● #1 When we use Paul as our role model, our joy is ineffable!

FOR OUR SUFFERING – IN OBEDIENCE TO THE LORD – WE SHALL RECEIVE DOUBLE BLESSINGS !!
2 Corinthians 1:5 KJV
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

● #2 When we use Paul as our role model, our joy is ineffable!

WHEN GOD SAID “JUMP”, PAUL SAID “HOW HIGH ?”
Acts 16:9-10 KJV
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. [10] And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.

● #3 When we use Paul as our role model, our joy is ineffable!

PAUL JUST KEPT ON PRAISING GOD SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WAS SO HAPPY BEING AT ONE WITH GOD !!
Philippians 3:10 KJV
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

● #4 When we use Paul as our role model, our joy is ineffable!

PAUL DIDN’T REGARD THE PHYSICAL, KNOWING THAT HE WAS IN THE CENTER OF GOD’S WILL !!
2 Corinthians 4:18 KJV
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

● #5 When we use Paul as our role model, our joy is ineffable!

HIS SUFFERINGS WERE NOT EVEN WORTH MENTIONING !!!!!
Romans 8:18 KJV
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

● #6 When we use Paul as our role model, our joy is ineffable!

PAUL’S . L I G H T . A F F L I C T I O N S :
2 Corinthians 11:23-28 KJV
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. [24] Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. [25] Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; [26] In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; [27] In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. [28] Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
STILL THINK YOU’RE HAVING A BAD DAY ?

● #7 When we use Paul as our role model, our joy is ineffable!

GET BACK UP AND GET GOING !!
2 Corinthians 4:16 KJV
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

● #8 THERE OUGHT TO BE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMEONE WHO IS ALIVE AND SOMEONE WHO IS DEAD !!
Romans 6:8 KJV
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: