1. The Call of Pain or “A Two by Four to the Head”

2. 3 Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king’s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility— 4 young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace.
Daniel 1:3-4 (NIV)

3. Pain

4. Pain
Worry

5. Pain
Worry
Finances

6. Pain
Worry
Finances
Identity

7. Pain
Worry
Finances
Identity
Unemployment

8. Pain
Frustration
Confusion
Depression

9. Pain Purpose?

10. Purpose Call

11. …and a great and strong wind rent the mountains… but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire
a still small voice.
1 Kings 19: (KJV)

12. The sooner you listen…

13. The sooner you listen… the less it hurts.

14. Trinity United Methodist Church of Perry Heights