Trials, as inconvenient and as painful as they are,

are a journey of discovery of who you're dealing with.

Dr. Tony Evans says the storms of life are there for a reason,

and talks about the resources God's given us to weather them.

Your salvation and your Savior was built with your struggle in mind. This is the alternative broadcast featuring the

timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans. When we're stuck in difficult

circumstances, we'll often call on God to deliver us. But even when the storms of life are getting

worse, we may be right where God wants us. But even when the storms of life are getting worse,

we may be right where God wants us.

Today, Dr. Evan helps us identify and embrace

the divine opportunities we'll sometimes only find in times of trouble.

Let's join him in Mark chapter 4 as he begins.

Jesus has been teaching all day.

He's been teaching the crowds, preaching the big sermon,

and then he takes his disciples aside,

and he gives them a private word.

He says in verse 33 of Mark 4,

with many such parables he was speaking the word to to them so far as they were able to hear it.

And he did not speak to them without a parable, but he was explaining everything privately to his own disciples.

So he calls his disciples aside after teaching the big crowd and says, let me speak to you,

and let me give you some stories that will give you spiritual truth for you to apply to your life.

And he gave them some inside information.

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