 You can go ahead and open to John chapter 15 and verse 24. Most assuredly I say to you, unless a grain of weed falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain. At first it seems like Jesus is describing his suffering, his burial, his resurrection. But then in verse 25, Jesus begins to talk about your suffering. He begins to talk about my cross. He begins to give us an example that as a master, he died for my sin. But at the same time as he is dying for my sin and he's rising again, he's giving me an example of what I will be going through and how I should go through it. That's why the Bible says, imitate Christ. That's why he says in Matthew 11, he says, come to me and I will give you rest. And then he says, learn from me because Jesus' death, Jesus' suffering and Jesus' resurrection is not just one-time event that happened to him for our redemption. It's also an example of how we should go through our suffering as well. We suffer so we can also have fellowship and see the same fruits in our life as he had in his. I want to encourage you today that God has a plan and a purpose for your life, but the process through which God will take you is going to be very painful. The promise is very beautiful. It's the process that is very painful. We want to become a forest. We just don't like the dirt, the darkness and dying in it and then coming back to life. But sometimes that is the process that it takes. If you are writing notes, I want you to write this down. Trust in God's plan when it feels like your life is a part of the devil's plot. Look at Jesus. Look at the seed being thrown from the hand of a farmer. It looks like from the perspective of a seed. It looks like I'm being betrayed. I'm being abandoned. Why am I leaving the bag with the rest of the seeds? I enjoy the comfort of the rest of the grain seeds. And now this mean farmer is throwing me out from the comfort of the community and he's not throwing me up. He's throwing me down from the vintage point of the seed. This seems like a plot conspiracy to destroy me. But from the plan of the farmer, it looks very different. Never trust your perspective when you're suffering because your perspective is always deceptive. Your perspective has always the filter of pain. Sometimes when it feels like a plot, it's actually a plan of God that's behind the scenes that God is in control. Remember, you're the seed in the hand of a farmer and your farmer is Jesus Christ. Your farmer is God the Father. You are not just aimlessly being thrown by life. There is a God and the Bible says we are in his hand. I want you to also understand you have to have a prophetic insight into your future. If you don't have a prophetic insight into your future, you will become pitiful in your suffering instead of powerful. You won't be purified through your suffering. You will be destroyed through your suffering because you lost hope. You will be so focused on what you're going through that you're going to forget where you're going to. You're going to forget your dream because of that nightmare surrounding you. Jesus did not do that. If you think Jesus was walking around talking about how bad suffering will be, He did. But He always ended with, I will rise again. The last thing I want to share with you is follow the comforter when all comforts fail. We all have comforts in our life in three things. Places we are in, possessions we have and people that like us. One thing Cross does is it strips all three P's out of your life. Because when you go through the cross, the comforts are stripped away from you. And the people who don't know the Holy Spirit, their life falls apart because their whole life is around the comforts that they have. Their dream is to make sure their life is comfortable. But Jesus teaches us one lesson. If you want to get through the cross and get to the crown, you have to have a loose relationship with your comforts and attachment to the comforter. Comfort brings happiness, but comforter brings joy. Comforter doesn't keep us in comfort and comforter will never leave us on the cross. The Holy Spirit says, he says, you will never be able to be close to me if you're addicted to comfort. He says, the only people I give myself to are those who love me, the comforter, not the comforter. And he says, the reason why I am the comforter is because when I come into your life, you can be sure of one thing. In order for you to go to the next level, you're going to have to give up the comfort of this one. I cannot give you the crown until you let go of the comfort of this season. But if you are addicted, attached and in love with me and you lose the comfort of life, you will still have my comfort because I am your comforter. And I will raise you up on a third day and you will experience new level of comfort. But don't get attached to that because if you stay close to me, even that comfort one day will be given up because I'll take you somewhere else. If you let the Holy Spirit lead you through the cross, He will never bury you after the cross. He will raise you up. When I follow the comforter, it's not only I go through suffering. I get to the victory. You get to victory. You get to breakthrough. He will never leave you. He will never abandon you. And he's committed to your calling, not to your comfort.