Habakkuk - Learning to Embrace Suffering

John 16:33 NLT I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world."

Habakkuk 3:17 MSG Though the cherry trees don’t blossom, and the strawberries don’t ripen, Though the apples are worm-eaten and the wheat fields stunted, Though the sheep pens are sheepless, and the cattle barns empty, I’m singing joyful praise to God.

Romans 8:18 NLT Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.

2 Corinthians 4:17 NLT For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!

Habakkuk 3:17b-19 MSG I’m singing joyful praise to God. I’m turning cartwheels of joy to my Savior God. Counting on God’s Rule to prevail, I take heart and gain strength. I run like a deer. I feel like I’m king of the mountain!

Colossians 3:1-2 NLT Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God's right hand. 2 Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.

Habakkuk 2:4 NLT The Just will live by Faith!