If you have ever gone through unexplainable suffering, an unexplainable pain of any kind,

most likely you found yourself in one of four positions. What are they? Either you found yourself in a

barren land from which you try to escape it or you find yourself in a barren land from which you try to escape it, or you find yourself

in a broken land under which you are sinking, or you find yourself in a bitter land in which you

resented, or you find yourself in a better land in which you are blessed and become a

blessing. I'm going to repeat those as I go along in this message. Suffering of any kind will

lend you either in the barren land, the broken land, the bitter land, or the better land. It is indeed

my prayer that you would land in the better land. It is the cry of my heart today as you

listen to this message that God is going to teach you to take all of your past sufferings, all of your present sufferings, all of your future suffering, and land in a better land.

An anonymous ancient author one time said that for Christians in the midst of suffering, they're going to react one of two ways, or they're going to be like either a potato or an egg.

For you see, a potato is hard as a rock, but when it gets into a boiling water, it suffers.

The egg, on the other hand, is soft, but when it gets into the boiling water, it hardens.

Turn with me, please, in your Bibles to 2 Corinthians, Chapter 1, verses 3 and 4.

2 Corinthians, chapter 1, verses 3 and 4.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Compassion,

and the God of all comfort who comforts us in all, not some, in all our troubles,

so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. Father,

we are grateful that through the years you have preserved your word so that we can have it here

today. That, Father, as a person who throughout the years of walking with you landed in each one of those four,

I can testify and praise you for landing in a better land.

And, Father, I pray that today your Holy Spirit will move freely among us.

Father, there are not a soul that either hear or watching or listening that will remain the same at the end of this message.

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