Tag: endurance
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Joy in the Trials of Life
Isaiah 49:13 “Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.” Joy: it’s one of the most wonderful aspects of the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5). If we are God’s children, we have joy because God…
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An Enduring Faith
James 1:2-4 “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” The Christian life is a journey. It begins for everyone at the moment of the new birth when the…
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A Very Great Race
Hebrews 12:1 “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” In various places in Scripture the Christian life is compared to a race. In other places it’s called a “fight.” These words call to mind a contest, one…
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Tests of True Faith – Part 2
1 Thessalonians 1:6 “You received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit.” Are you a true Christian? How would you describe yourself? Do the words above describe you, for it’s with these words that Paul was describing the true believers that made up the Thessalonian church? So, what is he…
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Some Marks of Supernatural Strength
Colossians 1:11 “being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy.” In Paul’s wonderful prayer for the Colossian church, one of the things he prayed for was that the believers would “be strengthened with all power according to his glorious might.” Whatever this was, the language used shows us…
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Tests
1 Peter 4:12 “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you.” No one likes a test. Thinking back to my school years, nothing produced stress in that school setting like the fact that there would be a test the next day. …
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Will it ever end?
Revelation 2:10 “Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.” One of the greatest blessings of the Christian life is that there…
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Perspectives on Suffering
2 Corinthians 4:17 “For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.” Suffering and afflictions are a part of life, every life. In the words above, Paul calls these afflictions “light and momentary.” This from one who later in this same letter to the church at Corinth…
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Enduring suffering
Colossians 1:24 “Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.” Is there anything going on in your life right now that you wish was otherwise? I just…
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Why such suffering?
Job 38:8-11 “Who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be…
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