Friday, October 10, 2014

Never Give Up Joshua 1:5 Joshua 1:7 Romans 12:12 Hebrews 10:23 Hebrews 13:5-8 10.10.14

NEVER GIVE UP

BREAD

5 No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.

Joshua 1:5 (NIV)

7 Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.

Joshua 1:7 (NIV)

12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Romans 12:12 (NIV)

23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 10:23 (NIV)

God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” 6 So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” 7 Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Hebrews 13:5-8 (NIV)

BUTTER

“I am not enough.  But God is.  God is more than enough.”  Michelle DeRusha

“There is a great and wonderful truth embodied in these words.  The whole victory of life is in them – ‘Trust in the Lord and take heart.’  That means the exercise of courage, the consciousness of being linked to one mightier than ourselves, and it helps one to keep smiling, to keep sunshiny, and to have not only a song on the lip, but one in the heart.”   Fanny Crosby

“And we will never stop being the boldface brave who show up when it would be easier to give up, who go do hard & holy things when it would be easier to just go do happy things, who do not quit when we don’t know how to keep going on.  You can hear it about this time of September, breathing warm courage into our exhausted places:  ‘Just Call to Me, I guarantee I will answer you.  I will make you strong & brave.’  (Psalms 138:3).  Be Brave.  Hold out your Light to hold back the flood of dark.  Be Brave.  Your bravery wins a thousand battles you can’t see because your bravery strengthens a thousand others to win their battles too.  Be Brave.  And do not pray for the hard thing to go away.  But pray for a bravery to come that’s bigger than the hard thing.”   Ann Voskamp

“If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.”  Charles H. Spurgeon

“What is needed is not mere present professions, but perseverance to the end in the power of faith.”    Ignatius of Antioch

“The perseverance of the saints is only possible because of the perseverance of God.”   J. Oswald Sanders

HEART SAVOR

  • ·       God desires for me to stay the course with a firm belief that He always has my best interest at heart, His ways are perfect, His plans are to prosper and not harm me.
  • ·       My God will supply all my needs.  His grace being more than sufficient to meet every circumstance He allows in my life.  I am assured of this wonderful truth which dispels my fears.
  • ·       God desires for me to finish well.  6 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day--and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.  2 Tim 4:6-8 (NIV)