How to Live Through a Bad Day {Part 6}

Be Assured There is a Purpose and an End

Hebrews 12:2 (MSG) – Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and
finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight
of where he was headed–that exhilarating finish in and with God— he
could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And
now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.

John 19:30 – When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.”

Lesson 6 – Be assured, there is a and an .

Job 30:20 (GNT) – I call to you, O God, but you never answer; and when I
pray, you pay no attention.

Job 38:1-5 – Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: “Who is
this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself
like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. “Where were you
when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who
marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring
line across it?

Job 38:18-21 – Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all this. “What is the way to the abode of light? And
where does darkness reside? Can you take them to their places? Do you
know the paths to their dwellings? Surely you know, for you were already
born! You have lived so many years!

Job 40:3-4 – Then Job answered the Lord: “I am unworthy —how can I
reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.

Job 42:1-5 – Then Job replied to the Lord: “I know that you can do all
things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. You asked, ‘Who is this that
obscures my plans without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not
understand, things too wonderful for me to know. “You said, ‘Listen now,
and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’ My ears
had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.

Attributes of God

1. God is
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Colossians 1:16-17 (MSG) – For everything, absolutely everything—
everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there
before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to
this moment.

• I’d rather have hope in an than certainty in a .

2. God is .
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Hebrews 4:13 (TLB) – He knows about everyone, everywhere. Everything
about us is bare and wide open to the all-seeing eyes of our living God;
nothing can be hidden from him.

• Never be afraid to trust an to an 

3. God is
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Hebrews 13:5-6 – “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” So we
say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can
mere mortals do to me?”

Psalm 46:1 – God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in
trouble.

Psalm 139:8 – If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in
the depths, you are there.

Isaiah 43:5 – Do not be afraid, for I am with you;

Jeremiah 1:8 – Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue
you,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 1:19 – They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for
I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the Lord.

Matthew 28:20 – And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the
age.”

• God is with me, whatever is against me.

2 Timothy 1:12 – I am suffering… Yet I am not ashamed, because I know
whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I
have entrusted to him for that day.

Declarations for Blessed Assurance

1. I know that God.
Lamentations 3:21-23 – Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions
never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

2. I know that God .

Romans 8:31-32, 35-37 (NLT) – If God is for us, who can ever be against
us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all,
won’t he also give us everything else? Does it mean he no longer loves us if
we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or
in danger, or threatened with death? No, despite all these things,
overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

3. I know that God .

Jeremiah 29:11 – For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a
future.”

4. I know that God .

2 Timothy 4:18 – The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will
bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever.
Amen.

• My struggles have a , and my pain has  .