The Prophetic Word – Days 113 thru 118:Don't Quit
The Prophetic Word
Day 113: Don’t quit now; the finish line is in sight.
In preparation for our discussion over the next five days, please carefully read and meditate on these scriptures:
“By your [patient] endurance [empowered by the Holy Spirit] you will gain your souls.”
Luke 21:19 AMP
“Consider it nothing but joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you fall into various trials. Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace]. And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed [in your faith], lacking in nothing. Blessed [happy, spiritually prosperous, favored by God] is the man who is steadfast under trial and perseveres when tempted; for when he has passed the test and been approved, he will receive the [victor’s] crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.”
James 1:2-4, 12 AMP
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, 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, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.” If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
Hebrews 12:1-11 NKJV
Hebrews 11 tells of many patriarchs who—through their enduring faith—accomplished great things and were even able to endure the unthinkable.
As we are living in another place in time, the pressures facing us may differ in some respects to those the patriarchs endured.
However, what remains the same is that testing, trials, hardships, any number of challenges we may come across in our pilgrim walk, are a given.
In order to obtain the prize awaiting us, as well as the peace available to us now, we must allow our patient endurance to carry us over the finish line!
Over the next several days we will look into these things.