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Generally speaking what moves us out of our comfort zone, apathy, is pain. During difficulty we learn the most about our character and what God wants to create in our lives. Our true character is revealed and changed through difficult and painful experiences. To make sure our pain has the most benefit, we need to count pain as beneficial. We need to know that when pain enters our life, it is not meant to hurt us ,but to help us become the kind of person that God wants us to be. This pain puts us on a better path for a better future. So this Sunday we will look in-depth at pain’s benefits. I cannot wish you a pain free new year but I can wish you a Happy New Year! Add Sermon Notes This note will be displayed at bottom of your sermon note when you save to pdf or email them Contact Form Click to open/close Full Name*EmailIn case we need to write back to you, please leave us your email address. 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Δ Interact Laurelwood Baptist Church How To Handle Pain In Your New Year Archived – January 2, 2022 View This Week’s Note View All Past Notes View This Note w/o Blanks We believe that the Bible is God's Word that helps us face all the opportunities and challenges that come our way. How To Handle Pain In Your New Year January 2, 2022 / Pastor Dennis Beatty You will have pain. How will you handle it? Pain may be helpful, if that pain… Moves you toward change Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. Proverbs 20:30 (TEV) Shows you a greater purpose It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn thy statutes. Psalm 119:71 (NASB) Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons, for what son is not disciplined by his Father? Hebrews 12:7 (NIV) Reveals what you are really like Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10 (NASB) 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 1:2-3 (NIV) And you shall remember all the ways which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. Deuteronomy 8:2 (NASB) Puts you on a better path And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. Genesis 50:20 (NASB) Equips you for a better future And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 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