9 a.m.
Please arrive by 8:30 a.m. Downloadable PDF Lesson Plans for 9:00 a.m. Service:
10:45 a.m.
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Leader Devo
In my struggles, I pray and ask God to respond. I want Him to save me from my suffering according to my plan. But usually, my plan is not His plan.
When our oldest son was a senior in high school, my husband and I prayed for financial provision for college. God answered our prayer by allowing my husband to be laid off from his job.
Wait … what? That wasn’t what we had in mind! How would that help, Lord?
We didn’t understand God’s plan, but we knew we could trust Him. We had to trust Him. God’s plan
offered us a solution that wouldn’t have been available had my husband kept his job. It created an
opportunity for grants and scholarships that covered our son’s entire first year of school.
Are you in a season where you don’t think God hears? Know that His ways are unique and perfect. He
may not choose to save us from suffering. But we can be confident of this: He will save us in it! In our
darkest valleys, God saves.
As you read Genesis 50:15–21, think about your situation. Are you able to see that whatever you are
going through, God will use for His good and glory?
God had a plan to save a nation of people through Joseph’s suffering. God had a plan to save you and
me through Jesus’ suffering. Isn’t that amazing?
God has “made the heavens and the earth. Nothing is too hard for [Him]” (Jeremiah 32:17).
—Kristi McElheney
Children’s and Parenting Pastor
Contributor to Wonder Ink
*Wonder Ink Video for this series*
Word of Wonder:
Nothing is too hard for God.
—Jeremiah 32:17
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