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
May 13, 2019
Embracing Weakness: When You Don't Know That You Don't Know
Hope everyone had a great weekend!I’ve thought about this all weekend and I wanted to start this week by discussing probably my most favorite verse 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 mess...
perseveranceMay 7, 2019
Grinding It Out: How Perseverance Builds Christ-Like 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...
resilienceMay 6, 2019
Bounce Back: Finding Grit Through Faith
“Last night I took an L, but tonight I bounce back!” -Big Sean 😂😂Ok, I started this weeks devotional with this Hip Hop lyric mostly to be funny...but, it’s a great jumping off point. How fast do you bounce back after an “L” (loss)?One of the great tragedies in modern-day Christians is that we a...
resilienceMay 3, 2019
Learning Contentment: Bouncing Back from Loss
I’m totally entrenched in our topic we started last week and I want to wrap it up with a simple question? How quickly can you or do you bounce back from hardship and loss? (We are dealing with one now) Maybe it paralyses you into a depressed state? The key is learning to press on in life regardle...
sufferingApril 15, 2019
Suffering Builds Character: Lessons from Tiger Woods
19Tiger Woods Ya’ll!I have to say, as a sport fan and a person who’s experienced suffering, this years Master was truly “unlike no other”.Many of us have followed this man since he was a boy. We watched in admiration as he dominated golf, pop culture and the news media. We also watched him fall a...
weaknessMarch 28, 2019
Strength in Weakness: God's Power in Broken Vessels
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-stormsMarch 21, 2019
Walking on Water: Faith in Life's Storms
So I’ve got a lot of things going on and I’m really having to lean on the Lord to give me patience and strength and deliver me from this storm that won’t seem to subside. It’s got me asking myself how strong is my faith and is it strong enough to survive it? Am I ready to “walk on water”?“And Pet...
testimonyMarch 11, 2019
God Uses Your Past: From Weakness to Strength
So, today I was asked by one our members on this devotional if I was “hung up on the past”? My response was that I was quite the opposite. You see my past, good, bad or indifferent, has helped shape the person God has made me today. It’s is MY testimony, it’s MY story. I firmly believe that God u...
sufferingMarch 7, 2019
When We Get Angry with God
Why do we sometimes get frustrated or angry with God? Let’s face it, we all do it. We lose a job promotion, a race didn’t go our way, we experience a death in the family, personal injury or financial hardships. This list is long...we all have them. Life’s hard. "God, why did you let that happen?"...
perseveranceMarch 4, 2019
God's Guidance After Life's Disappointments
This weekend, the promoters decided to throw out a test/moto that cost me the OA win on Saturday. While it affected me negatively, and was a huge bummer, it helped some. But I laid it on God to right my heart and he did. I’ve made the decision to stop wasting time with things that keep me from be...
justificationJanuary 23, 2019
Living in the House of Grace
“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that s...
faith-vs-beliefJanuary 10, 2019
Faith Beyond Belief
So I made the comment yesterday that, “Believing is not Faith”. I’m confident of this and I believe that, while related, they are drastically different. Faith is not believing in God’s goodness only when we are out of the storm; faith is believing in God’s goodness right in the middle of it. The...
weaknessDecember 11, 2018
Strength in Weakness and Learning from Failure
So the last few days I’ve been reading about our strength in weakness and failure. In 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 it tells us,“But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of...
trustDecember 5, 2018
Trusting God Through Life's Storms
Trusting God in the midst of our trials and storms shows Him that we count on Him, not the world. When the choice comes, to choose to make things work by the means this world offers or rely on God, we should choose to rely on God.I can’t help but wonder if part of the difficulties in our lives ar...
stormsNovember 29, 2018
God Our Anchor in Life's Storms
The storms of our lives prove the strength of our anchor...“Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?"”Hebrews 13:...
peaceNovember 15, 2018
Perfect Peace in Life's Perfect Storms
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”John 14:27 You don’t need to be a mariner to experience a perfect storm. In fact, you’ve undoubtedly already faced a few in your lifetime. I know...
perseveranceOctober 31, 2018
Press On Through Failure
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...
evangelism-testimonySeptember 20, 2018
Day 2So yesterday was a tough day for me. Not because of work or family or anything like that, it wa
Day 2So yesterday was a tough day for me. Not because of work or family or anything like that, it was because I felt what it was going to feel like to be persecuted for my witness. It felt really bad. You see, someone rejected my witness (via my text) and said, “practice what you preach before yo...