Welcome to the Crazy Love podcast.

Have you ever faced a season so painful, so intense, that you wondered if something had gone terribly wrong in your walk with God?

What if the very trials we dread are actually signs that we're right where we're meant

to be?

Today, Francis Chan opens up 1 Peter 4 to show us that suffering for Christ isn't strange,

it's expected.

He explains how trials test and refine our faith and why the Spirit of God meets us most

powerfully, not in comfort, but in difficulty.

First Peter 4 was a passage that was very dear to my heart a few months ago as it just seemed like

there was just problems everywhere. You ever have those times when you just feel like, gosh,

I feel like I'm being attacked from every side and what's going on here?

And I was reading through 1st Peter,

and this passage really jumped out to me, specifically verse 12.

1 Peter 412 says this,

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you as though something strange were happening to you.

Is that a great verse?

He just, beloved, don't be surprised. Don't be surprised at the fiery trial

when it comes upon you to test you as though something strange were happening to you.

Man, I needed that verse. It's just like, why are you acting like something strange is happening to you?

Didn't you know that when you signed up for this, that you were signing up to join an army

and that you were entering into a war?

What were you expecting?

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