Perseverance

What is perseverance?

Perseverance is commitment, hard work, patience, endurance. Perseverance is being able to bear difficulties calmly and without complaint. Perseverance is trying again and again.

Perseverance and failure cannot coexist. Failure happens when you quit. When all is said and done, perseverance, commonly referred to as "stick-to-itiveness," is the ultimate success insurance. Nothing can take its place.

From learning to walk to riding a bicycle, our childhood teaches us that failure only occurs when we stop trying. It is a lesson many of us need to revisit in our adulthood. We need to consciously apply the techniques and principles that keep us on the "perseverance track."

The Christian life is like a race in which perseverance is necessary to reach the finish line. Sadly, many have abandoned this race due to lack of perseverance. Many have stumbled and decided not to get up. Many have been discouraged and stopped running. Those who were conscious of the great importance of perseverance, in the midst of difficulties and temptation, were able to finish the race.

Floggings and jail couldn't hinder Paul and Silas from singing and praying:
"And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them." Acts 16:25

God is delighted with those who persevere in spite of opposition:
"Then the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job... Job 1:8; 19-22


The benefits of Persevance--to perfect our lives for when temptations and trials arrive we can resist:
...that the trying of your faith worketh patience. James 1:2-4

We can have the ability to help others persevere:
...that we may be able to comfort them which are in any toruble... 2 Cor. 1:4

The strength to persevere, for us, is a supernatural reward that God gives us. (Heb.10:35-39).
...be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. 2:10.

--Patti Hallford

"Quotes"
The difference between persevance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. Henry Ward Beecher

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
Author Unknown

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crosed the mountain.
Author Unknown

He conquers who endures. Persius

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. Author Unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11