This document discusses how trials can help strengthen faith and build endurance through patience and spiritual growth. It notes that witnesses can teach endurance, trials reveal faith and provide opportunities to grow endurance as a fruit of the spirit through choosing to rejoice. God provides everything needed to endure through trusting and depending on him, and endurance has rewards.

1. Last week: Charting the course

3. 1. We have WITNESSES that can teach
us how to run with endurance.

4. 2. Trials reveal the STRENGTH of
our FAITH

5. 3. Trials are an OPPORTUNITY for
endurance to GROW.
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6. 4. Patience is a FRUIT of the SPIRIT
that grows through spiritual
training in the spiritual disciplines.

7. 5. We have a CHOICE to REJOICE or
be MISERABLE in trials.

8. 6. God gives us everything we need
to endure. We need to TRUST and
DEPEND on Him.

9. 7. Endurance has REWARDS.