Slide 1: Trials in your life are there as God's way of making you whole.

Trials are Transformative.

Slide 2: James 1:1-18.

Slide 3: Think it Joy James 1:2-4

Slide 4: Romans 5:3-4

Slide 5: Pray and Come Close to God. James 1:5-8

Slide 6: Remember Your Identity James 1:9-11

Slide 7: Romans 8:16-17

Slide 8: Think Long Term James 1:12

Slide 9: Do not Distort the Character of God James 1:13-15

Slide 10: "Habits, like trees, are strengthened by age. A boy may bend an oak when it is a sapling - a hundred men cannot root it up, when it is a full-grown tree." - J.C. Ryle

Slide 11: Think Rightly about God. James 1:16-18

Slide 12: James 1:18