1. Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial (suffering) when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. (Peter 4 v12)

2. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.(1 Peter 4 v13)

3. Phil 3:10 that I may know the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings…
2 Cor 8:2 for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy overflowed …

4. Good Creation
Freedom
To love

5. The Fall Sin Evil Death Suffering Pain
Good Creation
Freedom
To love
The Fall
Sin
Evil
Death
Suffering
Pain

6. Longing for Liberation
Hoping and
Longing for Liberation
Good Creation
Freedom
To love
The Fall
Sin
Evil
Death
Suffering
Pain

7. Longing for Liberation
Hoping and
Longing for Liberation
Good Creation
Freedom
To love
The Fall
Sin
Evil
Death
Suffering
Pain
Creation Groans

8. Longing for Liberation
Hoping and
Longing for Liberation
Good Creation
Freedom
to love
The Fall
Sin
Evil
Death
Suffering
Pain
Creation Groans

9. Longing for Liberation
Hoping and
Longing for Liberation
Good Creation
Freedom
To love
The Fall
Sin
Evil
Death
Suffering
Pain
New Creation
No more Tears
Pain
Death
Creation Groans

10. Longing for Liberation
Groaning
Glory
Hoping and
Longing for Liberation
Good Creation
Freedom
to love
The Fall
Sin
Evil
Death
Suffering
Pain
New Creation
No more Tears
Pain
Death
Creation Groans

11. Rom 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

12. Faith is Deepened

13. God’s Megaphone to rouse a deaf world

14. Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word of God hath easier entrance (Richard Baxter)

15. Rom 5:3-4 we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

16. Suffering can make us bitter people or better people.

17. We are enlarged in the waiting.

18. Nick Vujicic and Joni Eareckson Tada

19. We can know the Comfort of the Father, and give the comfort of the Father
2 Cor 1:3-5 the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

20. We enter into the sufferings of God