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Then what I want you to hear on this journey, as we’ve been on this road together of God helping rebuild our world. That’s God’s word to you and to me when your world is falling apart and broken. Blessed by God when you endure and persevere under trial, knowing for sure that when you have been tested and come through it, you’ll be approved and you’ll receive a clear reward now and forever at the crown of life for all of those who love him. Instead, blessed is every single person in this room. Because just like a flower is here today and gone tomorrow, so you and me – rich people in our world, in our pursuits, we’re here and then we’re gone. Don’t fall to the temptation of trusting in material things. Those of you that really have a lot of materially, you need to realize you have a low spiritual position. Then he goes on to say that those of you that are in a humble circumstance financially and wonder how you’re going to make it, it’s a high spiritual position. Don’t let that person expect to receive anything from the Lord.

For the one who doubts, the one who wants to know God’s will just to consider it, not to really do it, will be like a surf in the sea, tossed here and there. But let him ask in faith without any doubting. If by chance, that’s too hard and too difficult and you don’t know how to do it right now, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all men generously and without reproach. Let endurance have its perfect or perfecting result that you might be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. Why? Knowing the testing of your faith produces endurance. On this journey, we’ve learned to do something very counterintuitive – to consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials. That some people are going to go through all of their life as victims, and others as survivors and then even conquerors.

In this journey in a fallen, difficult world where we learn that trials are inevitable, that trials and difficulties are going to make some people and they’re going to break other people. What I want you to think of is we’ve been on a journey together.

Rebuilding your broken world chip ingram