Peace When Life is Hard
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful sermon by John based on 1 Peter 5:6-14, discover the transformative strength found in humility, as we are called to humble ourselves before God’s mighty hand. Learn to release the weight of life’s anxieties by casting them upon the One who deeply cares for you and stand firm in faith to resist the adversary’s schemes. Be inspired to depend wholly on God, trusting in His promise to restore, strengthen, and establish you for His eternal glory.
Humble yourself
Anxieties are cast
Resistance in faith
Depend on God
Life Group Discussion:
Can you think of a time when humility brought about unexpected blessings or growth?
How can sharing your struggles with a faith community help in casting your burdens to God?
In what ways does standing firm in faith encourage others in their spiritual journey?
Why is it important to remember God’s promise to restore and strengthen you when facing trials?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, good morning Harris Creek. |
| 0:01.3 | Good to be with you guys. |
| 0:02.8 | Hey, so JP in two months is releasing his latest book. |
| 0:08.0 | It's called, I'm gonna give you the title, |
| 0:09.7 | Your Story Has a Villain. |
| 0:15.1 | That the story that God has written for you, |
| 0:18.2 | in and through you, for your good, for his glory, that in the midst of that story, |
| 0:23.0 | there is a villain, there is an enemy, there is a destroyer, a liar, a murderer, that that is |
| 0:28.6 | a part of every single person's story, that we very clearly have an enemy whose aim is to steal, |
| 0:36.2 | kill, kill, and destroy to discourage us, |
| 0:38.3 | to persecute us, to create trials, sufferings, affliction, and tribulation. And we're going to |
| 0:44.6 | talk about that today. I will be your motivational speaker for the morning. Now, but the reason |
| 0:50.0 | why that we can talk about that and that it will be motivational, that it will be spiritual |
| 0:54.2 | because the scriptures are clear, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. |
| 0:59.4 | And so while we do have a villain, we also have a victor, one that overcomes. And God tells us |
| 1:05.1 | what to do, not if, but when we suffer, when we go through difficult times, when we are in |
| 1:10.7 | the midst of heart. |
| 1:13.1 | And so today specifically, we are going to be talking about peace when life is hard. |
| 1:20.0 | That you can have peace when life is hard. |
| 1:24.9 | I'm looking to dear friends who are in the midst of a battle their own, and they have |
| 1:29.4 | peace in the midst of heart, and today you will hear why. It's not something that you have to |
| 1:33.7 | effort towards. It's something that is given to you in Christ. We're in the middle of our |
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