Perseverance

Out of the depths of pain and sorrow, the believer's heart cries out: "I trust in you, O Lord: 'I say, you are my God."' (Psalms

3. Paul says what everybody has to do to stay away from the evil and sin, and closer to the Lord. (6:14-16)

12Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Bible Memory: It is important to keep God’s word close to your heart, you grow closer to Christ and become armed with a means to protect yourself from the devil’s schemes

As humans, we long to be recognized. When what we are doing is ignored or looked over, it is difficult to find the will power to keep going. Without the Holy Spirit’s daily guidance, it is easy to lose passion for doing what is right.

could jump to the new testament in Matthew 24:13 “But he that endure unto the end,

As clear-cut as the biblical teachings are about God’s grace, there is also our response with righteous living. We are

Constancy is characterized as relentlessness in accomplishing something regardless of trouble or defer in making progress.

5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are o ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; 7 and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort

In prayer Jesus Christ intercede to the Father on our behalf. Stated in 1 John 1:2, 3 ‘that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us; fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the father, and with the Son Jesus Christ.’ However, our prayers and praises as a believer is talking and communication with God a solemn request for help

It gives us the faith and hope that we are not alone. Our natural human flesh gives us the weakness and uncertainty. However, through God’s grace the Holy Spirit reassure and uplift us every day. Some people might call it survival, I called it the Holy Spirit of God. Being a mother of four children, working full time and coming to school once week. It’s pure grace of God giving by the Holy Spirit. The passion of waking up every day and wanting to do better for me and my family. It’s God’s grace and the Holy Spirit. As Paul states in Romans 5:5-6 “And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for ungodly.” Giving us a of God’s love through the Holy Spirit’s work. Likewise, it’s comforting by giving us the sense that we are not alone. In Matthew 28:19-20 Jesus himself tells us “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the

The Lord Jesus Christ has granted us grace and by faith we work towards a divine fate.

“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us.” (Romans 8: 18)

*the fact of continuing in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. *Then continued or prolonged existence of something