DAIly Devotion for June 3

INTRO

This Sunday, Ric Wilson will be are guest speaker.  His sermon title is:  Twittering God.  It is a sermon on prayer.  

SCRIPTURE FOR JUNE 12:  ROMANS 5:  3 & 4

Not only so, but we also rejoice in our SUFFERINGS, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 

QUESTION

Do you know SUFFERINGS?

OBSERVATIONS

If we live, we shall suffer.  Our time may not be now, but our time will come.  How’s that for good news?  I do not like to suffer.  I would like to avoid it all costs.

QUESTION

What shall we do when suffering comes?

FLIP SIDE

Have you ever known someone who “rejoices in our sufferings”?

I can think of a couple of people who seem to receive great joy from their suffering.  It’s almost as though they are not happy (have no meaning to life) unless they suffer.  Know anyone like that?

There are other people, who display their suffering as a “badge of righteousness.”  They are the ones that suffer because they are the true followers of Christ.  Know anyone like that?

PRAY

1.  Marion in surgery

2.  That God will bless us through the message of Ric.