Devotionals about Suffering & Trials
Suffering is not the evidence that God has left — it's often where He does His deepest work. The devotionals on suffering and trials below refuse easy answers and sit with the real pain while pointing to the real hope.
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210 devotionals in Suffering & Trials
March 12, 2025
Pressing On Through Failure: Choose Redemption Over Retreat
This life isn’t easy, in fact it’s hard. We all have struggled and we all have failed but we must move on...“Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my...
perseveranceFebruary 18, 2025
When Prayers Seem Unanswered: The Hope That Sustains
Have you been praying for something for a long time and it hasn’t happened yet? I think at times we all have. Look, we all know that life isn't always easy, I dig it. And more so for a Christian who wants to live a life contrary to the world's philosophies. Sometimes it is tempting to throw in th...
contentmentJanuary 23, 2025
Finding God's Strength in Highs and Lows
I watched an interview yesterday by one of the Ohio State Football players after the win in the National Championship game. He was discussing the following scripture; “I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty...
sufferingJanuary 10, 2025
Righteous Suffering and God's Blessings
Last thing on Job and suffering and let’s ring in the weekend. Job was a tremendously righteous man and suffered greatly. So do we assume that the more righteous we are the more suffering we are to expect? Not necessarily. The large part of Job’s life features God’s blessings in every way. You se...
sufferingJanuary 9, 2025
God's Way Out Isn't What We Expect
You ever notice that when we finally get out of whatever it is we are suffering from it never seems to be the way we thought we would get out of it? Like during our suffering we could never understand or see the way out that God has for us. It’s because it’s His plan for us not our plan for us. H...
sufferingJanuary 8, 2025
Satan Tries to Break, God Tries to Make
Let’s talk about Job for a little bit. You see God would only allow Satan to go so far with Job. We would only allow him to endure just what he was capable of enduring. Just like our own struggles and pain, Satan is trying to break you and God is trying to make you using the same situation. Think...
faith-in-trialsDecember 12, 2024
Bloom Where You're Planted: Finding Peace in God's Plan
“But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”Jeremiah 29:7 God didn’t put you where you are by mistake. He doesn’t make mistakes. When we believe in our hearts God is good and that His though...
trialsDecember 6, 2024
Finding Joy Through Life's Difficult Seasons
Aight, look here. We all know people who are going through a rough season in their life…it’s seems like this time of year especially. Heck, you may be too.While I certainly feel empathy, I can’t help but reflect on the fact the If you live long enough in this world, you will inevitably go through...
prideNovember 4, 2024
Naming Our Struggles: Pride, Lust, and Entitlement
So we all have to deal with pride, lust and entitlement to some degree. Some more in one area than others. But to be able to deal with the weak areas of our life we need to be able to name it. For me, it’s mostly pride. But keep in mind, we are only as strong as we are honest. “Do nothing from se...
perseveranceOctober 31, 2024
Grinding It Out: How Perseverance Builds Character
Grinding it out and persevering builds character. Plain and simple. Something about endurance has the incredible capacity to refine you. I guess it’s kind of like a fire for silver, removing impurities and strengthening the character. Often because endurance goes hand-in-hand with trials and tria...
sufferingOctober 7, 2024
Job Had It Worse - God's Sovereignty in Suffering
This past week was one I won’t forget for a long time, in fact in ways it’s still going. Flying supplies and helping with some ground coordination and answering questions for folks that want to help those in NC/TN. As I got in my truck and drove away from the airport yesterday, I couldn’t help bu...
gratitudeSeptember 9, 2024
The Secret to Contentment in Every Circumstance
“I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”Philippians 4:12-13So, we’ve all seen the scripture above and in most every case i...
peaceSeptember 4, 2024
Finding God's Peace When Your World Is Upside Down
Can we have peace in our hearts when our world is turned upside down?Pretty good question that requires an honest look inward. You see the kind of peace the world give us is pretty sketch at best. It can change on a whim with no notice at all. Happened to me last summer with the cancer diagnosis,...
sufferingAugust 22, 2024
Why Good People Suffer: Rain Falls on Just and Unjust
Job was a tremendously righteous man and suffered greatly. So do we assume that the more righteous we are the more suffering we are to expect? Not necessarily. The large part of Job’s life features God’s blessings in every way. You see, Christ tells His disciples that good and bad things happen t...
sufferingAugust 12, 2024
Standing Firm: How Trials Build Our Faith Credibility
I want to stay with Paul in Philippians because I think it’s important to understand how he was using his imprisonments as an advantage to further the message of Christ. “so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righte...
wisdomJuly 19, 2024
Ask God for Wisdom to Navigate Hard Times
Alright, so you are probably asking yourself, after yesterday’s message, “how exactly am I supposed to stay rejoicing during these hard times?” Well, I hear you and I get it. James is telling us to rejoice during our times of struggle because this faith produces perseverance. The Bible teaches us...
trialsJuly 18, 2024
Finding Joy During Trials: God Is Shaping You
So last weekend I was messaging a good friend of mine who was recently badly injured in a mountain bike accident. After some surgery and screws in his knee, he’s on the mend now. He’s pretty dissapointed, understandably, because it’s going to sideline him from racing this summer in the Nationals...
peaceJuly 5, 2024
Finding Peace in the Journey, Not the Destination
24I had a great time celebrating the fourth yesterday and got to spend time with a new member of our group yesterday and we got to talk about this devotional, keeping it going through my treatments and what I got out of it. Well, in short I just had to keep moving forward. Getting this out gave m...
faithJuly 4, 2024
Planting Seeds: Faith in the Unseen Results
So, will we always see the result of the work we’ve done by witnessing to others and being there when they need us the most? Most certainly not. But that shouldn’t discourage us from being there and sharing the Gospel. You see, we never really know how God is using us, we just need to have faith...
trialsJune 24, 2024
Relying on God Through Life's Overwhelming Burdens
Let keep digging into 2 Corinthians;“For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us...
weaknessJune 21, 2024
Embracing Weakness: When We Are Weak, Then We Are Strong
Without a doubt, this is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the...
resilienceJune 17, 2024
Bouncing Back from Loss with Steadfast Faith
I was watching the US Open golf tournament yesterday and the heartbreaking finish for Rory McIlroy. It was a tough one to take I’m sure…but it got me thinking about loss and struggles and how we respond. How good are you from bouncing back after a loss? One of the great tragedies in modern-day Ch...
weaknessMay 29, 2024
Strength Through Weakness
You know, people will do almost anything to appear strong, successful, and worthy of admiration. We exercise our bodies with intensity post the process to Instagram, climb the corporate ladder at the expense of integrity, and struggle to accept the help of other people. Our society works by the p...
faith-strengthMay 15, 2024
Walking on Water: Faith Strong Enough for the Storm
So you ever have some many things going on and really having to lean on the Lord to give you patience and strength and deliver you from a storm that won’t seem to subside? I have, and it got me asking myself how strong is my faith and is it strong enough to survive it? Am I ready to “walk on wate...