| Discussion:
1. WHAT SURPRISED YOU THE MOST ABOUT
NICK?
2. WHERE DID HIS "JOY" COME
FROM? COULD YOU SEE EVIDENCE OF CHRIST LIVING IN HIM? WHAT WAS THE
EVIDENCE?
3. HOW DID NICK HANDLE
OBSTACLES?
4. WHAT DID HE SAY HARDSHIPS
DO FOR US?
5. WHY DO YOU THINK GOD ALLOWS
HARDSHIPS INTO YOUR LIFE? HAVE THEY MADE YOU BITTER OR BETTER?
6. WHAT ARE SOME OF THOSE
CHALLENGES? 7. READ WHAT GOD SAYS IN HIS WORD TO US ABOUT HARD- SHIPS:
SEEK HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART
"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. THEN YOU WILL CALL UPON ME AND COME
AND PRAY TO ME, AND I WILL LISTEN TO YOU. YOU WILL SEEK ME AND FIND ME
WHEN YOU SEEK ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART." (JEREMIAH 29:11-13)
SHALL HARDSHIPS OR PERSECUTION
OR FAMINE OR NAKEDNESS OR DANGER OR SWORD SEPARATE UP FROM THE LOVE OF
CHRIST?
NO, IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE
MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM WHO LOVED US. (ROMANS 8:28)
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