Comfort in Affliction

Preview: God’s children will have to live through many hardships and sorrows if they choose to stay with God instead of bending to the ways of the world. These afflictions serve a purpose, and also help us to find favor in the sight of the Lord.


Scripture Reading: Psalm 46:1-11.

Memory Verse: Psalm 119:67.

1. Are God’s people free from affliction? Why not? Psalm 34:19.
2. How does God regard the afflicted? Job 34:28.
3. What has He promised to be to those in trouble? Psalm 46:1.
4. What feelings does the Lord have towards His children? Psalm 103:13.
5. What does He know and remember? Psalm 103:14.
6. What has the Lord promised to be to the oppressed? Psalm 9:9.
7. What has God promised His children when passing through trials and afflictions? Isaiah 43:2.
8. What did David say with reference to his being afflicted? Psalm 119:71.
9. What did he pray for when he was afflicted? Psalm 25:18.
10. What did he do before he was afflicted? Psalm 119:67.
11. What did Christ learn through suffering? Hebrews 5:8.
12. What must come to all in perfecting character? Hebrews 12:5-6.
13. Is this chastening a pleasant experience? Explain. Hebrews 12:11.
14. What courage and strength should come to us even in the hour of affliction? Job 4:3-4, Isaiah 35:3.
15. What did Job say in the midst of his afflictions? Job 13:15.
16. What is God called in the Scriptures? II Corinthians 1:3.
17. Whom does God comfort? II Corinthians 7:6.
18. What promise is made to those that mourn? Matthew 5:4.
19. Why does God comfort us in tribulation? II Corinthians 1:4.
20. How should we sympathize with others in their sorrows? Romans 12:15, Job 6:14.
21. Does Jesus sympathize with us in our afflictions? Why? Hebrews 4:14-15.