Perseverant Perseverant = Steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. continuance in a state of grace to the end, leading to eternal salvation. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston Churchill Perseverance is when a person, or group of people continue to work towards a goal, no matter what the obstacles are. To have perseverance is to have constant determination. In doing so, you are able to continue a course of action without having regard to discouragement. History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” HEBREWS 6:10-15 = For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. DEUTERONOMY 31:6 = Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he [it is] that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. JOSHUA 1:6-7 = Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. 7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. HEBREWS 13:5-6 = [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. DEUTERONOMY 4:31 = (For the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them. I SAMUEL 12:22 = For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great names sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. HEBREWS 3:6 = But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. HEBREWS 3:14 = For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; HEBREWS 10:21-23 = And [having] an high priest over the house of God; 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;) I TIMOTHY 6:12 = Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. REVELATION 2:25 = But that which ye have [already] hold fast till I come. REVELATION 3:11 = Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Can we stand like Abraham and paul? ROMANS 4:20-21 = He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. ROMANS 8:32-39 = He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? [It is] God that justifieth. 34 Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. We have His word It is hold fast persevere. Dont give up. Put on the whole armour of God use every weapon He has given us use every gift at our disposal and look ahead with joy, because we are going to be crowned by Him Who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. When we see the promise of God, then we can be perseverant. We can really believe, stay there because its Gods promise. Perseverance, it means to be persistent in making a goal. You must be fully persuaded and be persistent. Then youre perseverant. Before you can be perseverant, you have to have faith in what youre trying to achieve. Youve got to first have faith before you can be perseverant. So faith and perseverance works hand in hand together. You must be persistent, no matter how you feel, what you think, or nothing about it. Just hold on. If you really believe it, you will hold on. Stay right with your convictions. To be persistent, means youve got your mind made up about what youre going to do.
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