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God’s Healing for Life’s Losses How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting

God’s Healing for Life’s Losses How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting. Bob Kellemen, Ph.D. www.rpmministries.org. There Is Hope in the Midst of Hurt John 16:33. The Big Picture: Creative Suffering.

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God’s Healing for Life’s Losses How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting

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  1. God’s Healing for Life’s Losses How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting Bob Kellemen, Ph.D. www.rpmministries.org

  2. There Is Hope in the Midst of Hurt • John 16:33

  3. The Big Picture: Creative Suffering • “There is no human experience which cannot be put on the anvil of a lively relationship with God and man, and battered into a meaningful shape.”

  4. Candor: Blessed Are Those Who Mourn 1. Denial: Shock and Awe 2. Candor: Telling Yourself the Truth • Candor is courageous truth telling about life to myself in which I come face-to-face with the reality of external and internal suffering. 3. My Personal Candor Journey

  5. Candor 4. Biblical Candor Samplers • Psalm 42:3-5 • Job, Jeremiah, Solomon, Asaph, Heman, Jesus, Paul • 1 Thessalonians 4:13 • No Grieving; No Healing. Know Grieving; Know Healing. • Candor Is Our Decision to Step on the Mats!

  6. Complaint: A Lament for Your Loss 1. Anger: Cursing that Pushes Away 2. Complaint: Telling God the Truth • Complaint is vulnerable frankness about life to God in which I express my pain and confusion over how a good God allows evil and suffering.

  7. Complaint/Lament 3. My Personal Complaint/Lament Journey 4. Biblical Complaint Samplers • Psalm 62:8 • Psalm 73 • Jeremiah 20:7 • Lamentations 5:20 • Psalm 88:18 • Job 3:23-26 • To diminish suffering is to refuse to need God!

  8. Cry: I Surrender All 1. Bargaining/Works: A Tit-for-Tat God 2. Cry: Asking God for Help • Cry is a faith-based plea for mobilization in which I humbly ask God for help based upon my admission that I can’t survive without Him.

  9. Crying Out to God 3. My Personal Crying Out to God Journey 4. Biblical Crying Out to God Samplers • Psalm 56:8 • Psalm 72:12-14 • Psalm 34:17-18 • 1 Samuel 30:4-6 • Crying empties us so there is more room in us for God. • Suffering is God’s primary way of uprooting our self-reliance.

  10. Comfort: God Comes 1. Depression/Alienation: Grief without Hope • If God allowed work to work, no one would ever surrender to God. 2. Comfort: Surviving Scars • History • Co-Fortitude • Comfort /communion experiences the presence of God in the presence of suffering—a presence that empowers me to survive scars and plants the seeds of hope that I may yet thrive.

  11. Comfort 3. My Personal Comfort Journey 4. Biblical Comfort Samplers • Genesis 32-33 • Psalm 73:21-28 • Isaiah 63:9 • 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 • Faith does not demand the removal of suffering; faith desires endurance in suffering.

  12. Waiting: When God Says, “Not Yet” • Regrouping: Immediate Gratification 2.Waiting: Refusing to Demand Heaven Now • Waiting istrusting God’sfutureprovision without working toprovidefor myself. • Waiting is refusing to takeoverwhile refusing to giveup. • Hopewaits.

  13. Waiting 3. Biblical Waiting Samplers • OT Prophets: Better Day Is Coming…Later • Romans 5; James 1; 1 Peter 1-2; Hebrews 11 • Hebrews 12:16 and Esau • Hebrews 11:24-26 and Moses • Romans 8:18-19 4.Tim and Terri’s Waiting Journey

  14. Wailing: Pregnant with Hope 1. Deadening: “Don’t Get My Hopes Up!” 2.Wailing: Groaning with Hope • Wailing is longingfervently for heaven andlivingpassionatelyfor God and others while still on earth. • Philippians 1:23-25 • Wailing is grieving the “Not yet.” • “I ache for Paradise, but I’m pulling weeds East of Eden until the day I die!”

  15. Wailing 3. Biblical Wailing Samplers • Romans 8:18-25 • Frustration: Vanity • Eager Waiting: Desperate Desire • Pregnant Labor for a Lifetime! • Pregnant with Hope

  16. Wailing 3. Biblical Wailing Samplers • Romans 8:28-39—Thriving: Nikao/Nike/Victorious! 4. Tim and Terri’s Wailing Journey

  17. Weaving: Spiritual Mathematics 1. Despairing: The Negative of Hope 2. Weaving: Perceiving with Grace/Higher Plan • Weaving isentrustingmyself to God’s largerpurposes, goodplans, and eternalperspective. • Weaving perceives suffering not with rose-colored glasses, but with faith-eyes, with Cross-eyes, with 20/20 spiritual vision.

  18. Weaving 3. Biblical Weaving Samplers • John 14; Ephesians 3; Colossians 3; Hebrews 11; Revelation 19-22 • Genesis 50:20 • Genesis 45:5-8 • Romans 8:17-18 • “Instead of our perspective shrinking, suffering is the exact time we must listen most closely, when we must lean over to hear the whisper of God.” 4. Tim and Terri’s Weaving Journey

  19. Worshipping: Finding God 1. Digging Cisterns: Jeremiah 2:13 2. Worshipping: Glimpsing the Face of God • Worship is wantingGodmore than wantingrelief. • Worship is finding Godeven when you don’t findanswers.

  20. Worshipping 3. Biblical Worshipping Samplers • Psalm 73:25 • Psalm 42:1-2 • 1 Peter 1:8 • Philippians 3:8, 10 4. Tim and Terri’s Worshipping Journey

  21. The Rest of the Story: The Promise of a Lifetime • Revelation 7:17; 21:4 • Jesus is on the move.

  22. God’s Healing for Life’s Losses How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting

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