Experience: Life

While in prayer last week, I began to thank God for my afflictions. I thanked Him for all the difficult things that I had been through in my life. As I went further into worship, I began to better understand the importance of my afflictions. I began listing the events that broke me, and I praised Him for it. That prayer experience was just what I needed. I had been asking God for some time what I should write about for this post. While in worship, while I was thanking God for my afflictions, I heard him say, “Tell my people.” He wanted me to share with you that there is purpose in your affliction! Psalm 119:71 (NKJV) reads, “It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn Your statutes.” In this scripture, David is addressing God and thanking Him for the troubles he had been through. Earlier in this passage, David says that before he was afflicted, he went astray (v. 67). Before he knew God’s statutes, before he knew what was required of him, he did not live accordi...