Your Trial: God’s Appointment Philippians 4:6

Your Trial: God’s Appointment Philippians 4:6

Philippians 4:4-7 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Many reasons to be anxious

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Times Acts 17:26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Times Acts 17:26 Acts 17:27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Times Acts 17:26 Acts 17:27 Acts 17:30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Times Acts 17:26 Acts 17:27 Acts 17:30 Philippians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Suffering Philippians 1:29 For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Suffering Philippians 1:29 Isaiah 45:6b-7 I am the LORD, and there is no other. I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Suffering Philippians 1:29 Isaiah 45:6b-7 1 Peter 1:6 In this [salvation] you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Suffering Philippians 1:29 Isaiah 45:6b-7 1 Peter 1:6 1 Peter 1:7 …so that your faith (of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire) may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Suffering Philippians 1:29 Isaiah 45:6b-7 1 Peter 1:6 1 Peter 6:7 ( James 1:2ff, 2 Corinthians 12, Hebrews 12 )

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Suffering Philippians 1:29 Isaiah 45:6b-7 1 Peter 1:6 1 Peter 6:7 Philippians 4:6b …with thanksgiving, present your requests to God

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Outcome

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Outcome Romans 8:28-29a And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Outcome Romans 8:28-29a Romans 8:30 And those he predestined… he also glorified

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed your Outcome Romans 8:28-29a Romans 8:30 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed You Ephesians 1:11-12 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed You Ephesians 1:11, Declaring the Refinery

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed You Ephesians 1:11, Declaring the Refinery

God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial God has appointed You Ephesians 1:11-12 2 Corinthians 1:3-6 …we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God…

Am I not just a pawn in His game?

All the Appointments cost Him His Son

The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God