Tested and Blessed

Tested and Blessed
James 1:2-12 |  Pastor Terry Wilcox

1. Consider James 1:2 NKJV “count,” James 1:2 NLT “consider” to  carefully about something.
   In the Greek the word is a financial term meaning to .
   Being transformed into the image of Jesus is changed from valuing the material and physical to valuing the spiritual.
2. Because you know.  James 1:3
   a. Faith is always .
   b. This works for us.  I Peter 1:6-9
   c. God values our maturity.  Romans 5:3-5
3. Our character development requires our .  James 1:4
   Ephesians 2:8-12
   a. The work God does for us = .
   b. The work God does us = sanctification.
   c. The work God does  us = service.
4. Ask for .  James 1:5-8
   “Knowledge is the ability to take things , wisdom is the ability to   .”

   James 5:13-18
   a. Without wisdom, we will the opportunity.
   b. Without wisdom, we will miss the only enduring motivator, .  James 1:12