Today’s Encouragement

SURPRISE! This verse has nothing to do with:

○ Sports
○ Personal Dreams
○ Being a Champion
○ Overcoming Obstacles
○ Increasing your Self-Esteem

Paul is actually referring to endurance in the midst of suffering.
We think suffering is bad, but God uses suffering in our lives to grow us closer to Him. If you are not in the midst of a trial right now, you just came out of one or will be entering one soon.

How can you respond in a healthy way to trials and suffering?

Accept God’s sovereignty even in difficult circumstances.
Thank God in the midst of the suffering.
Ask God what He wants you to learn from this trial.
Surrender the outcome to God and God alone.