INTRODUCTION

Trials, afflictions, and heartaches presently abound, but those who know the Lord can rejoice in knowing those things are "for a season" (1 Peter 1:6Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
See All...). Here, the saved may suffer "a while" (1 Peter 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
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DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS

• (For smaller children) Life on earth has joys and sorrows. But if we are saved, one day our joy will be full (complete, perfect) because we will forever be with the Lord (John 14:1-3 [1] Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. [2] In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
  See All...; 2 Corinthians 5:8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
  See All...; 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 [15] For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. [16] For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: [17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
  See All...; Psalm 16:11Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
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• What are you facing today? Have you lost loved ones to death? Are you experiencing fears due to personal troubles? Turn your eyes to the Lord knowing that these things shall pass.
• Have you called upon the Lord for salvation? If not, you will never enjoy the benefits of heaven. Will you examine yourself to see whether or not you are in the faith (2 Corinthians 13:5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
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PRAYER NEEDS

• If you are saved, thank the Lord for the joys that await you.
• Ask the Lord to remind you that trials will pass.

HYMN

Joy Unspeakable

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