When Affliction Seem Heavy

What if the heaviest pain you carry could be measured against something even heavier—so heavy it makes today’s burden feel light by comparison? We open Paul’s bold claim that beatings, prisons, and injustice were “light afflictions,” and we ask how a person can say that without denying real suffering.
If you’re close to giving up, this message invites you to change the scale. Let the “weight of glory” be the dominant mass in your life, heavier than fear and louder than despair.

Episode Transcript

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Here on Soul Food Podcast Motivational Mondays with Bishop
Joshua. Hello dear friend, this may the
Lord Jesus bless your life. Yesterday we spoke about the
Apostle Paul who said that his outwards, his human body was

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deteriorating. Yes, he was a man who suffered
many things for the sake of his salvation and the salvation of
others. He faced a lot of injustice.
He was beaten, he was stoned, hewas tired.

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He was in prison many times, in prison now, he says, for our
light affliction. How came somebody that was
always facing troubles, persecutions, he was persecute,
persecuted, he was put in prison.

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How can a man like this say our light affliction?
You are going to understand in afilm our light affliction, which
is but for a moment is working for us a more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory. Weight of glory, in other words,

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he considered all the troubles, the pain sorrows, the horrible
situation he went through in prison, injustice, all that.
He considered light, light afflictions because he was
seeing the weight of glory, the weight of glory.

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In other words, the glory will be greater than this affliction.
These afflictions have. Oh yes, but I consider it light,
light affliction because in heaven it is going to be
greater. As He said, this affliction is

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work for us for more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
The weight of glory, salvation, the reward from God is better,
greater, better, greater than the weight of the problem.

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Do not look at your problem. I don't know what you are facing
this day or this moment, but consider it just like a light
affliction, just a light affliction and God you renew you
day after day. Don't let the problems on the
outside be heavy on you. They are light, they are

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painful, yes, nobody like them, nobody likes them, the problems,
but the glory that God has for us is heavier, heavier,
dangerous problem. That's why he calls it an
eternal weight of glory. The weight of glory is more

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powerful than the problems that you are faced.
These problems are light in Jesus name.
They go away. Do not give up on your faith,
but just believe what you are. You can expect what you are
hoping for is the weight of glory of your salvation.

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All right, God bless you. All of you have yourself a
wonderful day. Share this message with a friend
of yours. Tell a friend of yours about
this channel, about this social media here so that they can hear
these words, especially that theperson you know that is about to
give up. God bless you.

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Have a good one.