DONT GIVE IN OR GIVE UP, BUT HOLD UNTO BIBLICAL OPTIMISM HAVING HOPE AND CONFIDENCE ON GODS PROMISES, IN REGARDLESS WHAT THE WORLD MIGHT BE THROWING AT US.Psalm: 130:5-6:I wait for the Lord, I expectantly wait, and in His word do I hope. I am looking {and} waiting for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, I say, more than watchmen for the morning. Habakk:2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end [fulfillment]; it will not deceive {or} disappoint. Though it tarry, wait [earnestly] for it, because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day. DONT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT THE FRUIT, BUT LOOKING UNTO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THAT WILL BRING THE FRUIT TO FRUITION. FOR THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH AND NIT BY SIGHT. 4:18 Since we consider {and} look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless {and} everlasting. EVEN IF THINGS DOESNT LOOK AS WE EXPECT THEM TO BE, WE WILL STILL TRUST, CLING,AND RELY ON THE PROMISES OF GOD BECAUSE OF HIS FAITHFULNESS.HABAKK:3:17-19: Though the fig tree does not blossom and there is no fruit on the vines, [though] the product of the olive fails and the fields yield no food, though the flock is cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls, Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will exult in the [victorious] God of my salvation! The Lord God is my Strength, my personal bravery, {and} my invincible army; He makes my feet like hinds feet and will make me to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] {and} make [spiritual] progress upon my high places [of trouble, suffering, or responsibility]! WHEN THE PRESSURE OF LIFE PRESSED US TO THE WALL, AND THE PRINCIPLE OF THIS WORLD IS PRESENTING ITSELF AGAINST US, AND THE ENEMY WANT US TO GIVE IN TO THE PRESSURE OF LIFE, WE MUST REALISE ONE SIMPLE TRUTH THAT OUR FUTURE IS SECURED IN THE HAND OF GOD. HE KNEW THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, AND HE WILL BE THERE WITH US IN THE MIDST OF EVERY SITUATION THAT MIGHT BE TRYING TO OVERWHELM US. Isaiah:43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned {or} scorched, nor will the flame kindle upon you. A GOOD EXAMPLE ARE THE THREE HEBREW MEN.DANIEL:3:14-18: [Then] Nebuchadnezzar said to them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image which I have set up? Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, dulcimer {or} bagpipe, and every kind of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, very good. But if you do not worship, you shall be cast at once into the midst of a burning fiery furnace, and who is that god who can deliver you out of my hands? Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, it is not necessary for us to answer you on this point. If our God Whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up! JOB SAID THAT EVEN IF THE LORD SLAY HIM, HE WILL PRAISE THE LORD. Job:Job 13:15: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. APOSTLE PAUL WAS GIVEN A PROPHESY OF WHAT WAS AWAITING HIM,BUT HIS RESPONSE WAS BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION.ACTS:21:10-14:While we were remaining there for some time, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.And coming to [see] us, he took Pauls belt and with it bound his own feet and hands and said, Thus says the Holy Spirit: The Jews at Jerusalem shall bind like this the man who owns this belt, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles (heathen). When we heard this, both we and the residents of that place pleaded with him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul replied, What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart like this? For I hold myself in readiness not only to be arrested {and} bound {and} imprisoned at Jerusalem, but also [even] to die for the name of the Lord Jesus. And when he would not yield to [our] persuading, we stopped [urging and imploring him], saying, The Lords will be done! AS A TRUE BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN, GREATER IS WHO IS IN US THAN THOSE IN THE WORLD, AS THE LORD BE FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US, AND WHAT CAN STAND AGAINST US? WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUEROR THROUGH CHRIST THAT STRENGTHEN US BY THE HELP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THE GLORY OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.1John:4:4 Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated {and} overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world. DONT GIVE IN, AND DONT GIVE UP, FOR A WINNER IS NOT A QUITER
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