Adversity: Friend or Foe VI
Series: Adversity: Friend or Foe?
Passage: James 1:2-4
Speaker: Dr. Jimmy D. Pritchard
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The question is not, will I face adversity?
The question is, how will I respond to adversity”
Today …
GOD USES ADVERSITY AS A SIGNAL TO REARRANGE OUR PRIORITIES
- James 4:1-3 …
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
GOD USES ADVERSITY AS A MEANS OF TESTING OUR WORK
- Matthew 7:24-27 …
24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
GOD USES ADVERSITY TO SIFT OUR FRIENDSHIPS
- Proverbs 17:17 … A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Let God have His way in your life