The Power of Persistence - Part 2

Love them this weekend and that's fine Child family to your objectives. Are you proud to give up easily today will impact the steps for setting and achieving godly gold. Here's more on the power of persistent if you read the biographies of people who made any accomplishments at all throughout life. It is a make a difference. What field it soon really made a contribution to life is what you know if you cannot find this trait in them. That is the trait of persistence. Now what in the world is persistent or persistence is an attitude. Persistence is a characteristic. It is a quality trait to be found in the life of every person accomplishes or achieves anything. In fact what it is. It is a combination of two things.

Persistence is a combination of strong desire and willpower is a combination of strong desire and willpower is very important you watch and listen to what I'm saying. Are you listening statement on your watchlist. Whether you believe it or not, every single one of you what you believe not every single one of you has this trait you have this trait and you have demonstrated in your life the most awesome example of persistence when you were born God inbred within you in the beginning.

This trait of the capacity and the will and the ability to be persistent that the tragedy is most people actually get over this particular experience, they laid down tragedy of tragedies of tragedies that you would lay it down is that will now how can you prove that I have destroyed what you have to watch this when you were born and you got big and your parents put you on the floor and what did you do you crawl right you know, have you Doing that until finally you could stand up then your mother, your father's house are grimacing to come on a walker, shall you walk over here one step down you went again you stood up and you fail you set up your failures there to be a failure still be failures that have the abilities that you fail on the one that you stood up you took a step to failure took a step you take is that if anything is that you film one day. The second step in the third step. Finally, you will let me ask a question tell me now at your age of one or if you walk before or after that. What got you all of all floors only your feet. Standing up and walking and running. Tell me what got you there. Persistence now. What would this world be like if everybody had kept that same spirit all of their life. Can you imagine where the gospel be today if all of us to know Jesus Christ as their Savior would be there persistent.

So when somebody says will you know I just don't have the trait yes yes you do inbred within you and what you did elated down. You voluntarily gave it up. You surrendered it you surrendered it to negative criticism you surrendered into all kinds of feelings you listen to other people. You laid down one of the most precious gifts God has ever given a David. He was a child and born within you. He did not intend you to crawl all of your life at the stand up and walk and make progress and achieve goals in your life. Some of you are still crawling emotionally you're crawling in your thinking God want you to stand up. He has a goal for your life a purpose and a plan be like don't give up on the second estimate is where you live. It is Megan's what your color what your language what your culture is negative is what that may be. You were created by God to be somebody very important in this world you may not be important to a lot of people, but you can be of you will be important for somebody and you never know what that somebody is going to do well when I think about that I think about this whole idea of not on the motivation but why it's so important is that first of all reasons important is because these things are vital of defeat and failure is a part of our life and therefore we have for how to deal with a second thing is this and that is in the development of mouse persistence. We learn how to view and how to relate to and how to respond to failures and difficulties. Any person who has goals in life and sets out to accomplish those goals. I go to phase those difficulties and hardships of what happened is we learn how to deal with and a person who is persistent there persistent they keep on because they are in the process and have learned how to deal with. For example, this suggests very basic principles.

I just mention several of one of Mrs. a person who is persistent, has learned the difference between being a failure and an event of failure. It's one thing for me to have an event in my life that defeats me and something else to say on that. If any person is a difference in failing at something in this event and being a failure and if you don't distinguish between some of us is not just a failure, though you will not absolutely reject that you are not a failure.

We all fail at times. In particular, events and situations and circumstances that doesn't make you think that's an event in your life, and a person who is persistent, has learned the difference between being a failure and experiencing a failure in their life a second thing is this and that is we learn that oftentimes we experienced test, but that doesn't mean stop a test does not mean you stop here, a test means here is my opportunity to learn something new on my way to reaching my goals but often times people if they get tested or something they think will you know I guess I need to stop at this point, you see a temporary defeat is just that it's a temporary defeat. It's a delay in may delay me in reaching my goal was not going to keep me from getting there is not the deity we all are going to have make mistakes, no matter who we are, but we don't just give in the mistakes. Likewise, I believe that in every momentary event of failure or are defeat. There is the seed of an equivalent listen of an equivalent success that is on the learn something out of that. If I look this he is this a weakness in my life.

Is this something I keep failing at isn't something God trying to teach me. At this point and solicit in every single failure of the feet. There is the equivalency of success that something is on the learn if I'm willing that's going to help me succeed later on in the next step toward that success. So I think about the things that people go through.

I think about also the fact that what we have to do in our failures. We have listened. Never watch this and we have to learn to bury our failures don't frame them, hang them on the wall and keep going back and say I was doing fine but back here in my life.

Here's what happened. The fate listen. If God is willing to forgive you for them, bury them. Let that be the end of it. Don't go back trying to bring them all up with the apostle Paul said he said, forgetting those things which are behind you think about all the stuff he had to forget he said I was a blazer. His words, I was a violent, aggressive of the church of Jesus Christ.

Jesus, forgetting those things behind what were given by God. Yes, forgetting those things which behind, I press on toward the mark of a high calling in Christ Jesus. So we have to remember that very outdated. Don't hang about frame them up and keep going back and saying will is what happened in my life. Don't look for somebody else to blame.

I do not know, nor have I read of the persistent person who was always blaming somebody that you don't happen, listen, if you get in that awful habit of blaming somebody else for the difficulties and hardships.

If you get in the habit of blaming circumstances because of what's going on in your life and blaming anybody else forward, you will not be persistent because just what that does it automatically undermines your desire to keep moving on. Well, it's their fault. I would be in this position are not therefore, I do believe that God triggers some defeats in our life in all that you and I would develop our faith stronger develop endurance and develop persistence because God is the process of building character. He's not in the process of just a Calvins goatee suppresses a billing godly character and so the apostle Paul and Jesus would be to wonderful examples of men who knew how to endure, who had godly character so we come of this whole idea.

If all this is true. This is how important is how do I develop the spirit of persistence in my life to get your pencil out now if you been sitting here listening this you don't overlook this because every single one of us and you could add something to this. I don't mean this is absolutely a totally all that you could do, but these are just a few suggestions because my purpose is to at least get you to thinking about where you are who you are what God has in mind for your life. What could you do what goals do you have all you being persistent are you giving up your dreams. Are you laying it down and you decided I can do it and you willing to sacrifice God's very best in your life because somebody else criticized someone else didn't think you could do it, someone else thought it would work. I do believe that many, many people listen to all kinds of garbage and that garbage steals their dream and caused him to be less than what God wants him to be was certainly one of the first things to help me develop my persistence is set a goal for your life that demands your best selling over your life to demand your best. You know we've been saying all along with setting goals under God's leadership set those goals that God would enable us to set and have is the set under his leadership set the goal high on the that it demands your best. So first of all Senegal Honda Senegal Honda for the demand. Your best disco squeeze out of you the potential of the gods place their number two you got to develop a burning desire to make it a reality. Look at the apostle Paul that he say I think I'll go over to Ephesus.

Maybe all one these days I'm really get up Philippi and I like to be able to share the gospel. The resurrected Jesus of incontinence all these days you know it's convenient on the get your ship had met their way no something burned within him. Listen if you don't have anything burning on the inside of you. If somehow you've allowed people throw enough cold water on the flame of your soul and your spirit listen. Ask God to reignite your heart to burn something within you stir something within you. Don't let you be satisfied and long being with less than God wants you to be you have something burning on the inside of the then life gets exciting. You get challenges of their supposedly remember that it is anything he does mean that you're a a mistake a sin. Yes anything, yes.

But does that make you a defeated person, though you do something to defeat. The third thing I would mention is this, that is, you gotta keep the goal if you set a goal.

Remember, it's got to be worthy of your efforts and your energy.

If you don't keep down the hill.

His was going happen even a float around over here and you the look of you listen watch this.

Somebody always has a deal.

Somebody always has a very appealing sidetrack or a detour or side road and all kinds of people out there who have no purpose in life, no sense of direction they want to get you off course you gotta keep your eye on the goal.

Remembering this is a goal that God is help me to set he help me to set it. It's worthy of Montaigne if it's worthy of my attainment.

He's going to enable me to do it and so our process. I refuse to give up.

I refuse to be sidetracked out of use the listen. The negative criticism I will not listen later criticism, which is a point I want you to jot down absent refuse negative criticism with its from your husband, your wife, your children, your parents, your friend your enemies your employer and your employees. The negative is who it is absolutely refuse you know what went and just let you know what, I'm not hanging around people like that which leads me to the next one that's this surround yourself or make your friends, people who will encourage you not discourage you, you needed to be up around people who encourage how you doing a great job. You may have known that you blew it bad and that person says if you know what, I love you God loves you that's what can I do to help you. I believe you can reach that goal out. If you just hang in there we go to help all of us need encourages I've got some encourages in my life. Thank God. Now I someone set myself up as an example by taters rights to work in a textile mill way back yonder when I was going to college and Eli criticize me. They call me the deacon I don't know where they got that from one bit about 18 years old and so they go. Here comes a deacon is what happened whenever a long by three weeks. I walked up, shut up the dirty jokes that stop you at least pretend they come and And I never said a word, they just come and apologize I were God began to do something in the life you know what I was just can't. They knew they were wrong.

They knew they were wrong.

It doesn't take but one person who just stand up and be positive know me, I never said don't come to church and had a get saved. No, I am tell you what they asked me almost at one system that salvation, and so help me, this is the truth and that the man who was the color the secondhand and he was the boss.

After while at first I tried to avoid but I couldn't go the restroom take a little break and we just understand out of the heat because it in the bleach riches burning hot.

So these guys are coming that they want me to talk to so I could do it as soon I could've just said nothing.

The whole time you wanted to be the same place I left where you are. God may have a goal for your life that will transform somebody's else's life and transform somebody's life transform someone else's kid and you know what you know I'll never note that you get to heaven. The awesome impact you had it went like a ripple through one family failed to that finally got out there to the one person that God was going to use the most.

The letter in your dreams. Don't give up, no matter what. Don't listen to criticism. Don't let it get to you in the store you oil develop somebody else. No matter what happens. Not only that, but listen in every single defeat. Look for a personal lesson whenever I get defeated in some area when I was okay, God, what are you up to what is it you trying to show me don't blame somebody else. What is it you trying to show me look for the lessons that you can learn in every single mistake in everything Millicent listen carefully.

If you look for somebody to blame Eagle missed the lesson if you say Melissa my circumstances. They mistreated me they didn't understand me.

They did this they did that they did the other you know what forget it. Persistence does not look for someone to blame. Persistence looks from the lesson. What is it that I can learn in this particular situation and not on that one other thing. Listen, you got to rely upon God to enable you this is not a matter of Newton grinding.

You know, just my strength versus my problem though it's relying upon the spirit of the living God to enable you strength and you give me the wisdom to know which path to take show you when to take a turn but not give up no matter what you may face in life. Now me give you two verses of Scripture. Listen, this watch these is one of the reasons you shouldn't give up shouldn't quit because the most persistent person I know is Almighty God. I think about what he said posted in Romans chapter 8 he said for you and I have been predestined to be conformed to the image of his son. You know what that means that God will not air.

He will not give up. Ultimately, he will conform every single one of us in our character to the likeness of his son is not given me. Remember, Paul said in Philippians chapter 1 verse six he said I'm persuaded. Listen, that he who has begun a good work in you will will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ doesn't give up and ask a question. If God gave up on you since you've been saved. One time, stand up until no no no no, he didn't know what God has given up on you and me. He knows it. We gonna blow it. He knows we gonna make mistakes. He knows we don't have moments of failure and moments of defeat.

Has he given up on us know he has not gone hasn't given up on you. He will never give up on you no matter what we are not to give up on the God-given goals and he separates one because, listen goals that will enable us to become the person's God wants us to be and achieve the goals that God has set for our life is what I want to challenge you to do. I want to challenge you to resurrect those goals that God has given you in the past. A Aldi view defeats in your failures. Read Kindle those goals that you know that God is set for your life and take a step in the direction that God would have you to take knowing that he's going to be there to enable you strengthen you and help you to reach those goals. No matter what they may be. God can change your life, beginning right now. If you place your life in his hand found out what his goals are and had not direction.

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