1. Your Trial: God’s Appointment
Philippians 4:6

2. Your Trial: God’s Appointment
Philippians 4:6

3. 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.

6. Many reasons to be anxious

7. God is
Intimately Involved in
Your Trial

8. God is Intimately Involved in Your Trial

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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 )

18. 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

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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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.

23. 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

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

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

26. 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…

27. Am I not just a pawn in His game?

28. All the Appointments cost Him His Son

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