Journal

• Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals:
  • • • A Guide to Journaling & Prayer
      • A Guide to Self-Reflection
      • A Chart to help articulate feelings
• 2 CORINTHIANS 1 – COMMENTARY

• BIBLE TEXT: 2 Corinthians 1:8-11 (ESV) 

  ⁸ For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. ⁹ Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. ¹⁰ He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. ¹¹ You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.

• Reflection & Application

  2 Corinthians 1:5-7

  • What are some ways in which I “share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings?”
  • What is the relationship between 1) suffering/affliction and comfort and 2) the ability to give comfort to others?

  Prayer