has God allowed my pain?

1)  He has given me a free will.

2)  He uses our pain to get our attention.

 “Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways.”               (Proverbs 20:30)

“I am glad not because it hurts you but because the pain turns you to God.”  (2 Corinthians 7:9)

“When I had lost all hope I once again turned my thoughts to the Lord.”               (Jonah 2:7)

 3)  God uses my pain to teach me to depend on Him.

 “It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might pay attention to your laws.” (Psalms 119:71)

 4)  God allows pain to give me a ministry to others._

“Why does God do this?  So that when others are troubled, needing our sympathy and encouragement, we can pass on to them the same help and comfort God has given us.”                 

                                                                                                             (2 Corinthians 1:4)TLB

 II.  How do I use my pain to help others?

 “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you for the reason for the hope that you have.  But do this with gentleness and respect.”                                        (1 Peter 3:15)

“If someone is overcome by some sin, humbly help him back onto the right path, remembering that next time it might be you who is in the wrong.  Share each other’s troubles and problems and so obey our Lord’s command.”                                                                            

                                                                                        (Galatians 6:1-2)TLB                                

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