PAIN

 PAIN in PAIN

Practicing

Applications

Intentionally

Now

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Purpose, Adversity, Integrity, NonConformance.

This notion of PAIN is huge in the context of life because we understand that God has a habit of using pain to form into us what he want us to be.

It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. PS 119:71

2 Corinthian 4 Most Notably - For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; Verse 17.

2 Count it all joy, my brothers,[a] when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1: 2- 4

Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 2 Tim 2:3

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 1 Peter 5:10

2 Corinthian 12: 7 - 10 Most Notably - Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. Verse 10.

31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. Luke 8:31 -32

And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 1 Corinth 11:23 -25

9 and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith,

10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death, - Phil 3:9-10

Litter all of the scripture is this consistent notion of suffering, brokenness, testing, trials, tribulation, adversity. PAIN PAIN PAIN. No way to escape it PAIN PAIN PAIN. And as we grow close to God in our love relationship with Him there is then this learning that can only seem to take place while pain is present. We then have the responsibility to investigate all the areas of pain in our lives.

Pain usually arise out of the three areas.

1.  An indication that something is being done wrong (learning pain)

2. An indication something is changing fast than you can adjust (growing pain)

3. An indicating you are attempting to change something  on purpose  ( working pain)

There is an all elusive most powerful type of pain that none of us like to address and this is genuine suffering as of result of something value lost, hurt or destroyed. This pain comes as of about the result of fallen world and fallen man. The pain is the most senseless which usually includes, unexpected deaths, killings, sicknesses like cancer and so on..... This pain is not to be understood but to be endured ( weeping may endure for a night) and once you have overcome this pain you can empathize more easily with others.

The wisdom of these types of pain is that the LORD uses them ALL to bring us to where he desires for us to be. Its his way.

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The implementation of PAIN is used with with another acronym.

Practicing Applications Intentionally Now.

Lesson come out of these different kinds of pain and the effect of the those lesson learned can immediate if we actively apply what we have learned to the area we learned it in. Our focus in investigating our pains is not for the purpose to eliminate the pain because we will never be free of it but is to understand why it is present and learn and apply the lesson the pain came to teach.

An example of learning from pain is back pain...the worse kind of pain there is sometimes. In most cases back pain comes because of poor posture. I can remember back to the time where I was child when my mother and father almost regular said....sit up in your chair, dont slouch its bad for your back. Here I am 32 years old suffering chronic back pain because of posture. The lesson the pain brought me was posture makes a difference when I am pain when I force myself to sit properly its mildly painful but soon the back pain goes away.

THE PURPOSE OF INVESTITGATING IS TO CHANGE.

So then in our implementation acronym

Practicing Applications Intentionally Now

We are taking immediate actions based of what our Purpose, Adversity , Integrity and Nonconformance has taught and brought us to.

Import to note that sometimes this process will give us experiences and teach us lesson but it is all ultimate about what become about how we live not so much about what we know. 

ITS NOT ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE BUT ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE.

The principle of one plays a huge role in this process. If we be honest alot of time it is our own ambition that walks us to some pain. " Eyes bigger than your belly" God is keen on having us to bridle our passions before him and keep a keen on his desire. In most cases this is where the suffering begins.

And when He had called the people unto Him with His disciples also, He said unto them, “Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. Lukes iteration of this phrase adds the word daily which indicates a practice.