Think about the pains you're suffering now or have experienced in your life.

You didn't bring them on yourself, but somebody did you so wrong.

Bunches of people did you wrong, whatever the case might be.

And there you are lonely and betrayed

and rejected and miserable but i came to tell you that while pain is mandatory is inevitable

misery is optional counted all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith

produces patience.

That's James chapter 1, verse 2, and this is Destined for Victory with Pastor Paul Shepard.

Well, it may not seem like your pain can lead to patience, but it can.

James tells us that patience can lead you to be complete and lacking nothing.

But for that to happen, you have to learn how to handle pain God's way so that your suffering can have its perfect result.

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Now let's listen closer to Pastor Paul's Destined for Victory Message.

Three things to remember when life hurts.

Don't let your circumstances define who you are just because you had a bad season

Naomi don't rename yourself Mara I'm still Naomi that means pleasant that

means gracious when she went back to bethlehem you know the story

she got back to bethlehem and they said is that naomi she said don't call me that call me mara

mara means bitter she tried to name herself after what she was going through. Don't let that happen,

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