1-23-22 Set List: Battle Belongs Here As In Heaven Champion Message Special: Run To The Father Sermon Notes: But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! Galatians 5:22-23 3 Ways People Deal with Pain: 1. Medicate Then Samuel asked, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied. “But he’s out in the fields watching the sheep and goats.” 1 Samuel 16:11 “You are about to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you take it over and settle there, you may think, ‘We should select a king to rule over us like the other nations around us.’ If this happens… The king must not take many wives for himself, because they will turn his heart away from the Lord. Deuteronomy 17:14-15,17 3 Ways People Deal with Pain: 1. Medicate 2. Motivate I also tried to find meaning by building huge homes for myself and by planting beautiful vineyards. I made gardens and parks, filling them with all kinds of fruit trees. I built reservoirs to collect the water to irrigate my many flourishing groves. I bought slaves, both men and women, and others were born into my household. I also owned large herds and flocks, more than any of the kings who had lived in Jerusalem before me. I collected great sums of silver and gold, the treasure of many kings and provinces. I hired wonderful singers, both men and women, and had many beautiful concubines. I had everything a man could desire! So I became greater than all who had lived in Jerusalem before me, and my wisdom never failed me. Anything I wanted, I would take. I denied myself no pleasure. I even found great pleasure in hard work, a reward for all my labors. But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere. Ecclesiastes 2:4-11 3 Ways People Deal with Pain 1. Medicate 2. Motivate 3. Meditate Emotional Facts of Life 1. Life Hurts 2. Unless we deal with pain properly when it occurs, it accumulates within our hearts. 3. Accumulated pain and unresolved problems compromise our physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and relational health. 4. We all deal with pain in some way - right or wrong.5. The only way to stop the hurt and totally resolve it is to turn it over to God. Discussion Questions: 1. What do you feel like God is saying to you through this message? 2. If you can be honest which negative way of handling pain, do you tend to struggle with? 3. What ways do you see this affecting others around you? 4. Do you have some unresolved hurts that you need to deal with? 5. What are some changes you want to see this week given what God is saying to you?