Many Christians today do not want to be associated with suffering of any kind, wether it's a body suffering, or financial needs or whatever, they belong to enjoyment age where the most high God Almighty must provide Everything for them if indeed he is real and true. They always put God Almighty to the test saying words like if you are the most high God provide this for me,heal my body and free me from any predicament.

Ignorant of the fact that suffering work for us a great weight of glory. I have compiled scriptural references about Christian suffering

Acts 5:41
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So they went on their way from the presence of the Council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for His name.

Acts 9:16
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for I will show Paul how much he must suffer for My name's sake."

Romans 8:17
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and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

Romans 8:36
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Just as it is written, "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED."

2 Corinthians 1:7
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and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.

2 Corinthians 11:23
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Are they servants of Christ?--I speak as if insane--I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.

Philippians 3:10
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that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

2 Timothy 2:12
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If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He also will deny us;

Hebrews 11:25
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choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

James 5:10
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As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

1 Peter 2:20
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For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.

1 Peter 3:14
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But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED,

1 Peter 4:16
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but if anyone suffers as a Christian, he is not to be ashamed, but is to glorify God in this name.

1 Peter 5:10
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After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

Matthew 5:11
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"Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

Matthew 10:22
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"You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

Matthew 10:39
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"He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.

Matthew 19:29
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"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name's sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

1 Corinthians 4:10
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We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor.

2 Corinthians 4:5
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For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake.

2 Corinthians 4:11
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For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 12:10
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Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Philippians 1:29
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For to you it has been granted for Christ's sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

I am more

Cast your Burden on The Lord to have Rest.

Read Psalm 4:4-5. Believe That!

The only way the Bible makes sense is if we conclude that god is a raving lunatic whose greatest thrill comes from human suffering. Its only when christians try to claim that "god is good" or "god loves us" that the story gets ridiculous.

This is supposedly a being that KNOWS EVERYTHING and has INFINITE POWER. Yet he stands by and watches every time a child is molested and does NOTHING to stop it. Does he strike the molester dead on the spot? No. Does he send a cop? No. Does he do ANYTHING to prevent it? No. Even though he could help the child with less than the blink of his almighty eye. Why? He can't say he didn't know. And he can't say he couldn't do anything about it, right? So he must ALLOW IT because HE LIKES IT!

The same with starving children and disease. Its entertainment for him. And even though he could change it all, with less effort than we could change the channel on our TV, he refuses to reach for the remote. Instead he'll just reach for a shotgun and blow a hole through the screen. YEE HAW!

This is one sick god we've got here. He loves human suffering so very much that he just couldn't get enough of it in this world. So he had to create a place of ETERNAL TORTURE so he could REALLY get off! And does he send people there who have done horrible things they need to be punished for? No, he forgives all of that. He only sends people who don't believe a story that says that the creator of all things is such a horrible monster that he actually created a place of ETERNAL TORTURE. If you think god is better than that you go to Hell.

Now reading the Bible what does it say Satan's big crime was? His ego. He thought he could do a better job than god. But looking at the world around us how wrong could he have been? Anybody could do a better job than this raving lunatic of a god. The christian god is just about what you could expect if the Joker from Batman had infinite power.

Grace church

Jesus is Cross. Christ is Crisis. Christians must always carry their Cross in all Crisis.

Sufferings are Tribulations. Christians will face but shouldn't worry, 'cos, Christ has conquered them.

Interesting

orisa37:
Jesus is Cross. Christ is Crisis. Christians must always carry their Cross in all Crisis.

No Brother
Christ is the anointed one and the anointing not crisis please

Bros, keep enjoying.

Thanks much

Bros, keep enjoying Christ!!!

Whether you like it not or not, you go must suffer. The suffering will be x 500 if you are a Nigerian.
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long suffering..one of the fruits of the H.spirit

Irrespective of your religion, as long as you're a Nigerian... you must taste suffering.

Happy Independence Day!!

If Christ suffered, (and died) (for your sake) why shouldn't you experience some sort of discomfort too, to please him? Then why do you call yourself CHRISTian?

A christian will only suffer if his life style is at variance with the Will of God. A christian who obey the voice of God will escape suffering and tribulation

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If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself, carry his cross and follow me(Luke 9:23). The problem with most Church goers is that they have refused to deny themselves, forgetting that Christ did not come to teach about the kingdom of this world.

These pastorpreneurs will rather talk about prosperity and neglect the suffering the Bible rather emphasized

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The two major tactics that the devil is using in this generation to poison the mindset of children of God.

1. The devil is seriously attacking the institution of marriage, by breaking the ones that are married and poisoning the minds of those who aren't married that they don't need to by creating fear. And the Christian family is the foundation of the church

2. The devil is also giving God's children this false idea that they don't need to suffer.

We always thank God for waking us from sleep in the morning, that it is not by our goodness but the mercy of God. So it is with suffering, it will come whether you are a Christian or not.

God gives His blessings and gifts to all as He sees fit. It is His to give, ever wondered why you see some ordinary people not the strongest christians winning lottery jackpots of millions of dollars. They won not by sowing seed, it's just the way God works in mysterious ways

Truflame:
A christian will only suffer if his life style is at variance with the Will of God. A christian who obey the voice of God will escape suffering and tribulation

Wrong...there is no true Christian who will not go thru suffering. This are parts of the marks of being a true Christian. Infact Everyman alive will go thru some sort of pain at one time or the other but the difference is that those who are in Christ learn, get strenghtened and are partakers in the cross of Christ and those sufferings will never overwhelm them but those who are not in Christ will complain all the time and and it most times ends up causing more evil and pain and sin to come to them.

Truflame:
A christian will only suffer if his life style is at variance with the Will of God. A christian who obey the voice of God will escape suffering and tribulation

I disagree with you. God didn't say that a Christian will not suffer; His promise is that he won't depart from us when we go through tribulation. Psalm 23 says "..Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

I do believe saying God if your almighty do this if you created the whole world do that

i'd believe it's some sort of disrespect to who God is n a doubt to his abilities, hv never prayed like that n God answer me ion know abt others
just remind God of his promises and tell him what u want and see everything falling in place as prayed

@op, the issue of suffering becomes insignificant when the purpose of this life is understood. However, the issue of suffering can be traced back to Adam when sent out of Eden, lets not misunderstand that suffering in life is one thing and suffering in life for choice of religion is totally different. Most scriptures sighted relate to the later

Thank God not everyone is brainwashed like in most churches. The bible verses you quoted are more than enough to prove your point. However you must understand that these bible verses are carefully omitted in most of these churches around while the prosperity dogma is put to the fore.

It is not an omission, the pastors and general overseers of these churches know what they are doing. Ask yourself how much crowd will these bible verses attract compared to the prosperity teaching? May God help the brainwashed.

orisa37:
Sufferings are Tribulations. Christians will face but shouldn't worry, 'cos, Christ has conquered them.

Chai!As a Christian de word SUFFERING ad TRIBULATION dey fear me die..Maybe dats why I don't like reading the book of revelation

NO CHILD OF GOD SUFFERS.....
OUR FATHER HAS TAKEN ALL THE SUFFERINGS ON THE CROSS...

WHAT BELIEVERS GO THROUGH TODAY IS TRIALS , TESTS and TEMPTATIONS.... WHICH IS TO TEST YOUR FAITH AND TRUST IN GOD..

THE MOMENT U PASS THRU, ITS VICTORY

PRAISE TO THE ALMIGHTY DADDY