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Chapter 1

  1. What is the question we often ask God because of our own limited perspective?
  2. Our purpose is to the for the we face.
  3. His brings to those who have thus far been afraid to ask
  4. The disciples saw his as the of something. However, this man’s blindness was a of God’s .
  5. Satan’s is to us to ourselves.
  6. True or False God is not the only source of adversity.
  7. Some forms of death caused by sin are:
    A. death
    B. die
    C. - dies
    D. dies
    E. dies
  8. Death with it , sorrow, , and .
  9. Death was not a of God’s original for man. is an . It is God’s as well as man’s. It is the of all He to .
  10. God’s and are not to be in the balance of the tragedy and adversity we experience day in and day out.
  11. Sometimes it is sin that brings into lives. On other occasions the of someone else us
  12. There is a third source of adversity: .
  13. Satan God to adversity into Job’s life. But God in turn Satan to do the work. came from . The came from .
  14. Why is the response to adversity more important than the source of adversity? Because adversity, regardless of the , is God’s most tool for your and to Him.
  15. The best way to God’s in your life is to consider your to adversity. God adversity, of the .
  16. The real question each of us needs to ask is,
    ?
  17. What were the sources of the adversity Christ faced?
    A. B. C.
  18. Adversity is a that of us can .
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Chapter 2

  1. The that Mary and Martha for Jesus as soon as Lazarus became ill is of their in His .
  2. People have their greatest between the point they God for and the point at which does .
  3. Jesus to show His concern and love for Lazarus in John 11:35.
  4. Some things are so to that they are worth the and health of children in order to them.
  5. When you , God Regardless of what He may be in the of accomplishing, regardless of how His may be, He is in with what you are .
  6. What two things are always true through all the pain and adversity God may allow us to face?
    A. He is to what we are .
    B. Whatever He is in the process of accomplishing through our will always be for our interest.
  7. Jesus’ in all that happened were to bring to and to others to in Him.
  8. To Christ, this to publicly the of God was worth risking the of some of His closest friends.
  9. To something is to so arrange things as to focus on it or bring it .
  10. Jesus spent His whole life in an to the of on His Father.
  11. More than keeping everybody healthy was people to .
  12. Just as Jesus those He loved to for the sake of those who had not believed, so He allow to today.
  13. If almighty saw fit to allow His Son to suffer that we might be saved, why should we think it us to suffer so that might ?
  14. Suffering is the by which God brings to Himself and to His Son.
  15. True or False Suffering is God’s most useful tool.
  16. Suffering our weakness, and .
  17. Our sufferings are . The we are accumulating while in these bodies are .
  18. God works through our , our , our , and our .
  19. What two options do Christians have concerning adversity?
    A. Trust God to Himself through your adversity.
    B. Focus on your and spend your time for answers.
  20. If you God, you too will one day say, “It was it !”
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Chapter 3

  1. One of the most things about Christianity is that our is so .
  2. For believers, God’s makes adversity much more to because our worldview includes a loving who has presented to us as a .
  3. As long as we are in a fog about God’s and His to our , there will always be for .
  4. Joseph was to with the of God in the of grave .
  5. Joseph alone in the bottom of a with no that he would through the night.
  6. There is more than doing what is and then things fall .
  7. Many people have had irreparable done to their as a of adversity.
  8. After all he had been through and with no of ever being from prison, Joseph’s faith remained , and he was willing to that in .
  9. Joseph did not that God was setting the stage for a key in His to bring to the .
  10. God’s and in our lives cannot be judged by the of our .
  11. His involvement is measured by two things:
    A. The of our .
    B. The of His .
  12. When God is silent, you have only one reasonable option— Him; in there; on Him. He may be , but He has not on you.
  13. Through even the gravest adversity, He is to your character and His for your life.
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Chapter 4

  1. In the first the nation of was saturated with of every kind.
  2. The people the Messiah to bring about , political, and reform when He came.
  3. The parable in Luke 18:2-8 is presented in such a way as to set up a between an judge and a God.
  4. There will be for the elect Christ the second time.
  5. The ultimate to the problem of and in the world is the of the .
  6. John makes it clear that those who stand at the great white throne will be judged to their .
  7. Not only will the be dealt with to what they have , the will be .
  8. Why does God get excited when we suffer unjustly?

  9. Those who unjustly will not only have their cause by God, they will a as well.
  10. True or False The murder of the Son of God has been avenged.
  11. Who has God appointed as prosecuting attorney, a jury, and a judge?
    .
  12. What is the assignment given to believers by Jesus?
    A. Remain
    B. for justice
    C. Look expectantly for the .
  13. God has Christ to the and the .
  14. There is no use in allowing persons who have harmed you to you . Release all that to the Lord. Tell Him right now that you Him as your and your .
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Chapter 5

  1. The and events that we see as are oftentimes the very that launch us into periods of spiritual .
  2. Is the promise made in Romans 8:28 conditional or unconditional?
  3. The reason so many of us so intensely with is that we have yet to adopt perspective and .
  4. God far for us than simply living a life that is problem-free.
  5. It is a to think that a - life is a life.
  6. The God for His children comes only through the process of spiritual and .
  7. To remain spiritually is to run the of eventually the faith.
  8. If our priorities are , comfort, and , we will have little for adversity.
  9. Spiritual men and women from excited about what has them.
  10. The Bible gives us plenty of to that God could all from our lives with just a word. But tells us He has not to do that.
  11. What is God in the process of teaching believers about Himself?
    A. His
    B. His
    C. His
    D. His
  12. The “ ” of our faith produces “ ”
  13. The implication is that by to adversity , we short-circuit the maturing process.
  14. By adversity, we ourselves of the God to do in our lives.
  15. is the ability to see things from perspective.
  16. We are to God at His and live by it. Until we are to do that, things will be .
  17. God exactly how much each of us to in the spiritual life.
  18. What kept C. S. Lewis from embracing Christianity?

    .
  19. God understands the of with adversity.
  20. He has a special for those who “persevere trial.”
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Chapter 6

  1. One of the God adversity into our lives is to get our .
  2. When we neglect to give the proper in our lives we our spiritual .
  3. God to us in our pleasures, in our conscience, but in our pains.
  4. It is next to for an who has no pressing problem to see the for a .
  5. Adversity even the and most of us to our .
  6. If indeed it took temporary blindness and to get Paul’s , it was certainly worth it, for through him the was and were across the Roman world of his day.
  7. God knows what could through our gifts, and talents if we were His.
  8. Rarely are we of what God from us. What we is the to .
  9. Why did Jonah rededicate his life to the Lord? Jonah decided to God because in the of that fish he got a good dose of . Simply put, is in charge! That is reason enough to .
  10. We are the ones who are if for one moment we to the of cruel.
  11. Our and infatuation with the of this diminish our spiritual sensitivity.
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Chapter 7

  1. God uses to us of His great love. He uses adversity as a of .
  2. Love necessitates the and even the of pain.
  3. A scourge was a leather or a stick used to slaves and criminals.
  4. The writer of Hebrews knew all too well our not to take the of God as as we should.
  5. We have forgotten that His complete knowledge of and its consequence compels Him to take measures with us.
  6. In reality, the discipline of God is a of It serves as the of our Father-child with God.
  7. Discipline respect. It relationships.
  8. God’s for us will not let Him sit back and watch our lives be , so He with discipline.
  9. We can be that the discipline of our heavenly Father will be perfectly to our individual .
  10. True or False God’s purpose is to make us holy.
  11. What are three guidelines used to identify adversity that is from God as a form of discipline?
    A. God wants us to when we are being
    B. The we incur will be connected in some way with the we commit.
    C. Spiritual can hinder a believer’s ability to see that God is administering
  12. God is not about to let up on a until He has accomplished what He has set out to do. If a man or woman to give in, God will just turn the .
  13. Discipline is something we for the moment. The it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it the .
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Chapter 8

  1. Annoyances are God’s way of drawing our to potentially dangerous spots, or emotional from our past.
  2. Character , discernment, and the surrender of and possessions are areas of life that take a lifetime to develop.
  3. God is not satisfied with simply calling us to for our of disobedience. He wants to get at the .
  4. God sees fit to allow a little adversity into our lives to us to do some self-examination.
  5. During these times of self-examination, we the greatest forward in our relationship with and .
  6. If we God to all He wishes to reveal, permanent takes .
  7. God does not want elements from the past to lie around in our lives and cause us to .
  8. What did the apostle Paul tell us to do in Ephesians 4:15? “But speaking the in , may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.”
  9. The undealt with from our will eventually .
  10. The longer we allow these things to go the greater their negative ; the deeper the , the more the excavation process and the greater our resistance to let them go.
  11. We need incentive to within. Nobody wants to what is really on the .
  12. Jesus is there to help you that burden to the and with it once and for all.
  13. He knows that sometimes the to complete and restoration of the inner man.
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Chapter 9

  1. True or False God hates pride.
  2. God hates so much that He is to adversity into the lives of His children in order to it .
  3. And so the reason God allows adversity in our lives is to our .
  4. The was God’s of assuring that Paul’s popularity and special spiritual would not cause him to more of himself than he ought.
  5. Most believers their spiritual .
  6. If you are the between and for one , you have tremendous potential!
  7. All of us have potential through . Prayer is the believer’s means of in this heavenly .
  8. Satan knows that nothing a man’s or woman’s to God like . No other sin a as quickly as pride.
  9. True or False God is willing to share His glory with everyone.
  10. A who becomes is living in to God. The life is designed to be a life of .
  11. God does not the proud; He does not the proud; He does not the proud; He the proud.
  12. Nobody or outmaneuvers God!
  13. Pride is followed by of some kind.
  14. If you can Him with sincerity of or His active and in your life, you have a giant toward advancing through your adversity!
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Chapter 10

  1. Why did God choose David to battle with Goliath? He looked for someone who seemed to have not even the chance of Someone who would be completely upon Him. An through which He could demonstrate His mighty in such a way as to get credit for it.
  2. Our heavenly Father gets far more and thus more when He works through persons the considers .
  3. When He what is , His power and are that much more .
  4. One of the reasons God allows adversity into our lives is to cause us to on strength instead of own.
  5. Adversity is always and unwelcomed. It is an and a thief. And yet in the hands of adversity becomes the through which His supernatural is demonstrated.
  6. God’s purpose was to Paul’s on his own , his own wisdom, his own .
  7. One of the best ways for God to forth His is to manifest it through an otherwise or handicapped .
  8. Paul recognized that what God to be done him was simply preparation for what He to do him.
  9. What were some of Paul’s accomplishments?
    A. Debated


    B. He spent his life

    C. He planted



    D. He trained

    E. He wrote
  10. God is for men and women who are to take on too difficult for them to handle,Him to the .
  11. True or False Your biggest weakness is God’s greatest opportunity.
  12. And as you yourself His power will be demonstrated through you to the of .
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Chapter 11

  1. Apart from of some kind, we would know who our friends really are.
  2. One of the primary reasons God allows us to adversity is so that He can His and in turn our .
  3. God wants more you and you than simple intellectual of His faithfulness. It is His that you it .
  4. History as well as our personal bear to the fact that it is in times of adversity that we come to a greater of God’s incredible to .
  5. Where there is , there is always great for .
  6. Many Christians are to God when adversities are not the way they deem appropriate.
  7. God is always to His .
  8. God’s are not our ways. His are oftentimes not our goals. But He is faithful.
  9. God does not our painful circumstances. He us through them.
  10. Write Hebrews 4:16.



  11. When Paul asked for relief, the he was simply, “My is for you” (2 Cor. 12:9).
  12. To come to this conviction in the Christian life is to have into an of quiet of every .
  13. True or False God will use adversity to deepen your faith in His faithfulness.
  14. It is only after we are to upon His sustaining that we know it to be adequate; and it is only then that we in our experience that is .
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Chapter 12

  1. Another reason God allows adversity to our is to us to others.
  2. God made out of each of us because in our moments He to us in the ways.
  3. God does not the believer for the sake only. Part of His reason for comforting us in our times of is so that we can more comfort others.
  4. God allows to our lives so that He can comfort us.
  5. God is in the of comforters.
  6. To comfort others: “to impart and ” to them.
  7. True or False To impart hope is to enable others to take their focus off their immediate circumstances and place it on eternal things.
  8. It is not a - to talk about finding in heaven. Pointing a person toward is not an act of ; it is not a last resort.
  9. Only persons who have God to them are to comfort .
  10. People who are harboring in their cannot truly comfort anyone.
  11. People who have their squarely, on the of Christ within them, and then it all in and on are ready to comfort others.
  12. To Him is to out not only on the He wants to teach you, but the He is for you in the life of another.
  13. The world is full of who someone who . That is the to which God has each of us.
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Chapter 13

  1. If your ultimate aim in life in any way with that of our heavenly Father, is .
  2. God’s ultimate for us is that we be to the “ ” of His Son.
  3. We can be totally controlled by and yet be about the “ work.”
  4. Instead of getting involved with God’s , we try to get Him with what is significant to us. As a result we become very but not very .
  5. Christ’s was to the and accomplish His will at any .
  6. Define the word Christlikeness.


  7. God wants the “ ” life .
  8. The into which God wants to bring all of His children is personal with Christ, specifically, the and of Christ.
  9. What did Phillip say when he found out there was no hope of his wife coming back? I now. is in my life. I still don’t it all, but praise God, I don’t have to understand it to it.
  10. Christianity was meant to be a of self- improvement. God is not interested in “self”; His concern is with it.
  11. God wants you to your , your , your , your , your to Him. He wants to what He has taken with .
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Chapter 14

  1. We can have that the suffering Paul to have experienced was .
  2. In Paul, we have a man who extensively on every level, and yet faithful to the end.
  3. What did Paul discover about adversity?
    A. There is a purpose behind all adversity.
    B. God may to the purpose for our adversity.
    C. God never us for why or for that the adversity be moved.
    D. Adversity may be a from God.
    E. Satan can be the of adversity.
    F. God will us in our adversities.
    G. God’s is during times of adversity.
    H. God may not see fit to the adversity.
    I. does not hinge on the nature of our circumstances.
    J. The key to advancing through adversity is to it as for Christ’s .
  4. God would not have us for the sake of suffering. There is a .
  5. God is not necessarily concerning the question of . But He according to His , which is usually slightly ours.
  6. You need not feel for asking God to adversity from your life. He it.
  7. James actually believers to God for an answer to the question.
  8. True or False The question of why becomes a problem when it is asked in doubt.?
  9. Paul’s thorn was a in that it was through this irritation that God Paul from the thing he the most—spiritual .
  10. Even the of the can be used to the kingdom of . Even Satan’s host under the watchful eye of our in heaven.
  11. Doubt our spiritual . Once we God’s goodness and faithfulness, we will His to comfort us.
  12. Paul is exultant over the fact that grace him to reign victoriously over his weaknesses.
  13. Jesus never to our pain and in this life.
  14. Paul could be in the most circumstances because his in life was to be to the Lord.
  15. Contentment is to all of us, regardless of our circumstances, if we only our lives to the and plan of .
  16. True or False Your mission in life is to bring glory to God through spreading Christ’s gospel.
  17. True or False When God uses the adversity in your life to draw people to Himself, you have suffered for Christ’s sake.
  18. Your is to yourself to the lordship of Christ.
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Chapter 15

  1. The nature of our adversity alone does not determine its spiritual in our lives. It is our to it, the way we with it, that makes suffering .
  2. What are some responses to adversity?
    A. somebody
    B. the problem
    C.Another way people react to tragedy is
    D.Another common way of dealing with adversity is -
  3. Holding on to and is always self-destructive. Both are .
  4. God to adversity in our lives. The wisest thing we can do is to to correctly. By doing so, we work God rather than Him.
  5. What are some helpful steps in dealing with the consequences of sin?
    A. the .
    B. and of your sin.
    C. Do not .
    D. Ask to help you discover the through which crept into your life.
    E. that God wants to use this in your life.
    F. God for not you to get by with your .
  6. How should you respond when you are sure adversity is not the direct result of your sin?
    A. your in .
    B. Ask to remove the from your .
    C. the of God’s sustaining .
    D. God for this unique to spiritually.
    E. adversitiy as if it were from .
    F. and on Scriptures describing the of God’s servants.
  7. God is always when we our faith.
  8. True or False It matters very little who the messenger of adversity is
  9. True or False God will not demonstrate His faithfulness to you.
  10. True or False Suffering is unavoidable.
  11. Our to adversity will for the most part be by our for living, our for being on this earth, as we see it.
  12. The man or woman who has God’s on this life and the life to come will emerge !
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Match the following statement with the Scripture (KJV) that best teaches it:

1. Don’t think it strange when troubles come. A. Psalm 126:5
2. A testing trial can prove your faith more precious than gold. B. Romans 5:3
3. Consider it pure joy when you face various troubles. C. Rom. 8:38-39
4. Paul taught that trials strengthen us in our weaknesses. D. Psalm 119:67
5. God will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. E. Psalm 10:17
6. The Lord hears and prepares the heart of the humble. F. 2 Cor. 12:10
7. Before affliction, believers tend to go astray and not obey. G. James 1:2
8. Affliction can be good, if it helps us learn God’s Word. H. Psalm 119:71
9. If we plant in tears (in God’s soil), we shall harvest in joy. I. 1 Peter 1:7
10. Humble under God’s mighty hand; be exalted in due time. J. 1 Peter 4:12
11. The Lord promises to never leave nor forsake His own. K. Hebrews 13:5
12. Nothing is able to separate us from God’s love! L. 1 Cor. 10:13
13. All who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. M. Job 14:1
14. Man’s days are few, and full of trouble. N. 1 Peter 5:6
15. Glory in trials, knowing their purpose is to produce patience. O. 2 Tim. 3:12
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