Today, we bring you Pt. 2 and Episode 4 of the message from Pastor Creflo Dollar titled “The Purpose of Suffering.” The text for the message is from the book of Mark 14:29–31.
Peter’s failure then was a failure in himself and not of his faith in God; before Peter’s fall, Peter had faith in Jesus as the son of the living God, but his faith was mixed with a whole lot of confidence in himself. Most of us have faith in God, but we get it mixed with self-confidence. God helps those who need help and depend on him. If we don’t want to see failure, we should not have confidence in ourselves. The purpose of Peter’s trial was to make him more reliant on God.
Failure in the flesh is God’s means to bring about a greater dependence upon him that grows into an enriched spiritual life; if we stop paying attention to the trials that we go through, we’ll start recognizing that we have a greater dependence on God. In some of our trials, God wants to burn off our self-confidence so that nothing else remains except our commitment to be dependent upon him.
Failures upon ourselves should be stepping stones to a deeper spiritual experience, and failures will occur because we rely on ourselves.Some of us depend more on our experience, money, and talent than on God. God is working diligently in the body of Christ to burn that off our lives because greater fruits come when we recognize we are not nothing but a branch and God is the vein that, if we live in him and he lives in us, we will bring forth much fruit (success).
We want to bring forth much fruit, but we want to do it without depending on God. Jesus wants us to know that we can’t do anything without him.
Watch and learn from this message by Pastor Creflo Dollar “The Purpose of Suffering Pt. 2 Episode 4” and remember that we bring the latest messages from Pastors around the globe to you.
Video Credit: Creflo Dollar Ministries