When God gets through working on you because you're his child, folk will admire your life,

just like you admire someone of physical beauty, someone will admire your spiritual beauty.

They will admire your faith.

They will admire your reliance on God.

Be patient with yourself. God is not finished with you yet. Hello, and thanks for being here with us for today's Destin for Victory, where we feature the preaching ministry of Pastor Paul Shepard.

Always a pleasure to have you with us. Well, anytime you go through a season of pain, it's really a season of preparation,

because God is up to something good in your life, even when things are going badly.

Coming up next, the truth about your trials and a little encouragement from God's word about the purpose of your pain.

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Now, let's get started with today's message when Jesus comes.

God said, I'm making something beautiful out of your life. And he even takes our trouble and

makes it work together so that something beautiful is happening in our lives. That's what James

men in James chapter one, when he said, count it all joy, my brothers,

when you fall into all kinds of trouble and trials of many kind.

That doesn't make sense, James.

Why would I count it joy?

He said, because God is working something out.

The testing of our faith is developing perseverance and it must run its full course so that we are lacking nothing in the end of the process.

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