Focus on the promise God gave you and not on the pain you are going through.
Jesus suffered on the cross but God delivered and glorified Him at the end of the suffering. So believe that the suffering will end sooner or later. Focus on Him and His promise and He will bring you through the suffering and deliver you. Through this He will glorify Himself through you. There must be pain in order for you to be delivered or give birth to something. But the pain, the birthpangs, will end as soon as you have given birth. Endurance and travailing in prayer will give birth sooner or later. Remember that when women give birth, the pain is long and hard to go through, but when the baby is born, that pain is over and the "promise" has arrived.
"For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation prefect through sufferings."
Hebrews 2:10
"When He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though he was a son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered."
Hebrews 5:7-9
"For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may recieve the promise."
Hebrews 10:36
"Therefore, we also since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
Hebrews 12:1-3, 7
Hebrews 4:15, 16
2 Timothy 4:5/2:3/1:8-9
James 1:12
1 Peter 1:6-7/5:10
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