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Learn from Mistakes
Week 2 – 2024.10.13

#1God uses mistakes to correct us.

God uses mistakes to correct us.

Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. Proverbs 20:30

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28

God uses mistakes to correct us.

God uses mistakes to protect us.

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done.
Genesis 50:20

God uses mistakes to protect us.

God uses mistakes to refine us

In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith..

Of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1 Peter 1:6-7

I am glad … not because I hurt you but because the pain turned you to God… 2 Cor. 7:9

When you have many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test your faith. James 1:2-4

I (God) have refined you… I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.  Isaiah 48:10

…it was the best thing that could have happened to me, for it taught me to pay attention to your laws.  Psalm 119:71 (LB)

God is more concerned with the production of our character than the preservation of our happiness.

Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. Proverbs 20:30

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Romans 12:18

Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. Proverbs 20:30

I (God) have refined you… I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.  Isaiah 48:10