All Things Work Together For Good

ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD

Romans 8:28

28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

OUTLINE

1.TRAINING

2.TRANSIENCE

3.TRANSFORMATION

4.TEARS

5.TURNAROUND

6.TRIUMPH

7.TESTING

THE MESSAGE

ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD

1.TRAINING

The Lord trains us to do the work He wants us to do.This training process involves discipline,correction and development.He chastens us in order to develop us.The training process will be according to work He wants us to do. Easy work requires easy training but difficult tasks require difficult,intensive and elaborate training. But let us remember that even the training process and chastening will work only for our good.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

Hebrews 12:5-11

5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:

“My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord,

Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;

6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens,

And scourges every son whom He receives.”

7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.

11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

2.TRANSIENCE

The Lord allows some periods of pain and difficulty in our life.But it is only transient and temporary.His love towards us is permanent.Weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning.Let us remember that the mercy of God is permanent in our lives.These transient periods of pain will be followed by good times.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

Psalms 30:5

5 For His anger is but for a moment,

His favor is for life;

Weeping may endure for a night,

But joy comes in the morning.

Isaiah 54:7-8

7 “For a mere moment I have forsaken you,

But with great mercies I will gather you.

8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;

But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”

Says the Lord, your Redeemer.

3.TRANSFORMATION

The Lord turns our sorrow into joy. He can turn the very source of sorrow into a source of joy.Saul in the New Testament was a source of sorrow and pain to the church causing great persecution to the church.But God turned Saul into Paul and made him a great source of joy and blessing to the church.Whatever is a source of sorrow to us ,God can turn that very thing into a source of joy for us.Thus even our source of sorrow works for good in our life.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

John 16:20

20 Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

4.TEARS

The Lord helps us to make our tears into a source of blessing.We can pass through the valley of tears and make it into a well.He comforts us and makes us a source to comfort to those in sorrow. We should not drown in our sorrows but make it a well where others who go through similar sorrowful experiences can come and receive comfort and guidance and strength.Thus even our tears can make us a source of blessing and ultimately work for our good.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

Psalms 84:5-7

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,

Whose heart is set on pilgrimage.

6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca,

They make it a spring;

The rain also covers it with pools.

7 They go from strength to strength;

Each one appears before God in Zion.

II Corinthians 1:3-5

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.

5.TURNAROUND

The Lord takes the evil intended against us and turns it into good.Every evil intended against Joseph ultimately turned into good .His brothers act of selling him as a slave helped him to reach Egypt.Potiphar’s wife’s false accusation helped him reach the prison where he interpreted the cup bearer’s dream.This in turn caused the cup bearer to remember Joseph when the King had a dream which nobody could interpret.Thus Joseph was brought before the Pharoh who put him in charge of the whole country.Therefore every evil act against Joseph actually brought him closer and closer to his destiny and blessing.Thus even the evil intended against us turns into good.