Bible Verses about Endurance
Let these Bible verses inspire you to proceed through
whatever challenges you may face in life. Let them help you gain endurance, for
endurance leads to growth in character and hope.
There's more to come: We continue to shout our praise even
when we're hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop
passionate patience in us,
But you need to stick it out, staying with God's plan so
you'll be there for the promised completion.
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges
come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your
faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors.
We pray that you'll have the strength to stick it out over
the long haul - not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the
glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and
spills over into joy,
cheerfully expectant. Don't quit in hard times; pray all the
harder.
No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the
course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God
will never let you down; he'll never let you be pushed past your limit; he'll
always be there to help you come through it. So, my very dear
friends, when you see people reducing God to something they can use or control,
get out of their company as fast as you can.
Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through
anything in the One who makes me who I am.
May our dependably steady and warmly personal God develop
maturity in you so that you get along with each other as well as Jesus gets
along with us all.
But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God
- the free life! - even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no
distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find
delight and affirmation in the action.
Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you
up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy
of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!
Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this
race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was
headed - that exhilarating finish in and with God - he could put up with
anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the
place of honor, right alongside God.
Real Life for those who work on God's side,
