Two of the following 1-minute videos are from the YouTube site, Christian Sermons and Audio Books. The first, says a lot about prayer and remaining under God’s afflicting hand; the second, gives one point to consider when under sickness.
There is also a link below those videos to a 4-minute video about bearing one’s cross in the Christian life; these three videos together, provide fuller instruction to the subject of this post, Christian suffering.
It took me a long time to realize that when I was under affliction, I habitually sought to escape it, fleeing to something that gave me pleasant feelings, or at least a break from unpleasant ones. I began to understand this problem when I was dealing with cancer and my brother gave me a book titled, The Afflicted Man’s Companion.
That book enabled me to see many examples of God’s afflicting characters of the Bible and what He expected of them at those times: that they receive it; feel it; remain in it until He removed it, waiting on Him…that they might be conformed to the image of Christ.
The following 1-minute video is about dealing with affliction, it is from the same YouTube site:
At the following link to a post in this blog, you can learn something about bearing your cross. The content of the 4-minute video is directly related to the above two videos of this post.
https://sheeplywolves.com/bearing-your-cross-in-the-christian-life/
The following 15-minute video is the longer version of the above video on sickness:
As I listened to the 10 points to meditate upon when in sickness, in the video above, I heard mention of important points that are made by two posts I frequently refer readers to: one is by Luther wherein he stated that God gives experiential understanding to those with great faith; and Jonathan Edwards, who discovered when he analyzed the conversion experiences of those who had fallen away from the faith after claiming to be converted, that there is a 5-step process that believers experience when they are truly converted, he called it ‘the struggle of faith.’
Link to 16-minute Luther video:
https://sheeplywolves.com/abstain-from-fleshly-lusts-which-war-against-the-soul-martin-luther/
Link to post on ‘the sinner’s prayer’ wherein Edwards 5-step process is explained:
Narrative that accompanied video above, on prayer:
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NARRATIVE THAT ACCOMPANIED THE VIDEO ON SICKNESS:
Lewis Bayly – (1565-1631), Puritan author On Sickness playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list…
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Psalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word. 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I may learn Your statutes.
A native of Carmarthen, Wales, Lewis Bayley was born in 1565. Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, he received several church preferments in England and Wales before becoming Treasurer of Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London and Chaplain to King James the First. In 1616 Bayley was appointed Bishop of Bangor, remaining there until his death in 1631. His episcopate was marred by his inept handling of Church and State politics, which led to a brief spell in Fleet Prison in 1621. Bayley’s devotional manual, The Practice of Piety, appeared in 1611 and is said to have been based on a series of sermons that he had given while Vicar of Evesham. By 1842 it had gone through eighty English editions and had been translated into several other languages. The Welsh version was published in 1630 and reprinted five times in a hundred years. Among those who were strongly influenced by Bayley’s book were the English Baptist pastor and writer John Bunyan and Howell Harris, a leader in the Welsh revival of the 18th century.
Meditations for the Sick – Lewis Bayly / Puritan #shorts