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Psalms 119:71 · BSB
119:71 It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
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…and redirect me. Sometimes God has to lay you flat on your back in order to get you to look up to God. He makes me lie down in green pastures.Psalm 119 verse 71says this. It was good for me to be afflicted. That's sick. It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. Sometimes God…
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…It's good for me that I've been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.Psalm 119, verses 71 through 72. God gives us problems under the law of perseverance to protect us. A problem can be a blessing in disguise if it prevents one from harming someone…
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…he calls. So whoever he calls to a position, he's qualified and is qualifying. Trust him. Trust him. Even so much so that the psalmist said inPsalm 119, verse 71it is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your. And so let's get to this here real quick about the last kingdom life principle.…
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…there were times I went astray, then I was afflicted, and then I kept the word. I was afflicted when I went astray, but now I've kept thy word. InPsalm 119, verse 71, he said, It is good for me that I have been afflicted. Why? That I might learn thy statutes. It was good for me that you afflicted me and you…
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…unbiblical carnal choices, and then they cry to God about their situation. We have to acknowledge God in our suffering at times. The Bible says inPsalm 119, verse 71, My suffering was good for me. How come do we say that? Adversity has been good for me. Oh, we want to be anointed with oil and God take all this…
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…all hope it was more than they could bear. What I want you to know is adversity is a reality. Adversity can be rigorous, but adversity has reasons.Psalm 119, verse 71, is good for me that I've been afflicted. None of us are standing in that light. But he said, it was through that that I might learn thy statutes.…
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…long and realize, man, I feel some feelings. I feel some emotions. I don't know if I know what to do with that. pain will pull you back to God.Psalm 119 verse 71, the Psalmist said this, "My suffering was good for me, for it taught me to pay attention to your decrees." My suffering was good for me. Good for…
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…not use that for good later on down the road. And I couldn't see it then, but I can see it now. And that's what we have to remind ourselves of. InPsalm 119 verse 71, David wrote, my suffering was good for me. Now we don't say that in present tense because suffering is not enjoyable, but he's writing this in…
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…good. There is a day coming, you know, whatever you're struggling with now, there is a day coming when you will be able to say with the psalmist inPsalm 119, verse 71, it is good for me that I was afflicted. This evening you hear that and you think that is impossible, it sounds like insanity to me, but there is a…
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…get a sense for the massive scope of how big this is. This is all over the Bible, and it is so varied in different cases. Just a couple examples.Psalm 119, verse 71, it is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. There's a sort of education from the discipline. Deuteronomy 4, verse…
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…is that in Hebrews 5, 7, in the days of his flesh, though Jesus Christ was the Son of God, yet he learned obedience by the things he suffered.Psalm 119, verse 71, the psalmist adds his testimony to God's faithfulness, and he says, My suffering was good for me because it taught me to pay attention to God's…
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…church and walk away from God. Don't get bitter, stay in the classroom and find out what it is that God's trying to it teach you I've been there toPsalm 119 Verse 71says it is good for me that I've been afflicted for that's when I learned we learn when we're going through the afflictions pastor Do you have…
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…doesn't stop things from happening that we set in motion ourselves. He has no obligation to. That we might learn. Let me give you a scripture fromPsalm 119, verse 71. It's good that I've been afflicted. That doesn't fly with many a preacher. It's good that I've been afflicted. Who wants to be? I was on TBN one.…
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…obedience. Also because of the affliction, he learned God's statutes. “It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes” (Psalm 119:71). So even when there is immediate profit to us in our discipline, there is still even greater fruitfulness afterwards from our discipline. This is,…
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…suffering, God is just trying to take an idle out of our lives and replace it with who he is. Have you ever been there? David said it like this inPsalm 119:71. He says It is good for me to be afflicted so that I may learn your decrees. Also, sometimes in suffering, God might just be trying to humble you a…
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…genuine Joy because you have a revelation that this is surely going to produce something. The psalmist said it this way I'll read it to you. InPsalm 119 verse 71it is good for me that I was afflicted that I might learn your statutes. It is good for me that I was afflicted that I might learn your statutes.…
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…119 verse 67, where he says, before I went astray or before I was afflicted, I went astray. But now I keep your word but in that same chapter inPsalm 119 verse 71, the psalmist says, it was good that I was afflicted. It was good for me that I was afflicted. So past tense. Now in hindsight, I look back in my…
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…you uh that have blessed me, and maybe they will encourage you if you've sensed uh that you're in a season uh like this. But the first one here isPsalm 119, verse 71. I love this. It says, It is good for me that I was afflicted. It is good for me that I was afflicted. What a reminder for me. As I'm going through…
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…the gathering of people to worship the Lord. So that's how Christ suffered. Fourthly, we know that our affliction is good for our sanctification.Psalm 119, verse 71, it is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. Through affliction, God is changing us. Affliction helps us to grow in…
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…don't limit how God expresses His blessings with things going well in your life, just hear this verse. Look what the psalmist said in the Book ofPsalms, 119 verse 71, it is good. Look what he says. This is powerful, it is good for me that I was afflicted. Are you sure it is good for me that I was afflicted. That…
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