Life Happens: Finding Hope and Peace in the Midst of Trials and Storms

Life Happens – Finding Hope and Peace in the Midst of Trials and Storms

James 1:2-4 NKJV

Mark 4:35-41 NKJV

Point 1: Trials Are Inevitable, but God is with me.

“The same sun that melts wax hardens clay. And the same gospel which melts some persons to repentance hardens others in their sins.”

– Charles Spurgeon

With God, the storm will make you.

Without God, the storm will break you.

James 1:2

John 16:33

Point 2: Trials Strengthen Us Through Perseverance

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

– C.S. Lewis

James 1:3

Peace is not the absence of trouble around me. Peace is the presence of God with me.

Point 3: God Uses Trials to Shape Our Character

“We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”

– Henry Ward Beecher

James 1:4

Point 4: Finding Peace in Trusting God Through the Storm

“I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.”

– Hudson Taylor

Having peace does not mean we have no trouble.

Mark 4:35-41