This document discusses the overlooked rewards and benefits of adversity. It argues that adversity causes us to grow in our faith, hope, and perseverance. It allows God to reward us for overcoming challenges. Hardship gives us new perspectives on God, life, and ourselves. It provides content that allows us to help others who are facing difficulties. While adversity is not easy, viewing it as an opportunity for growth and seeking God's direction can help us experience the positive results it is meant to bring.

6. James 1:2-4, 12

7. Horace
“The very difficulty of a problem evokes
abilities or talents which would otherwise, in
happy times, never emerge to shine.”

8. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
1. Adversity and trials cause us to grow.

9. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
1. Adversity and trials cause us to grow.
Adversity causes our faith, our hope, and our
perseverance to grow.
That’s why James says we should consider it
pure joy when we face trials of many kinds.

10. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
1. Adversity and trials cause us to grow.
Adversity causes our faith, our hope, and our
perseverance to grow.
That’s why James says we should consider it
pure joy when we face trials of many kinds.
Trials are the ONLY WAY that we can grow our
perseverance and become mature and
complete - not lacking anything!

12. Henry Ward Beecher
“You have come into a hard world. I know of
only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.”

13. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
2. If God wants to reward us for overcoming, or
achieving anything, then He has to allow us to
face adversity and come up against challenges,
so we can overcome and achieve something.

14. Deut. 8:1-2

16. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
2. If God wants to reward us for overcoming, or
achieving anything, then He has to allow us to
face adversity and come up against challenges,
so we can overcome and achieve something.
Real, true success only comes from overcoming
something. Medals are only given to those who
going through the adversity of competition and
win.

17. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
2. If God wants to reward us for overcoming, or
achieving anything, then He has to allow us to
face adversity and come up against
challenges, so we can overcome and achieve
something.
We need to see adversity as our opportunity to
show our stuff!

18. Arthur Golden
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away
from us all but the things that cannot be torn,
so that we see ourselves as we really are.”

19. Deut. 8:3-4

20. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
3. Hardship gives us a new perspective we can
only get by going through it. It teaches us new
things about God, life, ourselves, etc.

21. Benjamin Disraeli
“There is no education like adversity.”

22. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
3. Hardship gives us a new perspective we can
only get by going through it. It teaches us new
things about God, life, ourselves, etc.
God put the Israelites through the 40 years of
adversity in the desert, because it was the only
way to teach them that people don’t survive on
bread alone.

23. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
3. Hardship gives us a new perspective we can
only get by going through it. It teaches us new
things about God, life, ourselves, etc.
They could only learn that by being put in the
desert, where they were humbled by not having
food, so they had to look to God as their
source.
That’s when they learned this lesson!

24. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
4. Hardship gives us the content we can use to
teach others how to do the same things. It not
only gives us something we can teach them, but
it gives us the perspective, skills, and ability to
help others who going through the same thing!

25. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
4. Hardship gives us the content we can use to
teach others how to do the same things. It not
only gives us something we can teach them, but
it gives us the perspective, skills, and ability to
help others who going through the same thing!
Adversity gives God a chance to show his glory
to us and through us to others.

26. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
4. Hardship gives us the content we can use to
teach others how to do the same things. It not
only gives us something we can teach them, but
it gives us the perspective, skills, and ability to
help others who going through the same thing!
When people see how God brings us through a
trial, then it can cause them to believe in God.
It gives you a testimony and a powerful form of
witness.

27. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
5. Pain forces us to stop something. Pain forces
us to go a different way or do a different thing.

28. 1 Peter 1:6-7

29. The Overlooked Rewards & Benefits Of
Adversity
5. Pain forces us to stop something. Pain forces
us to go a different way or do a different thing.
Sometimes there is really no other way that
God can get us to stop or start these things.
We’re too stubborn or caught in our ways.

31. The Elements That Make A Good Story

32. The Elements That Make A Good Story
• Main Character

33. The Elements That Make A Good Story
• Main Character
• Problem

34. The Elements That Make A Good Story
• Main Character
• Problem
• Resolution

35. The Truth About A Life Without
Adversity
A life without adversity is as boring and going
nowhere as a story about a character that has
no problems.
There’s no chance for growth.
No chance for the character to stop
something, to start something new and see
their lives refined so they become the hero.

36. IMPORTANT
Adversity, trials and tribulations are NOT easy
to go through.
But, the way we view them and respond to
them makes all the difference!

37. Practical Steps
• Pray and seek God. Ask for discernment and direction.
• Ask ourselves:
-Is this adversity revealing something I should stop doing?
-Is there something else I should do or way I should go?Am I
trusting, relying, and leaning of the Lord in/through this?
-Is there something new God wants me to see in/through this?
-Is it causing me to grow? How?
-Who do I need to share my victory with?
• Remember: Each adversity is an opportunity to
succeed/overcome/grow/win, etc.
• If we can learn to view it the right way, respond to them the right
way, and seek God’s direction and help through them, then we can
experience the joy and positive results they’re meant to bring!