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Don’t Waste Your Pain: How Trials Lead to Spiritual Growth

Don’t Waste Your Pain: How Trials Lead to Spiritual Growth

Update: 2025-09-23
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In this raw and powerful episode, we dive deep into James 1:2–4 and uncover the beauty and purpose hidden in life’s hardest moments. Trials are not setbacks, they’re setups for spiritual strength, endurance, and maturity. God doesn’t waste your pain; He uses it to forge perseverance and refine your faith.

We’ll challenge the shallow theology that says, “If it’s hard, God must not be in it,” and embrace the deep truth that real growth happens in the fire. From Job to Jesus, Scripture is clear: suffering is not the enemy of faith, it’s the proving ground of it.

If you’re in a storm, walking through fire, or simply hungry to grow deeper in your walk with God, this message will speak straight to your soul. Don’t run from the pressure, let it push you into deeper trust, deeper surrender, and deeper transformation.

This is your call to go deeper.

If this stirred something in you, if you’re ready to leave behind the shallows and pursue the deep things of God, then keep coming back. This podcast is here to walk with you, challenge you, and encourage you to go further than you’ve ever gone in your faith. You were made for the deep… and the deep is calling.

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Don’t Waste Your Pain: How Trials Lead to Spiritual Growth

Don’t Waste Your Pain: How Trials Lead to Spiritual Growth

Steven Murphy