It becomes Christians to pray for peace and quiet, but not to abandon steadfast faith and truth, even at the peril of death.
Perseverance
Luc Niebergall
Your times of training were not for nothing. God saw your sacrifice and obedience. He saw when you submitted to the times of healing and refining. He saw the times when you stood every though others expected you to sit. God hasn’t forgotten His word and promises over your life. Your quiet “yes” resounded very loudly in heaven.
Dan McCollam
There is no need for a breakthrough without walls of resistance.
Pete Greig
It is not that God is slow to act, or that we are trying to persuade God (for prayer is laying hold of His highest willingness). Prayer requires persistence because it is also an act of warfare against ‘the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms’ (Eph. 6:12). Such prayer reverses the Fall, in which Adam asserted his independence. In it, we say, ‘Not my will, but yours be done.’ We fight with God to liberate enemy-occupied territory, knowing that while the victory is certain, the length of the battle is not.
Francis Chan
The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
Steven Furtick
Resistance is always fiercest on the borderline of a breakthrough.
Greg Feary
Don’t give up on this year. Keep fighting for the good. Keep showing up. Keep loving. Keep giving back. Keep being kind. Keep being brave. Keep caring. Keep trying new things. Keep showing grace. Keep on. The world needs you to believe in the good.
N T Wright
The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.
Heidi Baker
We would learn very little if everything in life fell into place without challenge or difficulty. In terms of faith, we would be spiritual weaklings. Just as athletes “test” their bodies over and over again in order to build endurance and, therefore, be able to perform at their best, our faith must be tested so we can become mature soldiers for Jesus who are able to endure and continue to persevere, with reckless devotion, in all He sets before us.
Jill Parr
You might have stopped doing something that you should be doing. You might have lost your way, lost your vision, your goal, your drive, your discipline or worse yet, you’ve lost hope.
Maybe you have fallen down or you tried and something didn’t work and you labelled yourself a “failure.”
Let’s reframe your thinking.
You lost sight. You’re not a loser.
You lost your hope. You’re not and it’s not hopeless.
You failed. You’re not a failure.
If there is breath, there is hope.
If there is God, there is hope. There is and there is.
Start today. It might be a little humbling to begin again but, humble pie isn’t so bad.
It might be hard but hey, you can do hard things.
It might be hard but hard isn’t the same as impossible.
Today is your day.
Go get it.
Start again, again.
You’ve got this.