Defined as ... The inward strength to withstand stressful situations to still do my best and get things done.
“God does not count how many times you fall; He counts how many times you get up.”
~ Author Unknown ~
“Sometimes when you are in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but you have actually been planted.”
~ Christine Caine ~
“Endurance is using the stumbling stones as stepping stones to get where you are going.”
~ Author Unknown ~
1. Joseph
(Genesis 40:1-41:41)
2. Job's Trial
(Job 1-2)
3. Paul Overwhelmed by Trials
(2 Corinthians 11:23-28, 1:8-9, 3:5, 12:9-10)
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“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 is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”
Hebrews 12:2-3
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Galatians 6:9
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”
2 Corinthians 4:16
“Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”
James 5:11
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
James 1:12