Title: What Does It Take to Go the Distance?
Text:
Psalm 46:10 (ESV)
10 "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
Observation:
The key word for today's meditation is "perseverance". It involves tenacity, which is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with faith.
What is faith? The Bible says this about faith.
Hebrews 11:1 (ESV)
1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
This is the faith that believes in the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. It is this type of faith that pleases God. This type of faith please God because it comes from a heart that has heard God speak through the Spirit.
Hebrews 11:6 (ESV)
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Everything that you can see with your eyes is perishing; the things that will last forever are invisible.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 (ESV)
9 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"—
10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
Prayer:
Father God, help us, by the enabling power of the Holy Spirit, to walk boldly in the footsteps of Jesus, led by the Spirit of God, and serve faithfully and tirelessly until You call us home.
Father, help us to keep the faith, and finish the race. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Matthew 7:13-14 (ESV)
13 "Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Matthew 4:4 (HCSB)
4 But He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Psalm 2:8 (HCSB)
8 Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession.
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