1. Turning Tragedy Into Triumph

2. Helping Others With Our Hurt  Matthew 5 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

3. Example #1 - PAUL “Blessed Be God”

4. “Suffering (at times) is God’s test to see what’s really on the inside”.

5. Example #2- DAVID (Psalms 41 and 34) “Blessed Be God”

6. Example #3- JOB “Blessed Be God”

7.  Job 1 21 ”And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”

8.  Luke 6:45 – “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.”

9. Your Hurt Can: 1. Help You To Know God (in ways perhaps like never before)

10. Help You To Know God  He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

11. Help You To Know God  He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  He is the Father of Mercy.

12. Help You To Know God  He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  He is the Father of Mercy.  He is the God of all Comfort.

13. Your Hurt Can: 1. Help You To Know God 2. Help You Help Others

14. Who can you help with your hurt?

15. Helping others with our hurt:  John Walsh

16. Helping others with our hurt:  Corrie Ten Boom

17. Helping others with our hurt:  Lisa Beamer

18. Helping others with our hurt:  Gracia Burnham

19. Your Hurt Can: 1. Help You To Know God. 2. Help You Help Others. 3. Help You Face Life.

20. Lamentations 3:38- “Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?”

21. Lamentations 3:31-32- “ For the Lord will not cast off for ever: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.”

22.  Romans 12:1- “ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”

23.  Will YOU let God turn your TRAGEDY into TRIUMPH?