“But I don’t counsel people with learning difficulties.” You will encounter this to some degree as you engage your community:
Homeless in your community Parents struggling with their children (autism, ADHD, Asperger Syndrome, special needs, etc.) Those who struggle to read well Those affected by trauma or injury Developmental disabilities I. Consider the Unique Opportunity to Grow as a Counselor
A. Endurance
James 1:2-4 – Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
B. Living in a manner worthy of our calling
Ephesians 4:1-2 – Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love.
C. Dependence on the Word and Spirit of God to empower understanding
1 Corinthians. 2:12-16 – Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, 13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught
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