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Suffering brings increase
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Suffering brings increase

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When you suffer loss for the Lord or experience set backs in your service for Him, rejoice.
1 Corinthians 3:13  Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14  If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15  If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

For you cannot lose anything for the Lord's sake or the gospel's sake without gaining tenfold or a hundredfold in this life and exceedingly great rewards in the next.
Mark 10:29  And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
30  But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
31  But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

If another person or persons interferes with you serving the Lord and causes a set back in your ministry, thank him, instead of warring with him.
Luke 6:22  Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
23  Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Do not become angry with him who hinders your work.
Proverbs 14:16  A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
17  He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: Ephesians 4:31

It is by suffering loss that God grants the increase.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. Luke 9:24

If something you hold dear is removed from your life because of the action or actions of others, the Lord will replace what was lost with a tenfold increase in precious new things.
Matthew 5:38  Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
39  But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40  And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
41  And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42  Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.